World On a boat, elderly couple find safe haven from Canaries volcano Tazacorte – Fleeing their home after the La Palma volcano erupted on September 19, one couple married nearly 60... Read more 6 Oct, 2021
World Pope expresses ‘shame’ at French sex abuse scandal Vatican City – Pope Francis on Wednesday expressed his personal shame and that of the Church at the sexual... Read more 6 Oct, 2021
World US jury orders Tesla to pay ex-employee $137m over racism San Francisco – A jury in California on Monday ordered Tesla to pay a Black former employee $137 million in... Read more 5 Oct, 2021
World Some girls return to school as Taliban seeks to manage image Kabul – Girls have returned to some secondary schools in a northern province of Afghanistan, Taliban officials and teachers said... Read more 5 Oct, 2021
World ‘Massive’ child sex abuse in French Catholic Church, inquiry finds Paris – French Catholic clergy sexually abused some 216 000 minors in the seven decades since 1950, a “massive phenomenon”... Read more 5 Oct, 2021
Technology Facebook blames major outage on router work San Francisco – Facebook late omn Monday blamed a major outage across its platforms on configuration changes it made... Read more 5 Oct, 2021
World ‘Pandora Papers’ expose leaders’ offshore millions New York – More than a dozen heads of state and government, from Jordan to Azerbaijan, Kenya and the... Read more 4 Oct, 2021
World Prophet Mohammed cartoonist dies in car crash Stockholm – Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, who lived under police protection after his 2007 depiction of the Prophet Mohammed... Read more 4 Oct, 2021
World Lithuanian doctors find kilo of screws and nails in man’s stomach Vilnius – Doctors in Lithuania said on Friday they had removed over a kilogramme of nails and screws from... Read more 2 Oct, 2021
World Exiled ex-president Saakashvili says back in Georgia Tbilisi – Ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili said on Friday he had returned from exile to Georgia, despite the threat of... Read more 1 Oct, 2021