News

Most Read
A paramilitary soldier stands guard at a railway station in the Sibi district of southwestern Balochistan province. — AFP pic

Pakistan forces launch operation to rescue hostages after militants seize train in Balochistan

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio boards a military airplane prior to departing from King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, March 12, 2025, as he travels to Canada for a G7 Foreign Ministers meeting. — AFP pic

US hails Syria deal to integrate Kurdish administration into national govt

Nasa has so far avoided the deep cuts affecting other agencies, reportedly due to last minute intervention by Jared Isaacman, Trump’s nominee for Nasa chief. Isaacman, an e-payments billionaire and SpaceX customer, is seen as close to Elon Musk — Trump’s key adviser and architect of federal cost-cutting efforts. — Reuters pic

Nasa fires chief scientist, more Trump cuts to come

Police gather outside Villamor Air Base, where former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte is currently being held according to his political party, in Pasay, Metro Manila on March 11, 2025. Duterte was arrested on March 11 in Manila by police acting on an International Criminal Court warrant tied to his deadly war on drugs. — AFP pic

Ex-Philippine leader Duterte bound for The Hague over ICC drug war case as lawyers fight extradition

A general shot of Takadanobaba. — Unsplash pic/stable pattern

Fatal stabbing of Tokyo livestreamer connected to unpaid debt, suspect admits attack

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks with the media following meetings with a Ukrainian delegation in Jeddah yesterday.— AFP pic

Ukraine agrees to US-proposed 30-day ceasefire with Russia in Jeddah talks, Trump lifts military aid freeze

Soldiers secure Mach railway station after Pakistani security forces freed some passengers following a security operation against armed militants who ambushed the train in the remote mountainous area, in Mach. — AFP pic

Pakistan security forces free hostages after deadly Balochistan train assault; 16 militants killed

Western Australia Police Force senior sergeant Christopher Taylor said the “surfer was taken by a shark”. — AFP pic

Surfer missing in Western Australia ‘taken by shark’, police confirm

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was told that the exemption was no longer on the table. — AFP pic

Aussie PM Albanese rips into US over ‘unjustified’ steel, aluminium tariffs

Nuns attend rosary prayers for Pope Francis who is still hospitalised with pneumonia, in The Vatican on March 10, 2025. — AFP pic

Pope Francis ‘stable’ and out of danger as focus shifts to return home

Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte gestures as he attends a senate probe on the drug war during his administration, in Manila on October 28, 2024. — AFP pic

Duterte’s arrest: A look back at his most shocking statements on the drug war

A general view shows the Signature Bridge over the Yamuna River on a smoggy winter morning in New Delhi on December 20, 2024. Despite an improvement in 2024, India again dominated global rankings for the cities with the most dangerous particle smog while Chad was the most polluted country, according to a report published on March 11, 2025. — AFP pic

Smog bound Indian cities dominate global air pollution rankings despite slight improvement

The main library at Trinity College Dublin, previously named for a slave owner, is now called the Eavan Boland Library after one of the foremost female voices in Irish literature. — Picture via Facebook

Centuries-old Irish university names building after woman for first time

Palestinians gather around a fire to keep warm in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on March 10, 2025, during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan. — AFP pic

‘There is no electricity in Gaza’: Residents say Israel’s power cut changes nothing

This photograph taken on February 17, 2025 shows an Anti-Smog Squad (ASS) technician inspecting a mobile air quality monitoring station in Lahore. Tens of millions of Pakistanis spent at least four months breathing toxic air pollution 20 times above safe levels, in the worst winter smog season for several years, according to data analysed by AFP. — AFP pic

‘Really suffocating’: Pakistan emerges from record smog season

A view shows a multi-storey residential building damaged in a recent Ukrainian drone attack, according to local authorities, in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict, in Vidnoye, Moscow Region, Russia March 11, 2025. — Reuters pic

Kyiv targets Russian capital with massive drone barrage, pushes for aerial truce