US President Donald Trump’s outgoing Ukraine envoy said a deal to end the Ukraine war was “really close” and now depended on resolving two main outstanding issues: the future of Ukraine’s Donbas region and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. The two main outstanding issues, Kellogg said, were on territory – primarily the future of the…
Sofia BettizaGlobal Health Reporter in Trieste, Italy BBC Esther fled Lagos in 2016 Esther was sleeping on the streets of Lagos when a woman approached her with the promise of a route out of Nigeria to a job and a home in Europe. She had dreamt of a new life, especially in the UK. Thrown…
Annabel RackhamCulture reporter Netflix On the Netflix show Selling Sunset, Chrishell Stause (right) has fallen out with Emma Hernan (left), which has started a debate about friends’ partners It’s supposed to be a TV series about Los Angeles’ biggest and most beautiful homes – but the people selling them often steal the show. And the…
Seattle – Gusty winds late Friday and early Saturday morning brought down some trees and left some without power. Winds were clocked as high as around 60 mph in some spots. Winds did relax throughout the day on Saturday, but will be picking up again next week. Gusty winds were observed Friday night and Saturday…
A full, four-minute clip from the upcoming series Star Trek: Starfleet Academy has arrived online. This is likely a reaction to the bad response people had to the poster, released late last week. The poster was criticized for resembling an episode of Dawson’s Creek, so Paramount released a full four-minute clip of a space battle….
Suranjana TewariAsia Business Correspondent, Tokyo Getty Images Around seven million people suffer from dementia in Japan Last year, more than 18,000 older people living with dementia left their homes and wandered off in Japan. Almost 500 were later found dead. Police say such cases have doubled since 2012, underscoring a growing strain on the world’s…
Getty Images Hongkongers are mourning the worst blaze the city has seen in more than 70 years Hongkongers are voting in an election seen as a test of public sentiment following a deadly fire that angered some in the city. The government has mounted a huge campaign to encourage Hongkongers to choose members of the…
Qatar Foundation A new museum in Doha is spotlighting the Indian artist’s legacy in an imaginative way At the edge of Doha, a new grey-blue building rises like a drawing on its skyline, its shimmering tiles shifting with the sun and casting geometric shadows. The building seems to be leaning forward, as if eager to…
A political source denied N12’s report, stating that Netanyahu’s meeting aimed to deal with “a group of delinquent youths who are neither part of the settlement, nor represent it.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for the evacuation of 14 illegal outposts defined as “centers of Jewish extremism and nationalist crime,” in a recent security meeting,…
Reuters The death toll in Indonesia from recent flooding has passed 900, with hundreds still missing. More than 100,000 homes were destroyed when a rare and powerful cyclone formed over the Malaca Strait last week, bringing torrential rain and landslides to parts of the South East Asian country. Efforts to reach people in areas still…