The work represents some of the first detailed research on how humans would react to meeting aliens   Humans will actually be very happy to meet aliens, according to new research. Hollywood might have led us to expect that an alien invasion would be greeted with tanks and guns. But some ...

Ten per cent increase in ultra-processed food intake was associated with a 12 per cent increased risk of overall cancer   “Ultra-processed” foods including sugary breakfast cereals, chicken nuggets, pizza and pre-sliced bread may increase the risk of cancer, a study has claimed. Fast foods and ready meals amount for 50 per cent of the average ...

  Aseman Airlines plane crashed en route from Tehran to Yasuj in severe weather conditions, according to state media reports   All passengers and crew onboard an Iranian commercial flight died after the plane crashed amid severe weather conditions in a mountainous region in the south of the country, state ...

    CAIRO: Three Egyptian soldiers have been killed in a 10-day-old campaign against militants focused on the Sinai peninsula, Egypt’s military said on Monday. It was the first time the military has reported its own casualties since it launched the operation on February 9. The statement did not say ...

“South Africa’s Zuma is out” was the Washington Post’s headline on Thursday morning. “Will things actually get better?” The question signifies more than journalistic skepticism. It points to a shift in the liberal worldview. Over more than a quarter of a century, that view – triumphant as, in 1991, both ...

  LONDON (Reuters) – Britain blamed Russia on Thursday for a cyber-attack last year, publicly pointing the finger at Moscow for spreading a virus which disrupted companies across Europe including UK-based Reckitt Benckiser. The so-called NotPetya attack in June started in Ukraine where it crippled government and business computers before ...

Democrat speaks out on House committee’s Russia investigation   The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee has said there is an “abundance” of information about possible Trump campaign collusion with Russia that the public has yet to see. “There is certainly an abundance of non-public information that we’ve gathered ...

The Israeli authorities must immediately release teenage activist Ahed Tamimi whose continued detention is a desperate attempt to intimidate Palestinian children who dare to stand up to repression by occupying forces, Amnesty International said. Ahed Tamimi’s trial is due to start tomorrow in Ofer juvenile military court in the occupied ...

INDIA has declared that Pakistan “will pay” for an attack on an army base in the Jammu region that killed at least six people, the country’s defence minister starkly warned.   Nirmala Sitharaman declared that Pakistan was “expanding the arc of terror” following the devastating attack and vowed to avenge ...

North Korea says it is unable to pay its share of the 2018 United Nations budget because of international sanctions. The UN and US had imposed strict sanctions for Pyongyang’s continued development of its nuclear weapons programme. North Korea’s UN Ambassador Ja Song Nam asked the UN to set up ...