At least 290 people have been killed and 500 more injured in a series of explosions targeting churches holding Easter services and hotels in Sri Lanka. Most of the dead are believed to have been Sri Lankans, but officials say about 30 people from other countries have lost their lives. No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks but Sri Lanka’s defense minister, Ruwan Wijewardene, said the... 

The police stated that three Catholic churches were hit by blasts in Sri Lanka on Sunday during Easter mass, as well as three large hotels – the Cinnamon Grand, Kingsbury, and Shangri-La. The government, led by the prime minister, has announced an emergency meeting to address the explosions. St. Anthony’s Shrine in the Kochchikade district of Colombo and St. Sebastian’s Church in... 

Making monkeys more smart and human-like, scientists have used gene-editing to insert human brain gene in a monkey. For the first time, a team of Chinese scientists made use of gene-editing techniques to make monkey brains more human-like. By the end, the monkeys, rhesus macaques, got smarter and had superior memories as compared to the unaltered monkeys. Researchers edited the human version of a... 

Wow this is just getting more and more creepier, so only yesterday after we reported about the forced marriages in China now we discovered that China is also demolishing mosques. It looks like the Chinese want to completely exterminate the Uyghur people and no one is saying anything, well except a few here and there. So now we just discovered a post by The Guardian where they report that China is... 

Outrage, atrocity and genocide of the highest possible level like never seen before since the days of World War 2! After locking up all the Uyghur males in concentration camps, China is forcing Uyghur women to marry Chinese men. A genocide is taking place in open yet the international community including European, Turkic & Muslim countries continue to ignore the cries of Uyghur people of China. So... 

The delegation visited New Delhi intending to offer new arms deals to India, which is already using Israeli military equipment such as the Spice-2000 “smart” glide bombs that were used by the Indian Air Force in its air raid against an alleged terrorist camp in Pakistani territory in February. The Israeli national security advisor’s delegation lost documents containing classified... 

The mainstream media has been bombarding Western countries with news about the need to phase out plastic from our daily lives in order to protect the environment, focusing on the World’s oceans. But how much of that plastic is actually the West’s fault? It’s easy to see awareness campaigns about trapped animals in all sorts of trash and wanting to do something in order to prevent it from happening... 

A harsher version of penal code, which includes sharia-based punishments for things like adultery and same-sex relations, is to come into force next week in Brunei. The ‘human rights defenders’ in Washington, however, are silent. Brunei, a tiny Muslim-majority absolute monarchy located in Southeastern Asia is about to put into force the last amendment to its criminal code as part of a reform initiated... 

China has once again blocked a move to designate the leader of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) group behind the Kashmir bomb attack as a terrorist, sparking indignation and calls for a boycott on Indian social media. Masood Azhar, who founded JeM in 1999, is currently believed to be the coordinator of the February 14 suicide bomb attack in Kashmir in which 40 Indian troops were killed. A proposal was brought... 

Relations between India and Pakistan have been strained of late over incidents near the border in the Jammu and Kashmir region. Late in February the Pakistani Air Force announced it had downed two Indian jets following an air raid by the Indian Air Force against an alleged terrorist camp on Pakistan’s soil. One Indian soldier was killed and three more seriously injured in an exchange of fire... 

The new radar is reported to provide 360-degree coverage for US missile defense systems, with no blind spots. Washington and Tokyo are working toward developing a new radar system for Aegis-equipped US Navy ships, as a “part of efforts to improve defense capabilities,” diplomatic sources told Kyodo news agency Sunday. The new system aims at countering new weapons, including hypersonic... 

China added to its official gold reserves for the third straight month in February as the country continues efforts to minimize its exposure to the US dollar. The People’s Bank of China added 10 tons of gold to its horde last month. It has accumulated an additional 32 tons of the yellow metal since the beginning of the year. According to the Financial Times, at this rate, China will surpass Russia... 

Archaeologists have announced the discovery of a drink that was said to promise everlasting life. It was found secretly stowed away in a 2,000-year-old bronze pot in an ancient tomb in central China’s Henan province. Around 3.5 litres of the “elixir of immortality” were found in the tomb in the city of Luoyang during excavations last October. It was initially thought that the liquid was liquor... 

While the finding does not support the hollow earth theory, it does provide some interesting insights into geology and the history of the Earth. Mountains larger than Mount Everest and rougher than Tibet likely lie deep beneath Earth’s surface, a recently published study has revealed. Researchers from the Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics in China and at Princeton University in the US state... 

Tension is escalating rapidly between nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan after air combat between the rivals ended with the reported loss of aircraft by both nations. The ongoing flare-up started on February 14 with the suicide bombing of Indian police troops in Kashmir, a divided region in the north that has been contested by Islamabad and New Delhi since 1947. Some 40 people were reportedly...