Japanese PM Shinzo Abe has been heckled at a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa. Mr Abe was shouted at by locals, angry about the size of the US military presence on their island. Mr Abe and US officials were among thousands who gathered to remember some 250,000 people who died in Japan’s only land battle ...

Pakistan’s prime minister called for emergency measures as the death toll from a heatwave in southern Sindh province reached nearly 700. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said it had received orders from Nawaz Sharif to undertake immediate response measures. The army has also been deployed to set up heat stroke centres and assist the NDMA, it added. Many of ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that in his opinion, self-certification in various activities is the most important improvement that his government has brought in the country, adding that trusting citizens is the ‘essence’ of the reform brought about in the nation. “I believe that a human being is inherently good and he or she has to be given ...

Sister Nirmala, the nun who succeeded Mother Teresa as the head of a charity in the Indian city of Kolkata (Calcutta), has died, aged 81. The former Superior General of Missionaries of Charity was suffering from various ailments. She took over the running of the charity after Mother Teresa died in 1997 and ran it for 12 years before Sister ...

Kurdish fighters in northern Syria say they have captured a key town from Islamic State, just 50km (30 miles) from the group’s headquarters at Raqqa. A spokesman for the the Popular Protection Units (YPG) said Ain Issa and its surrounding villages were now under the militia’s “total control”. It follows the capture on Monday night of a military base outside ...

Nigeria’s treasury is “virtually empty”, President Muhammadu Buhari has said. His government had inherited millions of dollars worth of debt from the previous administration, he said at a media briefing. “It is such a disgrace for Nigeria,” Mr Buhari added. The president and his All Progressives Congress won elections in March, ending some 16 years of rule by the Peoples ...

Children who benefit from a good memory are much better at covering up lies, University of Sheffield researchers have discovered. Experts found a link between verbal memory and covering up lies following a study which investigated the role of working memory in verbal deception amongst children.?? The study saw six to seven year old children presented with the opportunity to ...

Plans to create more seven-day services across the NHS in England are being put in jeopardy because of cuts to senior nurse posts, union leaders have warned. Official data shows the number of nurses employed in the two most senior grades have fallen by 3% since 2010. The Royal College of Nursing said senior nursing roles would be vital in ...

Radiotherapy for prostate cancer is an alternative to surgical treatment such as radical prostatectomy and over the years the results of this treatment has improved and currently the results seem to be comparable to surgery.New era of medical research and treatment with radiations began, following the ground-breaking discovery of radioactive elements radium and polonium by Madam Marie Curie. Radiation therapy ...

Patients are trying out pacemaker outside the skin before committing to invasive procedure and having a permanent implant. Professor Michael Giudici, director of arrhythmia services in the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals said that patients have numerous concerns, such as body image issues, so this allows them to see the before and after, which helps them make ...