French President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Narendra Modi wave from the balcony during the inauguration of the Indian Consulate as part of a visit in Marseille, France, on February 12, 2025 | Photo Credit: AP Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday (February 12, 2025) jointly inaugurated India’s new consulate in … Read more
Railroad technicians work at the scene of a train accident, a collision between a train and a truck, in Hamburg, Germany, early on February 12, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP A collision between a high-speed train and a truck on the outskirts of the German city of Hamburg left one person dead and 25 injured, … Read more
People walk past a closed stall at Ekushey Book Fair in Dhaka on February 11, 2025, after chanting protesters were angry over a book by exiled feminist author Taslima Nasrin. | Photo Credit: AFP A group of protesters stormed a book stall in Dhaka over the display of books by exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin, … Read more
The inspector general for the U.S. Agency for International Development was fired. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The inspector general for the U.S. Agency for International Development was fired on Tuesday (February 11, 2025), a USAID official said, a day after his office published a report critical of the Trump administration’s effort to eliminate the … Read more
Zhang Yazhou was sitting in the passenger seat of her Tesla Model 3 when she said she heard her father’s panicked voice: The brakes don’t work! Approaching a red light, her father swerved around two cars before plowing into an SUV and a sedan and crashing into a large concrete barrier. Stunned, Zhang gazed at … Read more
U.S. President Donald Trump administration is prioritising relations with India and recognises that the country has the potential to transform the Indo-Pacific region and is an “important partner” when it comes to competing effectively with China, a former White House official has said. These remarks were made by Lisa Curtis ahead of Prime Minister Narendra … Read more
A federal research agency that tracks the progress of America’s students is being hit with almost $900 million in cuts after Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency found no need for much of its work. It’s unclear to what degree the Education Department’s Institute of Education Sciences will continue to exist after Mr. Musk’s team … Read more
Around 430 vessels have been identified as constituting the ‘shadow fleet’ globally. File | Photo Credit: Reuters As ageing and deficient tankers in the “Russian shadow fleet” traffic the shallow waters of the Baltic Sea, a major oil spill disaster looms, experts say. Security analysts say Russia is operating a large “shadow fleet” of hundreds … Read more
Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s choice to be director of the FBI. File | Photo Credit: AP A top Democratic senator has asked the Justice Department’s inspector general to investigate after he says he received information that President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, Kash Patel, had been “personally directing the ongoing purge” of … Read more
The curbs had forced Iranians to go for locally-produced vehicles long derided as ‘death wagons’. | Photo Credit: AP All architecture student Amirhossein Azizi wanted for his 19th birthday was the latest iPhone — and for Iran’s cash-strapped theocracy, it was just the gift they needed as well. Just buying a top-of-the-line iPhone 16 Pro … Read more