•Britain’s Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan hold their baby son Archie Prince Harry, his wife Meghan and two children will stay at royal residences during their first family trip back to the UK in four years in July, a source familiar with the matter said yesterday. The estranged prince […]
•A newborn baby being pulled out alive from the rubble of the city of La Guaira, Venezuela A newborn baby has been rescued from a fallen building 32 hours after the twin earthquakes that devastated a Venezuelan coastal city. Video shared on social media Friday shows rescuers working under a floodlight atop collapsed masonry and […]
•People gather near the CITIC Tower in Beijing after an eyewitness reported plane debris at the base of Beijing’s tallest building, yesterday A pilot was killed when his small aircraft crashed into Beijing’s tallest building, with 13 people also injured, Chinese authorities said today, without elaborating on the cause of the rare incident. Wi...
United States President Donald Trump on Friday unveiled a rendering of a limited-edition commemorative U.S. passport to mark the country’s 250th anniversary of independence, featuring his portrait on the cover page. Trump shared the design in a post on his Truth Social platform, describing it as the nation’s “New Passport” with the inscription...
•Australian national Simon Peter Carman escorted by Thai security personnel and plainclothes officers into an open vehicle Thai police have arrested an Australian man after the body of a 17-year-old girl was discovered in a suitcase, authorities said today. The suspect, who denies involvement in the teenager’s alleged abduction and murder, was...
•Volunteers help a man found amid the rubble More than 50,000 people were missing yesterday after twin earthquakes in Venezuela, the United Nations’ aid chief told our correspondent as international rescue teams and sniffer dogs arrived to join a desperate search for survivors. Interim president Delcy Rodriguez said the death toll was now at 5...
•Tourists shield themselves from the sun with umbrellas at St Peter’s square in the Vatican during heatwave Human-caused climate change is “unequivocally” responsible for the intensity of a record-breaking heatwave scorching Europe, scientists said today. It would have been “virtually impossible” for such exceptional temperatures to occur in J...
•Britain’s King Charles III King Charles III has paid more than £30 million ($39.6 million) in personal taxes since becoming monarch in September 2022, Buckingham Palace announced yesterday, in the first such disclosure by a reigning British sovereign. The palace, which had confirmed at the weekend that it would make the unprecedented release,...
•President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella Colombia’s hard-right president-elect, Abelardo de la Espriella, today gave the country’s guerrilla groups one month to surrender, taking a tough stand on an issue that helped propel him to victory. De la Espriella won Sunday’s tightly fought presidential election by less than a percentage point as Col...
•OPEC logo Iraq has urged the Oil Producing Exporting Countries (OPEC) to increase its oil production quota considering the country’s history of conflicts and the recent regional war that have damaged its industry, the oil ministry said today. Like other oil producers, Iraq, a founding member of OPEC, was greatly affected by the Middle East [&...

