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A Sherpa teenager who became the youngest person to scale all the world’s 14 highest peaks has returned home to Nepal to a hero’s welcome. CBC | World News
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Lilly Ledbetter, icon in the battle for U.S. equal pay, dead at 86
Lilly Ledbetter, an former Alabama factory manager whose lawsuit against her employer made her an icon of the equal pay movement and led to landmark wage discrimination legislation, has died at 86. CBC | World News
Read More »This 237-million-year-old fossil from Brazil could shed light on rise of dinosaurs
Scientists in Brazil have announced the discovery of one of the world’s oldest fossils believed to belong to an ancient reptile dating back some 237 million years that could help explain the rise of the dinosaurs. CBC | World News
Read More »Labour minister squirms as she struggles to work out how to defend Keir Starmer’s freebies
Shadow minister John Glen secured a debate in the Commons this afternoon on donations to ministers. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »Israeli attacks on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon must stop, EU says
The European Union has condemned attacks on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon and rejected allegations that UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is responsible for obstructing the Israeli army. CBC | World News
Read More »King Charles’s packing quirk that sees him taking ‘one item stuffed with food everywhere’
The King is set to jet off to Australia later this week, and according to one source, there is an unusual item the monarch is expected to take with him on the trip. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »Donald Trump slams ‘disgusting’ new Trump movie biopic ‘made by human scum’
Donald Trump has lambasted the “garbage” new Trump movie biopic The Apprentice, hoping that it bombs at the box office, which it has. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »At least 10 killed in Israeli attack on northern Gaza food distribution centre, medics say
Palestinian medics said on Monday that at least 10 people were killed and 30 injured by Israeli tank shells that hit a food distribution centre in northern Gaza’s Jabalia, with casualties including women and children. CBC | World News
Read More »Nobel in economics awarded for research into why countries with poor institutions don’t thrive
The Nobel memorial prize in economics was awarded Monday to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson for research that explains why societies with poor rule of law and exploitative institutions do not generate sustainable growth. CBC | World News
Read More »In major military exercise, China simulates sealing off Taiwan’s ports
China employed a record 125 aircraft, as well as its Liaoning aircraft carrier and ships, in large-scale military exercises surrounding Taiwan and its outlying islands Monday, simulating the sealing off of key ports in a move that underscores the tense situation in the Taiwan Strait, officials said. CBC | World News
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