The search and rescue team say it is too risky to continue the operation. Published On 6 Jun 20266 Jun 2026 Search and rescue teams in Laos have stopped the search for two men who were stranded in a semi-submerged cave. The search was called off on Saturday, a week after rescuers managed to find … Read more
The company’s stock plunged about 8 percent on the news of Hastings’s departure. Published On 16 Apr 202616 Apr 2026 Netflix Chairman Reed Hastings is leaving the streaming service he cofounded 29 years ago as the company regains its footing after it lost its $72bn deal for Warner Bros Discovery to Paramount Skydance. In a … Read more
Trump at Miami International Airport, March 27, 2026. He did this! (Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images) It is true, as the president said last night, that the Iranian navy and air force have been almost eliminated. It is also beside the point. The Islamic Republic has never been—and never wanted to be—a naval … Read more
Canada will now extend automatic citizenship to children born or adopted abroad to a Canadian parent also born outside the country. There are conditions to the “Lost Canadian” rules that came into effect on Monday – the Canadian parent must show a “substantial connection” to the country by having spent at least three years there … Read more
With the fallout from the war in Syria as a backdrop, director Nour Alkheder longs for her father through memories, imagination and the fragments of a life uprooted by conflict. As Alkheder reflects on what was lost and what remains, she confronts the emotional weight of nostalgia and the love that binds her to her … Read more
GENEVA (AP) — A diamond brooch that French emperor Napoleon lost while fleeing from the Battle of Waterloo in the early 19th century sold for more than 3.5 million Swiss francs (about $4.4 million) at a Geneva auction on Wednesday, Sotheby’s said. The brooch, which can also be worn as a pendant, features an oval … Read more
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Rescuers dug through ice and snow on a mountain in Nepal on Tuesday to look for the bodies of seven climbers who were killed by an avalanche, officials said. The avalanche pounded the base camp at Mount Yalung Ri, located at 4,900 meters (16,000 feet), on Monday morning. Snowstorms prevented rescuers … Read more
A young boy was rescued after surviving five days in a game park full of lions and elephants in Zimbabwe, a lawmaker in the east African country said this week. Mutsa Murombedzi, a member of Zimbabwe’s parliament, said in a Wednesday post on social media that Tinotenda Pudu had strayed into the Matusadona Game Park … Read more
Syrian civilians battle for accountability in court, using smuggled photographs to expose government atrocities. About 27,000 photos of dead and tortured civilian detainees were smuggled out of secret Syrian government archives by a military defector codenamed “Caesar” and made public in 2014. They were presented to the United Nations as evidence of the Bashar al-Assad … Read more
Marc Lamont Hill dissects the reasons behind a historic election victory for Donald Trump. In a historic political comeback, former President Donald Trump has been re-elected for a second term in office, despite facing multiple felony charges and widespread criticism of his alleged authoritarian tendencies. His Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, failed to persuade … Read more