U.N. nations present their lists of must-dos in fight against virus

Thu, 24 Sep 2020 11:35:00 +0200arkansasonline (en)

With the 75th annual U.N. General Assembly reduced to recorded speeches because of the pandemic, leaders are using this week as an opportunity to depict the pandemic from the vantage points of their nations and themselves -- and present their visions of efforts to fight the virus and advocate what they believe must be done.

Humour mills go on overdrive after late night boom in Srinagar

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 21:00:00 +0200risingkashmir (en)

It’s a sonic boom! It's a pressure cooker bursting! It's a quake! And yes, the late night boom that reverberated across the city and several parts of south Kashmir on Tuesday was indeed a quake, seismologists later confirmed. But before that, social media humour and rumour mills were already on....

Today in history

Mon, 21 Sep 2020 08:05:00 +0200mia-mk (en)

21 September 2020 (MIA) – International Day of Peace. 1170 – Combined English and Irish forces, under the command of Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke and Diarmait Mac Murchada, King of Leinster seize Norse-Gaelic Dublin, forcing Ascall mac Ragnaill, King of Dublin into exile.