投稿者: Helen Sullivan
Taliban negotiators heading to presidential palace to prepare for transfer of power after entering outskirts of KabulTaliban poised to take control of Kabul as US evacuates embassyReport: last major Afghan city in the north falls to the TalibanAfghans …
Erin O’Toole says Canada should consider a boycott of Games amid worsening ties with China and jailing of Canadian Michael SpavorThe leader of Canada’s Conservative opposition party has warned that it may soon be too dangerous for Canadians to travel t…
Fourteen wild Asian elephants have been guided across the Yuanjiang river in Yunnan, and a path leading back to their nature reserve is being madeAfter an epic 17-month journey that made international headlines, China’s famous herd of wandering elephan…
Advisor to deposed leader, who was arrested almost three months ago, is expected to be tried in Myanmar next weekAung San Suu Kyi’s chief lawyer, Khin Maung Zaw, says that the Australian government should be doing more to secure the release of Sean Tur…
Geoff Upson says he has drawn about 100 penises around potholes in a bid to force his local council to fix themA New Zealand man who began drawing very large penises around the potholes in his home city of Auckland in 2018 in the hopes of attracting th…
The 28-year-old was allegedly caught by village guards buying water after curfew See all our coronavirus coverageA 28-year-old Philippines man has died after allegedly being forced by village guards to perform an exercise 300 times as a punishment for …
Female children are seen as an economic burden, and tough times are setting back progress by a generation, gender equality charity saysThousands of adolescent girls across south-east Asia and the Pacific are being forced to leave school and get married…
Miscalculated landing ends in undignified scrambling to get back on its feet in front of chick – and camerasAn ignoble landing by a royal albatross has been captured on cameras in New Zealand, catapulting the somersaulting bird to dubious fame.The vide…
‘Luckily, the baby fell into my lap,’ says 31-year-old in Hanoi who climbed on to a roof to get better view of dangling childA “superhero” delivery driver in Hanoi has saved a two-year-old girl who fell from a 12th-floor balcony. Nguyen Ngoc Manh, 31, …
Musical effort by former National Security Council figure Dan Kritenbrink is hailed as a ‘full assault on the art of rap’ The US ambassador to Vietnam has recorded an original rap and music video ahead of Tet, the lunar new year, risking inevitable rid…
In extraordinary footage, dancer carries out her routine while in the background a convoy of SUVs approach the parliament complexA dancer filming an exercise routine in front of Myanmar’s parliament has gained global fame after she unwittingly captured…
Biden reverses Trump’s decision to leave WHO; Germany may need to close borders, says Helge Braun; Australia again records zero casesCovid cases may have stopped falling, major English survey showsWear medical-grade masks if you can’t self-isolate, Bri…
Spain records 41,576 new cases; Italy considers legal action over Pfizer vaccine delivery delays; France warns against wearing home-made masksFrance may follow Germany in making clinical masks mandatoryVaccines may need updating to protect against new …
Germany extends lockdown to 14 February and tightens restrictions; US deaths pass 400,000; US suffers record daily deathsBiden holds memorial for 400,000 Americans who have died of Covid-19Israel warns single Covid jab ‘less effective than we thought’G…
Japan finds Covid variant in three people with no record of travel to UK; Portugal’s daily death toll reaches record high of 167WHO: just 25 Covid vaccine doses administered in low-income countriesBolsonaro rival says vaccine is ‘triumph of science aga…