Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin,45 was found guilty Tuesday on all the three criminal charges in the murder of George Floyd in May, 2020. He was convicted of second and third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter for kneeling on Floyd’s neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds, choking 46-year-old black man to death. George Floyd’s […]
The 19th International Automobile Industry Exhibition “Auto Shanghai 2021” kicked off at the National Exhibition and Convention Center in Shanghai, China, on Monday. Auto Shanghai 2021 is the first of the world’s biggest auto shows to run normally amid the coronavirus pandemic this year. 1,000 enterprises from all over the world have registered to participate […]
Stuffed animals such as flamingo, yellow bird, tiger and panda take seats in an Italian restaurant in central Warsaw, the capital of Poland. The restaurant manager Massimo and his wife bought several stuffed animals online and placed them in seats like a customer to lighten atmosphere during lockdown. Restaurants in Poland are now only allowed […]
A small helicopter, called Ingenuity, has successfully completed its first flight on Mars. The data returned to Earth approximately 3 hours later and NASA announced that the Ingenuity helicopter rose about 3 meters and was airborne for less than a minute.
A huge fire destroyed the nearly 200-year-old Jagger Library on the University of Cape Town (UCT) campus in Cape Town, South Africa. The fire broke out on Table Mountain, on Sunday morning which also caused extensive damage at the University of Cape Town and many buildings.
At least 11 people died and 98 others were injured in a train accident in Toukh, Al Qalyubia Governorate, north of Cairo, Egypt, on Sunday, according to the ministry of health. The accident happened after four carriages of the train, coming from Cairo to the Delta city of Mansoura, derailed, the Egyptian Ministry of Transportation […]
India has registered a new record for daily COVID-19 cases. According to the health ministry, 200,739 COVID-19 cases reported over the past 24 hours, taking the total tally to 14,074,564. In the country the death toll rose by 1,038, to 173,123.
Protesters clashed with police in front of the Brooklyn Center Police station in Minnesota, USA on Tuesday night. It was the third night of the protests after the death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright. Daunte Wright was killed by a police officer during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, on 11 April.
An Egyptian archeological mission announced on Thursday the discovery of a 3,000 year old “Lost Gold City” in Luxor, Egypt. The mission, headed by renowned Egyptian archeologist Zahi Hawass, in collaboration with Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, found the city that was lost under the sand. The Egyptian mission, which started working on the discovery […]
Muslims performed the first Tarawih prayer of the holy month of Ramadan at mosques in Depok and Medan, Indonesia. Indonesian muslims performed Tarawih prayer under strict COVID-19 measures.