Category: 4. World

Night skies are lighting up with New Year’s fireworks as people across the world ring in 2026.

It takes 26 hours for the new year to be welcomed across 39 different time zones.

It all starts on Christmas Island in Kiribati, an island…

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Mamdani, the US city’s first Muslim mayor, is also the youngest person to be inaugurated in generations.

Zohran Mamdani has been…

Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as mayor of New York City soon after midnight in a private ceremony in an abandoned beaux arts subway station – a prelude to daylong celebrations set to include a second, public swearing-in and a block party outside…

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te on Thursday vowed to defend the self-ruled island’s sovereignty in the face of China’s “expansionist ambitions,” days after Beijing wrapped up live-fire military drills around the island.

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Champagne and caviar? Anyone can do it.

A massive portrait of Jesus Christ painted rapidly onstage while the president of the…

A country suffering international isolation has recognised a small territory desperate for international attention.

That’s the case with Israel and Somaliland, the breakaway Somalian province on the Horn of Africa which Israel became the first UN…