LONDON: A cast of one of the largest dinosaurs ever to stride the Earth goes on display in London Friday, the first time the star exhibit has been seen in Europe since the original was discovered in Patagonia. At 37.2 metres long, the titanosaur — named Patagotitan mayorum — only
When Ali Saga visited a clinic in Jakarta four decades ago, he watched as patients and health workers scrambled to get away from him. “The doctor suddenly shouted at the patients, ‘stand back! this person is a leper!” the 57-year-old said, recalling one of the most devastating moments after his
GENEVA: The WHO estimated Friday that 90 percent of the world population now had some resistance to Covid-19, but warned that a troubling new variant could still emerge. Gaps in vigilance were leaving the door open for a new virus variant to appear and overtake the globally dominant Omicron, said
WASHINGTON: The US Justice Department on Friday dropped all charges against Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, who was held by Canada on a US warrant for Iran sanctions-related charges for nearly three years. Meng, who had fought extradition to the United States while Ottawa struggled with China’s alleged retaliatory arrest of
LONDON (Oct 20): British Prime Minister Liz Truss today dramatically announced her resignation just six weeks after taking office. Truss bowed to the inevitable after her right-wing platform of tax cuts disintegrated and as many MPs among the ruling Conservatives revolted. Speaking in Downing Street, Truss said she would stay
Melbourne (AFP) – Flash floods swamped hundreds of homes in southeastern Australia and thousands of people were warned to flee surging waters threatening towns across three separate states Friday. A major flooding emergency was unfolding in Victoria — Australia’s second most populous state — where rapidly-rising waters forced evacuations
LONDON: The latest show by Damien Hirst displays thousands of the provocative British artist’s colourful spot paintings… many of which he will set on fire after selling them in digital form as NFTs. The exhibition, “The Currency”, which opens Friday in London, is Hirst’s first project involving NFTs, a new
QUITO: At least four people died after a boat sunk off the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific, officials said Monday. Two Ecuadorans, a Colombian and an American-Israeli died in the sinking, which happened overnight from Sunday to Monday, Ecuador’s foreign affairs ministry said. The ministry said it was working with
HAVANA: Cuba declared an emergency alert in multiple provinces Monday as fast-approaching Hurricane Ian strengthened rapidly, with Florida also ramping up preparations ahead of a likely hit. Some 50,000 people in Cuba’s western Pinar del Rio province moved to safer locations, 6,000 of them to state-run shelters and the rest
GAZIANTEP, Turkey: When a Syrian prison guard tossed him into a dimly-lit room, the inmate Abdo was surprised to find himself standing ankle-deep in what appeared to be salt. On that day in the winter of 2017, the terrified young man had already been locked up for two years in
