At the end of January, the keepers of the Doomsday Clock announced that the world was 89 seconds to midnight, a metaphor for our proximity to extinction. That’s one second closer than we were for the past two years, and the nearest the clock has ever inched to global destruction by way of human-made risks,…
Greg Bell (Photo Credit: X) NEW DELHI: Greg Bell, the 1956 Olympic long jump champion, passed away on January 25 at the age of 94. World Athletics paid tribute to Bell, who was the oldest living Olympic gold medallist in athletics.Bell was a dominant figure in the men’s long jump during the 1950s. His personal…
In a shocking twist that sounds like a bizarre plot from a graphic novel, Darrin Lawrence Bell—the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist famed for his witty works Candorville and Rudy Park—has landed himself in hot water. The 49-year-old, known for his biting political commentary and bold humor, was arrested on charges of possessing child sexual abuse material…
President-elect Donald Trump rang the opening bell Thursday at the New York Stock Exchange after being recognised for the second time by Time magazine as its person of the year. The honours for the businessman-turned-politician are a measure of Trump’s remarkable comeback from an ostracised former president who refused to accept his election loss four…