ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Pakistan lawmakers on Monday elected Shehbaz Sharif as the country’s new prime minister following the weekend ouster of Imran Khan, who resigned his national assembly seat — along with most of his party members — ahead of the vote. Khan was dismissed Sunday after losing a no-confidence vote,
ALEXANDRIA, United States: It’s just a small box to tick on an application form, but a huge breakthrough for D. Ojeda, a non-binary person who on Monday became one of the first Americans to apply for a gender-neutral passport. “Even with my family, they still don’t get it,” said Ojeda,
SYDNEY, Australia: The Australian state of Victoria announced Tuesday that it will host the 2026 Commonwealth Games with all sporting events taking place outside of its capital city of Melbourne. The state’s premier Daniel Andrews praised the Commonwealth Games for embracing Victoria’s pitch for the event, admitting that “it’s a
JAKARTA: Indonesians are heading out to eat again as the COVID-19 pandemic’s grip on the country loosens, and some thrill-seekers in Jakarta are celebrating by having dinner while dangling 50 metres in the air. The Lounge in the Sky opened to the public this week in the capital of Muslim-majority
NEW DELHI, India: Akshata Murty, the Indian wife of embattled British finance minister Rishi Sunak, is richer than the queen as the daughter of a self-made tech billionaire and a no-less-formidable engineer and philanthropist mother. Sunak, once seen as a future prime minister, has seen his popularity sink because of
WASHINGTON, United States: The United States made history on Thursday as the Senate confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman ever to serve on the Supreme Court. The 51-year-old’s appointment — greeted with a standing ovation on the floor of the upper chamber of Congress — means white
STOCKHOLM, Sweden: A new selfie “museum” in Sweden is flipping the script by making visitors both the artist and the exhibit. The “Youseum” in Stockholm has no works of art on its walls. Instead, its brightly-decorated rooms are meant to serve as fun backgrounds for visitors’ selfies or videos. “You
LONDON, United Kingdom: Britain vowed Monday to make the nation a crypto-asset centre and paved the way for stablecoin, which is backed by national currencies, to become a recognised form of payment. “The government has today announced moves that will see stablecoins recognised as a valid form of payment as
Russian cinema in turmoil as Hollywood pulls out MOSCOW, Russia: After years spent translating Hollywood films, Russian Mila Grekova was suddenly thrown out of work after Moscow’s military intervention in Ukraine. Five Hollywood giants — Disney, Warner Bros, Universal, Sony Pictures and Paramount — have all stopped releasing new films
Twitter to test longed-for edit button SAN FRANCISCO, United States: Twitter announced Tuesday it will soon start experimenting with an edit button, but only on its monthly subscription service at first. The inability to tweak tweets after firing them off has been a key complaint among users of the one-to-many