Chinese students call measure ‘Chinese Exclusion Act’ after Rubio vows to revoke visas (Photo: AP) Chinese students studying in the US are scrambling to figure out their futures after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday that some students would have their visas revoked. The US will begin revoking the visas of some Chinese […]
Representative image (AI) SALDANHA: A South African court on Thursday sentenced a woman to life in prison for kidnapping and selling her six-year-old daughter, in a case that horrified the country. Joshlin Smith went missing in February last year from her home in Saldanha Bay, a fishing town 135 kilometres (85 miles) north of Cape […]
Iranian cleric Gholamreza Ghasemian (Image credit: X/InfoSudLiban) Iranian cleric Gholamreza Ghasemian, who was arrested for his controversial ‘obscene concerts’ remarks, was freed by the Saudi government on Thursday, ISNA reported. Saudi authorities arrested Ghasemian on Monday while he was performing rituals of the hajj in Mecca after a video went viral. In a veiled attack […]
People from the mountaineering community participate in a rally to mark the anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest in Kathmandu (Image credit: AP) Nepal’s mountaineering community celebrated the conquest of the world’s highest mountain with a rally of climbers, guides and others who gathered for International Everest Day. The event Thursday marked the […]
Shanghai airport stops woman with ‘bridal-level’ makeup as her face didn’t match passport (Pic credit: @wchinapost) A woman flying out of Shanghai was forced to scrub off her makeup at airport immigration after facial recognition scanners couldn’t match her heavily contoured face to the photo in her passport, sparking a viral moment.In a video that […]
Jeju Air, South Korea’s top low-cost airline, faced another safety scare when one of its planes ran into minor trouble while landing at Da Nang International Airport in Vietnam, local news reported on Wednesday.Jeju Air Flight 2217 from Incheonbriefly went off course while landing at the airport at around 12.50 AM (1.50 AM Singapore time) […]
Rallies by UML and Royalists are expected to gather on Republic Day (Image credit: ANI) Kathmandu is bracing for two opposition rallies on Thursday, one led by the ruling CPN-UML and the other by the royalists as the nation marks Republic Day.The Communist Party of Nepal- Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) have called for a cultural […]
Horses turn hazardous in Central Park as they go wild, injuring several; watch In a scene straight out of a period drama gone rogue, two carriage horses bolted through Central Park on Monday afternoon, causing injuries and chaos. The mayhem unfolded around 2.30 pm near the Central Park Zoo when a carriage horse named Shadow, […]
The above-ground entrance to a public shelter, which can fit around 450 people in case of crisis or war, is seen in Kongsberg, Norway (Image credit: AP) In 1944, Norwegian resistance fighters in the town of Kongsberg blew up a factory making cannons for occupying Nazi German forces during World War II. More than 80 […]
Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore (File Image) The American astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who extended their stay on the International Space Station due to Boeing’s Starliner capsule complications, have completed their return to Earth in March and finished physical therapy whilst increasing their involvement with Boeing and Nasa initiatives.“Right now, we’re just coming […]
