Month: May 2025

An Iranian director is breathing new life into William Shakespeare’s “King Lear” with a bold staging in Tehran infused with rock music and a dazzling light show to attract younger…

From his roof, Sidi Mohamed Lemine Sidiya scans the mediaeval town of Oualata, a treasure that is disappearing under the sands of the Mauritanian desert.

A Palestinian-American academic has unexpectedly become a key backchannel between the Trump administration and Hamas to secure a ceasefire in Gaza.

The body of Las Vegas-based Matthew Kelemen was found inside a container at a downtown store after police checked into a bad odour.

Kenda Zellner-Smith hauled up a corrugated metal door to reveal hundreds of wooden boards covered with graffiti, each telling a story of the protests that followed George Floyd’s killing by…

A French Surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec practised medicine in France for decades, while preying on victims to sexually abuse and rape them, often under anaesthesia or waking up after operation.

A 5,000-year-old bread found in Turkey has been recreated by a local bakery using ancestral ingredients to give a taste of bronze age, with customers lining up to buy it.

A Chinese paraglider narrowly escaped death after being sucked into a cloud vortex. He was pulled high into the sky and ended up stuck about 26,400 ft above the ground.

People with autism could be four times more likely to develop Parkinson’s disease later in life, according to a study among Swedish population.

Two pigeons on board a Delta flight, scheduled to fly from Madison to Minneapolis, caused chaos and delay. The Delta Flight 2348 with 119 passengers and five crew members on…

For Meg Caldwell, it was part of the background noise of college life. But it didn’t stay that way. Soon, the vape shops she frequented started selling something else: small…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday paid homage to revolutionary freedom fighter Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, popularly known as Veer Savarkar, on his birth anniversary.

Two uniformed officers of the US Secret Service have been suspended following a physical altercation outside former President Barack Obama’s Washington, DC, home.

As a damning expose on Joe Biden’s cognitive decline scandalizes Washington, Democrats in Congress are facing their own reckoning over a seniority system that critics say is holding back younger…

“Asking For Right To Free Speech, Where Is Your Duty?” Court To Ashoka Professor

The Centre is working to address the issue of design strategies known as “dark patterns” that have come to dominate the digital consumer experience.

UN says there’s a 70 per cent chance that average global warming from 2025-2029 will exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius, affecting economies, daily lives and the planet.

RJD supremo Lalu Prasad on Wednesday said the family has named his grandson ‘Iraj’, a day after Tejashwi Yadav became a parent for the second time.

Donald Trump’s move to sidestep global regulations and begin pushing for seabed mining in international waters could pose a wider threat of competing countries claiming sovereignty over the ocean, experts…

The number of people with cardiovascular disease surged by 148 per cent in Southeast Asia over the past three decades, with the condition becoming the region’s leading cause of mortality…

If you are travelling to Turkey, avoid getting up immediately after the plane lands. It might cost you money.

Japan plans to reuse slightly radioactive Fukushima nuclear plant on flower beds at Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s office to show it is safe, to counter public concerns.

A French court is to give its verdict in the trial of a surgeon who admitted to sexually abusing hundreds of patients over more than two decades, in one of…

In the dense forests of Indonesia, you can hear strange and haunting sounds. At first, these calls may seem like a random collection of noises but my rhythmic analyses reveal…

Billionaire Elon Musk’s commercial space flight company, SpaceX, suffered another setback on Sunday after its ninth Starship test flight exploded over the Indian Ocean just 30 minutes after the uncrewed…

Twice a year, the setting sun aligns perfectly with NYC’s street grid and sinks below the horizon framed in canyon of skyscrapers known as Manhattanhenge.

India’s largest IT services company TCS believes that generative artificial intelligence (AI) is not just another tech cycle but a “civilisational shift” which will positively benefit every industry.

The Interpol has issued the first Silver notice on India’s request to track the global assets of former French Embassy officer Shubham Shokeen, who is wanted in connection with a…

The Union government is weighing the option of bringing in Parliament an impeachment motion against Allahabad High Court judge Yashwant Varma.

A Muslim lawmaker in Australia said that she has complained to a parliamentary watchdog after a male colleague allegedly urged her to drink wine and “dance on the table”.

A former police chief serving a 30-year sentence for rape and murder has escaped from an Arkansas prison. Dressed in a “makeshift” law enforcement uniform, Grant Hardin broke out of…

Amid US President Donald Trump’s feud with some of America’s most elite colleges, his administration is planning to implement a stricter vetting process for international students applying for a student…

The simple yet symbolic logo of India’s Operation Sindoor which has captured the imagination of millions of people across the country, was designed by two Army men.

France has foiled the latest in a spate of kidnapping plots targeting cryptocurrency entrepreneurs, and detained more than 20 people over that attempt and another against crypto boss Pierre Noizat’s…

The biggest impact of China’s debilitating Three Warfares strategy comes from the drugs being pumped into the North East to weaken the fabric of society.

The US will no longer recommend Covid-19 vaccines for children and healthy pregnant women, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday, calling it a “common sense” decision grounded in…

Google paid an Indian-American businessman a mammoth $100 million over a decade ago to keep him from joining Twitter, now known as X.

First Lady Melania Trump has rejected the “completely false” speculations about her husband and son, saying Barron Trump never applied to Harvard.

A stray bullet struck the leg of a three-and-a-half year old girl here on Tuesday, police said.

In a swift operation, Delhi Police’s West District team from Police Station Moti Nagar solved a major theft case involving Rs 35 lakh within just 48 hours of the crime…

Vanessa Mariposa, an Austrian social media influencer and reality TV personality, was rushed to the hospital after someone allegedly spiked her drink and robbed her at a rooftop party in…

The World Health Organization tried to stabilise its finances at its annual assembly which ended, but still remains well short of reaching its already reduced target.

An MP-MLA court here on Tuesday dismissed a petition filed against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his alleged remarks on Lord Ram during a speech at a US university last…