Embattled German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has vowed to stay on despite exit polls in two local elections suggesting damaging defeats for his centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party. In the north-eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the party was projected to only just scrape into parliament, while the AfD was on track to win the most votes….
From ‘6-7’ to ‘aura farming’: 10 Gen Z slang terms you’ll keep seeing online in 2026 and what they mean If you have spent even a few minutes scrolling through Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube comments lately, you may have noticed that the internet seems to have developed its own language.One minute someone is “locked in”;…
Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., on Sunday downplayed concerns that President Donald Trump may have violated the Constitution when reporters from Politico, MS NOW and CNN were banned from covering the White House on Saturday. Asked directly whether the president had violated the Constitution, Barrasso said, “No, I believe the press has an obligation to report…
The film looks at the storied 1972 Toronto production of “Godspell,” a Rosetta Stone of funny people that featured Martin Short, Gilda Radner and Eugene Levy. Source link
In a queue for a campaign event in the city of Neubrandenburg, AfD supporter Reinhart tells us that the traditional parties are being washed away. “Not only in Germany. In Italy, in France, in Great Britain. Everywhere the traditional parties go down.” He smiles when asked what he thinks of Merz, saying: “Oh well everyone…
Industrial robots operate on a production line manufacturing new energy vehicle parts at Jinhua Zhixin Technology Co., Ltd. on September 3, 2026 in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province of China. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images When the first employee walks into a company’s human resources department to complain about a robot co-worker or overzealous…
Traffic, hard water, and bad roads were a problem, but this is what woman misses most about Bengaluru People often remember a city for more than just the places they visited there. Sometimes, it is a small part of daily life that becomes noticeable only after moving away.A woman who spent almost three years in…
President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post Sunday that he would convert plans for a Washington, D.C.-area “Triumphal Arch” to those for “a top grade Military Complex/Triumphal Arch” at the request of the U.S. military, citing “national security.” The new plan, he said, is to “house, store, and have the rapid ability to…
“There will be no facility like this anywhere in the World,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. He added that out of “the 59 top cities and Capitals”, Washington DC is “the only one in the world that does not have a triumphal arch”, without specifying what those cities are. Construction on Trump’s 250-foot…
The initiative, called ReadSG, was launched by Singapore’s National Library Board (NLB) on September 6, 2026 What if reading a book for 15 minutes could earn you a small cash reward? Singapore has introduced a national reading campaign that does exactly that, using virtual rewards that can eventually be converted into money. The initiative, called…
