It was the bet to end all bets, and ultimately a man’s life.   

The Pope wants couples to have fewer children in order to lessen the environmental damage being done to the planet, a Vatican panel has been told.   

DHAKA AFP March2, 2017- The United Nations voiced its criticism Thursday over a controversial new law in Bangladesh that allows underage children to be married off by  their parents.   

Thiruvananthapuram, (Hindustan Times), 03.03.2017- An army jawan from Kerala was found dead near his camp in Nashik, barely a few days after he accused senior officers of harassment, his family members said on Friday.  

Paris, (Daily MAil), 02.03.2017 -  The Parisan home of French presidential candidate Francois Fillon was raided by police today – as he prepared to make a campaign speech  450 miles away.  

DHAKA AFP March3, 2017- Bangladesh police said Friday they had arrested the “spiritual leader” of a banned Islamist outfit alleged to have carried out a series of deadly attacks in the country.   

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Thursday he would recuse himself from any probe into the presidential election campaign as Donald Trump’s administration moved to cut short a snowballing controversy over its  ties to Russia. &nb

Attorney General Jeff Sessions met with Russia’s ambassador twice last year during Donald Trump’s campaign run, but claimed during Senate confirmation hearing he ‘did not have communications with the Russians’ in his capacity

BRUSSELS AFP March2, 2017- The European Parliament on Thursday lifted French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen’s immunity from prosecution over her tweeting of images of Islamic State atrocities.   

BEIRUT AFP March2, 2017- Syrian troops backed by Russian jets completed the recapture of the historic city of Palmyra from the Islamic State group Thursday, the Kremlin said, in another blow to the jihadists.    Bolstered by air strikes and

Beijing, (Hindustan Times), 01.03.2017- China deployed multiple aircraft including combat helicopters in a counter-terror drill in its restive northwestern region of Xinjiang this week.   

LONDON, (Daily Mail), 0203.2017- Thr British PM has vowed to face down peers over the Brexit Bill and stick to her timetable for triggering Article 50.   

President Donald Trump told Congress on Tuesday he was open to immigration reform, shifting from his harsh rhetoric on illegal immigration in a speech that offered a more restrained tone than his election campaign and first month in the White House.

DAILY MAIL, 01st MARCH, 2017- Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif opened a key economic summit Wednesday aimed at improving regional trade ties and calling for greater collaboration in the areas of business, energy and infrastructure development.

THE HINDU, 01st FEBRUARY, 2017- Five Islamist militants were sentenced to death on Tuesday by a special court in Bangladesh for murdering a Japanese citizen in 2015.

DPA, 01st MARCH, 2017- Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, after previously signalling he would not ratify the Paris Agreement on climate change, has signed it, local media reported Wednesday.

REUTERS, 01st MARCH, 2017- South Korean and U.S. troops began large-scale joint military exercise on Wednesday conducted annually to test their defence readiness against the threat from North Korea, which routinely characterizes the drills as prepara

The SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, revealed on Monday that two people have paid for a private mission around the moon, tentatively set for launch in 2018 with the private company’s yet untested Falcon Heavy rocket.

President Donald Trump ratcheted up an increasingly hostile feud with the media Saturday, announcing he will skip a century-old annual correspondents’ dinner a day after an fierce row erupted over press access to the White House.   

BEIJING REUTERS Feb 26- The PLA Navy is likely to secure significant new funding in China’s upcoming defence budget as Beijing seeks to check U.S. dominance of the high seas and step up its own projection of power around the globe.   

China, (Daily Mail, London), 25.02.2017 - Call it divorce counselling with a morbid twist.   A businesswoman in south west China has begun offering ‘grave meditations’, which allows divorcees to exorcise their marriage demons. Studen

REUTERS, 26th FEBRUARY, 2017-Thousands of Russians marched through the centre of Moscow on Sunday to honour opposition leader Boris Nemtsov two years after he was gunned down near the Kremlin walls, and to call for further investigations into his kil

KUALA LUMPUR REUTERS Feb 26- Malaysia on Sunday declared its international airport a “safe zone” after completing a sweep of the terminal where the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was assaulted with a deadly chem

Increased automation in the workforce has caused many to fear their jobs will soon be taken over by robots – and, experts now warn even the military will be affected by the shift.  

An Australian mother of two has revealed she and her husband decided on a family rule after becoming parents - that no man would ever babysit  their children.   

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un’s half brother was assassinated with a lethal nerve agent manufactured for chemical warfare and listed by the UN as a weapon of mass destruction, Malaysian police said Friday.   

OXON HILL AFP Feb24, 2017- US President Donald Trump rallied his loyal supporters with a stridently populist and security-dominated message Friday, declaring the start of a new political era of action.  He was met by euphoric chants of “US

A woman married to a sufferer of the fatal ‘elephant man’ condition says the disease doesn’t scare her.  

At least eight people were killed and 28 injured after a bomb ripped through Pakistan’s Lahore Thursday, officials said, the tenth attack in just under a fortnight pointing to a resurgence in Islamist violence.   

MOSUL AIRPORT AFP/ Feb 23, 2017-Iraqi forces on Thursday entered Mosul airport, which lies on the southern edge of the city, for the first time since the Islamic State group overran the region in 2014.