Iran locates wreckage of crashed plane
Tehran: The Iranian authorities on Tuesday located the wreckage of a passenger plane that crashed in the mountainous central province of Isfahan, killing all 66 people on board.
Helicopters belonging to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) discovered the crash site on Dena mountain, two days after the plane went down due to bad weather on Sunday, IRGC spokesman Brigadier General Ramezan Sharif announced.
Zia challenges five-year sentence in graft case
Dhaka: Former Bangladesh prime minister Khaleda Zia on Tuesday challenged the five-year prison sentence handed out to her in a corruption case, claiming that it was a political scheme by the Government to keep her out of the general elections in December.
Nearly 200 dead in Syria enclave
Arbin (Syria): Air strikes hit Syria’s Eastern Ghouta for a third straight day on Tuesday, bringing the civilian death toll to nearly 200 as the UN warned the situation in the rebel enclave was spinning “out of control”.
Secret behind Pyramids’ alignment decoded
london: Ancient Egyptians may have used the autumn equinox to align the Great Pyramid of Giza almost perfectly along the four cardinal points, a study has found. The autumn equinox occurs halfway between the summer and winter solstices, when Earth’s tilt is such that the length of the day and night are almost the same. The Great Pyramid of Giza was constructed about 4,500 years ago, under the orders of Egyptian pharaoh Khufu. It is the largest of the three pyramids — standing about 138 metres — on the Giza Plateau.