MANILA: Raging orange flames and thick black smoke billowed into the sky Sunday as fire ripped through hundreds of houses in a closely built slum area of the Philippine capital Manila. Manila Fire District said around 1,000 houses were burned in the blaze that is thought to have started on
NEW YORK: US shoppers are coming out in force this holiday season, but the festiveness is being tempered by inflationary pressures that have abated but not completely faded. After the sticker shock during the latter stages of the pandemic, a familiar frustration has settled in towards consumer prices that remain
DAVIS (United States): A scientist guides a long tube into the mouth and down to the stomach of Thing 1, a two-month-old calf that is part of a research project aiming to prevent cows from burping methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Paulo de Meo Filho, a postdoctoral researcher at University
MANCHESTER (United Kingdom): Manchester City collapsed to their fifth straight defeat on Saturday, hammered 4-0 by Tottenham in another huge blow to their Premier League title hopes as Arsenal got their challenge back on track. The rout at the Etihad ends City’s 52-game unbeaten home run and leaves manager Pep
PARIS: Tens of thousands demonstrated in major French cities Saturday against violence targeting women, as campaigners push for the country to learn from a mass rape trial that has shocked the public. The prosecution in the southern city Avignon is in its final stages for 51 men, including one who
PARIS: Publishing giants and generative artificial intelligence companies are striking deals that aim to both protect copyright and provide for the rapidly increasing needs of the AI industry. US publishing giant HarperCollins has reached a contract with an unnamed tech company allowing it to use some of its books to
SIEM REAP (Cambodia): Survivors and sniffing dogs joined hundreds of people at Cambodia’s Angkor Wat on Sunday for a march against landmines after the US decision to send anti-personnel mines to Ukraine. Participants, including landmine victims and deminers, repeatedly chanted for “a mine-free world” during the four-kilometre (2.5-mile) walk around
LAS VEGAS (United States): Max Verstappen secured his fourth consecutive Formula One World Championship at the Las Vegas Grand Prix on Saturday, finishing fifth in a race won by Mercedes’ George Russell. At 27, Verstappen became just the sixth driver in F1 history to win four championships, joining an elite
ODESA (Ukraine): The Kremlin accused US President Joe Biden on Monday of escalating the 1,000-day-old war in Ukraine, promising a “palpable” response to any use of US long-range missiles by Ukraine to strike targets inside Russia. Biden, who in January hands over the White House to Donald Trump, a sceptic
RIO de Janeiro: G20 leaders failed on Monday to break a deadlock in UN climate talks at a summit in Rio that was dominated by divergences over the war in Ukraine and Donald Trump’s impending return to the White House. Ahead of the meeting, the UN had implored the leaders