A bruised Elon Musk drew attention during a White House appearance on Friday, prompting curiosity and questions from reporters about his visibly blackened right eye. Musk, appearing alongside former President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, humorously revealed that the injury came from a playful moment with his 5-year-old son, X. “We were horsing around,…
Follow live updates on Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff. Months before Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost became the first American pope, a social media account under his name expressed criticism of Vice President JD Vance, sharing an article that called the vice president’s interpretation of Christian doctrine “wrong.” The piece, published in The National…
White smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel on Thursday and the bells of St. Peter’s rang out, signalling that cardinals have elected a new pope to succeed Pope Francis and take charge of the Roman Catholic Church. The election came on the first full day of voting by the 133 cardinal electors, who secluded themselves…
As Election Day in Canada looms on Monday, support for the two major parties has started to converge in the polls, yet the race appears to remain the Liberal Party’s to lose. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party now leads the Conservative Party 42 percent to 39 percent on average, according to the CBC’s poll…
Priyanka Gandhi accompanied Robert Vadra to the ED office NEW DELHI: Businessman Robert Vadra appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Delhi for the third straight day on Thursday. Vadra was accompanied by his wife and Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi. The third summons issued follows a money laundering probe linked to a 2008 land deal…
An American woman detained in Afghanistan has been released by the Taliban, according to a social media post on Saturday by a former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq, just days after the United States removed multimillion-dollar bounties from the heads of three senior Taliban officials. Faye Hall, the released American citizen, was pictured sitting…
Poster outside Rabri Devi’s residence (ANI) NEW DELHI: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, facing a “boycott” by Muslim groups for supporting the central government’s Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, was targeted in a poster put up outside the residence of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader and Bihar’s former chief minister, Rabri Devi. The poster, put up…
In a scenario once considered unthinkable for a head of state who presided over the public and brutal killings of thousands of civilians, Rodrigo Duterte, the former president of the Philippines, appeared at an International Criminal Court hearing via a video link on Friday. Mr. Duterte’s arrest this week on charges of crimes against humanity,…
BSP supremo Mayawati’s key decisions, like snapping the alliance with SP immediately after 2019 Lok Sabha results, triggered speculation that extraneous factors like govt pressure over her legal woes were dictating her moves NEW DELHI: The expulsion of heir apparent Akash Anand from BSP, after having been appointed and sacked as the party face twice…
Germans voted for a change of leadership on Sunday, handing the most votes in a parliamentary election to centrist conservatives, with the far right in second, and rebuking the nation’s left-leaning government for its handling of the economy and immigration. Early returns and exit polls almost certainly mean the country’s next chancellor will be Friedrich…