DAKAR, Senegal — After his morning prayers at the mosque, 25-year-old Mamadou Aliou Ba puts on his Santa suit, the padded belly protruding from his thin, tall frame, and goes to work.
Witnesses said around seven shots were fired at the Northlake Mall in Charlotte, North Carolina, at around 2pm local time (7pm UK time) this afternoon.
President Barack Obama will present the National Medal of Science to Dr. Rakesh K. Jain, an Indian-American professor at Harvard Medical School and director of tumor biology laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Canada's immigration minister says the government is still working towards its goal of bringing 10,000 Syrian refugees to Canada by the end of the year but would not guarantee it will actually happen.
Two educational institutions have denied reports that they have been "blacklisted" by the US government after some students from India were deported last week, and others not allowed to board their Bay Area-bound flights.
Sanrio Co.'s digital arm said Tuesday that it "corrected" a security vulnerability on the SanrioTown.com website and was investigating. The leak was discovered Saturday by a security researcher.