A Singaporean man who identified himself only as “Sky”, left, discusses alleged police extortion at the Davis Bangkok Hotel owned by former politician turned whistleblower Chuvit Kamolvisit on Wednesday. (Photo supplied) A Singaporean man who was with a Taiwanese actress who alleged earlier that her […]
Chelsea have made Enzo Fernandez the most expensive player in British football history in a deal worth $131m, as English Premier League spending power dominated the 2023 January transfer window. Other big signings were also sealed on a frantic transfer deadline day in Europe on […]
Somalia is hosting a summit of leaders from several neighbouring countries in the Horn of Africa to discuss the fight against al-Shabab, as a wide-ranging offensive against the armed group gathers pace. The meeting in the capital, Mogadishu, drew leaders from three “brotherly neighbouring countries”, […]
Up to half a million British teachers, civil servants, train drivers, and university lecturers have walked out over pay and conditions in the largest coordinated strike action in a generation, as wages fail to keep pace with soaring inflation. According to the Trades Union Congress […]
Unbeknown to coffee lovers, there is a “big” difference” in caffeine levels between high-street shops such as Starbucks and Costa Coffee, a UK-based study has found. While a single shot of espresso at the Caffe Nero chain would provide a coffee enthusiast with 45mg of […]
On Wednesday, February 1 at 19:30 GMT:The occupation of Luetzerath by climate activists was brought to an end last month as German police cleared out demonstrators to make way for the expansion of a lignite coal mine. Thousands of activists had descended on the rural […]
Australian opener Usman Khawaja has missed the team’s flight to India for their four-Test tour due to a visa delay, Cricket Australia (CA) said. A CA spokesperson said the Pakistan-born batsman was the only player in Australia’s squad not to board the flight on Wednesday […]
In a two-part series charting the 1970s in the Arab world, we revisit a decade of great change and long-term effects in the Middle East. Episode two follows huge growth in the region’s creative productions, mainly political cinema and theatre, against a backdrop of important […]
A cluster of rockets has targeted a Turkish military base in northern Iraq, officials from Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region and a Turkish defence ministry official, said. An Iranian-backed militia, the Islamic Resistance Ahrar al-Iraq Brigade – which is part of Iraq’s Iran-backed paramilitary Popular Mobilisation […]
A huge crowd of singing and dancing worshippers turned out to attend a papal mass in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Wednesday, the second day of Pope Francis’s visit to the country. People flocked to the tarmac of Kinshasa’s N’Dolo Airport for […]
