David Lloyd George (Image: Wikipedia) Almost everyone has had a moment when they knew a small change was no longer enough.A person keeps talking about leaving a miserable job but never actually resigns. Someone spends years saying they want to move abroad, start a business, lose weight, write a book, or end a relationship that…
Pakistan has a strange gift: just when the world begins to take it a bit seriously, it produces an ‘oops’ moment so spectacular that the script writes itself. One week it is pitching itself as a serious mediator between the United States and Iran; the next, a US senator is publicly asking whether it has…
A New York-based Iranian national has pleaded guilty in federal court in Brooklyn to charges of alien smuggling and intentionally receiving child sexual abuse material, according to US prosecutors.The defendant was identified as Sharon Gohari. They are a naturalised US citizen who lived between Iran and Nassau County, New York.Authorities said Gohari operated a long-running…
A 38-year-old man was shot outside his family’s popular Turkish restaurant in east London after they allegedly refused to pay £100,000 to a feared north London gang, a UK court has heard.Beytullah Gunduz, 39, who prosecutors say is linked to the “Hackney Turks” gang, also known as the Bombacilar or “bombers”, is accused of conspiring…
Immigration lawyer Deepika Singh says Indians have an academic edge over Americans Indian professionals on H-1B visas have an edge over some American workers because of India’s “robust” education system, a Silicon Valley immigration lawyer has argued. This argument is an old one in the debate over foreign workers in the US tech industry.Speaking about…
FILE – President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with China’s President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) In April, one particular meme had taken over the Chinese internet: Don Tzu. A portmanteau of Donald Trump and Sun Tzu, it…
Michael Bloomberg’s $1.8 billion donation to Johns Hopkins University in 2018 revolutionized higher education by funding need-blind admissions. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons A good example of a headline that does not lose relevance many years after being published would be one that came out in 2018 regarding Michael Bloomberg’s donation of $1.8 billion to Johns…
Beneath the modern skyline of Mexico City, something older still lingers quietly. On the surface, it is a crowded capital filled with traffic, offices, and constant movement. But just a few metres below, another world appears to exist, almost frozen in time. Ancient temples, buried courtyards, carved stones, and ceremonial remains sit hidden under layers…
Philippine troopers exchange fire along a hallway at the Philippine Senate in Pasay, Philippines on Wednesday May 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) Multiple gunshots were heard inside the Philippine Senate on Wednesday, where senator Ronald Dela Rosa, an aide of former President Rodrigo Duterte, had sought refuge amid efforts to arrest him over an International…
British police on Wednesday recovered the bodies of three women from the sea off Brighton in southern England, triggering a major emergency response and an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident.According to Sussex Police, emergency services were alerted at around 5.45am local time after concerns were raised about three women in the water near…
