Art & Culture

Traditional Ramadan dishes across the world

Ramadan is the most special month of the year for Muslims. It’s a time for blessings, gatherings and celebration.  It…

Italian ex-PM Berlusconi in intensive care with heart problems

Silvio Berlusconi, who was Italian prime minister four times, is in intensive care in a cardiac unit at Milan’s San…

‘Hikikomori’: Japan government survey finds 1.5 million living as recluses

Nearly 1.5 million working-age people in Japan are social recluses, according to a new government survey, with a fifth citing…

Mexico seeks China’s help on fentanyl, complains of ‘rude’ US pressure

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has said that he had asked his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to help curb…

Webb telescope discovers four oldest galaxies ever observed

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered the four most distant galaxies ever observed, one of which formed just 320…

World making ‘huge mistake’ not funding new tuberculosis vaccines: Gates

A lack of funding could delay late-stage trials of the first new vaccine against tuberculosis for more than a century,…

One in six people affected by infertility across the globe: WHO

About one in six adults globally have experienced infertility at least once in their life, the World Health Organisation (WHO)…

Australia bans TikTok app on government-owned devices

Australia has decided to ban TikTok on government devices, joining a growing list of Western nations cracking down on the Chinese-owned app…

NASA: First African-American astronaut to join lunar mission Artemis II

NASA has revealed the names of the astronauts – three Americans and a Canadian – who will fly around the…

Spanish fishing boat sinks leaving part of the crew dead, missing

Two people drowned and another was missing at sea after a fishing boat with 10 crew members on board sank…