Lancashire is to receive £38.8m to help get more people back into work in the county. It is one of four areas to be given a share of £100m of government funding as part of the Connect to Work programme, with Lancashire the only place in the North West. The scheme aims to help those…
North Korea is opening a beach resort that its leader Kim Jong Un hopes will boost tourism in the secretive communist regime, state media reports. Wonsan Kalma on the east coast will open to domestic tourists on 1 July, six years after it was due to be completed. It is unclear when it will welcome…
0:37Watch: Afghanistan taxi drivers use handmade coolers to beat the heat In a sweltering city in Afghanistan, taxis have been spotted with scrubby barrels and exhaust tubes mounted to their roofs. These are the hand-made air coolers that taxi drivers have cobbled together in their desperate efforts to beat the heat. Temperatures regularly exceed 40C…
In light of the rising H1N1 influenza infections in Sindh, the province’s Director General of Health has issued urgent measures to mitigate the virus’s transmission. The health department has urged for enhanced awareness campaigns and increased initiatives to guarantee vaccine availability, particularly in high-risk regions.Healthcare facilities are directed to improve surveillance, administer prompt treatment, and…
“The household solar boom was a response to a crisis, not the cause of it,” says analyst KARACHI: A growing number of Pakistanis are abandoning the national grid in favour of solar energy, fuelling a rooftop panel boom and alarming a government already burdened by billions of dollars in power sector debt. This quiet energy…
WASHINGTON: A Pakistani delegation arrived in Washington on Monday to finalise a trade agreement as the country looks to recalibrate economic ties with the US and ease tensions stemming from high import tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump. The delegation, led by Commerce Secretary Jawad Paal, is scheduled to hold talks with US Trade Representative…
Thailand’s foreign ministry said on Friday it was taken aback by an unprecedented public attack on the Thai premier and her family by Cambodia’s influential former leader, but stressed the need for diplomacy to resolve an escalating bilateral dispute. In a televised address that lasted more than three hours, veteran Cambodian politician Hun Sen rebuked…
A new research project is looking to celebrate the untold stories of African American US Air Force personnel based in East Anglia during the Cold War. Black USAF: Cultural Connections in Cold War East Anglia is being led by Elma Glasgow from Cambridgeshire, who grew up alongside personnel on the border with Suffolk. Later in…
A 90-day pause on Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs plan is about to expire on Wednesday, which could upend US trading relationships with the rest of the world. But the uncertainty of the last few months has already forced several companies to rethink their supply lines in radical ways. When an Illinois toymaker heard that Trump…
Billionaire Elon Musk has said he regrets some of the posts he made about US President Donald Trump during their war of words on social media. “They went too far,” he wrote on his social media platform X. The two were embroiled in a public fallout after the Tesla owner stepped back from his White…
