A militant leader believed to be the mastermind of a deadly attack on a Nairobi shopping mall in 2013 has been killed in a US drone strike. Adnan Garaar was traveling with a group in southern Somalia, ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-19
Forensic scientists say they have found the tomb of Miguel de Cervantes, author of the classic novel Don Quixote, nearly 400 years after his death, BBC News reported. They believe they have found the ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-18
A police bomb squad was called in after a suspected explosive device was spotted near the Central waterfront in Hong Kong's main business and financial district, Apple Daily reported Friday. Officers ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-27
Islamic State fighters have abducted at least 150 people from Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria. A Syrian Christian group representing several non-government organizations inside and o ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-25
Islamic State said it was holding an Israeli Arab who had posed as a foreign fighter in order to spy for Mossad. But the militants' claim was denied by Israel and by the man's family, who said he had ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-13
On July 4, 1994, Sophie Serrano, then 18 years old, gave birth to her first baby at a private maternity clinic on the French Riviera. The child, whom she named Manon, had to be placed in an incubator ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-11
British lawmakers have voted in favor of making Britain the first country in the world to allow test tube babies from three different people to help prevent serious genetic diseases. The House of Comm ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-04
Boko Haram, the Nigeria-based Islamic militant group, destroyed two towns in the country recently. Last year, the group kidnapped a number of female students. But apart from regional reports, there wa ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-30
A partial skull retrieved from a cave in northern Israel is shedding light on early human history, particularly migration to Africa and some of the earliest encounters with Neanderthals. Scientists sa ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-29
Suspected Islamist militants from the Nigerian group Boko Haram kidnapped around 80 people, many of them children, and killed three others on Sunday in a cross-border attack on villages in northern Ca ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-19
What's the secret to long life? Scientists are trying to unlock the mystery by studying the genetic blueprint for the bowhead whale, the awe-inspiring giant of the Arctic that lives up to 200 years. T ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-07
David Wang, chairman of BBI Life Science (01035.HK), expects the firm's revenue from its protein- and antibody-related business to grow at least 20 percent annually in the next five years, as demand h ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-02
Unlike the State of the Union speech American presidents make every year in the US Congress, Hong Kong’s annual policy address by our chief executives – and by British governors before the handover – ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-30
Since a Court of First Instance jury found four people guilty on Friday in Hong Kong's biggest anti-graft case, the media has been busy. It has been following up on whether there will be an appeal, sp ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-22
Russia's richest man will return a Nobel Prize medal to its owner after buying it for US$4.1 million at a charity auction. Alisher Usmanov, who is worth US$14.4 billion by Bloomberg estimates, said he ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-10
The corruption trial of two property tycoons, the brothers Thomas and Raymond Kwok of Sun Hung Kai Properties, and Rafael Hui, Hong Kong's former No. 2 official, will soon go to the jury. Stretching o ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-09
Fears are growing over at least two remaining Al Qaida hostages after a botched rescue by United States special forces in which two western captives were killed. The remaining hostages are being held ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-08
If he could not be more useful in his lifetime, at least he could make amends for what he has done -- or has not done. James D. Watson, one of the grandfathers of DNA, wants to make that clear in his ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-04
Islamic State, the self-proclaimed extremist caliphate which controls a large swath of Syria and Iraq, has received between US$35 million and US$45 million in ransom payments in the past year. The mon ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-25
A man has had a live tapeworm lodged in his brain for at least four years. The parasite was found after the 50-year-old man checked into a hospital complaining of headaches, weird smells, seizures, an ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-24
