International

London: Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak has laid out plans for the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to crack down on misleading adverts of cryptocurrency, bringing it in line with other financial promotions. A consultation response, published on Tuesday, sets out the UK government's...

Beijing: As he prepares for an unprecedented third term in power, President Xi Jinping has said that "serious potential dangers" to China, the ruling Communist Party and the country's military have been "rooted out" during his decade-long tenure. Since he took over the party in...

London: Embattled British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced dramatic developments Wednesday over the so-called “partygate” scandal that has threatened his grip on the leadership and his own Conservative Party. Johnson, 57, attempted to deflect attention from the crisis around damaging allegations of parties held in...

Washington: Scientists at NASA's Curiosity rover have found a type of carbon that on Earth is associated with biological processes from several powdered rock samples collected from the surface of Mars. While the finding is intriguing, it doesn't necessarily point to ancient life on Mars,...

Madrid: Santiago de la Fuente, a 112-year-old Spanish man, who was recognised by the Guinness Book of Records as the world's oldest man in September last year, has died at his home in Leon in northwest Spain, his family has confirmed. Santiago born on February...

Madrid: Five people were killed and several injured in a fire at a retirement home during the wee hours of Wednesday in Valencia, eastern Spain, the country's emergency services said. As per the tweet of local firefighters, the fire broke out at about 11.21 p.m....

Geneva: Although average global temperatures were temporarily cooled by the 2020-2022 La Nina events, 2021 was still one of the seven warmest years on record, according to six leading international datasets consolidated by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). The average global temperature in 2021 was...

San Francisco: Ahead of the mega 5G rollout in the US, major airlines like Emirates, Air India, ANA and Japan Airlines have announced to cancel some flights over concerns that it could potentially interfere with some instruments and may put flyers' safety at risk. Emirates...

San Francisco: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has slammed the United Nations (UN) once again, saying that there are "not enough people" in the world and one should be more worried about population collapse. In a latest tweet, Musk posted, "UN projections are utter...

Canberra: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison Wednesday said the government would rebate visa fees for international students and backpackers to support the workforce challenge amid surging Covid-19 cases nationwide. Those include international students who arrive in Australia over the next eight weeks and backpackers who...