A bloody fight erupted near the University of California, Berkeley, ahead of a Turning Point USA event that was to feature Dr Frank Turek and Rob Schneider and mark the end of the “This Is The Turning Point” tour. It took place just two months after TPUSA’s founder, Charlie Kirk, was assassinated at a campus […]
Turbulent times are ahead for the BBC as the search for the next director general begins following Tim Davie’s resignation, which came after the corporation broadcast a doctored version of Donald Trump’s Jan 6 speech that the White House condemned as misleading.With questions over bias dominating headlines and key funding talks approaching, BBC chair Samir […]
UAE schools to double-count absences / AI-generated image Some UAE schools, following guidelines shared by the Ministry of Education, will count absences as two days instead of one between November 10 and 19. The rule aims to curb last-minute no-shows around exams and holiday windows, expanding on the earlier policy that applied mainly to Fridays. […]
US senators on Sunday reached an agreement to reopen the government after 40 days, signaling an end to the lengthy shutdown.A group of at least eight Senate Democrats, in consultation with Senate GOP leaders and the White House, reportedly reached a deal on Sunday to end the 40-day US government shutdown in exchange for a […]
Saturday Night Live opened its latest episode with a noisy and fast-moving sketch that showed James Austin Johnson as Donald Trump riffing through a long, off-topic monologue after a man fainted inside the Oval Office.The cold open imagined Trump holding a meeting with pharmaceutical executives to talk about lowering the prices of GLP-1 medications. The […]
His Majesty Sultan Haitham declared November 26–27 official holidays for public and private sector employees/Representative Image In a move to honor the Sultanate’s 55th National Day, His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik has declared Wednesday, November 26, and Thursday, November 27, 2025, as official holidays for employees across Oman’s public and private sectors. The announcement […]
A fresh round of online chatter broke out after MAGA commentator Benny Johnson floated an unexpected idea on Fox News: a “Vance–Sweeney 2028” ticket. His comment came while defending Sydney Sweeney over her latest interview, where she finally addressed the months-long controversy around the American Eagle “Great Jeans” advert.Johnson said Sweeney had “more balls than […]
Raknah, Al Ain recorded 9.8°C Sunday morning, the UAE’s lowest seasonal temperature, NCM confirmed/Representative Image The UAE woke up to a chilly start Sunday as temperatures in Raknah, Al Ain, plunged to 9.8°C, the lowest of the season so far, signaling the arrival of winter across the Emirates, the National Centre of Meteorology (NCM) reportedAt […]
US vice president JD Vance stirred row over interfaith marriage after revealing he hopes his Hindu wife, Usha Vance, may one day convert to Christianity.The comments were made last week at a Turning Point USA event at the University of Mississippi. They sparked a row among both MAGA supporters and liberals, many of whom argued […]
Representative image (Picture credit: AP) Singapore-based online retailer Shein is not to be subject to a ban in France during a probe into the sale of illegal items, France’s government announced on Friday.“The government has succeeded in getting Shein to remove all illegal products that were being sold on its platform,” Paris said in a […]
