Black Friday online sales to hit a record-breaking $3 billion, over $1 billion from mobile
NEW YORK: Online sales on Black Friday in the United States hit a record $7.4 billion this year, with a jump in the number of transactions made from smartphones, according to data released Saturday by Adobe Analytics. The figure was a 19.6 percent increase over last year and the second biggest day of online sales […]
London Bridge attacker named as Usman Khan, 28
LONDON: A man suspected of stabbing two people to death in a terror attack on London Bridge was a former prisoner convicted for terrorism offences and released last year, police said Saturday. Police identified the man, who was shot dead by officers after Friday’s attack, as 28-year-old Usman Khan, saying they were not actively seeking […]
Young veterinary doctor is abducted, gang-raped and murdered in India
Hyderabad: The 22-year-old veterinarian, whose charred body was found on Thursday near Shadnagar town, was suspected to have been raped and murdered by two persons who offered to help her punctured two-wheeler repaired. Priyanka Reddy is suspected to have been killed near Tondupally toll plaza of Outer Ring Road at Shamshabad on the outskirts of […]
British police kill knife-wielding man who fatally stabbed two people on London Bridge
LONDON: A man wearing a suspected hoax explosive device knifed two people to death in a terror attack on Friday before being shot dead by police on London Bridge. Three more people were injured in the stabbing spree which revived memories of a three-man attack on London Bridge two years ago that killed eight people. […]
Four-year old killed for pair of gold ear-rings in Bengal
Kolkata: A four-year old girl was allegedly killed for a pair of gold earrings by two women neighbours in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, the police said on Wednesday. The two women, who are neighbours of the girl’s family in Khargram, have been arrested and remanded to police custody for two days, said officer-in-charge of Khargram […]
3 men charged with murder in Ali Raza Abidi case
KARACHI: An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Wednesday indicted three men for killing Muttahida Quami Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) leader Ali Raza Abidi. According to details, the three men were produced in court and charged with the former MQM-P MNA’s murder. The suspects refused to plead guilty to the crime to which the court postponed the hearing of […]
Boris Johnson refuses to apologise for Islamophobic and homophobic comments
LONDON: Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn condemned racism and anti-Semitism by stating that they were evil in all forms and pledged that under his government racism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia will have no place. The Labour leader was speaking at the unveiling of a specific race and faith manifesto, featuring policies including a new body to oversee […]
Former Outcome Health Executives Indicted In Billion-Dollar Fraud Scheme
Health co-founders Rishi Shah and Shradha Agarwal have been indicted, along with former chief financial officer Brad Purdy, by a federal grand jury on fraud charges in connection with a scheme to overbill customers of the healthcare-advertising company that became one of Chicago’s most high-profile startups. Shah, 33, the company’s former CEO, is charged with […]
Padma Lakshmi sets the temperatures soaring with new Instagram photo
American TV host Padma Lakhsmi on Friday set the temperatures soaring with her new Instagram photo. The image instantly went viral after Laskhmi posted it on the photo and video sharing app, earning thousands of likes within hours. “When you’ve been on the road for six months straight and you finally get a minute to […]
Pregnant Muslim woman in Australia brutally beaten in Islamophobic attack
A Sydney man has been charged for punching and stomping on a heavily pregnant woman unprovoked, in what was described as an “Islamophobic” attack by a leading Australian Islamic association. Shocking security camera footage showed a man approaching a table of three women wearing headscarves as they chatted at a cafe in the city´s west […]
