Zelenskyy couples' Vogue photoshoot trending in social media

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his wife Olena Zelenska recently appeared in a photoshoot for Vogue, which is currently trending on social media.
27 July 2022

US Astronaut Buzz Aldrin's Apollo 11 jacket sold for $2.7 million

The jacket worn by US astronaut Buzz Aldrin during his 1969 flight to the Moon aboard Apollo 11 was sold at auction for $2.7 million in New York recently, Sotheby's announced.
27 July 2022

Croatians celebrate China-built, largely EU funded “unifying” bridge

The completion of the long-awaited Peljesac bridge that connects the southern coastal regions to the rest of the country is one of the most significant events in Croatian history.
27 July 2022

Trump returns to Washington, says US now “a cesspool of crime”

In a major speech on his first return to Washington since leaving office in 2020, former president Donald Trump on Tuesday (July 26) painted a grim picture of a United States plagued by rising crime, drug addiction, homelessness, and illegal immigrants flooding across the "gaping wound" of the southern border.
27 July 2022

"Citizenship and PM role to Johnson": Ukrainians sign petition

A tongue-in-cheek petition to give outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Ukrainian citizenship and make him the country's prime minister has garnered over 2,500 signatures hours after being put up on Ukraine's official petitions site on Tuesday.
26 July 2022

Sunak-Truss debate ends abruptly as presenter faints on air

A live debate between the two candidates vying to succeed Boris Johnson as British prime minister came to a dramatic end on Tuesday when the presenter fainted.
26 July 2022

Black Sea grain shipment centre to open in Turkey

The United Nations and Turkey will open a joint centre with Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul today to coordinate the resumption of grain deliveries across the Black Sea.
26 July 2022

Biden slams Trump for inaction over Capitol riot

President Joe Biden slammed his predecessor Donald Trump Monday for watching his supporters riot for hours on January 6 while police at the US Capitol suffered through a “medieval hell.”
26 July 2022

Russian strikes pummel Black sea coast

Ukraine said yesterday Russian forces had launched multiple missile strikes at targets on the Black Sea coast near the southern port city of Odessa and in Mykolaiv.
26 July 2022

Saudi prince heads to EU for first time since Khashoggi killing

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was set to embark on a visit to Greece and France yesterday, state media reported, his first Europe trip since the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
26 July 2022

Lanka to restrict fuel imports for next 12 months

Sri Lanka will restrict fuel imports for the next 12 months because of a severe shortage of foreign exchange, its energy minister said yesterday, as the island nation’s new government seeks to find a way out of a crippling economic crisis.
26 July 2022

Church school abuses: Pope ‘begs forgiveness’ in Canada

Pope Francis apologized on Monday to Canada’s native people on their land for the Church’s role in schools where indigenous children were abused, calling their forced cultural assimilation a “deplorable evil” and “disastrous error.”
26 July 2022

Russia to quit International Space Station ‘after 2024’

Russia has decided to quit the International Space Station “after 2024”, the newly-appointed chief of Moscow’s space agency told President Vladimir Putin yesterday.
26 July 2022

Tory leadership Race in UK: Rivals spar over tax, China in first TV debate

Britain’s two prime ministerial contenders have clashed fiercely over tax, China and character in their first head-to-head televised debate, as Rishi Sunak seeks to peg back the frontrunner Liz Truss.
26 July 2022

Russia fines Google $34 million for violating rules

Russia's competition watchdog fined Alphabet's Google $34.2 million (2 billion roubles) recently for abusing its dominant position in the video hosting market, the regulator said in a statement.
26 July 2022

Russia to quit International Space Station

Russia has decided to quit the International Space Station “after 2024”, the newly-appointed chief of Moscow's space agency recently told Russia’s President Vladimir Putin.
26 July 2022

Trump, Pence back at Washington to deliver speeches as rivals

Former President Donald Trump is returning to Washington Tuesday for the first time since leaving office, delivering a speech hours after his former Vice President Mike Pence, a potential 2024 rival, called on the party to stop looking backward.
26 July 2022

Accused Palestinian gunmen's houses demolished by Israeli forces

Israeli troops on Tuesday demolished the houses of two Palestinians accused of killing an Israeli security guard in an attack outside the West Bank settlement of Ariel in April, authorities said.
26 July 2022

“The Line” in Saudi Arabia: What’s all the hype about?

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has unveiled the designs for “The Line” in NEOM, which according to its twitter handle is “a city that offers a healthier and more sustainable way of life.”
26 July 2022

All-night shooting rampage in Vancouver leaves 2 dead

A gunman who roamed for hours through a sleeping Vancouver suburb shot four people early Monday, two of them fatally, as he opened fire at a casino, a center for the homeless and other locations before being killed by police, authorities said.
26 July 2022