AROUND 31 residents died by flooding at a care home for elderly people on the outskirts of Beijing this week, local officials have said. Footage showed emergency teams wading through chest-high water trying to rescue those trapped in the home in the Miyun District. Many of those who died were reportedly immobile. Local officials have […]
POPE Emeritus Benedict XVI has died at the age of 95, the Vatican announced on Saturday. It said that the 95-year-old Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI passed away on Saturday at 9:34 AM in his residence at the Vatican’s Mater Ecclesiae Monastery. The Pope Emeritus has been down with sickness. The statement reads: “The Holy See […]
EULOGIES from global leaders and leading personalities all over the world poured in for Queen Elizabeth II, the United Kingdom’s longest reigning monarch, as she died at the age of 96 on Thursday. She died peacefully at Balmoral Castle, her estate in the Scottish Highlands in the afternoon marking the end of an era in […]
FORMER Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s wife, Rosmah Mansor has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for asking and receiving bribes in exchange for government contracts. Mansor’s conviction is coming one week after her husband was jailed for corruption linked to the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal. According to BBC, the 70-year-old ex-First Lady had pleaded […]
RUSSIA’S Defence Ministry has confirmed that its forces were behind Wednesday’s missile strike on a railway station in central Ukraine that Kiev said left at least 25 people dead, including civilians. However, Russian Defence Ministry spokesperson Igor Konashenkov claimed that more than 200 Ukrainian soldiers on their way to fight in the Donbass region […]
NORTH and South Korea launched ballistic missiles just hours apart, underlining a growing arms race on the Korean Peninsula while nuclear negotiations remain stalled. North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles from central inland regions, sending them east across the Sea of Japan (East Sea). The missiles flew about 800 km (500 miles) at a […]
THE Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has revealed that 31 million more people fell into extreme poverty in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. This was disclosed in the Foundation’s latest Goalkeepers Report, which tracks global progress toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The report highlights a clear gap in recovery between rich […]