After three weeks of March Madness, the men’s basketball national championship game is here! A pair of No. 1 seeds, Houston and Florida, are the only two teams left standing. This is Houston’s third time in the title game and first since Hakeem Olajuwon led the Cougars to consecutive appearances in 1983 and 1984. The…
Singapore, city skyline and The Merlion, dusk Walter Bibikow | Stone | Getty Images Singapore declared a general election on May 3 and President Tharman Shanmugaratnam dissolved the city-state’s parliament Tuesday. The Nomination Day will be on April 23, according to the election department. Prospective candidates will file their election papers on Nomination Day, after…
Billy Ray Cyrus I’m Doing Fine, Here’s a New Album with My Son!!! Published January 24, 2025 10:25 AM PST Billy Ray Cyrus is taking the “Old Town Road” back to a studio, announcing a new album with his son — but not the one who made an emotional plea for him to get help…
The UK government borrowed more than expected in April, underscoring the challenge for Rachel Reeves to fix public services and grow the economy while meeting her fiscal rules. With the chancellor under pressure on Labour’s tax plans, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said public sector net borrowing rose to £20.2bn in April, £1bn more…
The body of a woman has been found in a property on the outskirts of Norwich after a house fire, police said. Officers were called to assist the fire service at 4.22am on Boxing Day after reports of the blaze at a residential property to the north of the East Anglia city. Police attended the…
Philadelphia Plane Crash All 6 Aboard Confirmed Killed … All Mexican Nationals Published February 1, 2025 8:56 AM PST All six people aboard a medical ambulance plane that crashed shortly after takeoff Friday in Philadelphia were killed … a grim confirmation from Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, who says aboard were all nationals. In a…
Workers producing pure electric vehicles at a Volkswagen (Anhui) workshop in Hefei, China, on Sept. 25, 2024. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images Beijing will avoid escalation of its dispute with the European Union over tariffs on its electric vehicles, industry watchers said, a day after China again approached the World Trade Organization for…
Labor has confirmed university fees will be set using advice from its proposed Australian Tertiary Education Commission, as it ramps up attacks on the Coalition for opposing Help debt cuts. The Albanese government’s plan to cut all Help debts by 20% and to lift the repayment threshold has drawn criticism from the opposition, students and…
The SEC filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk on Tuesday, alleging the billionaire committed securities fraud in 2022 by failing to disclose he had an accumulated an active stake in Twitter, a secrecy that allowed him to buy shares at “artificially low prices.” Musk, who is also CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, purchased Twitter for…
Ethiopia’s main opposition party has called for the African Union to mediate with the federal government after the electoral board revoked its legal status as a party. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) said the move to ban it from any political activity was “dangerous” and posed a “serious threat” to the 2022 deal that…
