News Roundup

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 06:00:52 +0000

By ASSOCIATED PRESS  The helicopters flew low and fast into the night, ferrying U.S. special forces to a compound where Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was hiding in Syria. Half a world away, President Donald Trump watched the raid in real time via a video link as troops blasted into the hideout and sent […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 07:15:16 +0000

President Donald Trump doesn’t like what he reads in two of America’s biggest newspapers, The New York Times and Washington Post — so he won’t be getting them any longer. “We did not renew our subscription, that is correct. This will be a significant cost savings to taxpayers,” White House spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham told AFP. […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 05:44:16 +0000

British police said Thursday that 39 people found dead in a truck near London are believed to be Chinese nationals, in a case that has triggered national outrage over the people trafficking business. Emergency workers discovered the bodies early Wednesday inside the refrigerated container of a truck parked in an industrial area east of London, […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 05:51:01 +0000

One of India’s most wanted tiger poachers, who also had a fetish for eating the penis of sloth bears, has been arrested after being on the run for six years, officials said. Wildlife officials in the central state of Madhya Pradesh formed a special task force in 2013 after several sloth carcasses were found with […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 05:40:43 +0000

Sometimes life really can be a rat race. US scientists have reported successfully training a group of the rodents to drive tiny cars in exchange for bits of Froot Loops cereal, and found that learning the task lowered their stress levels. Their study not only demonstrates how sophisticated rat brains are, but could one day […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 04:41:39 +0000

An Australian sheep who made headlines in 2015 for the record-breaking weight of his fleece has died, according to the carers of the Merino named Chris. The animal, believed to be aged 10, was found dead on Tuesday morning by his minders, having died of old age, said Kate Luke, co-founder and vice president of […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 04:26:29 +0000

A popular children’s song became a rallying cry in Lebanon after protesters in Beirut spontaneously sang the hit to calm a toddler caught in the midst of a noisy demonstration. When driver Eliane Jabbour was surrounded by a rally in the capital last weekend, she asked protesters if they could stop shouting as her young […]