El Al Flight 426 Date: July 23, 1968 One of the oldest and one of the longest episodes of commercial flight hijacking was when the El Al Flight 426 from Rome to Tel Aviv was taken over by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and was forced to land in Algiers. […]
Month: March 2016
Terror Attacks in Brussels
“Hope must survive”, tweeted Belgium’s more than five-century old Catholic University of Leuven a day after ISIS suicide bombers attacked Brussels’ international airport and a city metro station on March 22. More than 30 people were killed and over 100 others injured in this terror assault, which occurred exactly 130 days after ghastly suicide bombings […]
10 Most Amazing Railway Stations in the World
1.Grand Central Terminal Location: New York (New York), USA Over hundred years old, the Grand Central Terminal does not seem to be any less fascinating today than when it was built in 1913. Located on 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Manhattan, this 44-platform commuter terminal is built over 48 acres and has a number […]
Obama’s Cuba Visit: Symbolism and Optimism
In 1928, US President Calvin Coolidge arrived in Cuba on a battleship. That trip was “decorous and dull.” Almost 88 years later, Obama became the next US president to visit the country. One of the first things he said after arriving on Cuban soil was this: “what we did for 50 years did not serve […]
Nefertiti: An enigma waiting to be unraveled
Nefertiti is one of the greatest enigmas in history that archeologists and scientists from around the world have been trying to unravel. The ancient Egyptian queen, whose name implies “a beautiful woman has come” has puzzled archeologists who, for decades, have been trying to find out her final resting place and the causes of her […]
Weird Street Names in Britain
One look at a map of the UK and tourists will find a lot to smile at. After all, there are names such as Bishop’s Itchington and Westley Waterless. However, not many may know that these names have some history behind them as well. A number of towns in this part of the world have […]
Human Rights in North Korea Taken Hostage
Otto Warmbier is the new face of Human rights violations in Korea. The 21-year-old student from the University of Virginia was sentenced by the North Korean regime to 15 years of hard labor “for crimes against the state.” Warmbier was on a five-day tour to North Korea when he was arrested by the state for […]
Ten Fastest Growing Cities in the World
The United Nations has recently come out with a list of cities that are expected to grow the fastest between 2010 and 2020 in terms of population. For that purpose it looked at cities with a population of at least five million people and came out with the ones talked about below. Suzhou Suzhou in […]
Why did Marco Rubio Quit Presidential Race?
The Florida Republican primary was a do-or-die battle for Marco Rubio to keep his presidential dream alive, but the Senator lost to rival Donald Trump. To make matters worse, Rubio failed to register a single win in the other four states that went to polls on March 15. Marco Rubio had entered the US presidential […]
Syrian Civil War: 2011 and After
When they said “Revolutions go not backward”, they certainly did not imagine Syria. In the four and a half years of conflict, around 250,000 Syrians have lost their lives while another 11 million are displaced as refugees across the world. The Pro-democracy Protests The pro-democracy protests, which began in March 2011 in Deraa as an […]