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London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday said he was sad to announce his resignation as Conservative Party leader, triggering a leadership election for a new Tory leader who will go on to become the new PM. Johnson, 58, said he will remain in charge at 10 Downing Street until the process of electing […]

London: After more than 50 government ministers or aides of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigned on Thursday, he agreed to step down. The British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has also cut short her trip to a G20 meeting in Indonesia to return to London, CNN quoted Britain’s PA news agency as reporting on Thursday. […]

A claim that 99 per cent of the world’s population on July 8 receives sunlight is doing rounds on the internet. However, the claim turns out to be partially true when fact-checked by Timeanddate.com. It all started when a Reddit user GiddySwine posted an image of our Day and Night World Map, claiming that 99 […]

Washington: Gun violence spiked over the Fourth of July weekend and shootings were reported in nearly every US state, with at least 220 people killed and some 570 others injured, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Published tallies showed the number of weekend shootings was almost equal to the number of resulting injuries, with well over […]

Islamabad: A prominent Pakistani TV journalist, known for publicly supporting ex-prime minister Imran Khan and a vocal critic of the powerful army, was arrested again on Thursday, hours after a local court ordered his release. Imran Riaz Khan was arrested near Islamabad by Punjab’s Attock district police on Tuesday night in a case filed against […]

Washington: Tesla owner Elon Musk, who shares two children with Canadian singer Grimes and another five children with his ex-wife, the Canadian author Justine Wilson, has reportedly fathered twins in November 2021 with one of his executives named Shivon Zilis. In April 2022, Musk and Zilis filed a petition to change the name of the […]

Kiev: Since Russia began its ongoing invasion of Kiev on February 24, at least 346 children have been killed in Ukraine. In its latest update on Thursday, the Office of the Prosecutor General said 645 children have also been injured, reports Ukrayinska Pravda. The Office however, said that the figures were “not final, as work […]

New Delhi: A cancer patient in US’ Connecticut has become the second longest-known in the world to be infected with Covid as he suffered the infection 471 days, according to a pre-print study, not peer-reviewed. An immunocompromised person in the UK is known to have been the world’s longest-known Covid sufferer — at 505 days. […]

London: The governments of India and Pakistan may be at daggers drawn. But Indian and Pakistani origin senior cabinet ministers in the British government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson have combined to almost oust him from the job. Sajid Javid, Secretary of State for Health, and Rishi Sunak, Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced their resignations […]

London: Queen Elizabeth’s work duties have been reduced amid concerns for her health. As per New York Post, the monarchy’s annual report, which was released last week, revealed that Queen Elizabeth II’s role as head of state has been tweaked from 13 bulleted points to a less specific description. And the duties the 96-year-old “must […]

New York: US health officials have declared a new outbreak of listeria infections that led to one death and nearly two dozen hospitalisations across 10 states. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the infections are linked to a Florida-based ice cream brand named Big Olaf Creamery, the New York Times reported. “As […]

Tehran: Five people were killed and 44 others injured in a magnitude 6.3 earthquake in southern Iran on Saturday, state television reported. Rescue teams were deployed near the epicenter, Sayeh Khosh village, which is home to around 300 people in Hormozgan province, some 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) south of the capital, Tehran, the report said. […]

Wellington: The Omicron subvariant BA.2.75 has been detected in New Zealand for the first time as the country recorded 9,629 new community cases of COVID-19 and 24 more deaths, the Ministry of Health said on Tuesday. Analysis of whole-genome sequencing has confirmed two cases in New Zealand with BA.2.75. Before testing positive for COVID-19, both […]

Hyderabad: The phrase “survival of the fittest,” popularised in Charles Darwin’s fifth edition of ‘On the Origin of Species’ (published in 1869), stated that animals most adapted to their environment are more likely to survive. The East African chimpanzees living in the Waibira community in Uganda are the best illustration of this phenomenon. Péter and […]

New Delhi: A Dubai-bound SpiceJet aircraft from Delhi was diverted to Pakistan’s Karachi due to technical malfunctioning, a senior airline official told IANS. In the last two weeks, two SpiceJet flights faced different technical problems. Further details are awaited.

Port Blair: An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 on the Richter scale occurred 187 km southeast of Port Blair in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, informed the National Center for Seismology (NCS) on Tuesday. The depth of the earthquake was 30 km which occurred at 8:05 am early in the morning. “Earthquake of Magnitude:4.3, Occurred on […]

Washington: US police are looking for a 22-year-old man who opened fire on a July 4 parade in Highland Park, Chicago killing 6 people and wounding a dozen on Monday. The police identified Robert E. “Bobby” Crimo III as a “person of interest” and also released his picture for people to identify and inform the […]

Washington: According to a new study, the unusual behaviour of sulphur in Venus’ atmosphere cannot be explained by an ‘aerial’ form of extra-terrestrial life. Researchers from the University of Cambridge used a combination of biochemistry and atmospheric chemistry to test the ‘life in the clouds’ hypothesis, which astronomers have speculated about for decades, and found […]

Sydney: Floods triggered by heavy rainfall across Australia’s southeast coast since last week has once again inundated Sydney and large parts of New South Wales (NSW) state, triggering the evacuation of thousands of residents. NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet addressed the public on Monday, urging residents in affected areas to follow emergency instructions, reports Xinhua news agency. […]

Illinois: The July 4 weekend in Chicago, Illinois, witnessed a series of shooting incidents in which at least 37 people were injured and 7 killed in gun shootings, local media reported. This is a new string of horrific shootings that took place in the United States where the latest is the killing of a 30-year-old […]

Copenhagen: Three people were killed and several others injured, three of them critically, during a shooting at a Copenhagen shopping mall, one of the biggest in Denmark, police confirmed on Monday. “A man in his 40s and two teenagers were killed” in the shooting at Field’s Shopping Center located in the Amager district, Copenhagen Chief […]

Copenhagen: Danish police said Sunday that several people were shot at a Copenhagen shopping mall, one of the largest in Scandinavia. Copenhagen police said that one person has been arrested in connection with the shooting at the Field’s shopping mall, which is close to the city’s airport. Police tweeted that “several people have been hit,” […]

Washington: Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leader and MLC K Kavitha on Saturday (local time) said that it is a pleasure to set up the Telangana Pavilion for the first time in the American Telugu Association (ATA). Addressed Indian diaspora at the 17th Convention and Youth Conference of the American Telugu Association (ATA) pic.twitter.com/mfv9OmC7V3 — Kavitha […]

New Delhi: As the tech and startup sector gets hammered by economic meltdown, more that 22,000 workers in the sector have lost jobs in 2022, along with more than 12,000 in the Indian startup ecosystem. Startups, especially the ones who benefited from a pandemic boom, are feeling the pressure as valuations, particularly at the late […]