Expensive toilets cause a stink at Japan’s world expo
Row over £1.05m amenities block comes amid growing concern over the cost of the event, which is taking place in Osaka in 2025 Visitors to...
Month : February 2024
Cost of raising children in China second-highest in world, thinktank reveals
Expense and challenge of balancing work and family life key factors in declining birthrate and shrinking population China is one of the most expensive places...
Taiwan chases Chinese coastguard boat from frontline islands as tensions rise
Taiwan’s coastguard said it will continue to use surveillance and patrols amid escalating dispute after fatal capsizing last week Taiwan has driven away a Chinese...
China needs to do more on ‘silent crisis’ of debt, says World Bank official
Beijing must be more ready to support countries facing distress, says deputy chief economist China holds the key to speeding up debt relief and ending...
Shock in New Zealand as Green party MP Efeso Collins dies after charity run
Devastated colleagues and friends pay tribute to Collins as a ‘passionate advocate’ and a champion of fairness and equality New Zealanders, including leaders from across...
Assassinated Haitian president’s widow among dozens indicted over his death
Martine Moïse alleged to have conspired with former PM to kill president and replace him herself A Haitian judge in charge of the investigation into...
Ex-Honduran leader praised by Trump faces trial in US for running ‘narco-state’
Juan Orlando Hernández stands trial in a New York courtroom on Monday accused of taking millions in bribes from drug traffickers Five years after he...
New trial in Rome of four Egyptians accused over Giulio Regeni killing
Defendants are being tried in absentia over kidnapping and murder of Italian student in 2016 Four Egyptian security officials have gone back on trial in...
Cape Town hit by ‘unimaginable’ stench from 19,000 cattle on live export ship
Animal welfare groups say smell from the build-up of faeces and ammonia on the ship are indicative of the conditions animals endure Authorities in Cape...
Anglo American’s platinum arm to cut 3,700 jobs as metal’s price dives
Johannesburg-based Amplats says one in five jobs will be lost in South Africa amid plunge in profits The platinum arm of Anglo American is to...
