Voters in Botswana have rejected the country’s long-serving governing party in a result that marks a political earthquake in the diamond-rich southern African nation. The Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) – in power since independence in 1966 – had won only one parliamentary seat as of early Friday morning, preliminary election results show. The Umbr

Google has reportedly racked up a fine of more than two undecillion rubles (two followed by 36 zeros) after it removed state-run and pro-government accounts from YouTube. Put another way, an undecillion is a trillion times a trillion times a trillion. The fine is far greater than the world’s total GDP, estimated at $110 trillion […]

Two women were reportedly removed from a plane at Heathrow Airport when a fight broke out over a Make America Great Again (MAGA) cap. According to The Sun, the American passengers started arguing when one asked the other to remove the red hat – worn by supporters of Donald Trump – as they waited to […]

A teenage champion skier has died after a crash during a training session in Italy. Matilde Lorenzi, 19, fell while skiing on a slope in Val Senales, northern Italythe country’s defence ministry said. Lorenzi was an Italian junior champion last season and her older sister Lucrezia is also a competitive skier, according to Olympics.com. Tribut

👉Listen to The World With Richard Engel And Yalda Hakim on your podcast app👈 It’s six days until the US election and in this week’s episode of The World, Richard and Yalda discuss the radically different foreign policy approaches of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. On Ukraine, Israel and Iran – how would each candidate […]