3 British teenagers held on way to Syria
london: Three British Muslim teenagers suspected of trying to travel to Syria to join the dreaded Islamic State terror group have been detained and sent back by authorities in Turkey, the Scotland Yard said here on Sunday.
We count on you, Obama to journos
Washington: US President Barack Obama has lauded the role of journalists in the fast-changing world for the risk they take in pursuit of truth behind a story and their ability to hold “those of us in power” to account. “We are producing and consuming news in ways that we couldn’t have imagined a few years ago, let alone a few decades ago,” he said.
Gold nugget worth $141,000 found
Melbourne: In a once-in-a-lifetime discovery, a man in Australia has unearthed a 2.7 kg gold nugget which could be worth a whopping $141,000. Mick Brown, a gold prospector from Kerang in northern Victoria, had recently quit smoking and was getting grumpy so his wife told him to leave the house for some air.
Eleven dead in Algeria bus crash
Algiers: Eleven people were killed and 25 injured when a long-distance bus collided with a lorry on Algeria’s Trans-Sahara Highway, emergency services said. The accident happened near the oasis town of In Salah, around 1,500 kilometres south of the capital Algiers. The bus was plying the 2,000 km service between the Mediterranean coastal city of Bejaia and the town of Tamanrasset in Algeria’s deep south.