A century-old Captain James Cook statue has been cut down and a Queen Victoria monument covered in red paint in an apparent protest in Australia. The late-night vandalism occurred in Melbourne on the eve of Australia Day and is under police investigation. The holiday on 26 January is the anniversary of the 1788 landing
A Japanese man has been sentenced to death for an arson attack at a Kyoto animation studio in 2019 which killed 36 people and injured dozens more. The incident, one of Japan’s deadliest in recent decades, killed mostly young artists and shocked the anime world. Shinji Aoba, 45, pleaded guilty to the attack but his
The UK is sending some of Ghana’s “crown jewels” back home, 150 years after looting them from the court of the Asante king. A gold peace pipe is among 32 items returning under long-term loan deals, the BBC can reveal. The Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) is lending 17 pieces and 15 are from the
Russia – Ukraine War, There are shooting wars and there are information wars and countries that are fighting do battle on both fronts. “There are shooting wars and there are information wars and countries that are fighting do battle on both fronts. For the rest of us, it can make establishing facts very difficult. However,
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Moscow of “playing with the lives of Ukrainian prisoners”, after a deadly plane crash in western Russia. He demanded an international inquiry after Wednesday’s crash in the Belgorod region near Ukraine’s border. Russia said there were no survivors after Kyiv had downed the Il-76 plane with 65 Ukrainian prisoners
President Joe Biden has easily won New Hampshire’s Democratic primary, even though he was not on the ballot. A write-in campaign by his supporters helped Joe Biden win the New Hampshire Democratic primary, even though he was not a candidate. The president did not take part in the primary, because New Hampshire defied the Democratic
A Russian Ilyushin-76 military transport plane has crashed in the southern Belgorod region bordering Ukraine. A Ukrainian prisoner swap was cancelled after a Russian plane carrying 65 captives and missiles crashed near the border. The Russian defence ministry said the Ilyushin-76 was shot down by two Ukrainian anti-aircraft missiles on Wednesday morning, as it was
Last Tuesday, a noisy crowd of several hundred people stood in the small main square of Pyin Oo Lwin, a popular Myanmar hill town, to hear a bespectacled monk make a startling suggestion. Min Aung Hlaing, the country’s military ruler, should step aside, he said, and let his deputy General Soe Win take over. The
A major US airline has said it expects to lose money in the three months between January and March due to the grounding of Boeing 737 Max 9 jets. A major US airline, United Airlines, has announced that it expects to lose money in the first quarter of 2024 due to the grounding of its
China seems to have backtracked on strict rules to combat what the regulator deemed “obsessive” gaming. China’s National Press and Publication Administration (NPPA) had proposed regulations to limit the amount of money and time people spent playing video games, but the draft rules were no longer on the NPPA website as of Tuesday. The new
