Babylon current affairs articles.
A Singaporean couple have pleaded guilty to starving their domestic worker from the Phillipines. Lim Choon Hong was jailed for three weeks and fined S$10,000 while his wife Chong Sui Foon was sentenced to three months in jail. The prosecution,…
Apple’s special-edition red iPhone 7 and 7plus goes on sale today in over 40 countries including China. Apple runs a project called Product Red campaign and has already included red Apple accessories, Beats headphones and iPods. This is the first…
Former Russian MP Denis Voronenkov has been shot dead outside a hotel in the centre of the Ukrainian capital. Voronenkov and his bodyguard were leaving the Premier Palace hotel when they were attacked. Witnesses spoke of hearing seven shots being…
Two Shots were heard outside the House of Parliament in Central London. Commons Leader David Lidington has said that a police officer had been stabbed and police said they had shot the presumed attacker. He was seen running towards the…
Germany has announced it will deport two terror suspects who were born in Germany but whose parents are foreign. This is the first time in German history that people who were born in the country have been deported. Lower Saxony…
“Down by the Salley Gardens” also known as “The Maids of Mourne Shore” or “The Mourne Shore” is a well-known Irish folk song and poem by William Butler Yeats. Yeats tried to reconstruct this old song by writing down lines…
A court in India has ruled that two sacred rivers in India are to be given human status to help preserve the rivers and fight against their pollution. Industrialisation, deforestation and rapid urbanisation have contributed to the heavy pollution of…
Twenty students have died after being hit by falling trees while swimming at the Kintampo waterfalls, a popular tourist spot in Ghana. The Kintampo waterfalls are one of the highest waterfalls in the country. According to Ghana national fire service…
People can listen again to a Stradivarius that disappeared 36 years ago. The valuable instrument belonged to violin virtuoso Roman Totenberg and was stolen from his dressing room in Massachusetts after a concert in 1980. Philip Johnson, a former pupil…
