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Friday | 12nd December 2025 Brisbane, Australia — Fourteen-year-old cheerleader Lucy Brooks briefly lost contact with several of her friends on Snapchat when Australia’s new under-16 social media ban came into force on Wednesday. For a moment, she feared the ban had permanently cut off a core part of teenage communication. But within 24 hours,

Tuesday | 2nd December 2025 Hong Kong — The leader of Hong Kong has vowed to ensure that “justice is served” following a catastrophic inferno that killed more than 150 people last week, as mounting evidence points to alleged negligence by construction firms that used substandard materials on scaffolding surrounding the stricken buildings. The blaze

Sunday | 23rd November 2025 This year, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz pledged to build Europe’s strongest army – a bold and politically risky promise for a country whose armed forces have endured decades of chronic underinvestment, equipment shortages, and reputation problems. The coalition government now hopes that a sweeping new military service bill, agreed upon

Thursday | 13rd November 2025 The much-heralded peace declaration brokered by US President Donald Trump between Thailand and Cambodia appears to be unraveling, as fresh clashes erupted along their disputed border on Wednesday. Both countries traded accusations of opening fire, in skirmishes that left at least one person dead and several others injured. The violence

November 6, 2025 Democrats celebrated a sweeping set of victories on Wednesday, marking their first major electoral success since Donald Trump returned to the White House—a crucial morale boost for a party that has spent much of the past year reeling from defeat and struggling to redefine its identity. Across several key states, a new

Thursday | 23rd October 2025 Seoul, South Korea — South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has reaffirmed his country’s strong alliance with the United States, praising U.S. President Donald Trump as a potential “peacemaker” for the Korean Peninsula and brushing aside recent trade and immigration tensions between the two allies. In a wide-ranging interview with

Monday | October 6, 2025 Kathmandu, Nepal (AP) — Landslides, lightning strikes, and flash floods triggered by days of relentless monsoon rainfall killed at least 44 people across Nepal on Sunday, with several others still missing, authorities said, as emergency workers battled blocked roads and washed-out bridges to reach devastated mountain villages. The National Disaster

Thursday | 18th September 2025 Israel’s culture minister has ignited a fierce controversy after vowing to strip funding from the country’s film academy and its prestigious annual awards show, following the success of a Palestinian-themed film that captured Israel’s top cinematic honor. On Tuesday night in Tel Aviv, the Israeli Academy of Film and Television

Wednesday | 3rd September 2025 The huge military parade through central Beijing on Wednesday was a carefully orchestrated and deliberately fearsome display of weaponry, aimed not only at impressing domestic audiences but also at sending a calculated message to the world. China wanted to make it unmistakably clear that President Xi Jinping’s vision of a

Tuesday | 19th August 2025 Donald Trump has revealed he is preparing arrangements for a direct meeting between Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin, following what he described as “very good” talks at the White House with the Ukrainian president and several European leaders. British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, and NATO