Laundry day: For many working professionals, it’s one of the least glamorous aspects of daily life. Between busy work schedules, meetings, and social commitments, spending hours waiting for clothes to ...

Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who became the 39th president of the United States and later won the Nobel Peace Prize, died on Sunday (December 29) at his home in Plains, Georgia, according to his ...

A transformation in fatherhood is quietly unfolding across East Asia, challenging decades-old gender roles as more men step into active parenting and household responsibilities. The shift is ...

Dr Alice Evans, a senior lecturer at King’s College London, attributes this global phenomenon partly to a backlash against gender equality initiatives. A 2024 Ipsos study revealed this generational ...

China is one of the world’s most powerful nations, but its defence ministers are proving strangely vulnerable. Dong Jun is the third Chinese defence minister to come under investigation, reports the ...

With clever use of social media, he has achieved what he couldn’t in his two earlier bids to be president – in 2014 and 2019. Leading his Gerindra party, backed by hardline Islamists, he lost both ...

How did India-Canada relations come to such a pass that the two countries expelled each other’s top diplomats? The murky record of the dead man at the centre of the row and the political ...

A meetup in Tokyo hosted by the popular Israeli-Palestinian vlogger Nuseir Yassin, known as Nas Daily, was disrupted by pro-Palestinian activists who accused him of whitewashing Israel’s actions in ...

Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu snubbed India and courted China like his predecessor, Abdulla Yameen. A few months ago, he forced India to withdraw its small military contingent, which was mostly ...

In a unique approach to managing the scarcity of parking spaces, a Japanese company has implemented a radical parking strategy that has caught the world’s attention. The strategy, which involves early ...

Thailand has made history by becoming the first country in Southeast Asia to legalize same-sex marriage, following the royal endorsement of the Marriage Equality Bill. The landmark legislation, ...

China will raise the retirement age for the first time since 1978, as the world’s second-largest economy faces the problem of an ageing population and a dwindling workforce. Beijing will gradually ...