Steve Jobs lied about naming Apple Lisa after daughter

CALLIFORNIA: In her upcoming memoir, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ daughter has revealed that her father lied about naming a computer after her. Apple Lisa was released in 1983 and as Lisa-Brennan Jobs was born in 1978, it was inferred that the computer was named after her.  However, in her memoir titled Small Fry, Lisa reveals that her father lied to her until she was 27.  Lisa is short for Locally Integrated Software Architecture. ANI

Death penalty ‘inadmissible’ in Catholic teaching update

Vatican City: Pope Francis has declared the death penalty “inadmissible” in an update of Catholic believers’ most important guide to Church teaching, the catechism, the Vatican announced on Thursday. “The Church teaches, in the light of the Gospel, that ‘the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person’,” the new text states. The update also says that the Church will “work with determination” for the abolition of the death penalty worldwide. AFP  

Hillary, Spielberg to develop voting drama series 

Los Angeles: Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has partnered with Steven Spielberg for a new TV series around the struggle for women’s suffrage. The series will be based on Elaine Weiss book “The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight To Win the Vote”, which follows the story of women leaders who led the decades-long fight to grant women the right to vote and the battle to ratify the 19th Amendment. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Clinton, 70, will serve as an executive producer on the project with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television producing it. PTI

Driving Germans out

Warsaw: People hold flares during a boat parade on the Vistula river to mark the 74th anniversary of the 1944 Warsaw Rising against the Nazi German occupiers, in Warsaw. The uprising was a major World War II operation, in the summer of 1944, by the Polish underground resistance to liberate Warsaw from German occupation. AP/PTI

Back to work

Auckland: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern with partner Clarke Gayford and their baby daughter Neve in their home in Auckland. Ardern, just the second elected world leader to give birth while holding office, returned to work on Thursday, after six weeks maternity leave. AP/ PTI