Dreams in limbo: Harvard flooded with transfer requests as Donald Trump’s crackdown rattles international students

Harvard flooded with transfer requests as Donald Trump’s crackdown rattles international students Harvard University is grappling with a wave of panic and transfer requests from foreign students after US President Donald Trump administration’s crackdown sought to block the school from hosting international scholars, according to new court filings.Maureen Martin, the university’s director of immigration services, […]

Indiana mother shoots child molester as he tried to rape her teen daughter at hotel

This is a representative AI image An Indiana mother shot and wounded Bruce Pierce, a convicted child molester, after finding him allegedly trying to rape her 12-year-old daughter inside a motel room on Saturday, according to court documents.The mother walked in on Pierce, who was reportedly on top of her daughter as the preteen repeatedly […]

Swiss village buried in ice-mud deluge, one person missing | World News

Swiss village buried in ice-mud deluge, one person missing At least one person went missing after Birch Glacier catastrophically collapsed in the Swiss Alps, wiping off 90% of the mountain village of Blatten, which is home to 300 people. The incident took place at around 3:30 pm (local time) on Wednesday, when a large chunk […]

Chinese students call measure ‘Chinese Exclusion Act’ after Rubio vows to revoke visas | World News

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 […]

South African woman gets life term for selling 6-year-old daughter

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 […]

Saudi government frees Iranian cleric Gholamreza Ghasemian after being arrested for ‘obscene concerts’ remarks

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 […]

Nepal’s mountaineering community celebrates 72nd anniversary of Mount Everest conquest

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 […]

Too glam to scan: Shanghai airport stops woman with ‘bridal-level’ makeup as her face didn’t match passport

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 flight veers off course in Vietnam months after deadly crash, no injuries reported

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) […]

Kathmandu braces for opposing rallies as ruling UML and Royalists set to hit streets, security beefed

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 […]