BERLIN: Maximilian Hermann’s weekend starts on Friday morning, when he puts his motorcycle helmet on and takes his bike out for a ride to the southern German Alps. Like all his colleagues, the 29-year-old project manager shifted to a four-day week at the beginning of the year and is making
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a law revoking Russia’s ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, a move strongly criticised by the United States. The 1996 treaty outlaws all nuclear explosions, including live tests of nuclear weapons, though it never came into force because some key
NEW YORK: Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump testified on Thursday in the New York case against the family real estate business and blamed accountants for company financial statements the authorities say were fraudulent. The former president’s two eldest sons were the first members of the Trump family to testify
LONDON: The owner of X Elon Musk on Thursday predicted the future with AI would be an “age of abundance” with a “universal high income” instead of a universal basic income but warned of “humanoid robots” that might chase humans. Musk was speaking during a conversation with British Prime Minister
NEW DELHI: Schools were shut across India’s capital on Friday as a noxious grey smog engulfed the megacity and made life a misery for its 30 million inhabitants. Smoke from farmers burning crop stubble, vehicle exhaust and factory emissions combine every winter to blanket Delhi in a choking haze. The
WASHINGTON: A 58-year-old man with terminal heart disease who received the world’s second genetically-modified pig heart transplant has died nearly six weeks after the procedure, the medical centre that carried out the surgery said. Lawrence Faucette received the organ on September 20 and passed away on October 30, the University
PESHAWAR (Pakistan): Hundreds of thousands of Afghans living in Pakistan faced detention and deportation on Wednesday, as a government deadline for them to leave sparked a mass exodus. Islamabad has given 1.7 million Afghans it says are living illegally in the country until November 1 to leave voluntarily or be
TOKYO: The number of people attacked by bears in Japan between April and October totalled 180, already a record high on a fiscal year basis, according to the environment ministry. This is the worst number ever since the statistics started in fiscal 2006, the ministry said in a preliminary report
LONDON: Former prime minister Boris Johnson (pic) asked the UK government’s top scientific advisors early in the pandemic if a “special hairdryer” could be used against COVID, it emerged on Wednesday. As the virus began to spread worldwide in March 2020, Johnson shared with officials a YouTube video of the
FRANKFURT: German output shrank slightly in the third quarter, official data published yesterday showed, as Europe’s largest economy continued to battle high interest rates, elevated energy costs and a manufacturing slowdown. The economy contracted by 0.1 per cent quarter-on-quarter, federal statistics agency Destatis said in preliminary figures. The performance was
