At least 200 soldiers are being held hostage by armed supporters of Bolivia’s former president Evo Morales, the foreign ministry has said. On Friday, Bolivia’s military reported that the armed group had taken control of a military facility near the Bolivian city of Cochabamba. In an update Bolivia’s foreign ministry said the group had “seized…
Getty Images Three years ago, the DNA-testing firm 23andMe was a massive success, with a share price higher than Apple’s. But, from those heady days of millions of people rushing to send it saliva samples in return for detailed reports about their ancestry, family connections and genetic make-up, it now finds itself fighting for its…
BBC Students like Ali, Anna K, Anna and Marie (clockwise from top left) are divided about staying in the town Kalundborg, a town of just 16,000 people on the Danish coast about an hour’s drive from Copenhagen, is as close as you might get to a modern-day gold rush town. It’s the main production centre…
DANIEL MIHAILESCU/AFP Although Maia Sandu was well ahead after the first round, her rival has the support of several other candidates Moldovans are going to the polls in the second round run-off of a presidential election seen as a choice between a European future or a return to Russian influence. Pro-European President Maia Sandu faces…
A polio vaccination campaign in north Gaza is expected to resume on Sunday, a day after the UN’s children’s agency, Unicef, said three children were injured in an attack “in the proximity” of a clinic. The agency did not say who was responsible but an official from Gaza’s civil defence agency told AFP news agency…
BEIJING, – China, which has been releasing a slew of measures to bolster its sagging population levels, recorded a drop in marriage registrations for the first nine months of 2024, according to official data from Ministry of Civil Affairs. Marriage registrations in China drop for the first nine months of 2024 For the first three…
A student who was suspended after he sprayed a foul-smelling substance during a campus demonstration in Columbia University has been awarded nearly $400,000 ( ₹3.3 crore) as settlement from the Ivy league college. The Israeli student who carried out the attack during a protest in support of Palestine this year was suspended from January to…
Elon Musk on Friday continued with his self-campaign, saying that if Donald Trump wins the presidency, he wants, for instance, ex-congressman from Texas Ron Paul to work on the Department of Government Efficiency, a department Musk would like to head. “Would be great to have Ron Paul as part of the Department of Government Efficiency!”…
Peanut the Squirrel, a well-known figure on social media, was put to death after being confiscated by the state of New York earlier this week, stated the Department of Environmental Conservation. P’NUT, who spent seven years living with Longo, garnered fame for his amusing antics. He was frequently spotted devouring waffles while sporting crocheted bunny…
An old audio clip from 2010 of former US President Donald Trump and radio host Howard Stern has recently resurfaced just days before this year’s presidential election. Trump is already facing severe backlash over calling Rep.Liz Cheney a “radical war hawk,” “very dumb,” a “stupid person” and “the moron.” Former US President Donald Trump during…
