Dubai is all set to celebrate New Year’s Eve with an added bang, heralding joy and optimism post a year of hardships, by organising a range of events, activities and special parties. The New Year’s celebrations in the city coincide with the anticipated Dubai Shopping Festival, which creates an ideal and festive atmosphere for residents […]
YouTube suffered a major a outage Monday as users took to Twitter alerting the platform, who instantly responded with: Citing a “problem with the server” the app refused to load with users complaining that all Google services were down, including the Drive and Gmail. The hashtag #YouTubeDOWN is now trending on Twitter with some 102K […]
‘Chernobyl.’ The name incites haunting memories of the world’s worst nuclear disaster that forced thousands to flee, leaving behind homes and livelihoods in the April of 1986. Ever since, the silent, overgrown Ukrainian town of Pripyat has been frozen in time, memorialised in history and graphic documentaries. But now, over three decades past, seasonal clutches […]
The first batch of Pfizer vaccines rolled out in temperature-controlled vessels, on their way to distribution sites across the United States Sunday, as the nation’s COVID-19 outbreak claims close to 300,000 victims. The vaccine, first to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration, is set to be disseminated across the country in the biggest […]
Co-founders Craig Fernandes and Hussain Ali Asgar, have programmed all your solutions in one nifty, fix-snapping app, encouraging users to step away from their phones and dive head first into a world of hobbies, passions, or erudite pursuits — and win big as you do. Lock&Stock is a modern-age revolutionary breaking onto the scene with […]
A year of turbulence, of tragedy, a year that tested resolve and grit, that pushed nations and their people to take a knee before its overwhelming onslaught. The buckling challenges of pandemic aside, the world has been lashed with natural furies from raging wildfires devouring the Australian landscape, to shrieking hurricanes leaving a crumbling Central […]
Facebook on Wednesday was slammed with antitrust law-violating charges wherein U.S. enforcers claimed the social media giant had abused its dominant playing power in the latest series of lawsuits striking the platform this year. The opponents now seek to rescind Facebook’s ownership of acquired messaging services Instagram and WhatsApp. Separate suits filed by the Federal […]
UK officials have since the launch of their nation-wide vaccinations campaign Tuesday reported two cases of anaphylaxis and one report of a possible allergic reaction post the Pfizer BioNTech jab. The adverse effects stemming from the overreaction of the body’s immune system can be severe, sometimes life-threatening, according to the UK National Health Service — […]
A SpaceX prototype of the company’s future ‘Mars missions go-to’ rocket touched down in a fiery explosion Wednesday during a test launch from Boca Chica, Texas. The live footage showed the 16-story-tall unmanned Starship vessel engulfed in flames, as it made its controlled descent on the landing pad. The rocket is currently being developed for […]
The United States voted Thursday to ban the keeping of big cats as pets, following the grievous light the controversial Netflix documentary Tiger King threw on the issue early 2020, sparking escalating concerns. The Big Cat Public Safety Act, as it has been termed, was passed in the House of Representatives 272 to 114, reeling […]
The bitter plight of Syrian refugees continues to be shadowed by the pandemic-tainted pitfalls of the year, but fantasy storyteller Niel Gaiman has sought to remind people that their misery should not be forgotten as the weather takes a biting turn. The award-winning author on Tuesday helped launch the UN refugee programme’s cold weather appeal, […]
