After Ryan Reynolds calls it “best Indian food in Europe”, UK restaurant flooded with bookings

“Deadpool” actor Ryan Reynolds recently praised a restaurant in UK while posting a flyer on his Instagram, and since then the restaurant’s bookings have been “off the scale”.
25 August 2022

UAE’s first female Emirati captain is an Etihad pilot

Aisha al-Mansoori, an Etihad pilot, became UAE’s first female Emirati commercial captain after earning her stripes, reports Al Arabiya.
25 August 2022

17-year-old pilot sets record flying solo around world

A British-Belgian teenager became the youngest person to fly solo around the world on Wednesday after a five-month journey that saw him battle monsoon rains, searing heat and bureaucracy.
25 August 2022

US economists fear inflation as Biden forgives millions of student loans

President Joe Biden said on Wednesday the US government will forgive $10,000 in student loans for millions of debt-saddled former college students, keeping a pledge he made in the 2020 campaign for the White House.
25 August 2022

Israel unveils 1,200 year-old desert mansion

Israeli archaeologists unveiled a 1,200 year-old mansion on Tuesday, broadening knowledge of the southern desert region where a mosque was recently discovered.
24 August 2022

Kyiv will fight ‘till the end’

President Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday vowed that Ukraine will resist the Russian invasion “until the end” without “any concession or compromise”, as the nation marked its Independence Day as well as the six-month anniversary of the start of the war.
24 August 2022

Finnish PM defends work record after party controversy

Finland’s prime minister yesterday gave a forceful defence of her work record and her right to a private life after criticism sparked by a video of the 36-year-old partying.
24 August 2022

Heatwave triggers ‘false autumn’ in UK

Searing summer temperatures in the UK have not just parched the earth and dried up rivers, lakes and reservoirs but are also seeing trees shed
24 August 2022

US targets ‘Iran-backed militias’ in Syria

President Joe Biden on Tuesday ordered air strikes in eastern Syria targeting facilities used by Iranian-backed militias, a US military spokesman said.
24 August 2022

Thai court suspends PM Prayut from office

Thailand's Constitutional Court on Wednesday suspended Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha from office while it considers a legal challenge that could see him thrown out months before an expected general election.
24 August 2022

Dogs get teary eyed when reunited with owners

Dog owners know the pure joy of returning home from a long trip to be greeted by their tail-wagging, uncontrollably jumping, face-licking companion.
23 August 2022

UN split over ban on Taliban officials’ travel

Members of the United Nations Security Council remained divided Monday over whether to exempt some of Afghanistan’s Taliban officials from a travel ban, diplomatic sources said.
23 August 2022

Rohingya crisis fund is ‘well short of needs’

An appeal to help Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh is “well short of needs”, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said yesterday, as refugees called on donors not to forget the crisis ahead of the fifth anniversary of their exodus from Myanmar.
23 August 2022

Russia ‘stepping up’ strikes on Ukraine infrastructure

The United States yesterday urged its citizens to leave Ukraine, saying it believed Russia was preparing to target civilian and government infrastructure in the next few days as the war reaches the six-month mark.
23 August 2022

Iran has dropped some demands

Iran has dropped some of its main demands on resurrecting a deal to rein in Tehran’s nuclear program, including its insistence that international inspectors close some probes of its atomic program, bringing the possibility of an agreement closer, a senior US official told Reuters.
23 August 2022

Rushdie attack a crime “Islam doesn’t accept”: Muslim World League chief

The attack on eminent writer Salman Rushdie in New York was “a crime that Islam does not accept”, said Secretary-General of the Muslim World League Muhammad bin Abdul Karim al-Issa in an interview with Saudi news outlet Arab News.
23 August 2022

Dogs produce more tears when reunited with their owners

Dog owners know the pure joy of returning home from a long trip to be greeted by their tail-wagging, uncontrollably jumping, face-licking companion.
23 August 2022

US govt recovers over 300 classified docs from Trump's Florida estate

The US government has recovered more than 300 documents with classified markings from former President Donald Trump's Florida estate, including material from the CIA, the National Security Agency and the FBI, the New York Times reported on Monday, citing multiple people briefed on the matter.
23 August 2022

Death toll from Algeria wildfires rises to over 40

The death toll has climbed to at least 43 from wildfires that have raged for days in northern Algeria, with numbers expected to rise further, the gendarmerie said yesterday.
22 August 2022

Gunmen kidnap Catholic nuns in Nigeria

Gunmen have abducted four Catholic nuns in southeast Nigeria’s Imo state, police said yesterday, in the latest violence in a region where separatist tensions are on the rise.
22 August 2022