MORWELL, Australia: An Australian woman promised a “special meal” for her in-laws before dishing up a beef Wellington laced with death cap mushrooms that killed three of them, jurors heard Wednesday. On the opening day of a trial that has drawn global attention, Erin Patterson, 50, faced a jury acc»»»

MOSCOW: Russia and North Korea on Wednesday began construction of a road bridge between the two countries that will span the Tumen river, part of an effort to strengthen their strategic partnership, Russia’s prime minister said. The bridge is being built near the existing “Friendship Bridge,” a rai»»»

SEOUL: North Korea said Wednesday leader Kim Jong Un observed the test-firings of missiles from a recently launched destroyer — the first such warship for the North — and called for accelerating efforts to boost his navy’s nuclear attack capabilities. North Korea last week unveiled the 5,000-ton de»»»

Doha, Qatar: Sardem, with Maikon De Souza in the saddle, delivered a dominant performance to claim top honours on the opening day of the Al Bayt Cup meeting at Al Rayyan Racecourse. With five races taking place on the first day, the meeting will conclude with the Al Bayt Cup battle, as another five»»»

Doha, Qatar: The Ministry of Interior (MoI) has introduced a quick, easy, and anonymous way to deliver security information to the Criminal Evidence and Information Department (CEID) via the Metrash mobile application. This initiative will aid in accelerating the response time of the authorities an»»»

Doha, Qatar: With less than 20 days remaining before the highly-anticipated ITTF World Table Tennis Championships Finals Doha 2025, excitement continues to build as the official draw ceremony approaches. The draws will take place today at the Mall of Qatar at 4pm, and will be live-streamed for tabl»»»

Doha, Qatar: Team Qatar continued their strong campaign at the Arab Shooting Championship in Cairo, adding a fifth medal to their tally during the event currently underway in the Egyptian capital. The championship, which runs until May 1, features the participation of 300 male and female shooters f»»»

DUBAI: Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi held discussions on Tuesday on ways to end the crisis in Gaza. In their talks held telephonically, they also exchanged views on regional issues. They emphasized “the importance of concerted efforts to ha»»»

SEOUL: North Korea said Wednesday leader Kim Jong Un observed the test-firings of missiles from a recently launched destroyer — the first such warship for the North — and called for accelerating efforts to boost his navy’s nuclear attack capabilities. North Korea last week unveiled the 5,000-ton de»»»

BEIRUT: Lebanese President Joseph Aoun will make a two-day official visit to Abu Dhabi at the invitation of UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the Lebanese Presidency announced on Tuesday. During the visit, Aoun is scheduled to hold talks with President Sheikh Mohammed Al-Nahyan and»»»

DUBAI: Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi held discussions on Tuesday on ways to end the crisis in Gaza. In their talks held telephonically, they also exchanged views on regional issues. They emphasized “the importance of concerted efforts to ha»»»

DUBAI: Russian forces have significantly increased the intensity of their combat activity, Ukraine's top military commander Oleksandr Syrskyi said on Wednesday. "Despite loud statements about readiness to cease fire for the May holidays, the occupiers have significantly increased the intensity of c»»»

ABU DHABI: The UAE Jiu-Jitsu Federation has announced that the Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Jiu-Jitsu Championship, round three for Gi competitors, will take place here from May 2 to 4 at the Mubadala Arena in Zayed Sports City. The UAEJJF event will feature a range of competitors, starting with th»»»

DUBAI: British fashion designer and singer Victoria Beckham hosted an intimate dinner in Dubai this week with some of the city’s leading style influencers to celebrate her exclusive capsule collection with Middle Eastern online luxury retailer Ounass. The collaboration includes a dedicated pop-up a»»»

JEDDAH: PFL MENA will begin its second season at the Onyx Arena in Jeddah on May 9 with a trio of fighters from the Kingdom looking to leave their mark in front of the home crowd. When Malik Basahel, Abdulaziz bin Moammar and Ahmed Makki make their respective entrances into the world-famous PFL Sma»»»

MOSCOW: Russia and North Korea on Wednesday began construction of a road bridge between the two countries that will span the Tumen river, part of an effort to strengthen their strategic partnership, Russia’s prime minister said. The bridge is being built near the existing “Friendship Bridge,” a rai»»»

