Johannesburg, June 1: The former president of the local organising committee for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Danny Jordaan, admitted that the organisation he headed paid $10 million in 2008 to FIFA, although he denied that it was a bribe. Jordaan’s remarks, published on Sunday in the Sunday Independent, comes days after an […]
Tokyo, Jun 1 : Japan’s parliamentary session opened this week with an unusual apology from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe over his heckling. Abe apologised today for yelling at an opposition lawmaker during her question last Thursday about controversial defense legislation. Abe intervened when Democratic Party of Japan member Kiyomi Tsujimoto was taking several minutes to […]
New Delhi, June 1 : US-based taxi hailing app Uber has appointed Amit Jain president of its India operations. “In this role, Amit will be running all business strategy, operations, and growth in a market of global strategic importance for Uber,” the company said in a statement. Prior to this, Jain was president of Rent.Com, a […]
Canberra, June 1: Australian opposition leader Bill Shorten on Monday introduced a same-sex marriage bill in the Federal Parliament. The Australian Labour Party leader’s private members bill proposes replacing the words “man and woman” with the term “two people” to define who can be legally married, ABC reported.he same-sex marriage debate in Australia gained momentum […]
Milpitas (US), May 31: Her electronic waste is someone else’s treasure. A recycling center in the Silicon Valley is looking for a woman who dropped off an old Apple computer that turned out to be a collectible item worth USD 200,000. The computer was inside boxes of electronics that she had cleaned out from her […]