German prosecutors have charged a man with calling for attacks on top politicians on the dark web and collecting donations for a potential bounty, according to a statement released on Wednesday. Germany's top prosecuting authority accuses the German-Polish national of financing terrorism and and inciting the commission of a serious act of violence that threatens the state, according to the charges filed at the Dusseldorf Higher Regional court The man was arrested in the western German city of Do
The United Nations has warned that freedom of expression is under threat in many countries across the Middle East due to the war. Volker Türk, the UN human rights chief, reported on Wednesday that around 3,000 people have been arrested since the start of the war.
Businesses say they are feeling the effects of rising fuel costs amid the Iran war.
A new rule to limit fuel price hikes took effect in Germany on Wednesday, limiting petrol station to raising prices no more than once a day in a bid to bring down costs for motorists amid a surge in oil prices caused by the Iran war. Under the new restrictions, petrol stations are only allowed to raise prices once at midday to limit price fluctuations and ensure greater transparency.
IndiGo said Wednesday it was appointing Willie Walsh as its new chief executive as India's leading airline sought to recover from an embarrassing spate of cancellations that threw the country's airports into turmoil Walsh currently leads the civil aviation industry's leading trade association, the IATA. But he also has two decades of experience leading airlines, including a decade at International Airlines Group (IAG), the parent company of Aer Lingus, British Airways, Iberia and Vueling.Walsh's
For more than a decade, South Africa’s economy has barely grown, leaving it with crumbling infrastructure and the need to create jobs.
With college students less likely to read through a full textbook than they once were, video games can help keep them engaged.
Launch preparations have begun for the Artemis II mission, NASA’s planned lunar fly-around by four astronauts that will be the first moon trip in 53 years. Tensions were high as hydrogen fuel started flowing into the rocket hours ahead of the planned launch. The launch team needs to load more than 700,000 gallons of fuel (2.6 million liters) into the 32-story Space Launch System rocket on the pad before the Artemis II crew can board.
The army has been deployed to five of South Africa's nine provinces for a year-long operation.
No further attempts will be made to rescue a humpback whale who has gotten repeatedly stuck off Germany's Baltic coast, officials said on Wednesday, as experts believe the animal will not survive its week-long ordeal. Till Backhaus, environment minister for the north-eastern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern region where the whale is currently stranded, said a restricted zone has been established around the animal to allow it to die in peace as there was no more hope of freeing it.
Scientists have identified more than 110 new species found in deep water beyond the edges of Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
The soft drinks giant is making the investment alongside local "authorised bottlers" Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa and Coca-Cola Peninsula Beverages.
The European Commission has prepared the legal groundwork to disburse the first tranche of a €90 billion ($104. 5 billion) loan for war-torn Ukraine that remains blocked amid resistance from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
When pollution gets bad enough in the rivers supplying Iowa's largest city with drinking water, it costs Des Moines around $16,000 a day to run a special system to filter out dangerous nitrates. It’s a fact of life in the agriculture-dependent state — and climate change is making the water quality problem even worse. The nitrates come from fertilizer and pesticides that make their way into the soil and then waterways like the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers.
Leopards are among the most adaptable big cats on Earth, living across parts of Africa and Asia in habitats that range from forests to dry grasslands and mountain slopes. Their ability to stay hidden and adjust their behavior has allowed them to survive in places where other large predators have disappeared. However, increasing human development