The Department of Justice is photographed on June 8, 2023. The department has brought a suit against Virginia election officials that accuses the state of striking names from voter rolls in violation of U.S. law. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP/AP hide caption toggle caption Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP/AP RICHMOND, Va. — The U.S. Department of Justice filed a […]
Sport360X & Sports Mania tipped-off the 2024/25 edition of Dubai Open for Basketball Academies – DOBA; the ultimate youth basketball league that gathers UAE basketball academies. This championship is under the supervision of Dubai Sports Council and UAE Basketball Association. DOBA is divided into two sub-leagues: Division 1 & Division 2 for Boys and Girls […]
DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Nihon Hidankyo, the Japanese atomic bomb survivors group, has won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize “for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons”. The group received the honour “for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again,” said Jorgen Watne Frydnes, the chair of the […]
Getty Images Elon Musk wants his new rocket to revolutionise spaceflight. And that rocket, Starship, is now the largest and most powerful spacecraft ever built. It’s also designed to be fully and rapidly reusable. His private company SpaceX, which is behind the creation, is hoping to develop a spaceship that can be used more like […]
The government is investigating 37 UK-linked businesses for potentially breaking Russian oil sanctions – but no fines have been handed out so far, the BBC can reveal. Financial sanctions on Russia were introduced by the UK and other Western countries following the invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Conservative shadow foreign office minister Dame Harriett Baldwin […]
Ethel Kennedy poses for a portrait during the 2012 Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 22, 2012, in Park City, Utah. The Kennedy matriarch died Thursday at age 96. Victoria Will/AP hide caption toggle caption Victoria Will/AP BOSTON, Mass. — Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy who raised their 11 children after he […]
PRAGUE — The NHL opened its regular season in Prague last week with two Global Series games between the Buffalo Sabres and New Jersey Devils. Czech hockey legends were prominently featured. Jaromir Jagr dropped the ceremonial first puck ahead of the game on Friday. Patrik Eliáš, the Devils’ all-time leading scorer, was around the team […]
Getty Images Millions of people will be able to get statutory sick pay from the first day they are ill and claim unpaid parental leave from day one, under a planned overhaul of workers’ rights. However, certain measures in the Employment Rights Bill have been criticised for being watered down or delayed. Most of the […]
UK pharmaceutical giant GSK says it will pay as much as $2.2bn (£1.68bn) to settle thousands of cases in US courts over claims that a discontinued version of its heartburn drug Zantac caused cancer. The firm announced that it had reached agreements with 10 law firms who represent around 80,000 claimants. The settlements account for […]
New Delhi, India – When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was inaugurating a controversial Hindu temple in the northern city of Ayodhya on January 22 this year, J*, a student living hundreds of miles away in the southern state of Kerala was about to post his take on the event on Instagram. “Remains of Indian […]