The pay is nonexistent, but the perk could be viewing games in the U.S., Mexico and Canada for free during the FIFA World Cup next summer. FIFA launched the application process for the World Cup volunteers Monday. How many are needed? A staggering 65,000 across the 16 cities that will host the expanded 48-team format…
BBC Listen to Fergal read this article. He sang wistfully of the English town that shaped his life. “Found my heart and broke it here. Made friends and lost them through the years. And I’ve not seen the roaring fields in so long, I know I’ve grown. But I can’t wait to go home.” Ed…
Alejandro Millán Valencia BBC News Mundo BBC Residents of Pampa Clemesí, in southern Peru, rely on flashlights to make their way through the darkness Each morning, Rosa Chamami wakes to flames licking at cardboard scraps in a makeshift stove in her yard. The boxes she brought home once held 800,000 high-tech solar panels. Now, they…
ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email On today’s episode of CNBC Crypto World, bitcoin retakes the $120,000 level after an overnight rally, while ether jumps above $4,000 for the first time since December 2024. Plus, Chainlink partners with NYSE parent company Intercontinental Exchange to bring foreign exchange and…
Hugh Schofield Paris correspondent BBC Ali Akbar, now 72, has spent 50 years selling newspapers on the Left Bank He is France’s last newspaper hawker; maybe the last in Europe. Ali Akbar has been pounding the pavement of Paris’s Left Bank for more than 50 years, papers under the arm and on his lips the…
Many people today find it virtually impossible to accept the current political and economic state of the world—whether it’s the increasing economic disparities between haves and have nots (in 2018, the top 0.1 percent earned 196 times per year what the bottom 90 percent earned), our worsening global environment, our plummeting civility accompanying our new…
Devina Gupta BBC News, Delhi Sunjay Kapur/X Sunjay Kapur suffered a heart attack in June while playing polo in the UK An Indian tycoon’s sudden death in June has triggered a fierce inheritance battle at an Indian automotive giant. Sunjay Kapur, 53, suffered a heart attack on 12 June while playing polo in Surrey in…
Washington — Actor Tom Cruise is reportedly set to receive a Kennedy Center Honor this year, joining fellow honorees Sylvester Stallone, rock band KISS, and singer Gloria Gaynor. Donald Trump, serving as the newly appointed chairman of the Kennedy Center, said he had “turned down plenty” of potential candidates for the 2025 list due to…
Berlin — The German government has called on Israel not to proceed with its plan to construct thousands of new housing units in a settlement in the occupied West Bank. In a statement, Germany’s Foreign Ministry said such expansion violates international law and undermines prospects for a negotiated two-state solution. The ministry reiterated Berlin’s position…
