Sun 27 October 2024: The birth rate in Germany has fallen sharply from 1.58 children per woman in 2021 to 1.35 this year, according to a report published Wednesday by the ifo Institute for Economic Research. The COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the resulting loss of real income due to high inflation “have led […]
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Sun 27 October 2024: The governing Georgian Dream party is leading the crucial parliamentary elections, according to early results announced by the electoral body, but the pro-Western opposition groups are claiming victory, setting the stage for confrontation over the future of the former Soviet republic. Early official results with 70 percent of precincts counted, showed the governing […]
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Sun 27 October 2024: Shoplifting offences reported by police in England and Wales have risen to a fresh 20-year high, according to official figures, as retailers continue to warn about violence against shop workers. A total of 469,788 offences were logged by police forces in the year to June 2024, a 29% increase compared with the 365,173 […]
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Sat 26 October 2024: Fall for me as a teenager meant football games, homecoming dresses – and haunted houses. My friends organized group trips to the local fairground, where barn sheds were turned into halls of horror, and masked men nipped at our ankles with (chainless) chain saws as we waited in line, anticipating deeper […]
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Sat 26 October 2024: A severe outbreak of E. Coli linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounder burgers has expanded to 75 reported cases, mainly in the western United States, authorities said Friday. The number of hospitalizations has risen to 22, though no additional deaths have been reported beyond that of an elderly patient in Colorado, according to the Food and […]
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Sat 26 October 2024: In a landmark moment, President Joe Biden issued an apology on Friday for what he called “one of the country’s most horrific chapters”: the forced separation of Native American children from their families into government boarding schools with the aim of erasing their cultural identity. From the early 1800s to the […]
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Sat 26 October 2024: North Koreasaid on Friday that any dispatch of its soldiers to Russia would conform to international law, marking its first official response to recent claims by South Korea that Pyongyang sent approximately 3,000 troops to support Moscow. The White House has also backed these assertions. In a vaguely-worded statement, North Korean […]
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Sat 26 October 2024: The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) reports that nearly half of Muslims in EU member states experience discrimination and hate speech in their daily lives. A survey titled “Being Muslim in Europe: Experiences of Muslims,” conducted by the FRA with 9,600 Muslim participants from 13 EU member states, indicates a […]
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Fri 25 October 2024: Tesla has posted a forecasting-beating profit in the third quarter, breaking a recent streak of disappointing earnings for the electric carmaker. The Austin, Texas-based company on Wednesday reported net income of $2.2bn for the July-to-September period, up 17 percent year on year. Revenue rose to $25.18bn, up 8 percent from $23.35bn […]
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Fri 25 October 2024: The sale of disposable vapes will be banned in England and Wales beginning in June next year, according to authorities, as part of an initiative to protect children’s health and address environmental concerns. The British government is set to ban the sale and supply of single-use vapes in England from next […]
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