Australians have responded with a mixture of outrage and support after budget airline Jetstar announced it would start charging customers to use overhead lockers. From February the airline is scrapping its 7kg limit on hand luggage. Instead all passengers will be allowed a smaller bag that can fit under the seat in front and the…
Nepal’s mountain guides spend each spring leading international clients up Nepal’s highest mountains as guides or porters. When the monsoon comes around from June to September, some of them head towards Pakistan’s far north, home to some of the world’s highest peaks, including five eight-thousanders. International visitors to this rugged region are relatively few, but…
Mary, another former content writer whose name we’ve changed, says her employer encouraged the use of AI as a productivity tool. Instead of making her job easier, she says it created additional responsibilities. “We had to edit more, fact-check more because the data AI produced was inaccurate,” she says. “Technically it was more work for…
Yemen’s transportation ministry, part of the Saudi-backed, internationally recognised government, accused the Iran-backed Houthis of carrying out the attack by using a boat laden with explosives, Reuters news agency reported. The group have not commented on the incident. The Houthis announced what it called a blockade on Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea ports on 20 July….
CCTV footage released on Monday showed the moment a pilot was caught at Jakarta airport trying to smuggle 70,000 ecstasy pills in his suitcase. A group of officers at the airport can be seen removing several bags full of drugs – which amounted to around four stone (26kg) – from a silver suitcase. The man…
Three female lions at a Tokyo zoo have died of suspected heat-related illness, as Japan battles punishing summer temperatures. The three lions died within a week at the Tama Zoological Park in western Tokyo. Autopsies show that the lions, aged three to 15, had suffered from dehydration and multiple organ failure – suggesting heat was…
India has the world’s largest youth population with over 360 million people between the ages of 15 and 29. There’s been great progress in education enrolment and the number of private colleges and vocational training institutes have gone up exponentially in the last two decades. However, “the transition from education to employment remains a major…
Two workers who died in a shopping mall explosion that followed a powerful earthquake in Japan last week were asked by a boss to re-enter the building to secure cash. Their employer, general goods store Habita, has apologised for the “loss of two precious lives”. The two were among 38 people who died in the…
The detained Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been allowed to meet a delegation from the International Federation of the Red Cross, the first confirmed outside contact with her for two and a half years. In photographs of the meeting released by the military government Suu Kyi appeared to be healthy. She was detained…
Tributes are pouring out across Nepal after an avalanche killed all 10 members – of whom 6 were Nepalese – of an expedition on Pakistan’s Broad Peak. Among them was Nirmal Purja, also known as Nims, a British-Nepali climber most known for climbing the world’s 14 tallest peaks in just over six months. His death…