Obama keeps watch 10 mins ahead to be punctual
New York: President Obama’s trick to be on time is keeping his watch 10 minutes ahead, it has been revealed.
According to the New York Post, during a gathering at the InterContinental Times Square Hotel, it was author of the Jack Reacher novels, Lee Child, who noticed that the President’s watch was running faster than the rest.
The US President explained that his watch has been set like that for more than a decade and it still helps whenever he is close to running late. (ANI)
Man behind al Qaeda’s ‘first US attack’ now Yemen’s security official
Washington: The man behind al Qaeda’s first attack on the US is now reportedly working as an official in Yemen.
In the 1980’s, Jamal al-Nahdi fought the Soviets in Afghanistan.
He was later recruited by Osama bin Laden in 1992 to conduct a pair of bombings in Somalia, which would target U.S. troops who were deployed for Operation Restore Hope, the Washington Times reports.
Nahdi had reportedly planned a pair of simultaneous bombings on the Aden Mövenpick hotel and at a resort hotel, the Gold Mohur after he was tipped off by his sources about the Marines stay there.
The attacks, however, could not take place as Nahdi accidentally blew off one of his hands trying to set the charge for at the Mövenpick hotel, and he planted his other bomb in the wrong location— but two people were still killed in the botched strike, the report adds.
An investigation by Buzzfeed probes that while Nahdi claims to have switched allegiances, his hiring raises questions as to the extent that jihadis and al Qaeda sympathizers have infiltrated Yemen’s security services at the same time the U.S. has been pouring millions into the country in an effort to combat the terrorist group.
The former terrorist was reluctant to discuss his past with the media outlet for the story, saying that he is now a colonel in the Interior Ministry and was appointed as an assistant to the director of security for [Yemen’s major sea port of] Mukalla. (ANI)
Forget jobs, how about finding love on Linkedin!
New York: Move over job hunting on Linkedin. Here comes an app that would find right love for you on the professional career network.
Called LinkedUp!, this app uses data from Linkedin to help you find a perfect date.
“LinkedUp! users get a very true sense of who someone is, where they are from, where they went to school and what they do, giving users a sense of comfort and trust,” its developer Max Fischer from Los Angeles was quoted as saying in media reports.
How does it work?
The app connects to the profiles of 300 million Linkedin users. It allows you to judge a would-be date by appearance, profession and education.
You can filter potential mates by industry, age, proximity and gender.
When two users like each other, they are encouraged to chat over the site.
A user has to opt-in and download this app to be part of the platform.
“I got the idea after I noticed people were using the career networking site to find dates,” Fischer added.
The app only shows what industry the users work in and their first name and age, which can allow them to remain pretty anonymous, reports added. (IANS)
Man jailed for attacking wife in public place
Sydney: An Indian man in Australia was sentenced to eight months in jail for a violent attack on his estranged wife in her workplace, a media report said Sunday.
The unnamed man jumped the counter of a pizza shop where his estranged wife worked and tried to throttle her last month in Melbourne in the state capital of Victoria in Australia, despite an intervention order issued against him in March, The Herald Sun reported Sunday.
“I will kill you. If you are safe today, next time I will kill you definitely,” the man said, while he punched his wife in the face and stabbed her in the shoulder with a sauce spreader. “My concern is for the welfare of the victim,” Magistrate Doug Bolster in Ringwood city near Melbourne, while announcing the sentence, said.
The Ringwood Magistrates’ Court heard last week that the Indian national was irate because he believed his wife had used him to secure the Australian residency.
The court also heard the man was high on synthetic cannabis at the time of the attack and claimed not to remember it, the report stated. The couple married in 2011 and had separated this year. The woman had been granted an intervention order against her estranged husband in March. The man also claimed that his wife had started seeing another man shortly after their wedding.
The man contended that he suffered from a psychiatric illness and promised the court he would return to India to seek psychiatric treatment, once he was released on a suspended sentence.
However, the court said that there was no evidence about the man being mentally ill. (Agencies)
