court summons Mush in Bugti murder case
Islamabad: A Pakistani anti-terrorist court has ordered former military dictator Pervez Musharraf to personally appear at the next hearing in the murder case of Baloch tribal leader Akbar Bugti, an official said on Tuesday.
S Korea pM vows to seize ferry owner’s assets
Seoul: South Korea’s Prime Minister promised on Tuesday to try and seize all assets held by the reclusive patriarch whose family runs the ferry operator of the ship which sank last month, killing hundreds.
8 school kids stabbed in China: report
Beijing: A knife-wielding attacker went on a rampage at a Chinese primary school on Tuesday, wounding eight schoolchildren with one seriously hurt. The suspect, surnamed Chen (35), rushed into the school and began slashing at students with a kitchen knife. Police apprehended Chen at the scene and the eight injured pupils were hospitalised.
At least six dead, 15 hurt in train collision
Moscow: At least six people were killed and 15 injured on Tuesday after parts of a freight train derailed and collided with a passenger train South of Moscow, officials said.
3 policemen shot dead, 9 hurt in cairo: Min
Cairo: Gunmen travelling in a car on Tuesday opened fire on a group of Egyptian policemen outside Cairo’s Al-Azhar university, killing three and wounding nine others, the interior ministry said.
US pledging $300M in aid to South Sudan
Washington: The United States is pledging nearly USD 300 million in assistance to address urgent humanitarian needs resulting from the crisis in South Sudan.
Japan’s Hitachi unveils joking robot
Tokyo: Japanese scientists unveiled a robot with a sense of humour on Tuesday, and claimed it was capable of knowing when its jokes had fallen flat. The pint-sized roller-skating EMIEW2 — pronounced like the flightless bird — is able to have a short conversation with a human being, without any script.