CHENNAI: At least four people died, factories closed and the runway of one of India's busiest airports lay submerged due to torrential rain, as two southern states were braced for the impact of a severe cyclone. Cyclone Michaung was expected to make landfall on the coast
LONDON: The Oxford University Press on Monday named "rizz", as the word of the year 2023, and some people are not even aware of what that means. "Rizz" is Generation Z's internet slang for romantic appeal, and was chosen among eight words reflecting the mood, ethos,
LONDON: A UK interfaith coalition comprising religious, political and civic leaders, as well as grieving relatives of some of those killed in the Israel-Hamas war, held a vigil Sunday in London. Hundreds gathered mid-afternoon in wet and frigid conditions opposite Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Downing Street
WASHINGTON DC: In the twilight of history's conscience, Henry Kissinger, the orchestrator, bystander, and occasionally, the unapologetic architect of some of the United States' most egregious war crimes, took his final bow on Wednesday at the age of 100. Some call his era a hundred years
BEIJING: The Chinese military said that an American naval ship had “illegally intruded” on Monday into waters near the Second Thomas Shoal, the site of a hot territorial dispute between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea. A Chinese naval force was mobilized to
PYONG YANG: North Korea warned Saturday it would “destroy” US spy satellites if Washington tries “any attack” on its space asset after Pyongyang launched its first military eye in the sky last week. A spokesman for the North’s defence ministry said it would consider such a
UNITED NATIONS: At the request of Sudanese authorities, the UN Security Council ended the world body's political mission in the African country ravaged by more than seven months of fighting between two rival generals. Following a letter from Khartoum demanding an immediate end to the United
DUBAI: A pledge to triple the world's installed renewable energy by 2030 is poised to win support from more than 110 countries at the COP28 climate summit on Saturday, with some pushing to make the deal global by the end of the U.N. conference. The European
GAZA: Renewed fighting in Gaza stretched into a second day on Saturday after talks to extend a week-old truce with Hamas collapsed and mediators said Israeli bombardments were complicating attempts to again pause hostilities. Eastern areas of Khan Younis in southern Gaza came under intense bombardment
MOSCOW: Russia's Supreme Court ruled that LGBT activists should be designated as "extremists", in a move that representatives of gay and transgender people fear will lead to arrests and prosecutions. The presiding judge announced that he had endorsed a request from the justice ministry to ban