San Francisco: Twitter boss Elon Musk sent out a tweet recently inviting people to watch the first World Cup match live on the micro-blogging site. He also promised the best coverage and real-time commentary. “First World Cup match on Sunday! Watch on Twitter for the best coverage and real-time commentary,” he tweeted. Musk did not […]
Join global creators on LIVE as they experience COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt Dubai: TikTok has emerged as a destination for conversations focused on the most urgent environment and sustainability issues, with an active and engaged community of creators committed to raising awareness, inspiring action, and restoring the planet. The platform is thrilled to see […]
UK: The story of how Queen Elizabeth handled an encounter with an American hiker who did not recognise her, recounted by a former bodyguard who was with her that day, revealed the fun-loving side of her personality that the public rarely saw. She died on Thursday aged 96 after more than 70 years on the […]
USA: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured new stunning images of Jupiter that will give scientists even more clues to the planet’s inner life. With giant storms, powerful winds, auroras, and extreme temperature and pressure conditions, Jupiter have a lot going on. In the standalone view of Jupiter, created from a composite of several images […]
Geneva: The World Health Organisation said the rapid spread of monkeypox across dozens of nations does not represent a global health emergency at this time. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus described monkeypox as an evolving health threat, however, and urged governments around the world to step up surveillance, contact tracing, testing and to make sure […]
People say laughter is the best medicine. If that’s true, then that explains why the coronavirus hasn’t left us alone yet. The world is changing; some changes for the best, some for the worst. But one thing that has remained the same for decades is the ability of humans to turn even the darkest situations […]
Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei accused Western countries on Saturday of attempting to sow “chaos and anarchy” in the former Soviet republic, which has been rocked by street protests since an election last month. “We are seeing attempts to destabilize the situation in the country,” he told the United Nations General Assembly in a video […]
President Donald Trump has chosen Judge Amy Coney Barrett to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, sending the nomination to the Senate with hopes of a quick confirmation fewer than 40 days before the presidential election. Republicans are eyeing a vote in late October, though Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hasn’t yet said for certain […]
Seven people have been detained in connection with an attack outside the former offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, according to reports. A man armed with a meat cleaver wounded two people in the attack on Friday. The main suspect, identified as an 18-year-old man of Pakistani origin, was arrested near the scene. […]
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden urged that protests be peaceful after prosecutors on Wednesday cleared police officers of criminal charges in the death of Breonna Taylor, a Black medical worker killed in March in her Louisville, Kentucky, apartment. Two white policemen who fired into the apartment will not be prosecuted for her death because […]
Dogs trained to detect the novel coronavirus began sniffing passenger samples at Finland’s Helsinki-Vantaa airport this week, authorities said, in a pilot project running alongside more usual testing at the airport. The dogs’ efficiency has not been proven in comparative scientific studies so passengers who volunteer to be tested and are suspected as carrying the […]