MORWELL, Australia: An Australian woman promised a “special meal” for her in-laws before dishing up a beef Wellington laced with death cap mushrooms that killed three of them, jurors heard Wednesday. On the opening day of a trial that has drawn global attention, Erin Patterson, 50, faced a jury acc»»»

BEIRUT: Lebanese President Joseph Aoun will make a two-day official visit to Abu Dhabi at the invitation of UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the Lebanese Presidency announced on Tuesday. During the visit, Aoun is scheduled to hold talks with President Sheikh Mohammed Al-Nahyan and»»»

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar emphasized the country’s young and dynamic population was capable of positioning it as a competitive provider of high-quality information technology services while addressing the Digital Foreign Direct Investment (DFDI) forum in Islamabad on Wed»»»

Dubai: Usha Nagvanshi, a woman from the scenic valleys of Jammu & Kashmir, has taken the internet by storm with a daring and unconventional dance video. In a now-viral Instagram video posted on her account, @ushanagvanshi31, she performs energetic dance moves atop a tall tree, set against a breatht»»»

Dubai: Saudi authorities have arrested four Chinese nationals accused of orchestrating a fraudulent Hajj campaign via social media platforms, as part of the Kingdom’s ongoing efforts to combat illegal Hajj promotions and safeguard the sanctity and safety of the pilgrimage season. Also Read: Hajj wi»»»

Three Chinese astronauts landed back on Earth on Wednesday after six months on China's space station. The crew’s landing module came down slowly after separating from the return vehicle, descending on a red-and-white parachute, in Dongfeng, in China’s northern Inner Mongolia region on the edge of t»»»

Five members of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces were wounded in two separate drone attacks targeting military positions in northern Iraq’s Duhok province, the Kurdistan Region Security Council said on Tuesday. The council said the strikes occurred on Monday and Tuesday in the town of Amadiya, where su»»»

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday joked that he would like to succeed Pope Francis, who died last week at the age of 88. Trump, asked about whom he'd like to see become the next Catholic pontiff, told reporters: "I'd like to be pope. That would be my No. 1 choice." Trump noted he actually had no»»»

SINGAPORE: Oil prices extended declines on Wednesday and were set for their largest monthly drop in more than three years as the global trade war eroded the outlook for fuel demand, while fears of mounting supply also weighed. Brent crude futures fell by 83 cents, or 1.29 percent, to $63.42 per bar»»»

SINGAPORE: Oil prices extended declines on Wednesday and were set for their largest monthly drop in more than three years as the global trade war eroded the outlook for fuel demand, while fears of mounting supply also weighed. Brent crude futures fell by 83 cents, or 1.29 percent, to $63.42 per bar»»»

UAE businesses– both on the free zone and mainland – seem to have been caught off-guard by a recent clarification on VAT. Are they required to issue tax invoices to themselves for each import of goods and services? A recent public clarification (VATP041) – replacing the earlier VATP036 - discusses »»»

Dubai: The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) on Wednesday announced the results for the ICSE (Class 10) and ISC (Class 12) 2025 board exams. Out of 99,551 candidates who appeared for the exams, 98,578 students passed. Girls outshone boys yet again, with a pass percentag»»»

NEW YORK, April 30 (KUNA) -- The Gulf group at the United Nations affirmed that comprehensive justice in Syria cannot be achieved without addressing the needs and aspirations of the Syrian people, and providing humanitarian assistance especially as the deteriorating situation in the country continu»»»

THESSALONIKI: Workers were installing benches at a park in the ancient Greek port city of Thessaloniki when their excavator pushed brown soil off a fragile white skull. They turned off the motorized equipment and set to work with pickaxes and shovels. The crew found two skeletons, then more. By Mar»»»

DUBAI: Russian forces have significantly increased the intensity of their combat activity, Ukraine's top military commander Oleksandr Syrskyi said on Wednesday. "Despite loud statements about readiness to cease fire for the May holidays, the occupiers have significantly increased the intensity of c»»»

PARIS: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is receptive to the idea of zero reciprocal tariffs between France and the United States, French finance minister Eric Lombard said, as France and the European Union continue tariff talks with the US “He told me that this was not out of reach,” Lombard tol»»»

Doha, Qatar: Qatar Insurance Group, the leading insurer in Qatar and the MENA region, has announced a robust net profit of QR205m for the first quarter of 2025, up from QR194m in Q1 2024. The results were approved during the Board of Directors meeting held on 29th April 2025, presided over by Sheik»»»

