LONDON: The Labour Party has won the election in the UK, bringing to an end the 14-year-long rule of the Conservatives, it emerged as counting of votes still continued. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak accepted defeat after results showed his party losing while Keir Starmer is set to become Britain’s next prime minister, according to exit
OTTAWA: The prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, has appointed Lt Gen Jennie Carignan as the chief of the defense staff. This is for the first time in the history of Canada that a woman has been posted to the top position of the armed forces. Gen Carignan will take charge of the office on
NEW YORK: Donald Trump became the first U.S. president to be convicted of a crime when a New York jury found him guilty of falsifying documents to cover up a payment to silence a porn star ahead of the 2016 election. After two days of deliberation, the 12-member jury pronounced Trump guilty on all 34
SYDNEY (Reuters): More than 300 people and over 1,100 houses were buried by a massive landslide that levelled a remote village in northern Papua New Guinea, local media reported on Saturday. Hundreds are feared dead in the landslide that hit Kaokalam village in Enga Province, about 600 km (370 miles) northwest of capital Port Moresby,
SINGAPORE (Reuters): More than 140 passengers and crew from a Singapore Airlines flight hit by heavy turbulence that left dozens injured and one dead finally reached Singapore on a relief flight Wednesday morning after an emergency landing in Bangkok. The scheduled London-Singapore flight on a Boeing (BA.N) 777-300ER plane diverted to Bangkok after the plane
