Palestinian leaders won renewed Saudi support for Palestinian statehood on Wednesday but failed to persuade the Arab League to condemn last month’s normalization deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). At a video conference of foreign ministers, the Palestinian leadership softened its censure of the UAE over the US-brokered August 13 accord – […]
Princess Diana earned a shocking sum of money from divorce with Prince Charles Princess Diana’s marriage with Prince Charles was not a blissful one, that tragically ended in divorce. A large number of royal fans were devastated after the duo parted ways, but what’s more shocking was the amount that Diana received as part of […]
The prevalence of symptoms of depression more than tripled in the United States during the Covid-19 pandemic than before it, a study has found, highlighting the extent to which the health crisis could have a toll on mental health. The survey study published in JAMA Network Open, an open-access medical journal published by the American […]
A huge fire broke out on Thursday at the Port of Beirut, the site of last month’s catastrophic explosion that killed nearly 200 people and devastated parts of the capital. The new fire — nearly 40 days after the blast — triggered widespread panic among traumatized residents of the area. It wasn’t immediately clear what […]
Six months after the Taj Mahal and the Agra Fort were closed to the public, the world heritage monuments will reopen from September 21. The two monuments have been closed since March 17—days before the nationwide lockdown was instituted to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). “It is perhaps for the first time […]
NEW YORK: Oscar-winner Kevin Spacey was accused in a civil lawsuit on Wednesday of sexual assault and battery in the 1980s by actor Anthony Rapp and a second, unnamed person when both plaintiffs were about 14. The suit, filed in New York state court in Manhattan, refers to the same alleged incident that Rapp first […]
A 13-year-old boy in Glendale, Utah, was shot several times by police officers after his mother called 911 for help with his mental health crisis. Linden Cameron, who has Asperger’s, a form of autism, is now in a serious condition in hospital, his mother said. Golda Barton said she had believed police attending on Friday […]
Investors in ByteDance have got used to being caught between superpowers. They were still taken aback on 28 August, when an update to China’s export-licensing regime blocked the sale of the hot Chinese technology firm’s prize asset – the American arm of TikTok, a short-video app to American firms and investors. A Chinese riposte to […]
According to the news agency, Malaysia’s senior defence minister announced through an official Facebook post that citizens of 23 countries, including Pakistan and the United States, will be barred from entering the country where the number of corona cases is more than 150,000. As per reports by local media, all countries that have reported more […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Dr. Janice Bacon was exactly the person Kay McField hoped to talk to when she found herself spending most of her days in bed, feeling too depressed to get up as the coronavirus pandemic threatened those around her. As she watched those closest to her test positive for the virus — […]
