August2023

Volunteers have started a beach clean-up in a part of Mexico where environmental officials believe oil is washing up on the shores as a result of an alleged leak implicating state energy major Pemex. The oil...

Look out, blue whale: a new heavyweight contender has emerged. Based on a partial skeleton recovered in Peru, scientists believe a newly discovered whale that lived roughly 40 million years ago was the biggest mammal ever....

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva stated on Wednesday that the “world must help” Brazil protect the Amazon, ahead of a summit next week on the world’s largest rainforest, which serves as a critical buffer against...

Russian drones destroyed infrastructure at a Ukrainian Danube port on Wednesday, as Moscow targeted sites critical for grain supplies from Ukraine following the breakdown of an export agreement. In the current wave of strikes aimed at...

Rwanda has put a curfew on all “non-essential services” in order to combat “noise pollution,” a move that has enraged nightclub owners, who claim it would harm their company. “For effective regulation of night-time entertainment and...

The death toll from this summer’s heat wave in South Korea has risen to at least 23, according to Yonhap news agency, citing fire authorities. Two more heatstroke deaths were confirmed on Tuesday, bringing the projected...

The ‘Teesta Banchao Nadi Banchao Sangram Parishad (TBNBSP)’ has congratulated and thanked Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for announcing the implementation of the long-awaited Teesta Master Plan. TBNBSP President Principal Nazrul Islam Haqqani and General Secretary Shafiar...

On Friday, a Russian court will rule on the trial of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is facing extremism accusations that may keep him in prison for decades. The 47-year-old attacked Russia’s military intervention in...

Jamaica guaranteed Marta’s World Cup journey would not finish happily as they defeated Brazil 0-0 on Wednesday to advance to the last 16 and condemn the South Americans to their earliest exit since 1995. Marta, the...

Martina Voss-Tecklenburg, Germany’s coach, has challenged her squad to be more creative as they attempt to rebound from a stunning setback to South Korea in a crucial Women’s World Cup match on Thursday. The 2003 and...