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Studies have shown the change in time can affect both physical and mental health
Many campaigners are calling to abolish changing the clocks
A veteran corporate lawyer has been shot dead in Myanmar’s biggest city by self-proclaimed urban guerrillas, highlighting the bloody struggle between the military government and its foes in the country’s cities as well as the remote countryside. Min Tayza Nyunt Tin was shot multiple times while driving his car in Yangon on Friday, according to a business colleague, media reports and a statement from the guerrilla group. The group, calling itself Urban Owls, accused him of being a business associate of the country’s military leaders who seized power two years ago, and claimed he helped them launder money in order to buy real estate and business assets abroad in deals totaling hundreds of millions of dollars.
Addressing a food crisis affecting a fifth of Latin America's population featured high on the agenda of an Ibero-American leaders summit that started in the Dominican Republic on Friday."Many issues on the agenda of this Ibero-American summit will be the main ones of the July summit," he told AFP. These include to "strengthen ties and coordination between Europe and the region to address three issues: food security, environmental challenges and how to cooperate to increase access to technology."
From ‘Marriage Story’ and ‘Malcolm & Marie’ to ‘Army of the Dead’ and ‘Roma’, Ed Power picks the streaming service’s best original offerings – and its worst
‘That really f***ing sucked,’ actor said
One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns. Sweet, spice-fragrant, fruit-laced buns have been an essential part of Easter for centuries. In 1592 Elizabeth I decreed that no baker should “make, utter or sell … any spice cakes, buns, biscuits or other spice bread” except at burials, Christmas – and Good Friday. There’s nothing like a ban to sharpen the appetite.
Inflation is known as a silent killer because its impact on your wealth is severe, but not immediately obvious.
Sport, so focused on winning and losing, on rules and competition, can bring a reductive clarity to the complexities of life. Perhaps that is why the judgement this week of the World Athletics Council was so momentous. Put simply, council president Sebastian Coe had to choose between conflicting “rights” and he decided that the right of those born women to compete fairly trumps the desire to be included in elite sport of those who have gone through male puberty but run or jump as women. “We felt
Voters in Berlin go to the polls this weekend to decide on a proposal that would force the city government to drastically ramp up the German capital’s climate goals. Sunday's referendum, which has attracted considerable financial support from U.S.-based philanthropists, calls for Berlin to become climate neutral by 2030, meaning that within less than eight years the city would not be allowed to contribute further to global warming. An existing law sets the deadline for achieving that goal at 2045, which is also Germany's national target.
Apple enjoys a "symbiotic" relationship with China, CEO Tim Cook said on Saturday, as the iPhone giant looks to move production out of the country.Cook's visit comes as Apple, the world's biggest company by market value, is trying to move production out of China.
At least 10 people have died after a tornado and damaging storms swept through western Mississippi Friday night, officials said.
Turkey's top politicians have formed two camps heading into May's election: those who revere President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and those united in the single goal of ending his two-decade rule."The election will go to the second round, and in the second round I will be elected president with more than 60 percent of the vote," he said.
Gordon Moore, co-founder and former CEO of Intel, has passed away at 94.
From Zimbabwe, where many must work at night because it's the only time there is power, to Nigeria where collapses of the grid are frequent, the reliable supply of electricity remains elusive across Africa. The electricity shortages that plague many of Africa's 54 countries are a serious drain on the continent’s economic growth, energy experts warn. In recent years South Africa's power generation has become so inadequate that the continent's most developed economy must cope with rolling power blackouts of eight to 10 hours per day.
A powerful tornado has torn through rural Mississippi and Alabama, killing at least seven people, destroying buildings and knocking out power.
Niger's defence ministry said Friday its troops killed 79 "terrorists" in operations last week that involved a foray into neighbouring Mali. Troops from the army's anti-jihadist Almahaou operation began the search after they were attacked by an "armed terrorist group" in the western town of Tiloa on March 10, the ministry said.
A large asteroid will safely zoom between Earth and the Moon on Saturday, a once-in-a-decade event that will be used as a training exercise for planetary defence efforts, according to the European Space Agency.At 19:49 GMT on Saturday it will come within a third of the distance from the Earth to the Moon, said Richard Moissl, the head of the ESA's planetary defence office.
While the ex-president left the White House over two years ago, the Trump addiction is hard to beat as his legal perils dominate headlines
The mood at SNP meetings must be pretty low just now. Even so, I’d love to have been a fly on the wall during the brainstorming session for Humza Yousaf’s latest photo op.
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