Apple to launch ‘red’ iPhone next year?

New York: The 2017 version of Apple’s iPhone is rumoured to come in red and will retain the same design as iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. “It will be priced at a higher side than iPhone 7 and sport a 5.1-inch or 5.2-inch OLED display with invisible home button, all-glass housing, wireless charging," appleinsider.com reported. The company is expected to adhere to “s year” for its 2017 line-up. IANS

NZ drops racially offensive place names 

Wellington: New Zealand is to erase racially offensive word “nigger” from its landscape, the government said on Thursday. The names of three areas in Southern Alps of South Island have been changed to words taken from the indigenous Maori language. Nigger Stream will now be known as Pukio Stream, Niggerhead becomes Tawhai Hill and Nigger Hill is Kanuka Hills. The origin of the names may be linked to native grass Carex Secta, colloquially referred to as “niggerhead”. AFP

Book returned to library after 130 years 

London: Some 130 years after her grandfather borrowed a book from his school library, a woman in the UK has returned it with an apology letter, saying “your former pupil appears to have stolen” it. Alice Gillett, 77, came across a copy of ‘The Microscope and its Revelations’ written by Dr William B Carpenter, while clearing through her late husband’s possessions in Somerset. She discovered a date stamp showing it was borrowed from the library of Hereford Cathedral School in 1886. PTI