Irish singer’s brother likens Dublin museum’s waxwork of O’Connor to a cross between a shop dummy and ‘something out of the Thunderbirds’. Museum apologises to her family and pledges to do better.
Danielle Carr-Gomm, who is diabetic, stopped taking insulin while attending a workshop with Xiao, who considers the medication a ‘poison’.
The action took place despite a massive security operation to guard against any threat to the global sporting extravaganza.
The Chinese tech giant has partnered with the Olympics to distribute the Paris Games online, replacing a 60-year-old satellite system as the main distribution channel.
CrowdStrike said a bug in a quality-assurance tool the company uses to check updates for mistakes allowed flawed data to go out to customers, causing last week’s meltdown.
Turkey’s ruling party presented a bill to parliament that aims to round up millions of stray dogs, which animal rights advocates fear could result in the widespread killing of the animals.
Chinese firms ambitious about going abroad urged to embrace ‘technology for market’ strategy that allowed China to obtain technologies since the 1980s.
Scientists said it was possible that Tuesday or Wednesday of this week could again surpass Monday’s record, as temperature peaks generally happen in clusters.
The European Commission said that it does not see any impact yet on bloc’s oil supplies.
The Paris Olympics will feature a new sport, breaking, and three sports returning from the Tokyo Games – climbing, skateboarding and surfing.
After Putin sent troops into Ukraine in 2022, the US and its allies prohibited transactions with Russia’s central bank and finance ministry, blocking around US$300 billion of sovereign Russian assets.
Asia is home to four of the safest cities in the world – and four of the most dangerous for travellers, according to a new ranking.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper told parliament the Rwanda plan, now scrapped, has already cost taxpayers US$905 million.
Local TV reported that the shooter was a former fighter from the 1991-95 war in Croatia and a relative of one of the nursing home residents.
Tourism accounts for 45 per cent of Mallorca’s economic output but most locals are subject to poor pay and housing shortages.
Archives show the Vatican was cracking down on Reverend Marcial Maciel in 1956 over claims of sexual abuse and financial recklessness.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves has warned of the possibility of a return to strikes and a shortage of nurses and teachers.
Russia launched its fifth drone attack on Kyiv in two weeks overnight, with Ukraine’s military saying the drones were destroyed before they reached the capital.
German’s wider-than-expected win in European Parliament, plus other bloc leaders’ dim standing, paves way for tough policies towards Beijing.
A judge ruled that social media posts targeting the premier amounted to ‘body shaming’.
Concerns about industrial overcapacity and lack of transparency in state subsidies elicit ‘frank and open’ exchanges, revealing deep schisms.