Fareeda Kokikhel Afridi, a prominent and tireless activist from Jamrud was shot dead in cold blood by armed gunmen.
On April 7th a deadly avalanche hit a Pakistani military camp in the Gayatri Sector, 30km west of the Siachen glacier, killing over 130 people, most of them military personnel. The scale of the tragedy once again brought into focus a long-standing conflict between India and Pakistan over Siachen, often referred to as “the world’s highest battlefield.”
WikiLeaks, the controversial transparency activist group, has started publishing millions of email correspondence between officials of the Syrian Assad government and governments and corporations around the world in what it is calling the ‘Syria Files’.
Today at 12:56, the European Parliament decided whether ACTA would be ultimately rejected or whether it would drag on into uncertainty. In a crushing 478-to-39 vote, the Parliament decided to reject ACTA once and for all. This means that the deceptive treaty is now dead globally.
The ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN today presented their latest results in the search for the long-sought Higgs boson with both experiments seeing strong indications for the presence of a new particle, which could be the Higgs boson