Savings targets could cost 10,000 civil service jobs
A government source tells the BBC the increasing size of the civil service cannot continue....
Month : December 2024
Why ‘digital twins’ could speed up drug discovery
AI can create digital humans and digital organs that can be used in clinical trials....
Ex-PM Khan, wife indicted in another graft case
A Pakistani court has indicted imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife on fresh charges of illegally selling state gifts, local broadcaster Geo...
Bulgaria, Romania to fully join Schengen after 13-year wait
EU states have cleared Bulgaria and Romania to become full members of the borderless Schengen zone from the start of next year following a more...
Macron postpones naming new PM
French President Emmanuel Macron (pictured) has postponed the nomination of a new prime minister until morning today, his office said on Thursday.“The statement naming the...
Biden grants clemency to nearly 1,500 people
Outgoing US President Joe Biden said on Thursday that he had commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardoned 39 others, in what the...
Somalia, Ethiopia agree to resolve Somaliland row
Somalia and Ethiopia have said they would work together to resolve a dispute over Addis Ababa’s plan to build a port in the breakaway region...
Time names Trump ‘Person of the Year’ again
Time magazine has named US President-elect Donald Trump its “person of the year”, marking the second time he has won the accolade, in acknowledgement of...
‘I wish he’d lived to see new Syria’ – Crowds bury anti-Assad activist
Mazen al-Hamada, who returned to Syria from the Netherlands, had publicly testified on the torture he faced while in prison....
Inside Aleppo, the first city to fall to Syrian rebels
Residents of the the city that was ravaged by civil war seem keen to get rid of the symbols of the Assad regime....