Representative image (Picture credit: AP) In January 2025, the execution of Huang Lin-kai reignited Taiwan’s death penalty debate, with activists saying authorities acted in disregard of the law. The execution, the island’s first in five years, came just months after Taiwan’s Constitutional Court issued a landmark ruling narrowing the scope of capital punishment and requiring […]
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo will be joining the University of Zurich in 2025, shifting their base from the US to Switzerland. US-based Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo will join the University of Zurich and establish a new center for development economics. The announcement came from the University of Zurich with no mention […]
Authorities at the shooting scene (X/@CrimeWithBobby) At least four people were killed and more than 20 others injured after a mass shooting early Sunday at a crowded bar on St Helena Island in South Carolina, according to authorities.The shooting took place shortly before 1am at Willie’s Bar and Grill, a popular gathering spot on the […]
Australian model Ellie-Jean Coffey clarified that her viral video is not in India. A video has gone viral claiming that an American tourist was caught pooping into a lake in Udaipur, India, from a boat. The video surfaced at a time when there is an anti-India wave in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, and […]
Taliban fighters in Kabul, 2021; Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif (File photo: AP) Afghanistan and Pakistan have once again found themselves on the brink of open conflict after days of deadly cross-border fighting that exposed the fragility of their long and volatile frontier. Afghan officials said their forces killed 58 Pakistani soldiers in overnight “retaliatory operations,” […]
Indian-origin Gurpreet Singh Broca opened a turban store in Sudbury, in North Ontario. (Photo: The Sudbury Star) A shop in Northern Ontario’s Sudbury was at the center of a social media meltdown in Canada this week as the shop, Chardikala Turban Store, sells turbans and articles of Sikh faith, including traditional head coverings, ceremonial cloths, […]
When two men accused of spying for Beijing walked free from a London courtroom last month, the tremors were felt far beyond Westminster. In Washington, they registered as something far more serious: a crack in the bedrock of one of the world’s most trusted intelligence partnerships. Now, the White House is warning that Britain’s failure […]
For a man who’s made a career out of roaring engines and roaring opinions, Jeremy Clarkson has always reserved a special kind of scorn for the NHS. He’s called it bloated, broken and outdated — a “creaking monster” swallowing Britain’s money and happiness whole. But fate, with its impeccable comedic timing, decided to put his […]
Justin Trudeau was trolled for his shirtless, kissing photo with Katy Perry. (Photo: Daily Mail) Canada’s former prime minister Justin Trudeau faced vicious trolling after Daily Mail published a zoomed-in photo of a shirtless Trudeau killing Katy Perry on board Katy Perry’s 24-metre yacht, the Caravelle, off the coast of Santa Barbara, California. Social media […]
The opening of this week’s “Saturday Night Live” featured host Amy Poehler and Tina Fey portraying Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem, respectively.The sketch opened with a parody of Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Senate hearing this week, where she faced questions about the indictment of former FBI director James Comey, and files linked to Jeffrey Epstein, […]
