Month: May 2019

Bidding on a laptop packed with some of the world’s most dangerous malware closed at $1.345 million on Tuesday. The laptop is running 6 viruses that have caused financial damages totaling $95 billion. Dubbed ‘The Persistence of Chaos,’ the Samsung NC10 was created by artist Guo O Dong. He told The Verge that the “artwork”…

In an attempt to bring some balance to China’s growing domination across the Indian Ocean region, Delhi and Tokyo agreed to jointly develop Sri Lanka’s largest and busiest seaport, Colombo. India, Japan and Sri Lanka are planning to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in the near future. The agreement is aimed at expanding the…

Turkish pilots might be excluded from participating in the F-35 training program, in yet another attempt by Washington to force its NATO ally out of the S-400 air defense system deal with Russia, according to a new report. The US is “seriously considering suspending training for Turkish pilots on advanced F-35 fighter jets,” two anonymous…

Critics of US President Donald Trump were enraged after American Navy airmen appeared in photos wearing ‘morale patches’ featuring a spinoff of Trump’s campaign slogan, and his cartoon likeness. Navy airmen from the USS Wasp donned the patches, which read “Make Aircrew Great Again,” in preparation for a visit from President Trump, who delivered a…

Leading Palestinian businessmen announced on Tuesday they would boycott an economics-focused conference next month in Bahrain that is part of the US’s Middle East peace plan, AFP reports. The Palestinian political leadership had already announced it would not attend the June 25-26 conference. The US had also invited key Palestinian businesspeople, saying the meeting was…

The reason humans walk upright could be because of a series of apocalyptic lightning strikes caused by ancient star explosions millions of years ago, exciting new research suggests. Researchers say that a number of supernovae, which began around eight million years ago and peaked 2.6 million years ago, sparked a series of events that led…

A woman who casually dropped £30,000 on luxury Godiva chocolates at Harrods as part of an epic 10-year-long, £16 million spending spree is being forced to explain where she got the money from. Champion shopper Zamira Hajiyeva, 55, is married to a banker who happens to be serving 15 years in prison in Azerbaijan for…

The results of the European Union election are the most dramatic upheaval in the politics of Europe since the first European Parliament elections 40 years ago. Across Europe, we have seen a surge of support for the parties of the far-right, but also for the Greens. The moderate conservative and social democrats, who have dominated…

Ukraine’s newly minted President Volodymyr Zelensky has restored the Ukrainian citizenship of Mikheil Saakashvili, the former Georgian president and onetime governor of Odessa. “Thank you President Zelensky! Glory to Ukraine,” Saakashvili announced on Facebook on Tuesday, linking to the presidential decree granting him re-entry. Saakashvili later said he will return to Ukraine on Wednesday. Saakashvili…

The latest indictments of WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange are a blueprint for making journalists into felons, a test case for dismantling the First Amendment that will destroy journalism as we know it, Glenn Greenwald warned. “If Assange can be declared guilty of espionage for working with sources to obtain and publish information deemed ‘classified’ by…