With Orlando Bloom’s daughter Daisy Bloom being nearly a month old, the excited dad took to the Ellen DeGeneres Show and finally spilled the beans on his daughter’s features, and development habits. The proud father told TV show Host Ellen DeGeneres that, “Daisy Dove, my little mini-me/mini my mum/mini Katy.” Bloom also went into even more detail about Daisy’s features and admitted …

PARIS: Earth’s surface was warmer last month than during any September on record, with temperatures since January tracking those of the hottest calendar year in 2016, the European Union’s Earth Observation Programme said on Wednesday. This year has now seen three months of record warmth— January, May and September — with June and April virtually tied for first, the Copernicus …

DHAKA: At least four people died late on Tuesday when members of two criminal factions attacked each other in a sprawling camp for Rohingya refugees, Bangladesh police said. Twenty other refugees were injured as the two groups opened fire with locally made guns and used sharp weapons at Kutupalong in Cox’s Bazar district, said Rafiqul Islam, an additional police superintendent. …

ATHENS: A Greek court found the leaders of neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn guilty of running a criminal organisation on Wednes­day at the end of a historic trial that was hailed by the prime minister as a victory for democracy. The judgement in an Athens court came as police and anti-fascist demonstrators clashed outside the courthouse, on the sidelines of a …

STOCKHOLM: Two women scientists won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for creating genetic ‘scissors’ that can rewrite the code of life, contributing to new cancer therapies and holding out the prospect of curing hereditary diseases. Emmanuelle Charpentier, who is French, and American Jennifer Doudna share the 10 million Swedish crown ($1.1 million) prize for developing the CRISPR/Cas9 …

MOSCOW: Russia on Wednesday said it had successfully tested a new hypersonic anti-ship cruise missile in a move hailed by President Vladimir Putin as a “great event” for the country. The military said that the Tsirkon missile was fired from the Admiral Gorshkov frigate in the White Sea on Tuesday morning in the Russian Arctic and successfully hit its target. …

WASHINGTON: Donald Trump’s doctor said on Wednesday the president has had no Covid-19 symptoms for the past 24 hours, as the Republican seeks ways to get back to a normal working schedule and revive his struggling re-election bid with four weeks left until US Election Day. White House physician Sean Conley said in a statement that Trump has been fever-free …

US President Donald Trump credited an experimental drug treatment with helping his recovery from Covid-19 and suggested his diagnosis could be a “blessing in disguise” in the nation’s battle against the pandemic. But there is no way for the president or his doctors to know whether the drug had any effect. In a new White House video posted on Wednesday …

WASHINGTON: The US negotiator seeking to end Afghanistan’s war voiced hope on Wednesday that the Kabul government can reach a side deal with Pakistan, whose historic support of the Taliban has long tested relations. The Taliban and Afghan government have opened slow-moving peace talks in Qatar as the United States starts withdrawing its forces from Afghanistan to end its longest-ever …

STEPANAKERT: Clashes between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces have displaced half of the population of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region, an official said on Wedne­sday, as Russian President Vladimir Putin urged an end to a “tragedy” that shows no sign of abating. The fighting in one of the most combustible frozen conflicts left over after the fall of the Soviet Union erupted on …