- Sunday, February 23, 2025
Fireworks illuminated skies worldwide to usher in 2024, yet airstrikes marred the year’s earliest hours in Gaza, Israel, and Ukraine. Additionally, a significant earthquake struck Japan, prompting tsunami warnings. Many around the world may wish to shake off high living costs, global tumult and extreme weather in 2024, which heralds…
Health chiefs warned this weekend that Rishi Sunak’s goal for the NHS, aiming to eradicate wait times surpassing 65 weeks by March, might fall short due to impending NHS strike action. The health system braces for an unprecedented six-day national strike by junior doctors in England starting Wednesday (3) at…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi visited a holy town last week to open fresh transport links catering to pilgrims for a new temple steeped in a history of sectarian violence. Ayodhya’s new shrine to Lord Ram will be formally unveiled this month on the grounds where a centuries-old mosque once…
LONDON'S skyline was lit up as the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Eve 2024, with the grandest fireworks, lights, and drone spectacle ever seen over the River Thames. With over 100,000 attendees and millions watching worldwide, London commenced the year with a stunning exhibition of fireworks, lights, and drones,…
According to a UK media report, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak aims to secure a free trade agreement (FTA) with India by Easter, which falls at the end of March 2024. The India-UK FTA talks began in January last year, aimed at significantly enhancing the £36-billion bilateral trading partnership. A new…
According to party officials, the jailed former Pakistan prime minister, Imran Khan, and the majority of his supporters, were rejected candidacy for the February 8, 2024, national elections as nominations for the ballot closed on Sunday (31). Khan has been in prison since August, facing trial over a slew of…
A common gut bacteria found in two-thirds of the world’s population may be linked to an increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease, a new study has found. The study, published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association, investigated whether a clinically apparent Helicobacter pylori (H pylori) infection increased…
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak who was under pressure from the Opposition regarding the customary resignation Honours List from his short-lived predecessor Liz Truss, has authorised the controversial peerages. Truss made 11 nominations of some of her close friends and allies, including Conservative Party donor Jon Moynihan and former Brexit Vote…
Rizwan Javed, a rail worker from east London employed by the MTR Elizabeth line at Ealing Broadway station, has been honoured with an MBE for saving 29 people from taking their own lives, the BBC reported. Since 2015, Javed has intervened to save the lives of these individuals contemplating suicide,…
On Sunday (31), London’s Big Ben commemorates the 100th anniversary of its New Year’s “bongs” being broadcast worldwide. Ever since New Year’s Eve 1923 when BBC engineer A.G. Dryland clambered onto a roof opposite the British parliament to record the strikes, live transmission has become an annual tradition. The unmistakable…
