Hurricane Melissa tears through Jamaica and slams Cuba
A furious force of nature roared across the Caribbean this week as Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Cuba after ravaging Jamaica, setting off alarm...
Amazon announces lay-off of upto 30,000 corporate staff
Global e-commerce giant Amazon has initiated a fresh round of workforce reductions, set to affect up to 30,000 of its corporate employees. The move...
Indian man wins record ₹240 crore in UAE lottery
A 29-year-old Indian expatriate residing in Abu Dhabi has become the inaugural winner of the UAE Lottery’s top prize — a massive Dh100 million...
Earthquake collapse buildings in Turkey, residents flee in panic
A strong earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale hit the western Turkish province of Balıkesir late Monday, centred near the town of Sındırgı,...
Australia: Social-media giants oppose ban on under-16s but pledge compliance
Major social-media companies have voiced strong concerns over Australia’s incoming ban on users under the age of 16, even as they prepare to comply...
UK tax rise to shoots up food prices
The heads of Britain’s largest supermarket chains have warned that any further tax increases on the retail sector could push food prices higher, adding...
Alarming decline in night-flying insects in UK revealed
A new study using data from the Met Office radar network has shed stark light on the dramatic decline of nocturnal flying insects across...
China’s intense heatwaves threaten the harvest of crustaceans ‘Hairy Crabs’
For more than a decade, 34-year-old cultivator Xie Dandan has tended one of China’s most prized crustaceans: the hairy crab, whose delicate sweet flesh...
US market hits a ‘Great Freeze’ as firms hesitate to hire or fire
In what analysts are calling the “Great Freeze,” the US labour market has reached a curious stand-still: companies are neither aggressively hiring nor actively...