Glacier collapse may have triggered deadly Nepal flash flood, experts say
A deadly flash flood near Nepal’s border with Tibet on Wednesday may have been triggered when the lower part of a glacier broke off and crashed on to the ...
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Qatar PM to visit Tehran to pursue mediation efforts
Qatar’s prime minister will visit Tehran on Thursday in a bid to relaunch diplomacy after the US and Iran traded recriminations over Washington’s promise to increase economic pressure ...
Burnham’s summer reprieve gives way to a reckoning over his spending plans
After enjoying a summer of well-received measures giving “people some breathing space now”, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham faces a much greater test when parliament resumes next week – how to ...
Pentagon’s Nato review preparing troop options for Hegseth by November 6
A Pentagon review of US troop deployments in Europe will create at least four sets of options for Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth by November 6, well ahead of a December deadline ...
Nearly 1,500 missing in Nepal and China after devastating Himalaya flood
Nearly 1,500 people including at least 800 foreigners are missing across Nepal and China’s Tibet, authorities said on Thursday, after a wall of mud and rock collapsed into a Himalayan river, ...
Hundreds missing after devastating flood hits Nepal-Tibet border
A huge wall of mud and rock collapsed into a river on the Himalayan border of Nepal and China’s Tibet on Wednesday, triggering catastrophic flooding on the Nepali side ...
Tim Curry, actor famed for ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show,’ dead at 80
Tim Curry, the baritone-voiced British actor who pranced to movie fame as a singing, lingerie-clad “sweet transvestite” in the 1975 cult classic “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” has died at the ...
Prince Harry and family back in UK as they return from US
Prince Harry and his family arrived back in Britain on Wednesday, the BBC reported, days after it was revealed the couple were relocating six years after quitting royal duties and ...
Ukrainian commander sped through the ‘kill zone’ to save wounded troops
Seeing two wounded fighters stranded on the battlefield – one of them still strapped to a land drone immobilized by a Russian strike – Ukrainian commander Vladyslav Polskyi knew he had to ...
Meta agrees to pay up to $18bn to settle claims its platforms harm children
Meta Platforms agreed to pay a maximum $16.68 billion and make major changes to Facebook and Instagram to resolve claims by states across the U.S. that the company designed those ...
Iran and Oman still working on Strait of Hormuz accord
Iran and Oman are still working on the details of an agreement on the Strait of Hormuz, a senior Iranian source said on Wednesday, after Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said ...
At least 14 infants killed in Islamabad hospital fire
At least 14 infants were killed in a fire at a state-run hospital in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad on Wednesday, the prime minister said, with the health minister attributing the tragedy ...
Spurs need winning mentality after Brentford thrashing, says De Zerbi
Tottenham Hotspur need to develop a winning mentality, manager Roberto De Zerbi said on Tuesday as his big-spending side seek to bounce back in a League Cup second-round clash with ...
‘We will always love you’ – world mourns Dolly Parton
In Britain, the King’s Guard band played Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5” in front of Buckingham Palace. In the United States, the Empire State Building lit up in pink. In ...
British energy price cap to rise 4% as Iran war pushes up costs
Most British households will see their energy bills rise from October after energy regulator Ofgem announced a 4 per cent hike in its domestic price cap as the war in Iran ...
Chinese robot Tiangong clocks sub-9 second 100 metres in Beijing
China’s Tiangong Ultra humanoid robot ran 100 metres in 8.86 seconds at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on Tuesday, lowering the 9.39-second mark it set at the event’s ...
Serena and Alcaraz exit US Open mixed doubles
Serena Williams’ return to Arthur Ashe Stadium came to an abrupt end on Tuesday as she and Carlos Alcaraz fell 5-4(4) 4-1 to Flavio Cobolli and Belinda Bencic in the ...
Celtic’s Champions League hopes ended by astonishing comeback
Celtic blew a four-goal aggregate lead and lost 5-4 to Austrian side LASK on Tuesday as their Champions League hopes were dashed for another season in one of the worst ...
Bill Gates, alarmed by AI, has policy ideas he wants to discuss with China’s Xi
Bill Gates is looking to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping later this year, eager to propose global efforts to mitigate the growing risks posed by artificial intelligence.
The Microsoft ...
Harry and Meghan’s media storm shows the power and peril of their brand
If Prince Harry and his wife Meghan were hoping the press would give them an easier time on their return to Britain, the frenzied reporting around her potential new acting ...
US-Iran war sinks into energy trench warfare six months on
Six months into the U.S.-Iran war, the conflict is hardening into a stalemate that could last well into 2027, with energy markets held hostage, inflation elevated and neither side ...
SpaceX to build $100 billion Starship rocket complex in Louisiana
SpaceX unveiled plans on Tuesday to build a Starship rocket launch complex in southern Louisiana, a $100 billion effort poised to transform coastal wetlands into a critical base for the company’...
Dolly Parton, queen of country music, dies at 80
Dolly Parton was around six when she wrote her first song: “Little Tiny Tasseltop,” an ode to her corncob doll with corn-silk hair. Her mother stored it preciously in a ...
Brazil election rivals offer competing cures for high long-term interest rates
Brazil’s presidential campaigns are clashing over how to bring down long-term interest rates, with advisers to the leading candidates offering sharply different prescriptions for reducing borrowing costs across the ...