People enjoy the warm weather at the Ounaskoski Beach in Rovaniemi, Finnish Lapland. (Pic credit: AP) Helsinki: Finland has broken an over 50-year-old weather record as the country is witnessing the longest period of temperatures above 30C, the Finnish Meteorological Institute said on Friday.As Parikkala in eastern Finland hit 30.3 Celsius before midday, this meant […]
This is a representative image Dhaka: A Dhaka court on Thursday sent Bangladesh’s former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque to jail in connection with a murder case during the July uprising in Jatrabari.The decision came hours after Haque, 81, was detained from his residence in Dhaka.TV footage and media pictures showed Haque was led into […]
President Trump said Friday he has not considered granting a pardon or commutation for Ghislaine Maxwell, longtime associate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein who is back in the news amid a furore over the case. “It’s something I haven’t thought about,” Trump said when asked about the possibility of a pardon for Maxwell. “I’m […]
A convenience store at a gas station is damaged after Cambodia fired artillery shells in Sisaket province, Thailand (Pic credit: AP) Thailand warned its conflict with neighbouring Cambodia could “potentially develop into a war” as troops used rockets and artillery to shell targets along their contested border for a second day.Acting Thai PM Phumtham Wechayachai […]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez flouted House rules in her Met Gala 2021 ‘Tax the rich’ appearance. A House Ethics Committee found Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at fault for his much-discussed 2021 Met Gala appearance, where she wore her headline-making ‘Tax the Rich’ gown. The probe report released Friday revealed that AOC underpaid for costs and will now have […]
A federal court struck down a Washington state law last Friday that would have forced catholic priests to report child abuse even if the information came through confession. District judge David Estudillo said the law clearly interfered with religious freedom, placing priests in an impossible spot of either following their faith or breaking the law. […]
Grocery stores across seven US states have pulled tuna salad items off their shelves after fears of listeria contamination. The recall, announced by the US food and drug administration (FDA) on Monday, was linked to products supplied by Reser’s Fine Foods. The contamination was traced to breadcrumbs used in the tuna salads. No cases of […]
An Indian’s X post on why Ireland is becoming unsafe went viral. An X post by an Indian man named Daksh went viral as he said Ireland is not safe and the country is “going to the dogs”. The post came after an Indian man was attacked on the streets of Dublin and was falsely […]
US president Donald Trump chats with White House head groundskeeper Dale Haney on the North Lawn in White House. (AP file photo) US president Donald Trump on Friday said he would have homeless people removed from outside the White House “immediately”. When a reporter told him, “I saw homeless people sleeping right outside the gates […]
Indian-origin Brooklyn dad Sanjai Syamaprasad admits to have spied 13,000 patients, staff through spy camera disguised as smoke detector. Sanjai Syamaprasad, a 48-year-old Indian-origin hospital worker in Long Island, pleaded guilty to having filmed as many as 13,000 patients and staff in the restrooms by placing secret camera disguised as a smoke detector. But despite […]
