New Zealanders were among the first in the world to celebrate the arrival of 2024 with a fireworks display in Auckland on Monday. The fireworks illuminated the cloudy night sky and were accompanied by a laser light and animation show. Here’s how some other places and people around the world bid farewell to 2023 and…
Ratan Tata Dies: Paying a tribute to Ratan Tata, his company Tata Sons today shared a remembrance note recalling his growing up years and his journey through the decades. Ratan Naval Tata, the business titan and global icon who led the Tata behemoth from thirty countries to over a hundred since becoming chairman in 1991,…
BETHEL PARK, Pennsylvania, (Reuters) – The FBI identified 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania as the suspect in the attempted assassination of former U.S. President Donald Trump at a campaign rally. The suspect was shot and killed by the Secret Service seconds after he allegedly fired shots toward a stage where Trump was…
Paris, France: France has detected its first case of a new mpox virus, the health ministry said Monday, weeks after the World Health Organization maintained its highest alert level amid the epidemic. A case of the clade 1b variant was confirmed in the western Brittany region and “the recommended oversight measures have been implemented”, the…
A Chinese man who carried out a knife attack in eastern China last June that wounded a Japanese woman and her child and killed a bus attendant trying to protect them has been sentenced to death, according to a Japanese official. A court in the Chinese city of Suzhou ruled that the 52-year-old unemployed man, surnamed Zhou, stabbed…
Across the world, lots of people are struggling with poor eyesight. Several individuals have resorted to prescription glasses under the guise that they could alleviate their issues entirely. Unfortunately, without discrediting the advantages of Ocuprime eve vision solutions, they don’t deliver a permanent solution to the matter. To forestall more deterioration of eyesight, there’s a…
Paris: Three people were injured Saturday in a knife attack at Paris’s Gare de Lyon railway station, a major travel hub, police said, adding that the suspect had been arrested. The detained man, whose nationality was not revealed, went on a stabbing spree at around 8:00 am (0700 GMT) at the station, which serves domestic trains…
On Monday, the United Nations announced a requirement of $4.2 billion for humanitarian assistance in Ukraine in 2024, addressing the needs of millions of refugees who have fled the war-torn country. While global attention has been focused on the Gaza conflict in recent months, Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine is approaching its third year in…
CNN — Security forces from Guatemala and El Salvador arrived in Haiti on Friday to reinforce a multinational mission tasked with tackling the country’s rampant gang violence, the Haitian National Police announced. High-ranking officials gathered on the tarmac of the international airport in the capital Port-au-Prince to greet the 75 Guatemalan and eight Salvadoran officers, video released…
Washington: The founder of cryptocurrency firm Binance was sentenced to four months in US prison on Tuesday after pleading guilty to money laundering charges, in the most high-profile crypto case since Sam Bankman-Fried was jailed. Changpeng Zhao, a Canadian, resigned from his post at the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange platform late last year as part of…