The Great Barrier Reef has lost much of its corals. Mass coral bleaching due to climate change damaged around 93 percent of the pristine coral reefs that pushed the Australian government to sanction $1 billion to protect the world heritage site.
For the second time, a regional court in Brazil has ordered telecom companies in the Brazil to block access to the country’s most popular messaging service, the Facebook-owned WhatsApp for 72 hours. The ongoing dispute has been raging on for months as Brazilian authorities felt frustrated for not being able to gain access to WhatsApp’s encrypted data they need to pursue criminal investigations.
In a bid to increase transparency with its users, Facebook has just released its biannual Government Requests Report for the second half of 2015 revealing. The report revealed a 13% rise of mainly law enforcement requests from the first half of that same year containing gag orders which prohibit the company from informing Facebook users regarding their requests.
A three-year-old Egyptian toddler was mistakenly convicted for “killing three people and sabotaging public and private property” during his alleged participation in pro-Morsi protest in 2014.
Apple is determined to resist FBI’s attempt to gain access to San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone data despite court order.
A seemingly indefinite union-led protests by Pakistani International Airlines (PIA) workers turned ugly following a deadly encounter with the country’s security forces resulting to three deaths and several other people injured.
The Buhari-led government of Nigeria blames former president Jonathan’s corrupt substandard arms deal for failure to apprehend Boko Haram terrorists.
Nobel Peace laureate Aung Suu Kyi and her NLD allies are in position to form the first democratically elected government since 1962 after historic November elections.
Denmark still reigns supreme twice in a row in Transparency International’s 2015 Corruption Perception Index.
Doctors should start screening all adults including pregnant women and new mothers for depression, the USPSTF recommended in its latest guidelines.
US government was recently hacked, in which data of approximately four million former and current federal employees may have been compromised, according to an announcement made by administration.
The federal government is claiming that four major cancer charities were conning donors between 2008 and 2012.
