KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s Islamic Shariah courts have appointed their first female judges — a move praised by women’s rights activists Thursday as a boost for a judicial system often accused of favoring men.
Suraya Ramli and Rafidah Abdul Razak, formerly officials at the government’s Islamic judicial department, were named Shariah court judges for Kuala Lumpur and [...]
PAYERNE, Switzerland: A solar powered aircraft was flying in circles high over Switzerland at first light on Thursday, well on its way to completing a historic round the clock flight, the crew said.
Solar Impulse is attempting to make the first such flight on purely solar energy, defying the hours of darkness to keep aloft for [...]
WASHINGTON: Americans are increasingly obsessed with Facebook and many young women check their page even before using the bathroom in the morning, according to a poll released on Wednesday.
Thirty-four percent of the women aged 18 to 34 surveyed by Lightspeed Research for Oxygen Media said checking Facebook was the first thing they did in the [...]
CHENGDU: Yang Gangkun calls out to two pandas lying on their backs chewing bamboo. They push themselves up and slowly amble over for their morning workout in a breeding centre in southwest China.
The 24-year-old is a panda keeper at the Chengdu Panda Base in Sichuan province — which will soon offer contestants from around the [...]
NEW YORK: The US government is launching a program nicknamed “Perfect Citizen” to detect cyber assaults on private U.S. companies and government agencies running critical infrastructure, the Wall Street Journal said in its online edition.
The surveillance by the National Security Agency would rely on sensors deployed in computer networks for critical infrastructure such as the [...]
