Category: World

In less than a month the United Kingdom could leave the European Union, but more than a million British nationals will remain there unwilling to let Brexit force them from the lives they’ve built on the continent. The UK Parliament’s refusal so far to sign off on the withdrawal agreement negotiated with the bloc is […]

NEW DELHI: Just as the opposition looked primed to put up a potentially winning combination against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Congress party announced on Tuesday it would fight the April-May general elections without a key critic of Mr Modi, and not go into an alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi. The […]

Hello Kitty might not have a mouth but she’s got a movie deal. Warner Bros.’ New Line Cinema announced Tuesday that it has acquired film rights to Hello Kitty from the Japanese corporation Sanrio. The 45-year-old iconic feline has never been turned into a movie despite its merchandising ubiquity. New Line said it will quickly […]

NEW YORK: Jeff Bezos remains the world’s richest person, ahead of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, according to the latest Forbes list of the ultra wealthy, while far behind President Donald Trump jumped 51 spots in the ranking. While things are largely stable up on top of the list, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg dropped three […]

ALGIERS: The general who leads Algeria’s army responded on Tuesday to protests against the country’s longtime president, darkly evoking the years of bloodshed before the current government took power and the fight against terrorism to portray the demonstrations as dangerous. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ahmed Gaid Salah spoke at a military school outside Algiers […]

Military helicopters took off on Monday with four Spanish rescuers to search for a missing pair of European climbers on Nanga Parbat, the world’s ninth highest mountain. Italian Daniele Nardi and Briton Tom Ballard, whose mother died on K2 in 1995, have been missing for a week on the summit known as “Killer Mountain.” Bad […]

  As the world had its eyes on rising tensions between Pakistan and India following the Pulwama attack, The Daily Show host Trevor Noah put his own humourous spin on it and reported the news with a Bollywood twist. He joked about both countries’ long history of hostility, calling the war “slightly less dangerous” than Cardi B […]

A professor of an engineering college in India’s Karnataka was forced to kneel down and apologise with folded hands for putting up a post on Facebook that criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government over tension with Pakistan, NDTV reported. The professor also allegedly praised Prime Minister Imran Khan. Sandeep Wathar, a professor of civil engineering in […]

NEW DELHI: As India and Pakistan remain entangled in their gate-crashed nuclear power status, China reminded the world again on Friday that they were not legitimate members of the exclusive club, and it did not recognise them as such. The comments came in Beijing through the foreign ministry spokesperson who was saying that China had […]