Fri 01 March 2024: Thousands of mourners gathered near a church in southern Moscow on Friday, braving the prospect of arrest to pay their respects to late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny at his funeral. The ceremony comes two weeks after Navalny died in an Arctic prison. His supporters accuse Russian President Vladimir Putin of […]
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Galaxy cluster SDSS J1531+3414 X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/O. Omoruyi et al.; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI/G. Tremblay et al.; Radio: ASTRON/LOFAR; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk (Credit NASA) Fri 01 March 2024: One of the strongest explosions from a supermassive black hole in a far-off galaxy cluster has been discovered by astronomers, according to US space agency NASA. This mega-explosion […]
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Sarah Everard and Wayne Couzens pictured moments before he abducted her in Clapham. Fri 01 March 2024: An inquiry into a former British police officer who abducted, raped, and murdered a woman found that failures in police recruitment and vetting had allowed him to commit these “horrific crimes.” Wayne Couzens, a serving Metropolitan Police […]
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Thu 28 February 2024: The Russian leader has warned the West of “tragic consequences” for any country that dared to send troops to Kyiv. His comments appeared to be a response to French President Emmanuel Macron’s refusal earlier this week to rule out sending troops to Ukraine, which drew rejection from leaders in Europe. “They have announced […]
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Thu 28 February 2024: A deadly type of bird flu has been confirmed on the mainland of Antarctica for the first time, scientists said, a potential risk for the southern region’s huge penguin colonies. “This discovery demonstrates for the first time that the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza virus has reached Antarctica despite the distance and […]
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Thu 28 February 2024: Tens of thousands of people have been forced to evacuate due to a massive fire that Australian firefighters are fighting in some of the worst fire conditions the country has seen in recent memory. Authorities on Wednesday ordered the evacuation of tens of thousands of citizens due to a massive bushfire […]
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Thu 28 February 2024: The presence of Western troops in Ukraine in any form would lead to a “direct escalation” of the situation, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova said Wednesday. The spokesperson said that with every new shipment of weapons, Western nations are already escalating the conflict. If the West decides to officially deploy […]
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Thu 28 February 2024: In 2023, the European Union got the most asylum applications since the 2015–16 immigration crisis. According to a report released on Tuesday by the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA), more than 1.14 million individuals applied for international protection within the European Union in 2023. The data shows how the bloc […]
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Wed 27 February 2024: After ten years of investment, US tech giant Apple is apparently abandoning its electric car project to focus more of its resources on artificial intelligence (AI). Markets reacted positively to the announcement on Tuesday that the ten-year project was halted, with employees shifted to the company’s AI division. Apple is not […]
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Wed 27 February 2024: A proposed law in Canada would compel digital platforms to take down any harming online content—such as hateful and child-sexing content—as soon as it was discovered. The bill, referred to as Bill C-63, attempts to address a number of harmful sources, such as hate speech, terrorist content, child exploitation, sharing of […]
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