Rioters attacked a leisure centre hosting people fleeing what police called ‘racist thuggery’ in the town of Ballymena. Riots have erupted for a third consecutive night in Northern Ireland, with police condemning the violence as “racist thuggery” that erupted following an alleged sexual assault. A few dozen masked rioters in the primary flashpoint of Ballymena […]
EPA-EFE/Shutterstock At least seven people have died in a wave of bomb and gun attacks in south-western Colombia, according to local media reports. Two police officers were said to be among those killed in the attacks, which targeted Cali, the country’s third-largest city, and several nearby towns. Car bombs, motorcycle bombs, rifle fire and a […]
New York, US: Miguel Olave lives in a quiet suburb outside Wichita, Kansas, called Derby. Every year, along with his wife Alexis, Olave takes his four boys on a vacation somewhere around the United States, like Disney World or New York. This year, however, the family’s annual tradition is on pause. “We kind of decided […]
Women who tracked their menstrual cycle using smartphone apps have been warned about the privacy and safety risks of doing so. A report from the University of Cambridge’s Minderoo Centre said the apps were a “gold mine” for consumer profiling and collecting information. Academics cautioned that in the wrong hands, the data could result in […]
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to weaken a Biden-era regulation that required power plants to slash pollutants, including the emissions of mercury, a neurotoxin that impairs brain development, according to an internal agency document. Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, intends to announce the proposed changes within days, according to two people who have been briefed […]
A minibus carrying schoolchildren has been swept away by heavy flooding in South Africa, a spokesperson for the Eastern Cape provincial government has told the BBC. Khuselwa Rantjie said it was unclear how many children were on the bus, but three had so far been found alive. Rescue efforts had been suspended as night had […]
Niede Guidon, a Brazilian archaeologist whose work called into question a longstanding theory of how the Americas were first populated by humans, and who almost single-handedly transformed a hardscrabble region of northeast Brazil into the Serra da Capivara National Park, died on Wednesday at her home near the park, in São Raimundo Nonato. She was […]
Israeli forces have killed more than 70 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip since dawn, medical sources have told Al Jazeera, including hungry aid seekers, as Israel continues to relentlessly bombard the besieged enclave where the United Nations says a famine threatens the entire population. Israeli troops on Tuesday again opened fire on crowds seeking meagre […]
President Trump speaks at an event in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 2, 2025. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images North America Wall Street is getting more and more worried about the potential loss of America’s superpower status. Now its CEOs are […]
Invitations for cervical screening will be sent out every five years instead of every three for women aged 25-49 in England, if they have a negative test. Research shows they are at very low risk of cervical cancer and can safely wait longer to be screened again, NHS England has said. The roll out of […]