Uganda on Saturday confirmed three new Ebola cases, taking the total number of infections in the current outbreak in the country to five, as authorities intensified contact tracing efforts to contain the spread of the rare Bundibugyo strain of the virus.According to Uganda’s health ministry, the new cases include a driver who transported the country’s…
Five men were injured in a stabbing incident on a busy west London street after a violent altercation broke out in Acton on Friday afternoon, police said.According to the Metropolitan Police, officers patrolling Horn Lane were alerted to reports of multiple men being assaulted and stabbed at around 2.47 pm. Emergency first aid was administered…
Economic rankings rarely stay still for long. A country can spend decades climbing steadily through manufacturing, technology and trade, only to slow once population growth weakens or industries begin shifting elsewhere. By the end of this decade, the global balance is expected to look noticeably different from the one that shaped much of the early…
A London court on Friday sentenced a 36-year-old man to five years in prison after he admitted to a series of antisemitic hate crimes targeting members of the Jewish community in north London.Tavius Jean-Charles pleaded guilty to seven racially aggravated public order offences and one count of racially aggravated criminal damage at Southwark Crown Court.According…
Theatre crowd erupts as King Charles makes surprise entrance at Shakespeare performance / Image credit: @TheRoyalFamily The audience expected a night of Shakespeare. What they did not expect was the King of the United Kingdom quietly walking into the theatre moments before the curtains rose.King Charles III surprised theatregoers with an unannounced appearance at a…
For a city that stood at the heart of an ancient African empire, Napata has long carried an unusual silence around it. Ruins remain scattered beneath the shadow of sandstone cliffs in modern-day Sudan, and the Nile still bends through the same dry landscape it crossed thousands of years ago. Yet archaeologists have spent decades…
A gas explosion at the Liushenyu coal mine in Changzhi city in northern China has killed at least 82 people, AFP reported on Saturday.The explosion in northern China’s led to a major rescue operation after hundreds of workers were trapped underground, according to South China Morning Post.The blast took place on Friday in Qinyuan county,…
Iran on Friday mocked US President Donald Trump by sharing a viral video of a Bangladeshi albino buffalo that resembles him, claiming the animal had lost its appetite after being compared to the American leader amid the ongoing US-Iran conflict.In a post on X, the official account of Iran in Russia wrote: “Poor thing! Bangladeshi…
Donald Trump with Ivanka Trump (Image/X) US President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump was allegedly targeted for assassination by an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)-trained member in a revenge plot linked to the 2020 killing of top Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani, according to a report by the New York Post.According to the report, recently…
SpaceX on Friday successfully completed the 12th test flight of its massive Starship rocket system, with the spacecraft making a controlled splashdown in the Indian Ocean after a high-risk mission that included several technical glitches during flight.The launch took place shortly after 5.30 pm local time (2230 GMT), as SpaceX tested the latest third-generation version…