SYDNEY: Red-faced bank bosses in Australia admitted to an embarrassing error yesterday, revealing their state-of-the-art $50 note had a typo. The yellow and green note, which is worth around US$35, came into circulation last October. It has multiple security features – including microprint of a speech by Australia’s first female parliamentarian,
TEHRAN: Iran said Wednesday it had stopped respecting limits on its nuclear activities agreed under a 2015 deal with major powers until they find a way to bypass renewed US sanctions, as Washington accused Tehran of resorting to “blackmail”. The well trailed announcement came after Washington stepped up its rhetoric
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi fired up a big, raucous rally in a hot Delhi late Wednesday as India’s almost seven-week election approaches its conclusion later this month. “When work is done with good intentions, it also yields results. Inflation used to be on a rise, it is now
KABUL: Humanitarian groups were reeling yesterday from yet another attack targeting aid workers in Afghanistan, as officials confirmed nine people had been killed in a Taliban attack in Kabul a day earlier. Wednesday’s attack outside Counterpart International, a non-profit group working with marginalised people in Afghanistan, began with an immense
BEIJING: A Chinese court adjourned a hearing on a Canadian man’s appeal against his death sentence for drug smuggling without a decision yesterday in a case that has deepened a diplomatic spat between Beijing and Ottawa. Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, 36, was sentenced to death in January after a court deemed
Fancy yourself a coffee connoisseur with a love for dark roasts? Or maybe hoppy pale ales are more your thing? The truth may be that our preferences for caffeine or alcoholic beverages — or indeed sugary sodas — derive not so much from the way they taste but how they
The celebrity-backed vegan burger start-up Beyond Meat made a sizzling Wall Street debut Thursday, more than doubling its share price, as investors show an appetite for the growing trend in plant-based diets. Backed by Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the California-based firm had valued itself at
HIGHLANDS RANCH: A teenaged student was fatally shot and multiple others were wounded Tuesday in a school shooting by fellow pupils in the US state of Colorado, across town from one of the worst gun massacres in the country’s modern history. “It is with extreme sadness that we can confirm
PARIS: The world consumed ten percent more alcohol per adult in 2017 than in 1990, due in large part to heavier and more widespread drinking in China and India, researchers said Wednesday. On current trends, global consumption per capita will rise another 17 percent over the next decade, they reported
BRUSSELS: An entrepreneur and his firm on Wednesday were fined more than 250,000 euros in Belgium for promoting prostitution through a “Sugar Daddy” dating website for rich men and young women. The Brussels court also gave Sigurd Vedal, a 57-year-old Norwegian investor and self-described “relationship expert”, a six-month suspended jail
