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Legendary talent, mighty force: Hollywood remembers Christopher Plummer

2:33 pm February 6, 2021

Los Angeles: Hollywood celebrities, including the ”Knives Out” team of actor Chris Evans, Ana de Armas and filmmaker Rian Johnson, have paid tributes to veteran star Christopher Plummer who died on Friday. The award-winning actor, who played Captain von Trapp in the classic film ”The Sound of Music”, died Friday morning at his home in Connecticut with his wife, Elaine Taylor, by his side. In a career spanning five […]

US rushes to catch up in the race to detect mutant viruses

11:12 pm February 4, 2021

New York: Despite its world-class medical system and its vaunted Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, the US fell behind in the race to detect dangerous coronavirus mutations. And it’s only now beginning to catch up. The problem has not been a shortage of technology or expertise. Rather, scientists say, it’s an absence of national […]

Border checks stopped at N Ireland ports after threats

7:41 pm February 2, 2021

London : Politicians in Britain, Northern Ireland and the European Union on Tuesday condemned threats against border staff that prompted authorities to suspend post-Brexit checks on animal products. The Northern Ireland government said it had stopped inspections at Belfast and Larne ports “in the interests of the wellbeing of staff.” Mark McEwan, Assistant Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, said the force had increased patrols “in order to reassure staff […]

Thousands flee Hong Kong for UK, fearing China crackdown

3:25 pm February 1, 2021

Hong Kong: Thousands of Hong Kongers have already made the sometimes painful decision to leave behind their hometown and move to Britain since Beijing imposed a strict national security law on the Chinese territory last summer. Their numbers are expected to swell to the hundreds of thousands. Some are leaving because they fear punishment for supporting the pro-democracy protests that swept the former British colony […]

4-year-old British Sikh girl joins Mensa club of high IQ kids

7:29 pm January 30, 2021

London : A four-year-old British Sikh girl has become one of the youngest in the UK to be accepted into the elite Mensa membership club of children with a high intelligence quotient (IQ). Dayaal Kaur, who lives with her family in Birmingham, displayed exceptional learning abilities from very early on and had mastered the entire English alphabet by […]