Month: April 2024
lending apps: Consumer lending apps on track on profitability front
Consumer lending fintech firms, badly impacted during the pandemic, seem to be finding some stable ground. With most of the startups operating in this space…
16,000km in 352 days: UK man runs length of Africa
Sore and sandblasted but triumphant, runner Russ Cook reached the northernmost point of Africa on Sunday, almost a year after he set off from its…
Harry considering peace gesture towards William, pending Meghan’s approval, royal experts say
NEW DELHI: Royal watchers speculate on the possibility of Prince Harry extending an olive branch to his brother, Prince William, amid their ongoing rift, but…
Luck, no smoke, regular fish and chips: 111-year-old UK man, born in the year Titanic sank, shares his secret of long life
NEW DELHI: English centenarian John Alfred Tinniswood crowned world’s oldest man at 111 John Alfred Tinniswood, a 111-year-old Englishman from Southport, northwest England, has officially…
UK man stabs wife to death, chops body in over 200 pieces, pays friend to dump it in river
NEW DELHI: A 28-year-old man identified as Nicholas Metson, from Shuttleworth House in Lincoln, stabbed his wife, Holly Bramley to death, cut her body into…
Japan to join Aukus in expected expansion to deter China: Report
NEW DELHI: The United States, Britain and Australia will begin talks to expand the trilateral pact Aukus as Washington plans to include Japan in the…
UK sends Royal Navy ship to boost aid for Gaza and set up a new maritime corridor
LONDON: A British Royal Navy ship will supply aid to Gaza as part of an international effort to help set up a new humanitarian maritime…
11 injured as bus carrying University of South Carolina fraternity crashes in Mississippi
BAY ST. LOUIS: Eleven people were injured when a bus carrying University of South Carolina students blew a tire and hit a concrete barrier in…
‘Continue to stand by Israel’: Sunak says Israel-Hamas conflict ‘must end’
NEW DELHI: Marking six months of Israel-Hamas conflict, British PM Rishi Sunak on Saturday said that the UK continues to “stand by Israel”, further calling…
Storm Kathleen causes flight cancellations in UK and Ireland
NEW DELHI: Airline passengers in parts of the United Kingdom and Ireland experienced travel disruption at airports on Saturday due to flight cancellations caused by…