World

Federal authorities have arrested Indian-origin businessman Mahender Makhijani, accusing him of defrauding a bank out of nearly $100 million through a scheme that involved forged real estate documents and misleading financial records.The 44-year-old man is a lawful permanent resident from India who lives in Corona del Mar, California. He was taken into custody on Wednesday…

The family of Stephen Ogilvie, the man critically injured in a knife attack in Belfast, has appealed for calm and rejected the violent unrest that erupted across the city in the aftermath of the incident.“We want to make it absolutely clear that overnight unrest is not welcome, and peaceful protest is the only way forward,”…

A former Taliban commander has been sentenced to 42 years in prison for supporting attacks that killed three US soldiers and for his role in the kidnapping of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Rohde and two others in Afghanistan.The sentence was handed down on Tuesday in Manhattan. It brings a close to a case that combined…

For nearly 17 years, an Air Canada captain flew hundreds of passenger flights without holding the licence required for the job, according to Canadian police.Investigators say the case resembles the plot of a Hollywood film, reports CNN.Geoffrey Wall is a ex-Air Canada pilot and has been charged after he piloted more than 900 domestic and…

A worn volume bound in faded red leather has been formally recognised by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation as one of England’s earliest surviving paper-based archives. It is the kind of object most visitors would walk past without realising they are looking at something that predates printing presses, predates modern record keeping,…

On a late-summer flight over northern Alaska’s Brooks Range, stretches of river that should look like glass suddenly appear stained the colour of iron oxide. From above, they resemble rust spreading through a cracked engine block. On the ground, the change is even more unsettling: clear tributaries turning opaque orange within a few bends, with…

The chief of the Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF), Allah Nazar Baloch, has criticised Pakistan’s policies in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK), saying the growing resistance movement in the region shows that demands for rights and self-determination cannot be suppressed through force.According to the report published in The Balochistan Post, Baloch said the ongoing struggle by…

For decades, scientists believed that an average life expectancy of 90 years was a distant milestone that no country would reach anytime soon. Then a landmark study published in The Lancet challenged that assumption. Researchers projected that South Korean women born in 2030 could live an average of 90.8 years, making them the first population…

For just a fleeting moment under the pristine water of Swaraj Dweep, a group of divers converted months of hard work into a world record. Together, they managed to set up the tallest human pyramid under the water, breaking a record and earning themselves a place in the Guinness World Records. This was a difficult…

Vehicles set on fire by protesters. (AP Photo) British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday strongly condemned the anti-immigrant violence that erupted across Belfast overnight, calling the scenes “shocking and completely unacceptable” and vowing that those behind the disorder would face the “full force of the law.““It is clear that people were targeted last night…