BALASORE (India): Passenger and freight trains were running again on Monday at the site of India’s deadliest train disaster in decades, which officials said was caused by failures linked to signal systems. Trains rumbled past the debris of smashed carriages from Friday night’s crash near Balasore in the eastern state
TOURS (France): Citroen 2CV made of wood, thought to be the only one of its kind, has sold for 210,000 euros ($225,000) at auction in France — a new price record for the iconic vehicle. The car, in full working order and registered in France, beat expectations when it went
FRANKFURT: German exports bounced back in April after falling a month earlier, official data showed Monday, but analysts said it was too soon to see a recovery in Europe’s recession-hit largest economy. Germany exported goods worth 130.4 billion euros ($139 billion) in April, data published by federal statistics agency Destatis
SINGAPORE: China’s defence minister warned Sunday against establishing NATO-like military alliances in the Asia-Pacific, saying they would plunge the region into a “whirlpool” of conflict. Li Shangfu’s comments came a day after US and Chinese military vessels sailed close to each other in the flashpoint Taiwan Strait, an incident that
ANKARA: Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday unveiled a new cabinet line-up, naming a powerful spy chief as foreign minister and market friendly Mehmet Simsek as finance minister, hours after swearing in for a third term as president. Erdogan took oath of office in parliament after winning a historic runoff election
BEIJING: Three Chinese astronauts working at the country’s space station have returned safely to Earth, state media reported Sunday, hailing the mission as a “complete success”. The return capsule of the Shenzhou-15 spaceship touched down at a landing site in northern China’s Inner Mongolia region, according to state news agency Xinhua.
HAMBURG: At a red-brick factory in the German port city of Hamburg, cocoa bean shells go in one end, and out the other comes an amazing black powder with the potential to counter climate change. The substance, dubbed biochar, is produced by heating the cocoa husks in an oxygen-free room
TOKYO: Heavy rain across parts of Japan has killed one person, left three missing and injured dozens more, authorities said Saturday, with thousands of residents issued evacuation warnings. The inundation has been caused by the remnants of former Typhoon Mawar, now downgraded to a tropical storm. A rescue team in central
OTTAWA: Canada is facing a catastrophic spring wildfire season with massive and powerful blazes out of control in all corners of the country, and thousands more people displaced on Friday. “This is a scary time for a lot of people from coast to coast to coast,” said Prime Minister Justin
NEARLY five years after the animated “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” won an Oscar with its innovative, biracial take on the beloved webslinger, a wildly ambitious sequel aims to further blur the boundaries between superhero films and arthouse cinema. “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”, out on Friday in the United States, picks
