India tells Canada to withdraw 41 diplomats: FT

India has told Canada that it must repatriate 41 diplomats by October 10, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday
3 October 2023, 05:31 AM

From Mallorca to Bhutan: Making tourism sustainable

From Thailand to Mallorca, local ecosystems have suffered under the weight of mass tourism. Can visitor number limits and sustainable practices help restore the balance?
3 October 2023, 04:33 AM

Serum Institute to start making second WHO-approved malaria vaccine

Serum Institute of India yesterday said it will begin manufacturing the world's second malaria vaccine for children approved by the World Health Organization (WHO)
3 October 2023, 03:53 AM

29 Niger soldiers killed by suspected jihadists: defence ministry

Twenty-nine soldiers were killed in western Niger in an attack by suspected jihadists, the defence ministry said on Monday night, declaring a three-day national mourning period
3 October 2023, 03:25 AM

Open hearing poses ‘risk of deteriorating ties’ with nations, Pak FIA tells HC

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in Pakistan yesterday informed the Islamabad High Court (IHC) that an open hearing of PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s bail plea in the cipher case could pose a “risk of deteriorating relations with other countries”.
2 October 2023, 18:00 PM

Trump reaped over $1b from fraud

Donald Trump sat in a Manhattan courtroom yesterday and listened to a New York state lawyer accuse him of generating more than $1 billion by lying about his real estate empire, claims the former president called a “scam.”
2 October 2023, 18:00 PM

10 killed in Mexico church roof collapse

At least ten people, including three children, were killed and 60 more injured when the roof of a church came crashing down on a baptism in northeastern Mexico on Sunday, authorities said.
2 October 2023, 18:00 PM

Two pioneers of Covid vaccine win Nobel in medicine

Hungarian scientist Katalin Kariko and US colleague Drew Weissman, who met in line for a photocopier before making mRNA molecule discoveries that paved the way for Covid-19 vaccines, won the 2023 Nobel Prize for Medicine yesterday.
2 October 2023, 18:00 PM

3 suspected IS terrorists arrested by Delhi police

Three suspected IS terrorists, one of them on the most wanted list of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), have been arrested in Delhi during a big crackdown by the anti-terror agency. The three have been identified as Shahnawaz, Mohammed Rizwan and Mohammed Arshad Warsi.
2 October 2023, 18:00 PM

Ankara bombing: Turkey strikes PKK bases in Iraq

Turkish jets launched air strikes inside Iraqi Kurdistan late Sunday, after a blast earlier the same day injured two police officers near the parliament building in Ankara.
2 October 2023, 18:00 PM

Thousands flee southern Sudan town as war spreads

Sudan’s months-long war has spread to a town in the country’ south, forcing thousands to flee, residents said yesterday after attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces battling the army.
2 October 2023, 18:00 PM

Western fatigue over Ukraine ‘will grow’

The Kremlin said yesterday that Western fatigue over Ukraine “will grow”, as the future of United States aid for Kyiv hung in the balance.
2 October 2023, 18:00 PM

Musée d’Orsay explores Van Gogh's final days with AI and VR

Paris's Musée d'Orsay presents an immersive exhibit featuring Vincent Van Gogh's last works, complete with modern technology. Visitors can step into the artist's world through an experience of virtual reality
2 October 2023, 16:04 PM

From Covid to cancer: High hopes for Nobel mRNA vaccines

The coronavirus pandemic brought global renown to the mRNA technology that underpins vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, and on Monday earned a Nobel Prize for two scientists who have been key to its development
2 October 2023, 11:10 AM

Kariko, Weissman win Nobel for mRNA Covid vaccines

Katalin Kariko of Hungary and Drew Weissman of the United States won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for work on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that paved the way for Covid-19 vaccines
2 October 2023, 10:04 AM

Pakistan doctor, mechanic arrested for illegal transplant surgeries

Pakistan police busted an organ trafficking ring run by a disgraced doctor and a motor mechanic, who conducted at least 328 illegal kidney transplants, authorities said
2 October 2023, 09:43 AM

UN chief remembers Gandhi, power of peaceful action

Marking the International Day of Non-Violence, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday said it commemorates not only the birth of Mahatma Gandhi but also the timeless values he championed: mutual respect and understanding, justice, and the power of peaceful action
2 October 2023, 08:56 AM

Indonesia launches Southeast Asia's first high-speed rail

Indonesia launched Southeast Asia's first high-speed railway on Monday, a delayed, multibillion-dollar project backed by China that President Joko Widodo hailed as "a symbol of our modernisation"
2 October 2023, 07:05 AM

Trump business empire under threat as New York fraud trial opens

Donald Trump faces fresh legal danger on Monday as a civil fraud trial against the former president and two of his sons begins in New York, threatening the Republican frontrunner's business empire as he campaigns to retake the White House with four criminal cases looming
2 October 2023, 04:35 AM

At least 9 killed in Mexico church roof collapse

At least nine people were killed and 40 more injured in Mexico Sunday after the roof of a church came crashing down, local officials said
2 October 2023, 04:09 AM