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Former Spanish national football star Gerard Pique has revealed his new love interest since his breakup with songbird Shakira in June last year. The ex-Barcelona player took to his Instagram recently to show off his new girlfriend, 23-year-old Claria Chia Marti. In the captionless post, Pique shared a snippet of him cosying up next to […]

Vaccine skeptics blocking transfusions for life-saving surgeries, Facebook groups inciting violence against doctors and a global search for unvaccinated donors – Covid-19 misinformation has bred a so-called “pure blood” movement. The movement spins anti-vaccine narratives focused on unfounded claims that receiving blood from people inoculated against the coronavirus “contaminates” the body. Pure blood? Some have […]

LONDON, United Kingdom – Conservationists at a UK zoo have captured the moment a rare tree kangaroo popped out of its mother’s pouch for the first time, part of research aimed at helping the endangered species survive in the wild. The elusive Goodfellow’s tree kangaroo is much smaller than the better known Australian kangaroo species. […]

SPRINGFIELD, United States – President Joe Biden said Thursday he will veto any Republican legislation that threatens to sow “chaos” in the US economy. “I will not let it happen. Not on my watch. I will veto everything,” he said in a speech laying out his economic vision at a Virginia pipe fitters union hall. […]

TOKYO, Japan – The specks are tiny. No, really tiny. Smaller than the diameter of a hair. But they hold billions of years of history that reveal some of the secrets of asteroids. The three minute particles from an asteroid called Itokawa show some of these space rocks are vastly older than was thought, and […]

Schiaparelli’s spring 2023 couture collection was something else but the internet is not loving its faux animal head sculptures. In Dante Alighieri’s 14th-century epic poem “The Divine Comedy,” narrator Dante got to discover the Nine Circles of Hell through a journey with Roman poet Virgil guiding him. But before making it to the Inferno, he […]

MONTEREY PARK, United States – The “Year of the Rabbit” began in horror on Sunday for the inhabitants of Monterey Park, the largely Asian American suburb of Los Angeles where a mass shooting left 10 people dead. In this city of 60,000 people, red lanterns and banners in Chinese characters celebrating the Lunar New Year […]

Riding on the tide of layoff, many companies have downsized their workforce in recent times. All top companies including Amazon, Google and Facebook has undertaken mass layoff as they struggle to maintain the demand which got inflated during Covid. Laid-off employees are taking to social media platforms to express their experience and in search of […]

DAVOS, Switzerland – While calling for an end to the global energy crisis, participants at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023 also saw the crisis as an opportunity to accelerate the world’s transition toward clean energy. Adam Tooze, director of the European Institute at Columbia University, said he believes that the transition toward cleaner […]

Perhaps the first thing that strikes you about Prince Harry’s Spare is the way it’s written but it is at times intriguing and mortifying. The style is taut, tense, and staccato. Like a thriller. It’s, therefore, riveting to read. But the language lacks depth, and when the content flags, which it occasionally does when he’s […]

Just like comedy, satire is a genre that walks such a tightrope that even the slightest miscalculation, especially in terms of tone, can result in what was a perfectly good film turning bad in the blink of an eye. Because satire involves targets, tone and tastefulness play a major part in its recipe for success, […]

Former Australia captain Michael Clarke could be in danger of losing out on a lucrative commentary deal for the India vs Australia Border-Gavaskar Trophy after a video of his wild altercation with girlfriend went viral on social media. Clarke, Australia’s 2015 World Cup-winning captain, was involved in a heated debate with his girlfriend Jade Yarbrough […]

LONDON, United Kingdom – London’s police force, reeling this week from the exposure of a serial rapist in its ranks, said Thursday that two retired officers had been charged with child sex offences. The child sex crimes charges came after another Metropolitan Police officer, still serving as a chief inspector, was found dead a week […]

SAN FRANCISCO, United States – US streaming giant Netflix on Thursday said it ended last year with more than 230 million global subscribers, beating analysts’ expectations as hits such as “Wednesday” and “Harry & Meghan” enticed new viewers. “2022 was a tough year, with a bumpy start but a brighter finish,” the company said in […]

BARCELONA, Spain – A Spanish woman, a great-grandmother who was born in the United States has likely become the world’s oldest living person at 115, a Guinness World Records consultant said Wednesday. Maria Branyas Morera is believed to have assumed the title following the death on Tuesday of French nun Lucile Randon aged 118, senior […]