Norway’s foreign ministry on Sunday announced that senior diplomat Mona Juul will step down from her post following what it described as a “serious failure of judgement” linked to her ties with late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, deepening a growing scandal in Norway and across parts of Europe. Juul, who was serving as ambassador to...
Updated: Feb 9th, 2026 An Iranian court has sentenced Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to six years in prison, according to reports Her legal counsel, Mostafa Nili, reportedly said Mohammadi was convicted on charges of “assembly and collusion with the intent to commit crimes.” Along with the prison term, the court also imposed a...
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is set to win a comfortable majority on its own, and may even clinch a two-thirds majority with allies, in the snap elections held on Sunday, as per exit polls in the Japanese media. An exit poll by public broadcaster NHK showed that the LDP is...
The death toll from the Islamabad suicide bombing rose to 36 on Saturday, local media reported, quoting a spokesperson of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS). “A 21-year-old man, who was brought from the imambargah, died,” said Dr Aneeza Jalil while speaking to a leading Pakistani daily, Dawn. She further mentioned that nine of...
Updated: Feb 7th, 2026 A US jury has ordered ride-hailing firm Uber to pay $8.5m (₹77.91 crore) in compensation to a woman who said she was raped by a driver using the company’s platform, in a ruling that could shape the outcome of thousands of similar cases against the firm, as per reports. The federal...
Updated: Feb 7th, 2026 Japanese authorities have cancelled the 2026 Mount Fuji cherry blossom festival because of rising problems from overtourism, including overcrowding, traffic jams, littering and disruptive tourist behaviour that affected local residents. The annual event at Arakurayama Sengen Park near Mount Fuji usually attracts about 2,00,000 visitors every spring, according to reports. Officials...
Updated: Feb 7th, 2026 (image: Governor Newsom Press Office’s post on X) US President Donald Trump has triggered a fresh political storm after sharing a video on his Truth Social platform that depicts former president Barack Obama and his wife Michelle as monkeys, drawing sharp criticism from Democrats and civil rights advocates. The one-minute video, posted...
Updated: Feb 7th, 2026 AI generated image Scientists have discovered 207 volcanoes hidden under Antarctica’s thick ice sheet, according to a new international study led by Chinese researchers. The findings were published on February 3 in the journal Earth-Science reviews. The research team created the world’s first complete digital record of Antarctic subglacial volcanoes, called...
Updated: Feb 6th, 2026 The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has cautioned that heightened activity on the Sun could trigger a storm of charged particles capable of disrupting communications and satellite operations on Earth. Scientists have observed intense disturbances on the Sun’s surface, raising the possibility that powerful solar flares, solar winds and charged particle...
Updated: Feb 6th, 2026 Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseev, a senior official of Russia’s military intelligence agency GRU, was shot multiple times in Moscow on Friday in what authorities described as a suspected assassination attempt, as per Russian media reports. The alleged assassination took place near a residential building on Volokolamskoye Highway, where an unidentified assailant...