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Trump names former staffer Katie Miller to Musk-led DOGE panel
President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday named Katie Miller, who served in Trump’s first administration and is the wife of his incoming deputy chief of staff, as one of the first members of an advisory board to be led by billionaire allies…
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Brazil: Aircraft crashes into shops in tourist city of Gramado, all 10 passengers feared dead
A small aircraft carrying 10 passengers crashed into shops in the tourist city of Gramado in southern Brazil, Reuters reported on Sunday. According to civil and defence officials, all passengers are feared dead.
“I am monitoring the sad…
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Need to control climate change to prevent mass rural migration: Narayana Murthy
Speaking at the Sustainability Crusade award ceremony organised by the J P Shroff Foundation, Infosys founder Narayana Murthy on Friday highlighted the risk of climate change-induced migration within India, warning that it could exacerbate…
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Minorities fear targeted attacks in post-revolution Bangladesh
For generations, the small Hindu temple outside the capital in Muslim-majority Bangladesh was a quiet place to pray – before arsonists ripped open its roof this month in the latest post-revolution unrest.
It is only one of a string of…
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Russia’s UK embassy denounces G7 loans to Ukraine as ‘fraudulent scheme’
The Russian embassy in London on Saturday described Britain’s planned transfer to Ukraine of more than 2 billion pounds ($2.5 billion) backed by frozen Russian assets as a “fraudulent scheme.”
Britain said in October it would lend Ukraine…
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At least 38 die in bus accident in southeastern Brazil
At least 38 people were killed in a bus crash in southeastern Brazil on Saturday, officials said, in what President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called a “terrible tragedy.”
The accident in Minas Gerais state, involving a bus that caught fire…
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New hope for flight MH370 families as Malaysia agrees to resume search
The families of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 passengers have welcomed with renewed hope the announcement of a new search for the aircraft, which disappeared more than 10 years ago in one of the greatest mysteries in aviation history.…
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Germany Christmas market attack: Minister says suspect ‘an Islamophobe’
The suspect who was arrested in Germany for ramming his car into a crowd in Magdeburg's Christmas market was an "Islamophobe", the country's government said on Saturday. Five people were killed in the attack and 200 were injured.
Germany's…
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Climate Crisis Threatens To Exploit Division, Polarisation: WHO Chief
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday said that the climate crisis threatens to only exploit and exacerbate division and polarisation.
Taking to X, WHO Chief Ghebreyesus shared his experience…
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Delhi Air Pollution: What’s The AQI Today? Toxic Smog Envelopes NCR
Delhi’s air quality remained toxic on Saturday morning, December 21, with the average AQI in Nehru Nagar hitting a worrying 434, firmly in the ‘severe’ category.
The main culprit was PM2.5—those tiny, dangerous particles that can seep deep…
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