Joe Biden “strongly” disagrees with the Supreme Court’s decision. (File) Washington: The US Supreme Court dealt President Joe Biden a significant political setback Tuesday when it overruled his landmark program to cancel the student debt of millions of Americans. The court said President Biden had overstepped his powers in cancelling more than $400 billion in […]
Patients are being warned not to expect a miracle cure. (Representational) Sydney: Australia on Saturday became one of the first countries in the world to allow the use of MDMA and magic mushrooms for medical treatment, in a bid to tackle certain mental health conditions. From July 1, authorised psychiatrists will be able to prescribe […]
Heightened security appeared to do little to deter unrest Thursday night. (File) Paris: France’s leadership said all options were open on Friday, including a state of emergency, to clamp down on three nights of violent and fiery protests over a policeman’s killing of a teen. After a night of car torching and shops being ransacked […]
Arnold Schwarzenegger invited Mr Beast to train with him. Former bodybuilder-turned-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger has praised the weight loss transformation of Mr Beast, a popular YouTuber. Responding to the “before and after” pictures posted by the content creator, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, Mr Schwarzenegger said he should “keep pumping” adding that he is ready […]
Elon Musk’s tweet became a huge hit on social media. Ever since Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter’s new boss Elon Musk responded to each other’s cage match challenge, internet has been abuzz with many theories and speculation about the outcome. And now, spicing it up, Mr Musk posted a tweet saying there is “some […]
The cruise ship was on its way to Willemstad from Punta Cana. A woman holidaying on a cruise was rescued this week after falling from the 10th deck, according to NBC News. Quoting the US Coast Guard, the outlet said that the incident happened near the Dominican Republic. The Coast Guard got the call to […]
Sergei Lavrov is the Foreign Minister of Russia. (File) Moscow: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called on Friday for a widening of the U.N. Security Council to give more representation to Asian, African and Latin American countries in order to break what he called Western domination of the world. “A majority of the world does […]
Millions of Kindle reading devices were sold in China between 2013 and 2018. (File) Beijing: US tech giant Amazon pulled the plug on its Kindle online services in China on Friday, closing a chapter on its fight for the massive consumer market and sending bereft bookworms rushing to stock up on e-books. The e-commerce pioneer […]
Princess Diana wore the sweater in 1981 during a polo match. The famous ‘black sheep’ jumper worn by Princess Diana in 1981 during a polo match when she was newly engaged to King Charles III is up for auction at Sotheby’s Fashion Icons auction in New York after it was discovered in the designer’s attic […]
As firefighters battled the blaze, another was already starting nearby in a large office building. Lille, France: A burned district office, another pelted with stones, “lots of looting”: in Lille, in the north of France, a game of cat and mouse played out into the wee hours of Friday morning between authorities and protesters. As […]
