New Delhi pollution tops global charts as firecracker ban flouted
New Delhi topped global pollution charts yesterday, partly due to revellers defying a ban on firecrackers to celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights.India’s national...
Month : November 2024
Spain flood death toll hits 205, some areas still cut off
Spanish rescuers opened a temporary morgue in a convention centre and battled to reach areas still cut off yesterday as the death toll from catastrophic...
11 dead in roof collapse at Serbia train station
At least 11 people were killed and three hospitalised yesterday when a roof collapsed at the entrance to a railway station in the Serbian city...
Bangladesh party decries protesters as offices torched
A Bangladeshi party formerly close to the regime ousted by a student-led revolution said yesterday that some protesters were “splitting” the nation, a day after...
Pyongyang says record test was new Hwasong-19 ICBM
North Korea flexed its military muscle with the test of a huge new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) dubbed Hwasong-19, state media said yesterday, amid...
Trump, Harris slug it out for Wisconsin amid blowback on violent rhetoric
Donald Trump came under fire for violent rhetoric against a prominent Kamala Harris supporter yesterday as the candidates held duelling rallies in the battleground of...
Portraits of slain leaders watch out on Hezbollah’s battered Beirut bastion
Minutes from the heart of Beirut, the Lebanese capital’s once vibrant southern suburbs lie largely deserted save for black-clad Hezbollah fighters standing guard amid the...
Botswana’s new president sworn in after historic election upset
Botswana’s new president took office yesterday in a whirlwind transfer of power following elections that saw a historic defeat handed to the party that had...
Shadow secretary says he hasn’t visited NI due to lack of funds
Conservative MP Alex Burghart has defended not visiting Northern Ireland during his time as shadow secretary....
Badenoch is favourite, but will she clinch Tory leadership crown?
BBC political editor Chris Mason gives the run down on how the Tory Party leadership result could play out....