MIT scientists have developed a method to mass produce robots no bigger than a cell that could be used to monitor conditions inside an oil or gas pipeline, or to search out disease while floating through the bloodstream.   The key to making such tiny devices, which the team calls “syncells” (short for synthetic cells), in large quantities lies in ...

Security personnel guard the Saudi Arabia Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, Oct. 26, 2018. File photo Dubai, Oct 27 : Saudi Arabia’s top diplomat says the global outcry over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has become “hysterical,” while vowing that the kingdom is determined to bring the perpetrators to justice. “This issue has become fairly hysterical,” Foreign Minister ...

Colombo, Oct 27 : Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena sacked the country’s prime minister and his Cabinet and replaced him with a former strongman, creating what some observers said could be a constitutional crisis in the South Asian island nation. The prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, told reporters Friday that he had no intention of leaving his post. “I have the ...

Israeli aircraft struck dozens of militant sites across the Gaza Strip early Saturday as militants fired some 30 rockets into Israel, in the heaviest exchange of fire between the bitter enemies in several weeks. The fighting followed a bloody day of border protests, in which Israeli forces shot and killed four Palestinians protesting along the perimeter fence dividing Hamas-ruled Gaza ...

The White House has formally invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to Washington, US National Security Advisor John Bolton said on Friday, returning to an idea that was put on hold in July amid anger in the US over the prospect of such a summit. President Donald Trump held a summit with Putin in Helsinki, the Finnish capital, and then issued ...

The death toll in an eastern China coal mine collapse has risen to 11, with 10 miners still trapped underground, state media reported. One week after the disaster, rescue crews were clearing fallen rock from the shaft, with the remaining miners believed to be located 74 meters (242 feet) below the surface, the official Xinhua News Agency said late Friday. ...

Global markets remained in sell-off mode on Friday, as investor worries sent shares in Asia, Europe and the US tumbling. The benchmark S&P 500 index in the US slid more than 1.7%, closing down almost 10% from its September high.   The Dow Jones fell 1.2%, while the Nasdaq slumped more than 2%.   The falls extended losses earlier in ...

Offering its over two billion monthly users new ways to express themselves, Facebook has introduced new music features, including an option to add a song to photos and videos they share to Facebook Stories.   “And, we’re bringing it to News Feed, too!,” Facebook said in a statement on Wednesday, adding that users would soon be able to add songs ...

Chinese police report 14 children have been injured in an attack by a knife-wielding assailant at a kindergarten in the western city of Chongqing. The report posted on the police force’s microblog said the early Friday morning assault at the Xinshiji Kindergarten was carried out by a 39-year-old woman identified only by her surname, Liu.   China has suffered a ...

Polls will open in the Republic of Ireland later on Friday as voters elect their president. Mr Higgins is the first incumbent in 50 years to face a challenge in his bid for a second seven-year erm.   The president is Ireland’s “first citizen”, but has limited power – the role is mainly symbolic and he or she cannot get ...