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SWITZERLAND: Switzerland’s glaciers melted considerably over the past 12 months to log their fourth-largest reduction in ice volume on record, monitoring body GLAMOS said on Wednesday. A winter with little snow, especially in the northeastern part of the Swiss Alps, followed by heat waves in June, caused the glaciers to lose 3% of their total … Read more
New York Road Runners races that used to take months to sell out are now filling up in days. Some races have been in such high demand that the sign-up queues crashed the website.
Biryani has left audiences both entertained and puzzled after its latest episodes introduced some surprising twists – and more eyebrow-raising inconsistencies. In episode 14, viewers finally learned the true nature of the relationship between Meeran (Khushhal Khan) and Gul Meher (Sarwat Gilani): the two have been secretly married for four years. The reveal, however, came … Read more
India’s Abhishek Sharma has increased his T20I batting rankings lead, while Pakistan’s Saim Ayub has ended Hardik Pandya T20I all-rounder reign. The accolades continue to flow for Abhishek Sharma as the India opener broke a record that has lasted for almost five years by reaching the highest-ever rating on the ICC Men’s T20I Batter Rankings. … Read more
PAKISTAN: It was a choppy day at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Wednesday, as the benchmark KSE-100 Index moved in both directions before ending the session almost flat. The market opened on a strong note, touching an intra-day high of 166,522.61 points. However, confidence remained shaky and gains were short-lived following news circulating that … Read more
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz vowed on Wednesday to make Europe’s biggest economy competitive again after the cabinet approved measures aimed at reducing bureaucracy and making it quicker and easier to do business through AI and digitisation. “We are aware of the problems facing the German economy at the moment, but we aspire to return to … Read more
Pfizer (PFE.N) and President Donald Trump said they had reached a deal under which the US-based drugmaker agreed to lower prescription drug prices in the Medicaid program to match those charged in other developed countries, in exchange for tariff relief. Trump also said Pfizer would offer that most-favored-nation pricing on all new drugs launched in … Read more
[During the last government shutdown, which began in late 2018, many demoralized workers called out sick or did not show up to work.
An executive order says an attack on Qatar would be treated as a threat to the U.S., bolstering security commitments to a key Gulf ally after Israel’s strike on Doha last month.
In the last decade, more than a dozen types of cancer have risen among people under 50. Scientists don’t have all of the answers, but research is starting to offer clues.
