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Spain plunged into darkness as rare total solar eclipse sweeps across country
BURGOS (Spain), Aug 13 — Day briefly turned to night in Spain on Wednesday, as the country witnessed its first total solar eclipse in more than a century, plunging it into eerie darkness in one of nature’s greatest spectacles. The
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Boeing ordered to pay US$29m to family of 737 MAX crash victim
NEW YORK, Aug 13 — A Chicago jury awarded US$29 million (RM118.5 million) in damages to the family of an Irish-born United Nations employee who died in a 2019 Boeing 737 MAX crash, a US court spokesman said Wednesday. The
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Lebanon blasts Israel over ‘systematic destruction’ of homes, infrastructure in south
BEIRUT, Aug 13 — Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam on Wednesday condemned Israel’s “systematic destruction” in the country’s south as a violation of international law, as Israel’s defence minister said its military was “destroying all the houses” there. Salam said
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Colombian rescuers pull woman alive from quake rubble as death toll hits 216
PEREIRA, Aug 12 — Colombian rescuers pulled a 32-year-old woman alive from the rubble of a collapsed building yesterday, sparking cheers and applause as exhausted crews raced to find more survivors from the country’s strongest earthquake in a century. Daniela
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Air India pilot reportedly fails second drug test after mid-air plunge incident
NEW DELHI, Aug 12 — Indian investigators are examining evidence linked to an Air India flight that plunged sharply mid-air last week, authorities said yesterday as local media reported the pilot had tested positive for marijuana. The Airbus A320 carrying 137
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Controversial Covid excess deaths study retracted after criticism over vaccine misinformation
PARIS, Aug 12 — A controversial study analysing excess deaths during the Covid pandemic, which was widely criticised for lending credence to vaccine scepticism, has been retracted, the British journal’s publisher announced today. The study, published in the journal BMJ
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North Korea fires ballistic missile towards Japan ahead of US-South Korea drills
SEOUL, Aug 12 — North Korea fired a ballistic missile off its east coast towards Japan early today, Seoul’s military said, just days before the planned start of massive US-South Korea joint drills. “Our military detected at around 6am a ballistic
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Airbus sends experts to India to assist probe into Air India flight’s sudden plunge
NEW DELHI, Aug 11 — Airbus is sending experts to New Delhi today to assist investigators probing an Air India flight that plunged dramatically, injuring 17 in terrifying mid-air ordeal, the company said. The probe into the flight comes as “confirmatory”
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Australia to vaccinate birds against H5 avian influenza
SYDNEY, Aug 11 — Australian authorities said today they would vaccinate bird species deemed to be especially vulnerable to the highly contagious H5 bird flu virus. The country was for years the only continental landmass free of the H5 strain,
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Russia bars only anti-war party from elections
MOSCOW, Aug 11 — Russia’s Supreme Court yesterday barred the country’s only anti-war party, Yabloko, from contesting September’s parliamentary elections. The court thereby upheld a suit brought by a pro-Kremlin nationalist party, stripping voters opposed to the four-and-a-half-year war in
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