Voting is under way in Namibia in what could be the most competitive election since independence from white-ruled South Africa 34 years ago. Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah is seeking to become the country’s first female president. She is the candidate of the governing South West Africa’s People’s Organisation (Swapo), to replace Hage Geingob, who died in February…
Jagtar ‘Jay’ Chaudhry Indian American serial entrepreneur Jagtar ‘Jay’ Chaudhry, CEO of cloud security firm ZScaler; and his wife P. Jyoti Chaudhry, have established the Chaudhry Family Scholarship Fund with a $4 million gift to the University of Cincinnati. It will support first-generation, Pell-eligible students (students with exceptional financial need), in UC’s Gen-11MPACT House, a…
William Hague (Picture credit: X) LONDON: William Hague, a former leader of the Conservative Party and foreign minister, was elected on Wednesday as the next chancellor of the University of Oxford, a largely ceremonial role which dates back centuries. Hague was named as successor to Chris Patten, Britain’s last governor of Hong Kong and a…
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are resolute about staying in their California residence and are ready to contest any attempts at deportation battle with US-elect President Donald Trump.Sources indicate that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have established strong roots in California and intend to maintain their residence there, regardless of potential expulsion threats from…
Sydney, Australia — A police officer who shocked a 95-year-old nursing home resident with a Taser was found guilty of manslaughter in an Australian court Wednesday. A jury found Kristian James Samuel White guilty in the trial in Sydney after 20 hours of deliberation. White, who is on bail, could get up to 25 years in…
As of 2023, 43 percent of Africa‘s population – about 600 million people – lacks access to electricity. If no action is taken, this percentage may worsen over the next few decades, as the continent’s population is forecast to grow, by 2050, to at least 2.4 billion and to continue to rise to 4.2 billion,…
EPA Billing Aquadrome has been flooded four times this year alone As rain battered the windows on Sunday night, it became clear to residents in Northamptonshire that widespread flooding would be happening again – just weeks after the county got a soaking in September. The aftermath of Storm Bert has seen a major incident being…
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A humpback whale made an unexpected appearance beneath the Brooklyn Bridge on Monday, marking the first sighting of this species in the East River since 2022.“It’s much, much more common to see them in the ocean along the coastline. We have only had rare cases of them moving into the river, but it does happen,”…
Officials from Canada, Mexico and China have warned US President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to impose sweeping tariffs on America’s three largest trading partners could upend the economies of all four countries. “To one tariff will follow another in response and so on, until we put our common businesses at risk,” Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum said….
