US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to members of the media during a signing ceremony on the sidelines of the 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York, Monday US secretary of state Marco Rubio on Wednesday said the world lacks a functional international system capable of addressing major conflicts. He listed out the…
Harvey Weinstein appears in Manhattan Supreme Court to be sentenced for sexual assault Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced former Hollywood producer whose downfall ultimately contributed in fueling the #MeToo movement, was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Wednesday for sexually assaulting a former television production assistant.The sentencing followed a legal odyssey spanning more than six…
Pezeshkian hits back at Trump at UNGA Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian took the UNGA stage on Wednesday and turned his fire on Donald Trump on American soil.Referring to Trump’s remarks about the Islamic Republic a day earlier, Pezeshkian hit back at the US president’s labelling of Iran as “terrorist”.He said Iranians were in fact “victims…
Pic credit: Bonhams Skinner Every thrifter dreams of it: buying something for less than a pizza, discovering it’s actually valuable, and walking away with a fortune. For Tracy Donahue, a New Hampshire resident, the dream happened to be real.In 2017, she picked up a painting at a thrift store for $4. She hung it in…
India rejects OIC’s Kashmir remarks NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday hit back at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) over references to Jammu and Kashmir in a joint communique of its Contact Group, calling them “unwarranted and factually incorrect” and asserting that the grouping has no locus standi to comment on matters that are strictly…
‘UP ke ladke’ vs each other? SP-Congress spar over who can beat BJP in 2027 NEW DELHI: The “UP ke ladke” bonhomie is beginning to look less like a united front and more like a contest for the upper hand, with Congress and Samajwadi Party leaders trading jabs over who can take on the BJP…
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa was caught on camera scrolling through Instagram Reels at UN meet. Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa was caught on camera scrolling through Instagram Reels on his smartphone as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addressed world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.A video from inside the UNGA hall shows…
AI generated image used for representative purpose NEW DELHI: A Kerala district consumer commission has directed a cooperative bank to pay Rs 13.87 lakh to a depositor after it restricted her withdrawals from her savings account despite her fixed deposit hit maturity. The commission also awarded Rs 25,000 compensation and Rs 3,000 litigation costs in…
Quote of the day Meg Ryan/(Image Credit: Instagram) Sometimes, ordinary people do extraordinary things and set examples of greatness. More importantly, they achieve it not through any larger-than-life gesture, but through small acts of kindness. Once, Meg Ryan also drew attention to something we often overlook with her words. She shared a message linking individual…
Among the species benefiting from the restoration are yellow-eye mullet. A major effort to remove invasive rice grass from Tasmania’s Duck Bay is showing major signs of recovery, with native vegetation returning and the number of fish species rising from five to 11. The changes came within just two to three years of the weed…
