nobel laureate john nash killed in US crash
New York: Nobel prize-winning US mathematician John Nash, who inspired the film “A Beautiful Mind,” was killed with his wife in New Jersey in a car crash, police said. Nash (86) and his 82-year-old wife Alicia were riding a taxi on Saturday when the accident took place, police told AFP.
Spain votes as forces seek ‘historic’ change
Madrid: Spaniards voted on Sunday in elections that could see the anti-austerity protest movement conquer city halls and transform Spanish politics. New left-wing and centrist movements are fighting to end the two-party system of the past four decades and drive out the ruling conservative Popular Party.
protests at Japan’s parl against US base plan
Tokyo: Thousands of demonstrators formed a human chain around Japan’s parliament in Tokyo protesting the planned construction of a new US airbase on the southern island of Okinawa.
US ‘deeply troubled’ by Russia’s NGO law
Washington: The United States has said it was “deeply troubled” after Russian President Vladimir Putin officially enacted a controversial law banning what Moscow deems to be “undesirable” non-governmental organisations.
won’t try to block EU referendum: UK’s labour
london: Britain’s opposition labour Party says it won’t try to block a referendum on whether Britain should remain in the 28-nation European Union.