- Wednesday, 27 September 2023
Trump committed fraud in New York, judge finds
Donald Trump committed fraud by repeatedly misrepresenting his wealth by hundreds of millions of dollars, a New York judge has ruled. The ruling, part of a civil case brought against the former president and his family business, said he defrauded banks and insurers for years.
India asks Canada for evidence on Sikh murder
India is open to looking into any "specific" information Canada provides on the killing of a Sikh separatist leader, the country's foreign minister said. S Jaishankar was referring to the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada in June.
More than 100 dead, 150 injured in Iraq wedding inferno
More than 100 people were killed and 150 injured in a fire at a wedding party in Hamdaniya district in Iraq's Nineveh province that left civil defence searching the charred skeleton of a building for survivors into the early hours of Wednesday.
SKorea parades powerful weapons in Armed Forces Day
South Korea paraded thousands of troops and an array of weapons capable of striking North Korea through its capital as part of its biggest Armed Forces Day ceremony in 10 years on Tuesday, as its president vowed to build a stronger military to thwart any provocation by the North.
Thousands flee Karabakh over ethnic cleansing fear
A growing stream of ethnic Armenian refugees are fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh following Azerbaijan's seizure of the disputed region last week. More than 13,000 people have so far crossed into Armenia from the enclave, which is home to a majority of some 120,000 ethnic Armenians.
US schools are adopting four day weeks
It's a Monday in September, but with schools closed, the three children in the Pruente household have nowhere to be. Callahan, 13, contorts herself into a backbend as 7-year-old Hudson fiddles with a balloon and 10-year-old Keegan plays the piano.
Hollywood writers in deal to end US studio strike
Screenwriters in the US say they have reached a tentative deal with studio bosses that could see them end a strike that has lasted nearly five months.
Metal-mining pollution impacts 23 million people
At least 23 million people around the world live on floodplains contaminated by potentially harmful concentrations of toxic waste from metal-mining activity, according to a study. UK scientists mapped the world's 22,609 active and 159,735 abandoned metal mines and calculated the extent of pollution from them.
Rising wildfire threat spurs AI fire fighting solutions
Wildfires fuelled by climate change have ravaged communities from Maui to the Mediterranean this summer, killing many people, exhausting fire-fighters and fuelling demand for new solutions. Enter artificial intelligence.
Migrants hoping to reach US continue north through Mexico by train
As a train roared in the distance, some 5,000 mostly Venezuelan migrants hoping to make it to the U.S. snapped into action. Families with young children sleeping on top of cardboard boxes and young men and women tucked away in tents under a nearby bridge scrambled to pack their things. After the train arrived on the outskirts of the central Mexican city of Irapuato, some swung their bodies over its metal trailers with ease, while others tossed up bags and handed up their small children swaddled in winter coats.
Surgeons perform second pig heart transplant, trying to save a dying man
Surgeons have transplanted a pig’s heart into a dying man in a bid to prolong his life – only the second patient to ever undergo such an experimental feat. Two days later, the man was cracking jokes and able to sit in a chair, Maryland doctors said Friday.
Groundbreaking transplant of pig heart into living recipient performed for second time ever
For the second time ever, a pig heart has been transplanted into a living human recipient, the University of Maryland Medical Center has announced.
Tropical Storm Ophelia close to landfall on North Carolina coast
Tropical Storm Ophelia was nearing landfall on the North Carolina coast early Saturday with the potential for damaging winds and dangerous surges of water, the U.S. National Hurricane Centre said. Ophelia was about 25 miles (45 kilometres) southwest of Cape Lookout and about 70 miles (110 kilometres) east-northeast of Cape Fear. The system was moving at 9 mph (15 kph) with maximum sustained winds of 70 mph (110 kph), the hurricane centre said in an update at 5 a.m. Saturday.
