Tue 25 August 2026: A picture taken by a Palestinian photographer was removed from a sports photography festival in the French coastal city of Deauville after organizers got requests from unnamed sources, reports said Monday. The photo at the Deauville Sport Images Festival was replaced with an image of cyclists, local newspaper Le Pays d’Auge […]

Tue 25 August 2026: Museum heists across Europe are growing more violent, more targeted and increasingly tied to criminals who move between illicit markets, Europol said in a report Monday. Thefts in museums are generally regarded as a non-violent form of organised property crime. However, recent reporting from Member States and ongoing investigations indicate a […]

Tue 25 August 2026: US President Donald Trump expressed outrage on Tuesday at the mounting number of executions in Iran of people allegedly involved in mass protests earlier this year before the Middle East war began. “The failing Islamic Republic of Iran is not paying large segments of their military, while at the same time killing protesters, even when they are not protesting, at levels not seen before,” he wrote […]

Tue 25 August 2026: Marking the ninth anniversary of the large-scale flight of Rohingya refugees into Bangladesh, 16 diplomatic missions in Dhaka—including those of the UK, Australia, Canada, and the EU—on Tuesday reaffirmed the Rohingya’s right to return to their homeland in Myanmar. Bangladesh continues to host roughly 1.2 million persecuted Rohingya along the southeastern […]

Tue 25 August 2026: Abductors have shared a video appearing to show a large group of captives held by armed men in a wooded area of Nigeria. The footage surfaced on Sunday, two days after gunmen seized as many as 600 worshippers during Friday prayers at a mosque in Dekera village in Niger state, in […]

Tue 25 August 2026: Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany on Monday renewed its call for a ban on Muslim headscarves in public schools, proposing that girls under 14 be prohibited from wearing them. The AfD parliamentary group said Germany should follow neighboring Austria, where a new regulation taking effect next month bans Islamic head coverings […]

Thu 10 October 2024: One in eight girls, women raped or sexually assaulted before age 18, UNICEF says More than 370 million girls and women alive today, or one in every eight worldwide, experienced rape or sexual assault before the age of 18, the United Nations children’s agency said yesterday, Reuters reported. The number rises to 650 […]

Tue 25 August 2026: A picture taken by a Palestinian photographer was removed from a sports photography festival in the French coastal city of Deauville after organizers got requests from unnamed sources, reports said Monday. The photo at the Deauville Sport Images Festival was replaced with an image of cyclists, local newspaper Le Pays d’Auge […]

Thu 14 May 2026: Amid an oil blockade against the island, the US blames Cuba’s communist leadership for ‘standing in the way’ of aid. The United States has offered $100m in humanitarian assistance to Cuba on the condition that the island’s communist government agrees to “meaningful reforms”. The sum was made public in a statement from […]

Fri 12 June 2026: My mother loves butter. It is the primary fat I ate growing up. She smeared it on any kind of bread, potatoes, nut rolls or coffeecake. She baked with it exclusively. When I was studying nutrition in college, I had a teaching assistant who recommended margarine over butter. I was shocked […]

Fri 12 April 2024: JALEBIS INGREDIENTS 140 g cake flour 2 T cornflour 1/2 t baking powder 2 T clarified butter 1/4 t saffron threads 190 ml thick plain yoghurt Water (optional) Canola oil, for deep-frying Gold leaf, to garnish For the sugar syrup: 140 g sugar 250 ml water 1/4 t saffron threads, toasted […]