File photo: Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, with Oman’s Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al Said, in Tehran (Picture credit: PTI) As the confrontation between Iran, Israel and the United States intensifies, missiles have lit up skies across the Gulf. Yet one country stood out for not being targeted, Oman.Following coordinated US–Israeli […]
World’s largest waterfall system by width lies between Brazil and Argentina — stretching 2.7 kilometres (Image Source – NASA) Along the border of Brazil and Argentina, the Iguazu River widens, slows, and then drops. The land simply falls away. Iguazu Falls stretches roughly 2.7 kilometres across a basalt plateau, forming what is generally described as […]
. Afghanistan said on Friday it carried out drone strikes on Pakistani military establishments as fighting between the two neighbours continued. Pakistan, meanwhile, said it shot down the drones using its anti-drone systems and reported no casualties.Afghanistan’s military launched attacks late Thursday along the border in six provinces. It described the action as retaliation for […]
(Image credits: X @NYCMayor) New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani met with President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday for a previously unannounced meeting that lasted about an hour, focusing on major new housing investments in the city while also addressing the arrest of a Columbia University student.After the meeting, Mamdani posted on […]
A federal judge in California has ruled that Tesla must face a class‑action lawsuit brought by a software engineer who alleges the electric‑vehicle maker showed a “systematic preference” for hiring foreign workers on H‑1B visas over US citizens. The decision means the case will now move forward to the discovery phase, reports HRDSoftware engineer Scott […]
Donald Trump was set to deliver the State of the Union in Washington, his second major address to Congress this term and the last before the 2026 midterms. It was also the first time Trump was to be confronted with the Supreme Court justices since they ruled his tariffs illegal.The State of the Union traditionally […]
The Pentagon reportedly did not receive any orders to send a hospital ship to Greenland, despite President Donald Trump claiming over the weekend that a vessel was “on the way.”The military did not receive orders to deploy any Navy vessels, The Wall Street Journal reported, and both Navy hospital ships were reportedly docked at a […]
Managers of The Boston Globe called off printing its daily newspaper for the first time in its 153-year-old history after a record-setting snowstorm prevented staff from safely reaching the printing plant.Snow and winds stopped staff from getting to the Globe printing plant to print Tuesday’s paper, the newspaper said in an article on its website. […]
A man trying to push a taxi stuck in the snow during a snow storm (Image/AP) A massive winter storm battered the northeastern United States on Monday, bringing airports to a near standstill, disrupting public transportation, forcing school closures and leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power. The storm, described by meteorologists as the […]
World-famous Circus Cirque du Soleil brings ‘Corteo’ to Qatar this april / Image: file Residents in Qatar have a new date to mark on their calendars. The world-famous Cirque du Soleil is bringing its spectacular production Corteo to Doha for a limited six-day run from April 8 to April 13, 2026, with eight live performances […]
