December2021

Adele’s album 30, which debuted at number one, has surpassed Abba to become the year’s fastest-selling album. It surpassed the Swedish pop group’s comeback album Voyage, which debuted with 204,000 sales, with 261,000 first-week chart sales....

In an effort to finally phase out smoking, New Zealand will prohibit the selling of tobacco to the next generation. According to the BBC, anyone born after 2008 will be unable to purchase cigarettes or tobacco...

Nicaragua has become the latest country to cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan in favor of China. Taiwan said it was “deeply saddened”, adding that Nicaragua had “disregarded many years of friendship”. The decision was widely...

Teletalk Bangladesh Ltd (Teletalk) has chosen Nokia to deploy a 5G network in the nation for the first time. According to a press statement, the agreement supports the government’s digital agenda in Bangladesh, which is based...

At the Tokyo Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit this week, government and private sector contributors offered more than US$27 billion to solve the worldwide malnutrition and hunger issue. 45 nations with high malnutrition burdens and a...

Storms and tidal waves wreaked havoc on island nations in the South Pacific on Wednesday, with rising seas blamed on climate change for the devastation. Flooding was reported in the Marshall Islands, Solomon Islands, and Federated...

On Thursday, a jury in Chicago found US actor Jussie Smollett guilty of five felony counts of disorderly conduct for falsely reporting to police in 2019 that he was the victim of a racial and homophobic...

She risks prison, he has buried several colleagues: Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia, two champions of the free press, will on Friday receive this year’s Nobel Peace Prize honoring a profession...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday increased the approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid booster to cover 16- and 17-year-olds, citing rising concerns about the Omicron variant’s capacity to overcome two-shot immunity. The FDA’s...

Bangladesh’s flagship resolution on ‘Culture of Peace’ was unanimously adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). According to a press statement received here today, Bangladesh’s Permanent Representative (PR) to the UN, Ambassador Rabab Fatima, introduced...