As automation improves, Mapmaker TomTom to sack 10% staff
TomTom, a Dutch navigation and digital mapping business, announced on Wednesday that it will cut almost a tenth of its global personnel as it...
Droughts: UN warns of acute starvation in Horn of Africa
The United Nations and humanitarian organizations warned on Tuesday that millions of people in the Horn of Africa are facing catastrophic famine as the...
As food shortage continues in Sri Lanka, farmers asked to plant more rice
Sri Lanka wants farmers to grow more rice as part of measures to avoid a major food shortage, according to a top official, as...
UK gearing up to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee
This week, the United Kingdom will commemorate Queen Elizabeth's unprecedented 70 years on the throne with four days of festivities ranging from military parades...
All 22 on board in Nepal flight dies of crash
Nepali search and rescue personnel retrieved the corpse of the last of 22 persons onboard a tiny plane that crashed two days ago in...
Germany to amend constitution to allow $110 billion defense fund
The German finance ministry stated on Sunday that Germany has agreed to amend its constitution to allow for a credit-based special defense fund of...
California woman sentenced 15 months prison for punching flight attendant
A California woman was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for punching a Southwest Airlines flight attendant in the face during a trip,...
Victoria’s Secret pays $8.3m to settle sacking Thai workers
An unprecedented $8.3 million settlement has been reached for over a thousand dismissed Thai garment workers who sewed bras for a factory that supplies...
Nepal plane with 22 passengers on board, including 4 Indians, loses contact
According to media reports quoting airport officials, a Tara Air's 9 NAET twin-engine aircraft carrying 22 people - four Indians and three Japanese nationals...