Friday, April 26, 2024

World

815 hit by vomiting bug at Stuttgart spring festival

A norovirus outbreak at a festival in south-west Germany has affected more than 800 people. They caught the vomiting bug in a marquee at the Stuttgart spring festival last weekend. It...

King Charles to resume public duties next week

Britain’s King Charles III will resume public duties next week following “a period of treatment and recuperation,” Buckingham Palace announced...

Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction overturned in New York

Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction in New York has been overturned, on the basis that...

Russian deputy defence minister Timur Ivanov accused of taking bribes

A Russian deputy defence minister has been accused of taking bribes and remanded in custody by a court...

Fashion designer Nancy Gonzalez jailed for smuggling crocodile handbags into US

A celebrity handbag designer whose products have been used by Britney Spears and on Sex And The City...

U.S. issues Zika travel advisory

WASHINGTON – United States health officials on Friday issued a travel warning for 14 countries and territories in the Caribbean and Latin America where...

Economic emergency declared in Venezuela

CARACAS – Venezuela’s socialist government decreed an “economic emergency” on Friday that will expand its powers and published the first data in a year...

Netflix cracking down on VPNs

VIDEO-STREAMING GIANT NETFLIX has said it is going to stop subscribers from using internet proxies to view content not available in their home countries.Due...

US, Mexico open talks on extradition of drug kingpin Guzman

WASHINGTON - The US Justice Department has begun talks with Mexican authorities about extraditing drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the United States,...

Egypt arrests Facebook page administrators ahead of revolt anniversary

CAIRO – Egyptian security forces have arrested the administrators of 47 Facebook pages that the interior ministry says are run by the outlawed Muslim...

No comment on Mugabe’s health

HARARE – Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s spokesman declined to comment on Wednesday on rumours that the 91-year-old leader had suffered a heart attack, saying...