Mediators race to extend Israel-Hamas truce as expiry loomsA truce between Israel and Hamas is nearing the expiration date with mediators reaching an agreement on another extension after a final exc...
Hamas to free new wave of hostages in Gaza truceHamas fighters are set to release a new wave of hostages Saturday in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, officials said, offering hope to a...
WHO voices concern over fate of Gaza hospital chiefThe WHO said in a statement that the chief of the biggest hospital in the besieged Palestinian territory had been arrested on Wednesday alo...
UK schools rated 'outstanding' a decade ago, 'downgraded' by watchdog Ofsted in recent inspection, read hereAfter being re-inspected for the first time in 13 years, Ofsted has downgraded hundreds of ‘Outstanding-rated’ schools in England. Those sc...
Mathematician Nikhil Srivastava, 2 colleagues selected for inaugural Ciprian Foias PrizeThe prize will be presented next year on January 5.
Indian mathematician Nikhil Srivastava, along with 2 others, wins top US prize for cracking longstanding Ramanujan graphsSrivastava shares the prize with Adam Marcus and Daniel Alan Spielman.
Stricter lockdown restriction likely on the way, says UK PM Boris JohnsonCases of COVID-19 in Britain are at record levels and increasing, fuelled by a new and more transmissible variant of the virus. That has al...
UK government orders takeover of state-funded Islamic schoolAmanda Spielman, the chief inspector of the UK's schools regulator Ofsted, said Al-Hijrah would be taken over by an independent academy tru...
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- Indian mathematician Nikhil Srivastava named joint winner of 2014 George Polya Prize
Experts are of the opinion that the implications of this breakthrough could be significant.
India needs hybrid seeds to increase rice production: International Rice Research InstituteTaste is one of the main reasons Indian farmers are not taking to cultivation of high-yield hybrid rice varieties developed by scientists.
- Bowie Castlebank Group to cut more than 800 jobs
The troubled British retail sector suffered another blow Tuesday as the Glasgow-based Bowie Castlebank Group went into administration and a...
- Altria may step up acquisitions after Kraft spinoff
Altria Group, parent of the world’s largest cigarette maker, will probably accelerate tobacco-company takeovers after spinning off its 89 p...