Australian TV apologises for editing photo of woman MP

An Australian television news channel apologised “unreservedly” yesterday for altering a photo of a state lawmaker, who complained it gave her “enlarged boobs” and a more revealing dress.
30 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Red Sea Crisis: UK warship repels Houthi drone attack

A British warship, the HMS Diamond, repelled a drone attack on Saturday from Yemen’s Houthi group in the Red Sea, British officials said.
28 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Russia targets Ukraine with drones, missiles

Russia launched drone and missile attacks targeting civilian and critical infrastructure across wide areas of Ukraine, Kyiv’s Air Force said yesterday.
28 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Activists splash soup on glass-protected Mona Lisa

Two protesters yesterday hurled soup at the bullet-proof glass protecting Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” in Paris, demanding the right to “healthy and sustainable food”, an AFP journalist saw.
28 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Activists splash soup on glass-protected Mona Lisa in Paris

Two protesters on Sunday hurled soup at the bullet-proof glass protecting Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" in Paris, demanding the right to "healthy and sustainable food", an AFP journalist said
28 January 2024, 10:10 AM

Freedom Of Expression: UK intervenes in takeover of Telegraph newspaper

Britain ordered a new probe into an Abu Dhabi-backed plan to buy the influential Telegraph newspaper on Friday, stepping in a second time after Redbird IMI revised the deal to allay concerns of foreign interference in one of the country’s oldest dailies.
27 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Global turbulence the ‘new normal’

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warned yesterday that global disruptions and volatility are the “new normal”, with more geo-economic tensions on the horizon.
26 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Putin gives go-ahead to new nuclear icebreaker

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday gave the green light for a new nuclear-powered icebreaker, as Moscow seeks to step up commercial trade across its Arctic north.
26 January 2024, 18:00 PM

All 74 aboard Russian plane killed in crash

Russia yesterday accused Ukraine of deliberately shooting down a Russian military transport plane carrying 65 captured Ukrainian soldiers to a prisoner exchange in what it called a barbaric act of terrorism that had killed a total of 74 people.
24 January 2024, 18:00 PM

France logged record number of asylum requests in 2023

A record number of people sought asylum in France last year, a rise of more than eight percent on the previous year, the county’s refugee protection authority said yesterday.
23 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Russian strikes kill 7 across Ukraine

A wave of Russian missiles hit Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities yesterday, killing seven people and wounding dozens, setting ablaze and toppling apartment blocks and creating new panic among exhausted residents.
23 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Canada to cap int’l student permits by one-third

Canada will temporarily cap new international student permits by one-third this year compared to 2023, the country’s immigration minister announced Monday.
23 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Ukraine downs eight Russian drones

Kyiv said yesterday that Russian forces had attacked Ukraine with eight Iranian-designed attack drones but that its air defence systems had repelled the barrage.
22 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Pandemic accord hangs in the balance: WHO

The head of the World Health Organization yesterday voiced fears that countries will fail to strike a pandemic preparedness agreement by May, saying “future generations may not forgive us”.
22 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Australia sweats in heatwave

Large swaths of Australia sweltered again yesterday through a widening heatwave, which the national weather forecaster said raised the bushfire risk in an already high-risk fire season as the country endures an El Nino weather pattern.
21 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Russia’s hackers spied on Microsoft executives

Microsoft MSFT.O said on Friday that a Russian state-sponsored group hacked into its corporate systems on January 12 and stole some emails and documents from staff accounts.
20 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Canada police suspect India link

Police in Canada are investigating a series of extortions and related crimes that they believe are orchestrated by a suspect in India and involve criminals in Edmonton, Alberta, targeting the region’s affluent South Asian people.
19 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Ukrainian drone hits targets in St Petersburg

Ukraine hit targets in Russia during a drone attack on an oil terminal in St Petersburg yesterday as part of a “new phase” in the region, a Ukrainian military source told Reuters.
18 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Webb telescope discovers oldest black hole yet

The James Webb space telescope has discovered the oldest black hole ever detected, which was thriving so soon after the Big Bang that it challenges our understanding of how these celestial behemoths form, astronomers said Wednesday.
18 January 2024, 18:00 PM

Study permits to Indian students drop due to row

The number of study permits Canada issued to Indian students fell sharply late last year after India ejected Canadian diplomats who would process the permits and fewer Indian students applied due to a diplomatic dispute over the murder of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada, a top Canadian official told Reuters.
17 January 2024, 18:00 PM