Doha, Qatar: QIIB has announced a new agreement with Visa, a global leader in digital payments, to implement advanced risk solutions to bolster the bank’s fraud prevention and risk management for credit and debit card transactions. This latest partnership with Visa will enable QIIB to leverage adva»»»

Doha, Qatar: QatarEnergy entered into a long-term condensate supply agreement with the Singapore-based Shell International Eastern Trading Company (SIETCO), a wholly-owned subsidiary of London-listed Shell Plc. The agreement, signed by H E Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, the Minister of State for Energy Aff»»»

THESSALONIKI: Workers were installing benches at a park in the ancient Greek port city of Thessaloniki when their excavator pushed brown soil off a fragile white skull. They turned off the motorized equipment and set to work with pickaxes and shovels. The crew found two skeletons, then more. By Mar»»»

PARIS: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is receptive to the idea of zero reciprocal tariffs between France and the United States, French finance minister Eric Lombard said, as France and the European Union continue tariff talks with the US “He told me that this was not out of reach,” Lombard tol»»»

An American Airlines flight from Sao Paulo to New York descended into chaos on April 24 after a female passenger attempted to force her way into the cockpit, prompting a physical response from crew members. Caught on camera Video footage from inside Flight 950 shows flight attendants confronting th»»»

Doha, SANA- With participation of Syria and other Arab countries, the Second Arab Postal Leaders Forum kicked off Tuesday in Qatari capital, Doha. The official Syrian delegation to the forum comprises Deputy Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Hussein al-Masri, and Director Gener»»»

Efforts to restore state authority across Lebanon and enforce UN Security Council Resolution 1701 - which mandates a zone free of unauthorized weapons south of the Litani River - have been met with fresh hostilities targeting UN peacekeepers in the country’s southern border areas. In recent days, a»»»

Twelve people were killed in clashes that erupted early Tuesday near the town of Jaramana, a Druze-majority area on the southern outskirts of Damascus, amid rising sectarian tensions, residents and local sources said. In a statement, residents of Jaramana condemned what they described as prior “sec»»»

Bulgarian Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov has issued a firm ultimatum, giving ministries and agencies 10 days to ensure the BG-Alert system is fully operational. “Ten days, colleagues—after that, there is no forgiveness,” Zhelyazkov said during the cabinet meeting on Wednesday, as reported by BGNES»»»

Doha, Qatar: Sidra Medicine and Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, have published a groundbreaking study marking the first creation of an autism zebrafish model in Qatar, to investigate a rare genetic mutation associated with both autism and epilepsy. The st»»»

Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan Bakyt Torobaev got acquainted with the implementation of irrigation projects in the region during his working visit to Jalal-Abad region. The press service of the Ministry of Agriculture reported. He got acquainted with the current state of »»»

A drug distribution scheme organized by officers of the Main Department of Internal Affairs of Bishkek has been uncovered and dismantled. The press center of the State Committee for National Security (SCNS) of the Kyrgyz Republic told 24.kg news agency. It was reported earlier that security service»»»

A minor fire broke out in Al Quoz Industrial Area 1, near Arabia Taxi depot, on Wednesday morning, Khaleej Times has seen. The fire happened at around 10am and was immediately contained by firefighters who were deployed to the area. Authorities cordoned off the streets and rerouted motorists. No in»»»

Prof. Todor Kantardzhiev warned that Sofia's sewer system should be cleared of rats, as they serve as a reservoir for ticks that can spread diseases. Speaking on Nova TV, he emphasized the need for deratization efforts in the capital’s drainage infrastructure, suggesting that otherwise, authorities»»»

On April 30, 1975, South Vietnam unconditionally surrendered to North Vietnam. The communists occupied Saigon and renamed it Ho Chi Minh City. 1 of 8 | People pose in front of a sign commemorating the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on April 26, 2025. Th»»»

TOKYO, April 30 (KUNA) -- Kuwait's crude oil exports to Japan in March grew 2.3 percent from a year earlier to 5.23 million barrels, or 169,000 barrels per day (bpd), marking the first expansion since September 2023, government data showed Wednesday. As Japan's third-biggest oil provider, Kuwait su»»»

Doha, Qatar: The Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEHE) launched yesterday the activities of the 50th Arab Deaf Week, under the theme “The Value of Using Artificial Intelligence in Teaching and Qualifying the Deaf,” at the Audio Education Complex. The event was attended by Speaker of Sh»»»