Holocaust historian ‘to quit US’ if Trump elected
Paris: Pulitzer prize-winning historian Saul Friedlander, a world authority on the Holocaust, said today he would leave the United States if Donald Trump was elected President.
Pakistan must try to corner India: Daily
Islamabad: Pakistan was on Friday urged by a leading daily to talk individually to countries to step up its diplomatic offensive against India. “China is already on Pakistan’s side,” the Nation said in an editorial.
No exception on helmet rules for Sikhs: court
Toronto: Three Sikh truck drivers have been ordered to wear hard hats at work by a Canadian court which ruled that no exception can be made for them as the men lost a 10-year legal battle against religious discrimination.
Italy orders man to buy feminist books!
Rome: A court in Rome has handed down an unusual penalty to the client of an underage prostitute, ordering him to buy her 30 books on the theme of women’s dignity, Italian media reported on Friday. In addition to a two-year jail sentence, the unnamed man, 35, will be required to give the 15-year-old victim works including novels by Virginia Woolf, Anne Frank’s diary and the poems of Emily Dickinson, as well as two feminist-themed films.
‘Man-goat’ among winners of spoof Nobel prizes
New York: A man who lived as a goat in the Alps and a scientist who studied how pants affect the sex drive of rodents are among this year’s spoof Nobel prizes. The 26th edition of the annual Ig Nobel Prizes, which celebrate the silly side of science, were handed out on Friday at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.