The fiancee of a man who died on a cruise ship has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Royal Caribbean, alleging it negligently served him at least 33 alcoholic drinks and was liable for his death after crew members tackled him to the ground and stood on him with their full body weight. Connie Aguilar’s…
South Korea has lodged a complaint with the Chinese and Russian defence attaches based in the country, a day after their warplanes entered its air defence zone. Seoul said it sent up fighter jets to “take tactical measures in preparation for any emergencies” after seven Russian and two Chinese military aircraft “briefly entered” the zone…
María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who was awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, will not attend the ceremony in Oslo on Wednesday, the director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute said, adding that he did not know where she was. Machado was set to receive the award in the Norwegian capital at 1 p.m….
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The BBC blogged about it, News Corp boasted about it and the New York Times questioned its effectiveness. Australia’s world-first laws stopping children accessing social media until they turn 16 turned heads globally, with mixed and nuanced results. In the UK, the BBC ran a live blog canvassing the views of teenagers, exploring how success…
Yuna Ku,BBC Koreanand Koh Ewe Getty Images Park Na-rae, one of the country’s most successful female comedians, has now left her popular variety shows amid allegations of workplace bullying In a matter of days, three big names in South Korea’s entertainment industry have made headlines in separate scandals that could derail their careers. The allegations…
Storms battered large portions of Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, December 9, bringing “flash floods, hail, and dust-raising downdraft winds,” according to local news reports. Footage from Musab Nader Photography shows heavy rain and thunderstorms slamming the city of Jeddah, on the central western coast of the country. According to the Saudi Gazette, citing the National…
The richest 10 percent of the world’s population now owns three-quarters of all personal wealth, according to the newly released World Inequality Report 2026. Income is not much different, where the top 50 percent of earners take home more than 90 percent, while the poorest half of the world receives less than 10 percent of…
On Wednesday all England players and staff gathered on the beach to play ‘pig’ – the football game they often play in the warm-up for training and matchdays. They then moved into the town centre for a fish-and-chip lunch. The break is Noosa was planned before the Ashes series began and was arranged in conjunction…
NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Wednesday pulled up the Centre over the chaos faced by air travellers amid disruptions at IndiGo, questioning why the government failed to prevent airfares from soaring to Rs 35,000–Rs 39,000 and what immediate measures were taken to assist stranded passengers. “Why did such a situation even precipitate? What…