London: London has topped a definitive ranking of the World’s Best Cities 2025 released on Wednesday for the tenth year in a row, followed closely by New York and Paris, even as Indian cities failed to make the cut based on the criteria of perception and performance. The annual rankings produced by Resonance Consultancy in…
London: UK claimants on Wednesday announced legal action against US pharmaceutical and cosmetics giant Johnson & Johnson, alleging that women diagnosed with cancers were exposed to asbestos in the company’s talcum powder. J&J risks UK court action for the first time over the allegations, having faced a series of similar lawsuits in North America. KP…
United Nations: The United States on Wednesday vetoed a UN Security Council push to call for a ceasefire in Gaza that Washington said would have emboldened Hamas. The resolution demanded “an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire” in the war between Israel and the Palestinian group, along with “the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages.”…
Ukraine’s armed forces fired British cruise missiles at military targets inside Russia for the first time, a Western official familiar with the matter said, as the 1,000-day conflict enters a new phase. The UK approved the use of Storm Shadow missiles in response to Russia deploying North Korean troops in its war against Ukraine, a…
Vienna: UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said Wednesday that the agency did not consider Iran’s Parchin site “a nuclear facility” after Israel claimed it hit Tehran’s nuclear programme in a strike last month. “We don’t have any information that would confirm (the) presence of nuclear material” in Parchin, even though the site “could have…
Washington DC: Alphabet Inc.’s Google might have to sell Chrome, the world’s most widely used browser. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) reportedly wants the court to order Alphabet Inc. to sell off the browser to dismantle the monopoly Google has over the internet search market and related advertising. Google, meanwhile, said that if it…
China is trying to improve ties with India in an attempt to ease pressure from the incoming Trump administration, the head of a top India-centric US business advocacy and strategic group said on Tuesday. During his presidential election campaign, Trump proposed a 60 per cent tariff on goods from China — and a tariff of…
Titled “Basic Principles of State Policy on Nuclear Deterrence”, Vladimir Putin approved changes to the nuclear doctrine on Tuesday, chilling rules by which the country would now use its atomic arsenal. The big change in the doctrine now says that an attack from a non-nuclear state backed by a nuclear state will be viewed by…
The US president-elect, Donald Trump, recently appointed tech billionaire Elon Musk and biotech investor Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the new DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) in his second administration. On their selection, Trump said that the “two wonderful Americans” shall “dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies” through the…
The Egyptian pyramids, iconic ancient masonry structures, have long fascinated people with their immense size and intricate design. For centuries, the question “How did the Egyptians build the pyramids?” has remained one of history’s greatest unsolved mysteries. Now, Rajan Hooda, an Indian-origin researcher from the University of Chicago, claims to have cracked the code behind…
