There were two important nights of debate this week among the Democratic presidential candidates in the US, but only one winner: Senator Elizabeth Warren. ### A flurry of polls in the coming days will show the numbers for the 20 contenders nudged temporarily up or down as a result of how they performed here, but…
Termination of job ### It’s been one-and-a-half years now since my previous company terminated me without reason after working with them for 13 months. During this time they kept me on probation and I wasn’t confirmed. For the first three months they kept me on a visit visa. I recently discovered that it was against…
Washington – If you’ve received a vaccination, hip replacement or chemotherapy without suffering toxic shock, chances are you’ve benefited from a vast bloodletting of horseshoe crabs. ### Every year, fishermen net hundreds of thousands of the creatures off the US East Coast and in Asia before their prized milky-blue blood is drained for use in…
Dubai: If you’re planning on heading outdoors on Friday, the weather might be favourable as residents can expect an increase in cloud cover today (August 2, 2019). ### According to the National Centre of Meteorology (NCM), the weather will be fair in general. Adding to favourable weather is a slight decrease in the per cent…
On Thursday, Angelo Robinson walked out of an Ohio prison. Robinson, 43, had spent more than half of his life behind bars and, until quite recently, had no reason to believe he would get out anytime soon. ### But a remarkable effort to free him began last year, and eventually both the prosecutor’s office that…
CHITRAL, Pakistan: From the once pristine rivers of Hindu Kush to the slums of Islamabad, Pakistan is being smothered by plastic due to a lack of public awareness, government inertia, and poor waste management. ### Plastic bags are a large part of the problem – the nation uses some 55 billion of them each year,…