Saturday, October 19, 2024

October 8, 2024 4:23 PM

UK population rises to 68.3 million, driven by immigration

Britain's population grew by 1% in annual terms to 68.3 million as of mid-2023, mainly due to high immigration, official data showed on Tuesday. Net international migration was the main contributor to population increase for all four countries of th...

October 8, 2024 3:43 PM

Celebrations in Kaithal as Aditya Surjewala wins by 8,124 votes

Aditya Surjewala, Congress leader and third-generation representative from his family to contest from Kaithal, has secured a victory in the Haryana Assembly elections by defeating BJP's Leela Ram with a margin of 8,124 votes. Despite Congress trailin...

October 8, 2024 2:52 PM

One mpox case found in Uganda prison, official says

A case of mpox has been found in Nakasongola jail in central Uganda, a prison spokesperson said on Tuesday, adding that the patient had been isolated and was receiving treatment. The World Health Organization declared mpox a global public health eme...

October 8, 2024 3:07 PM

A year after Oct 7, Hamas faces dissent in Gaza as war takes toll

Samira, a mother of two, yearns for her old life when she was an Arabic teacher and had a comfortable home - before the attack by Hamas on Israel a year ago plunged Gaza into suffering and chaos. She has joined a growing number of Gazans asking...

October 8, 2024 12:16 PM

Cissy Houston, Whitney Houston’s mother, dead at age 91

Grammy award winning singer and the mother of Whitney Houston, Cissy Houston has died at the age of 91. A family spokesperson said Houston was surrounded by family as she passed away at her Newark, New Jersey home on Monday (October 7) while under h...

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