Newspapers around the world on Friday covered the election of a new pope, Robert Francis Prevost, who took the name Leo XIV, with big photos, plays on words and nods to his nationalities. Pope Leo XIV, who was born in Chicago, made history as the first North American pope, and plenty of tabloids and broadsheets…
The article of which he was most proud was “The Woman Who Beat the Klan,” published in The Times Magazine in 1987, about Beulah Mae Donald, who sued the Ku Klux Klan for the 1981 murder of her son — he was hanged from a tree, with his throat slit, and no one was charged…
NEW DELHI: The Assam government on Sunday announced that single fathers working in state government departments will now be eligible for child care leave. Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma shared this decision through a post on X. “Sometimes life may take unexpected turns, and a man may have to be the sole caregiver for a…
Rachin Ravindra (Screengrab) NEW DELHI: During the first One Day International (ODI) cricket match against Pakistan on Saturday, New Zealand’s player Rachin Ravindra experienced a distressing incident where he was hit in the head by a cricket ball. The 25-year-old was positioned at deep square leg when the accident occurred, seemingly having difficulty tracking the…
A stream in a suburb of Buenos Aires, the Argentine capital, turned bright red this week, prompting residents to express concern that industrial chemicals could be to blame. Residents of Sarandí, about six miles south of the capital, told local news outlets that chemicals from several factories and tanneries in the area could have changed…