world Egypt hopes vast new museum by the Pyramids will accelerate tourism revival

CAIRO - Egyptian officials are hoping the inauguration of a vast new museum on Saturday (Nov 1) will accelerate the revival of a tourism industry hampered for more than a decade by internal upheaval, a pandemic and regional conflicts. Officials...

Country music star falls offstage mid-song, loses hat but keeps on singing

Gavin Adcock just keeps finding his way into the headlines in 2025, but this one is a little different because it doesn’t involve Zach Bryan, Beyonce or Nickelback’s sound guy. Adcock’s only adversary this time was himself and his footing because...

world Xi to meet Canadian, Japanese leaders after Trump trade truce

GYEONGJU - China's Xi Jinping will take centre stage at an annual gathering of Pacific Rim leaders in South Korea on Friday (Oct 31), holding talks with Canadian and Japanese counterparts after securing a fragile trade truce with US President...

world Scientists run climate 'time machine' in Amazon as Brazil preps for COP30

MANAUS, Brazil - Deep in Brazil's Amazon, scientists have built a "time machine" pumping carbon dioxide into the rainforest canopy to simulate atmospheric conditions predicted for the future to gauge how the biome adapts - an open question to be...

world Turkey's Erdogan to Merz: Does Germany not see Israeli 'genocide' in Gaza?

ANKARA - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan criticised Germany over what he said was its ignorance of Israel's "genocide" and attacks in Gaza, at a joint news conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday (Oct 30). The open public...

World shares, oil dip after Donald Trump and Xi talks

World shares mostly retreated Thursday in choppy trading after President Donald Trump’s meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. While Trump said the meeting was “amazing” and had resolved many issues, investors appeared sceptical. US futures were...

World News | China's Chengdu Symposium Criticised for Defending Assimilationist Education Policies in Tibet

Bejing [China], October 31 (ANI): The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has once again come under international criticism after organising an "International Academic Symposium on Boarding Education and Plateau Development" at the University of...

world UK's Prince William wins case against Paris Match over holiday photos

LONDON/PARIS - Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate won a privacy case against French magazine Paris Match for publishing paparazzi photographs of them and their children on a private holiday, a notice published in the magazine said on...

World Cup play-offs: Gusau confident S’ Eagles will be battle-ready

President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau, has expressed strong confidence that the Super Eagles will be fully prepared and at their best to secure one of Africa’s slots in the Intercontinental Play-offs for the...

World News | Pakistan Accused of Waging State-backed War on Pashtuns Under Disguise of Counterterrorism

Balochistan [Pakistan], October 31 (ANI): Manzoor Pashteen, the leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), has issued a powerful condemnation of recent military operations across several districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, accusing Pakistan's...

World shares retreat despite Trump’s trade truce with Xi

world As Trump skips Apec, China's Xi fills the void with message on trade

BEIJING - As Air Force One took off from South Korea's Busan airport after US-China talks on Thursday (Oct 30), Chinese leader Xi Jinping's Hongqi N701 limousine whisked him off to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit some 50 miles away....

world German court orders Afghan who killed toddler in knife attack into care

ASCHAFFENBURG, Germany - A German judge ordered an Afghan national to be sent into psychiatric care after he fatally stabbed two people, including a toddler, nine months ago in an attack that shocked the country. Prosecutors had argued that the...

World Anti-Doping Agency sees Kenya progress, puts ADAK on watch list

Kenya’s anti-doping agency ADAK will move onto WADA’s watch list in an easing of the non-compliant status announced last month, the world’s body’s director general Olivier Niggli said on Thursday. ADAK was warned in September of serious...

Country music star breaks silence after frightening medical emergency

Country music star Mark Chesnutt broke his silence this week after a recent medical emergency caused him to cancel or postpone a handful of shows. “Hey everybody!” Chesnutt wrote on Facebook. “I just wanted you to know that we will be back on the...

world Hurricane Melissa's death toll climbs to 44, storm churns north

PORT-AU-PRINCE/KINGSTON/HAVANA - Hurricane Melissa's confirmed death toll climbed to 44 on Thursday (Oct 30), according to official reports, after wreaking destruction across much of the northern Caribbean and picking up speed as it headed toward...

world French police hunting stolen Louvre jewels arrest more suspects

PARIS (Reuters) -Police have arrested five more suspects linked to the theft of treasures worth US$102 million (S$132 million) from the Louvre Museum's Apollo gallery, the Paris prosecutor said on Thursday (Oct 30), expressing hope the latest...

world Heavy rains in New York kill 2, disrupt flights

Heavy rains lashed New York on Thursday (Oct 30), killing two people in the city, Mayor Eric Adams said, while accompanying storms disrupted flights and weather authorities warned of floods in some areas. Media have reported incidents of flooding...

World : Malaysia And Indonesia Join Forces To Strengthen Higher Education

JAKARTA, Oct 31 (Bernama) -- Malaysia’s Ambassador to Indonesia, Datuk Syed Mohamad Hasrin Tengku Hussin, paid a courtesy call on Indonesia’s Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology, Prof Brian Yuliarto, on Thursday to strengthen...

World's first ‘white ghost' leucistic Iberian lynx captured on camera: watch

World’s first ‘white ghost’ leucistic Iberian lynx captured on camera: watch In the history of wildlife conservation, an amateur Spanish photographer has captured the first-ever sight of a leucistic Iberian lynx commonly known as “white ghost”...