Reno, Nevada: A Washoe County jury has convicted a 72-year-old man of first-degree murder in the February killing of an elderly man he stabbed at least 250 times. ### Ralph Goad faces up to life in prison without the possibility of parole at his sentencing set for Oct. 2. ### The Washoe District Court jury…
Paris: Guillaume Hoarau’s second-half penalty claimed a 2-2 draw to deny former winners Red Star Belgrade a comeback victory over Young Boys in the Champions League’s play-off round first leg on Wednesday. ### Roger Assale scored early on for the hosts before Milos Degenek and Mateo Garcia put the 1991 European champions 2-1 up shortly…
Pakistani actor Hamza Ali Abbasi confirmed that he will be marrying actress Naimal Khawar Khan and their wedding ceremony will be taking place on August 25, after an image of their wedding invitation circulated online. ### The news came as a surprise for fans and people in the entertainment industry alike as there was no…
Bollywood actress Jacqueline Fernandez has been off carbohydrates and junk food for the last four days in preparation for a glamorous photo shoot in Dubai for fashion retailer Splash, but she isn’t in a crabby mood owing to her liquid diet. On the contrary, her perennially-sunny disposition is intact as she twirls and shimmies down…
Dubai: Telecommunications firm Etisalat are warning customers to secure themselves against hackers, after a company owner was billed over Dh24,000 for landline calls to Mauritania in West Africa that his business never made. ### Indian expat Ashok Chaturvedi, who runs a medical training and events firm in Karama, said he received usage charges of Dh24,469 for…
Lebanese pop star Elissa announced that she will be quitting the music industry and compared it to a “mafia” that she could not work within any longer. ### The singer, who has been one of the best-selling Arab female artists over the past two decades, broke the news on Twitter that her next album would…
Abu Dhabi: Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB) UK, has provided financing for The Bank of London and the Middle East (BLME) to acquire a Dh120 million (£26.95 million) Grade A office building in Edinburgh, leased to Centrica as their corporate headquarters in Scotland until 2035. ### The award-winning building, which forms part of the Edinburgh…
Bangkok: In the dead of night, Thai firefighter Pinyo Pukpinyo stealthily approaches a python coiled around the rafters of a home in Bangkok, and quickly grabs its head with his bare hands. ### “I need to remain steady and calm,” says the 50-year-old, as he pulls the fat snake, almost five metres (16 ft) long, off…
Dubai: A Dubai-based businessman wants to take on WhatsApp. And SnapChat. And just about any free messaging platform that’s out there. ### Balvinder Singh Sahni, Chairman of RSG Group, has put in Dh400 million for a 10 per cent stake in the business that developed the “Yzer” app, a voice, video and data messaging platform…
Washington: Scientists in Australia have discovered how to save starving koalas whose fussy eating habits make them vulnerable to habitat loss: by feeding them poo. ### A team of researchers used fecal transplants in the form of orally ingested capsules to alter the microbes in the marsupials’ guts, thus allowing them to eat a wider…