A new academic year is coming soon. But as students flock back to campuses, we will probably see fewer international student faces. According to the latest statistics, the number of work or study visa applicants fell by more than a third compared with last July, with some institutions bracing for a 50% decline in new … Read more
4 min read Last Updated : Aug 13 2024 | 4:19 PM IST The Indian smartphone market shipped 69 million smartphones in the first half of 2024, with 7.2 per cent growth year-on-year (Y-o-Y). In the second quarter of CY24, the market shipped 35 million smartphones, with growth of 3.2 per cent Y-o-Y, according … Read more
What can the UK government do about Twitter? What should it do about Twitter? And what does Elon Musk even care? The multibillionaire owner of the social network, still officially branded as X, has had a fun week stirring up unrest on his platform. Aside from his own posts, a mixture of low-effort memes that … Read more
Indians demand refunds for Tesla Model 3 deposits after eight years of unfulfilled promises. Elon Musk invited Indian customers to preorder the much-anticipated Tesla Model 3 with a $1,000 deposit in April 2016. The excitement for the Model 3 was palpable, even though the launch details and final cost of the car in India were … Read more
Two former soldiers based in Australia allegedly pretended to be law enforcement officials and threatened a Los Angeles businessman with violence and deportation unless he handed over almost US$37m, according to US court documents. Matthew Phillip Hart, 41, a former member of the Australian military, and Max Samuel Bennett Turbett, 39, a former member of … Read more
When the German chancellor Olaf Scholz went over to congratulate the kayaker Max Rendschmidt after his team’s gold medal-winning run in the K-4 500m sprint in Paris on Friday last week, the exchange – according to onlookers – was curt. Rendschmidt, though euphoric about his Olympic win, used the opportunity of meeting Scholz to speak … Read more
On 6 August, a substantial Ukrainian force launched a cross-border incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, shelling the little town of Sudzha and reportedly occupying several villages. Scores of Russian military were killed by artillery and drone strikes, while others were seen surrendering to the triumphant Ukrainians. It quickly became apparent that the incursion was on … Read more
There are drag queens, drag kings – and then there’s Wet Mess. In May on Instagram, they revealed what is for them a typical look: a head painted green and gold, bald up top apart from two kiss curls; stickers of cars on each temple; a picture of two bikini-clad women wrestlers stuck to the … Read more
It took surgery and five years of IVF treatment for Amal to fall pregnant for the first and only time. That struggle against infertility lasted almost as long as her son Khaled’s short life. He was just seven years old when on 17 October an Israeli airstrike on Rafah, one of the first of the … Read more
Aaron Rodgers “could roll out of bed and create a news cycle. He’s unbelievable. He’s a content machine”. It’s true and it’s why the bestselling sportswriter Ian O’Connor is talking to the Guardian from his home in the New York area, where Rodgers, a Green Bay Packers great, now plays quarterback for the Jets. O’Connor’s … Read more