A court ordered Australia’s largest airline, Qantas Airways, on Monday to pay a record fine of A$90 million ($58.64 million) for illegally sacking 1,800 ground staff during the COVID-19 pandemic and criticized it for a lack of contrition. In imposing the penalty, the largest ordered by a court on a company in the history of Australia’s labor…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had been moving to align India with the United States and freeze out China. Now, efforts to rebuild ties between the Asian giants are gaining momentum.
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Aussie Indie rock duo Royel Otis have been forced to cancel an upcoming festival appearance after guitarist Royel Maddell collapsed on stage. Maddell and bandmate Otis Pavlovic were mid-way through performing their hit Till The Morning at Dockville Festival in Germany when Maddell began to stumble backward before falling to the ground with his guitar…
Our arteries get stiffer with age, and covid-19 may not help peterschreiber.media/Alamy Covid-19 seems to accelerate the ageing of blood vessels, but perhaps only among women. The infection has previously been linked to cardiovascular complications, like heart disease, but how it has this effect isn’t entirely clear. To learn more, Rosa Maria Bruno at the…
While Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn was loudly criticized this year after declaring that Duolingo would become an “AI-first company,” he suggested in a new interview the real issue was that he “did not give enough context.” “Internally, this was not controversial,” von Ahn told The New York Times. “Externally, as a publicly traded company…
Long-distance runner Evie Parts has sued the NCAA and Swarthmore College as well as members of its athletic department, saying they illegally removed her from the track team because she is transgender. Parts’ lawsuit said the NCAA’s ban on transgender athletes in women’s sports did not have legal grounds because it’s not a governmental organization…
18 August 2025 Eli Roth is constantly chasing the thrill of sharing a wild movie with his friends. Eli Roth is constantly chasing the thrill of sharing a wild movie with his friends The 54-year-old has spent decades in the entertainment industry, but says he is now intent on shaking up Hollywood and the horror…
Countries failed to bridge wide gaps on whether the world should limit plastic manufacturing and restrict the use of harmful plastic chemicals.
