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
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
‘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
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
‘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
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
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
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
UK butcher shortage fuels fears for Christmas food
London – Visa restrictions could be eased for hundreds of foreign butchers, British media reported on Friday, after industry warnings... Read more
1 Oct, 2021
France extends Covid health pass rule to teens
Paris – France on Thursday began requiring teenagers 12 and older to present a Covid-19 “health pass” to enter public... Read more
30 Sep, 2021
