UK new finance minister John Healey. Britain’s new Finance Minister John Healey will present his first Budget on October 28, pledging to maintain the government’s fiscal rules despite growing pressure on public spending.Announcing the date on Friday, Healey said the Budget would focus on shifting resources away from central government and towards communities across the…
Spain installs floating barrier in Ceuta after migrant surge leaves 67 dead Spanish authorities began installing a 500-metre floating barrier off the coast of Ceuta on Saturday following an unprecedented migrant surge from Morocco that left at least 67 people dead, according to Spanish officials.The pneumatic barrier, which stands 30 to 70 centimetres above water…
Researcher Fatima Ameaka was detained by ICE and was later released. A major row broke out after Johns Hopkins University public health researcher Fatima Ameaka was detained by immigration authorities as she boarded a domestic flight on Tuesday. She was released later but the Department of Homeland Security said that she had overstayed her visa…
Canadian man spent 18 months in prison, all because of one missing underscore/Image: Representative Image A Canadian man who spent 18 months in prison has been fully acquitted after an appeals court found that a minor error in a police request led investigators to wrongly identify him in a child exploitation case, CTV News reported.The…
Antarctica’s Concordia Station (Image Credit: Wikipedia) While much of the Northern Hemisphere grappled with scorching summer temperatures, the interior of Antarctica was experiencing the opposite extreme. According to LiveScience, citing data from the French Polar Institute Paul-Émile Victor (IPEV) and officials at Concordia Research Station, the remote research base recorded a temperature of minus 119.4…
Few quotes have stood the test of time as powerfully as Martin Luther King Jr.’s words: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” Spoken during one of the most turbulent periods in American history, the quote continues to resonate across cultures and…
The figure and the tree together signify memory, resilience, and the ongoing relationship between people and place. The ocean has always been a symbol of life but now in many parts of the world it is also becoming a force for irreversible loss. Wondering how? Well, the sea has quietly erased an entire island from…
The Massachusetts project is an example of agrivoltaics, a nascent farming practice that combines agriculture with solar energy generation on the same land. Farmers have relied on sunshine to grow healthy crops for generations. But as they say, excess of anything is bad and with climate change causing hotter summers, longer droughts and erratic weather,…
Air India has announced a major expansion of its Canada operations for the Winter 2026-27 schedule by launching seasonal non-stop flights between Mumbai and Toronto and upgrading its Delhi-Toronto service with its new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner.According to the release, the move will increase capacity and offer passengers more travel options during the peak festive and…
There was one Rose who was unable to save her lover, and there is one Rose who helped save the lives of 400 people aboard the Costa Concordia cruise ship when it struck a giant granite reef, began to flood and tipped on its side.Rose Metcalf was working as a professional dancer aboard the cruise…