Thursday, March 28, 2024

World

Disgraced ‘Crypto King’ to be sentenced

Sam Bankman-Fried, the former billionaire crypto boss who was convicted of fraud and money laundering last year, will return to court in New York on Thursday to be sentenced...

Gayle and T20 trophy ‘on top of the world’!

Former West Indies cricketer Chris Gayle lit up the iconic Empire State Building in New York recently as...

Joe Lieberman, former vice presidential candidate, dies at 82

Former US Senator and vice-presidential candidate Joe Lieberman has died at 82. The cause was complications from a fall,...

Haiti: US guns pour into Port-au-Prince, fuelling surge in violence

Haiti is a state out of action. More than two weeks after the country's prime minister resigned, following a...

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ lawyer says rapper is innocent, calls home raids ‘a witch hunt’

A lawyer for Sean "Diddy" Combs is speaking out a day after the rapper's homes were searched by U.S. Homeland Security,...

UN launches Syria peace talks as opposition ends boycott

GENEVA/BEIRUT – The main Syrian opposition grouping agreed to attend United Nations-sponsored peace talks which began in Geneva on Friday, reversing a boycott that...

Developer: Zika vaccine may be ready for emergency use this year

WINNIPEG, MANITOBA – A vaccine for the Zika virus, which has been linked to severe birth defects in thousands of infants, could be ready...

Trump overshadows Republican debate even as he sits it out

DES MOINES, IOWA – Even in boycotting a debate with his Republican rivals, front-runner Donald Trump managed to upstage the event on Thursday with a...

Caught off-guard by Zika, Brazil struggles with deformed babies

RECIFE, BRAZIL – Angela Rocha, a paediatrician in north-eastern Brazil, measures the head of a child born with microcephaly, a tragic neurological complication linked...

Sudan opens border with South Sudan for first time since 2011 secession

KHARTOUM – Sudan President Omar Hassan al-Bashir ordered the opening of his country's border with South Sudan for the first time since the south's...

Virginia resident tests positive for Zika after trip

WASHINGTON – A Virginia resident who travelled outside the United States has tested positive for the mosquito-transmitted Zika virus, state health officials said on...