By Suranjana Tewari When India’s Tata Group bought the country’s national airline, it was welcomed as something of a miracle. Air India had been mired in debt and under-funded state management for decades. No-one wanted even a piece of the iconic but loss-making carrier. But a deal was struck in 2021, just as the world […]
By Priti Gupta Refining gold has a long history in the family of Satish Pratap Salunke. Following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, he and his business collect scrap gold from jewellers, melt it down and sell it back to the jewellers in the form of gold bars. He has two refineries, one […]
By Kayla Epstein Officer Jonathan Diller died after the occupant of an illegally parked car opened fire on him. “We have to stop it. We have to get back to law and order,” Mr Trump said outside the Long Island funeral home, after meeting the Diller family. He has sought to make crime a key […]
By Ido Vock A Russian-backed “propaganda” network has been broken up for spreading anti-Ukraine stories and paying unnamed European politicians, according to authorities in several countries. Investigators claimed it used the popular Voice of Europe website as a vehicle to pay politicians. The Czech Republic and Poland said the network aimed to influence European elections. […]
By Phelan Chatterjee Forty-five people have died in South Africa after the bus they were in plunged some 50m (165ft) off a bridge into a ravine, authorities say. An eight-year-old girl, the only survivor, was taken to hospital with serious injuries. The bus crashed through a barrier and caught fire when it hit the ground […]
By Damien McGuinness “Sausage Dogs to be banned in Germany,” screamed headlines in the UK this week. Germany’s biggest-selling newspaper Bild went full circle, fascinated by the panic: “Brits Fear for the German Sausage Dog.” The story arose from the German Kennels Association (VDH), which has launched a petition against a draft law that aims […]
By Vanessa Buschschlüter A new report by the UN describes the “outrageous practices” used by gangs in Haiti to brutalise, punish and control the civilian population. It says that the gangs, which are estimated to control more than 80% of the capital, Port-au-Prince, recruit and abuse children, sometimes killing those who try to escape. UN […]
By Bernd Debusmann, travelling with President Biden, & Brandon Drenon, Washington DC US President Joe Biden hosted a record-breaking election fundraiser in New York City, alongside his predecessors Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. His team said the star-studded evening at Radio City Music Hall would raise over $25m (£20m) for the campaign – a record […]
By Mark Savage When Beyoncé turned up to the Grammys in a cowboy hat, we should have known that something was afoot. A week later, she officially announced her country era – dropping two surprise singles in the middle of the Super Bowl. One of them, the banjo-riffic Texas Hold ‘Em, became the star’s biggest […]
That is very slightly slowing the Earth’s rotation. But the planet is still spinning faster than it used to. The effect is that global timekeepers may need to subtract a second from our clocks later than would otherwise have been the case. “Global warming is already affecting global timekeeping,” says the study, published in the […]