PUBLISHED November 16, 2025 In 2012, Sanya* joined an institute to learn MS Office. When the teacher was delivering a lecture, she noticed the girl sitting next to her was writing furiously. Her pen danced across the page like an Olympic sprinter on the track. “Wow, such fast English shorthand!” she thought. Later, curious to…
PUBLISHED November 16, 2025 US President Donald Trump’s decision to restart US nuclear weapons testing, after a three-decade hiatus, has left allies anxious, adversaries alert and arms-control experts warning that even a hint of renewed testing could unravel a decades-old global taboo. Announced via a Truth Social post, Trump claimed he had instructed the rechristened…
Powerful explosions tore through an industrial estate near Argentina’s capital on Friday, sparking a huge blaze and injuring more than 20 people. Thick billows of black smoke rose hundreds of metres into the night sky, illuminated orange from the massive blaze, observed Agence France-Presse reporters near the site, which is close to the country’s busiest…
A total of 69 schools in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) will be forced to close on Monday after coloured play sand was recalled due to asbestos risk, the government has said. A recall for the products, which were found to have traces of asbestos in some samples, was issued by Kmart and Target on…
PUBLISHED November 16, 2025 I never had a chance to meet Dr Arfa Sayeda Zehra in person, yet I have always felt a deep and personal connection with her. It was in the early 1980s, during my years at the Oriental College, Punjab University—where I was pursuing my master’s in Urdu Literature—that I first heard…
PUBLISHED November 16, 2025 ISLAMABAD: After the collapse of Istanbul dialogue and two terror attacks on its soil originating from Afghanistan, Pakistan’s any likely decision to simultaneously exercise the options of blocking across the border human and trade movement and flexing security muscles can compound Kabul’s woes and build internal pressure on the regime to…
Food ministry requests creation of special purpose vehicle to manage commodity’s stocks “However, the food department ignored these requests,” he said. According to Rehman, he sold the wheat stock to districts and sent the amount of Rs500 million collected back to food department. PHOTO: REUTERS ISLAMABAD: The country’s economic managers have rejected the establishment of…
Georgina RannardClimate and science reporter, Belém, Brazil Getty Images Açaí is a popular health food sold around the world In a lab in a renovated warehouse on the banks of a churning, brown river in Belém, Brazil, machines are pulping candidates for the next global “superfood”. Cupuaçu… Taperebá… Bacaba… Like açai berries – these strange…
Pound-for-pound supremacy was on the line in men’s and women’s MMA at UFC 322 inside New York’s Madison Square Garden. Former lightweight titleholder Islam Makhachev is now the new welterweight champion after he thoroughly dominated the incumbent, Jack Della Maddalena, in the main event, cementing himself as the unquestioned best-of-the-best. And in the co-main event,…
Saturday Night Live‘s cold open kicked off with reporters hounding a faux Karoline Leavitt and President Donald Trump about the Epstein files. Ashley Padilla portrayed Leavitt at the White House press briefing while James Austin Johnson returned to his usual post as Trump, where the two took questions from journalists surrounding the topic, specifically in…
