A legendary maths wizard dubbed the world’s fastest ‘human computer’ has died.
Shakuntala Devi died age 83, at a Bangalore hospital following respiratory problems on Sunday.
Ms Devi was a child prodigy and gained world fame in 1977 when she calculated the 23rd root of a more than 100 digit number in 50 seconds – 12 seconds faster than the best performing...
A letter written by the bandmaster of the Titanic who carried on playing as the doomed ship sank has sold at auction for £93,000.
Wallace Hartley, 33, has became a key figure of the disaster as – together with his seven other band members – he carried on playing until the very last moments.
The violinist, who travelled as a second-class passenger on Titanic,...
Syrian government forces have used chemical weapons – probably nerve gas – in their fight against rebels waging a two-year-old uprising, the Israeli military’s top intelligence analyst said on Tuesday.
Brigadier-General Itai Brun told a security conference photos of victims showing foam coming out of their mouths and contracted pupils were signs deadly...
France’s embassy in Tripoli has been hit by what appeared to be a car bomb this morning, injuring two guards.
It is the first such attack in the Libyan capital since the 2011 war that ousted former dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
‘There was an attack on the embassy. We think it was a booby-trapped car,’ said an embassy official.
‘There was a lot of damage...
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