Donald Trump clearly doesn’t do irony. How else can we describe inviting Vladimir Putin to join his so-called “Board of Peace”? At least “mad Vlad” will be in good company. It’s not clear if Ukraine’s nemesis will take part, but plenty of other aspiring despots, authoritarians
SYDNEY, Jan 24 - An Australian boy had died in hospital after being bitten by a shark in Sydney Harbour, his family said on Saturday after a series of shark attacks along the country's east coast.
The landslide struck a village in West Bandung region.
In the same week that New South Wales experienced four shark attacks, Victorian beachgoers were warned about stinging jellyfish.
Wolves killed more than 2,100 reindeer in Finland last year, and herders are blaming the Ukraine war Juha Kujala no longer knows how many reindeer will return to his farm from the forest each December. The 54-year-old herder releases his animals into the wilderness on the
The meeting and venue were the same, but the style and tone of the two most anticipated keynote speeches at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss town of Davos could not have been more different. On Tuesday, January 20, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney addressed the
As a million Syrians fled their country's devastating civil war in 2015, directors Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes headed to Turkey where they would meet a young girl who encapsulated the contradictions of this enormous migration. In Ismir, they met Isra'a, a then-11-year-old girl
The country will vote on Feb 12, over a year after Hasina's ouster from power.
WASHINGTON, Jan 23 - A federal judge ordered President Donald Trump's administration on Friday to delay its termination of the \"Temporary Protected Status,\" or TPS, for Myanmar while a lawsuit challenging the termination continued.
“I Want Your Sex,” an erotic thriller starring Olivia Wilde as a sexually assured artist who embarks on a sadomasochistic relationship with her gallery assistant, got Sundance’s pulse racing on Friday night. Cooper Hoffman plays Elliot, the sub to Wilde’s dom in Gregg Araki’s
Giant kangaroos that lived during the Ice Age may not have been as slow and grounded as once believed. A new study finds their leg bones and tendons were likely strong enough to support hopping, despite their massive size. Rather than traveling this way all the time, these
Chemotherapy’s gut damage turns out to have a surprising upside. By changing nutrient availability in the intestine, it alters gut bacteria and increases levels of a microbial molecule that travels to the bone marrow. This signal reshapes immune cell production, strengthening
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Friday he is back in the Lone Star State after a viral photo showed him on a plane as the state prepared for a massive winter storm. “I’ve returned home from my work trip. It’s 66 degrees & beautiful. A storm is expected tomorrow night,” Cruz posted
Donald Trump’s concern about the strategic positioning of Greenland is rational. But the way the US president has approached the issue is not – and could still rupture NATO and cause enduring harm to North Atlantic political and economic relations. The question for those
With dangerously-cold arctic air already settling over a large swath of the U.S. Friday, at least 177 million people are under watches or warnings for ice and snow.
Noraseela Khalid's lawyer said that she has nothing to gain from filing the suit.
A new mall in Petaling Jaya faces criticism for allowing people to enter shops and dine with pets.
China is seen “controlling the dynamic through stillness”, a senior global business leader said.
The Indonesian influencer was reportedly found dead in her apartment, according to local media reports.
An FBI agent in Minneapolis who attempted to probe the death of a 37-year-old woman killed by a federal immigration officer earlier this month has resigned, according to multiple reports. Tracee Mergen left her job in the bureau's Minneapolis field office after facing pressure
The military has ruled Myanmar by force for almost all of its post-independence history.
Female friendships demand something a little extra. As that famous America Ferrera monologue in “Barbie” reminded us, it’s tough to be a woman — or, in the case of the two off-kilter leads of the uniquely witty “Extra Geography,” to be in that transitional and equally
As Sir Keir Starmer makes the cost of living a government priority, we unpack the impact on family finances.
TAIPEI, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Poor weather on Saturday forced U.S. climber Alex Honnold to postpone his "free solo" rope and harness-free ascent of the outside of Taiwan's Taipei 101 skyscraper, one of the world's tallest buildings. The climb, organised by Netflix for live
A difficult choice faces Chinese technology companies with global aspirations.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said on Friday that global politics is entering a critical phase in which “multilateralism is being thrown out by unilateralism,” and argued that US President Donald Trump is effectively proposing “to create a new UN in which he
“What’s happening here is clearly immoral."
ZIGONG, China, Jan 24 - In southwest China’s Sichuan province, the annual Zigong International Lantern Festival kicked off on Friday, showcasing the centuries-old art of illuminated lanterns on a grand scale.
South Korea hosts about 28,500 US troops in combined defence against North Korea.
Famed free-solo climber Alex Honnold is due to ascend the 508-m tower without ropes or a safety net.
After the free-to-play shooter's Game Awards reveal was roundly mocked, the creators opted not to engage. Can't blame 'em!
Meta has stopped giving teens access to artificial intelligence characters, the company wrote in a blog post Friday.
Ways to stay warm when the power goes out.
As a founding member of Duran Duran, you wouldn’t think that much could surprise John Taylor. By 1984, each of the British new wave gods’ first three albums had gone platinum, their cinematic videos were regularly rotated on MTV, and nonstop global touring attracted Swiftian
She also starred in ‘Dragstrip Riot’ and ‘High School Hellcats’ before co-founding Childhelp, the nonprofit organization dedicated to helping abused, neglected and at-risk kids.
Audience members were moved to tears during the world premiere of “Josephine,” one of the first major revelations out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival. One of the people who was blubbering at Park City’s Eccles Theater was none other than the film’s star Channing Tatum,
An animal ecologist researching large marine animals such as whales and dolphins, Assistant Professor Iwata Takashi of the Graduate School of Maritime Sciences has performed surveys in oceans across the world. By using a method known as "biologging," which involves attaching
When we assign work or chores in social units like our workplaces and households, feelings of unfairness are inevitable. While we hope to keep things fair, this can sometimes be difficult to achieve, and we often find ourselves caught in terrible dilemmas.
We're taking part in Copyright Week , a series of actions and discussions supporting key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day this week, various groups are taking on different elements of copyright law and policy, and addressing what's at stake, and what we
Trade negotiations are nearing the finish line after nearly two decades of hard bargaining on both sides.
WASHINGTON, Jan 23 - U.S. Vice President JD Vance will travel to Azerbaijan and Armenia next month, President Donald Trump said on Friday, months after the two countries signed a peace agreement in Washington.
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Netflix’s “Skyscraper Live,” which is set to follow free solo climber Alex Honnold as he climbs the Taipei 101 tower in Taiwan, has been postponed because of rain — and will move to Saturday night U.S. time (Sunday morning Taiwan time) instead. “Due to weather, we are unable to
By Michelle Nichols Jan 23 (Reuters) - Iran will treat any attack "as an all-out war against us," a senior Iranian official said on Friday, ahead of the arrival of a U.S. military aircraft carrier strike group and other assets in the Middle East in the coming days. "This
Oscar-winning director James Cameron was candid during a recent interview about why he chose to leave the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic and permanently relocate to his 12,000-acre New Zealand farm, saying he wanted to live in a place that “believes in science.” “Five or six
With western states deadlocked in negotiations over how to cut water use along the Colorado River, the Trump administration has called in the governors of seven states to Washington to try to hash out a consensus.
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Some US lawmakers and investors have accused the South Korean government of unfairly targeting Coupang.
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