A group of scientists have spotted an amazing and rare white killer whale off the coast of Kamchatka, Russia. This is believed to be the first ever sighting of an adult killer white whale in history. Scientists have already named this guy as ICEBERG and they have spotted this amazing creature while working on the Far East Russia .
FRANKFURT GERMANY’S biggest bank, Deutsche Bank, posted surprisingly strong results yesterday, becoming the latest global bank to offer hope for a reversal of the financial crisis. Deutsche Bank reported a first quarter net profit of €1.2 billion (US$1.56 billion), well above market expectations. In the first quarter of 2008, the bank suffered a loss of .
WASHINGTON ECONOMIC growth in the Middle East and North Africa is set to halve to three per cent this year with the collapse of oil prices, demand and worker remittances, a senior World Bank official said yesterday. Daniela Gressani, World Bank vice president for the region, said countries outside the Gulf such as Iran, Syria .
TOKYO HONDA MOTOR CO, Japan’s No 2 automaker, forecast a small profit for the current year as it cuts costs to counter plunging car sales and a strong yen, surprising analysts who were expecting its first annual loss. Carmakers everywhere are being hammered by an acute downturn in demand brought on by the worst financial .
ASIA tightened its already strict measures to keep swine flu from spreading across the region yesterday, after the World Health Organisation warned of a significant increase in the risk of a pandemic. Most countries in the region have already increased airport checks to screen passengers arriving from affected areas and advised against non-essential travel to .
JOHOR BAHARU NINE people, six of them Pakistan nationals from one family, drowned while a boy from the same family was rescued after a boat carrying them capsized in waters off Teluk Ramunia near here yesterday. Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) Southern Region Enforcement Chief First Admiral (Maritime) Che Hassan Jusoh said the agency was .
PUTRAJAYA THE Federal Court has been tasked to determine the validity of the conversion of children of a civil marriage into Islam by one parent without the consent and knowledge of the non-converted parent. The Court of Appeal yesterday referred the Shamala-Ridwan custodial rights case to the Federal Court for determination of five constitutional questions. .
KUALA LUMPUR MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak will be arriving in Brunei today on a two-day inaugural working visit. He will be accompanied by wife, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, cabinet ministers and senior government officials. During the visit, Najib is scheduled to have an audience with His Majesty the Sultan and Yang .
SANGO, JAPAN SHINSUKE Takasaki’s son Sota is too young to understand that his mother might still be alive if 18 hospitals had not denied her treatment when she complained of headaches during labour. The question of how this could happen still baffles his father, as well as medical experts in Japan, one of the world’s .
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