Anuv Jain: Rising Indian singer on new music and future hopes
Can you find success as an Indian artist, outside of the Bollywood machine, while making music that feels like you? Well according to Anuv Jain it’s possible – and you can even create something «beautiful». The singer-songwriter’s soft…
Quebec votes as separatist surge poses test for Canada PM
Quebec separatists eyed a return to power in Canada’s majority French-speaking province Monday in an election that could test Prime Minister Mark Carney’s message of national unity to confront the United States. Carney is popular in Quebec,…
Spain PM pins hopes on housing crisis to help win snap election
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s decision to call a snap election for 29 November came on the back of a parliamentary defeat. On Friday, the raft of measures he had presented to congress aimed at improving conditions for tenants and trying to…
Switching on brain cells: the Nobel-winning science of optogenetics
The Nobel medicine prize was awarded Monday to US psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and German scientists Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for their pioneering work in the neuroscience field of optogenetics. In optogenetics, scientists control…
France braces for national day of student protests after injuries and mass arrests
France is braced for major protests on Tuesday, after organisers called for a nationwide day of action in support of students demanding more investment in education. It comes after a week of demonstrations, which saw students blockading hundreds of…
New York declares statewide disaster emergency as measles cases rise
New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared a statewide disaster emergency on Monday over a measles outbreak, the first such declaration by a US state since cases began surging in 2025. The state also expanded the pool of health professionals allowed to…
US ‘watching closely’ after plague researcher dies in Russia
President Donald Trump says the US is looking «very strongly» at the case of a Russian lab technician who died at a plague research centre in Siberia. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington was watching closely amid concerns the incident could…
Indian alleged mastermind of online child abuse ring goes on trial in Paris
An Indian man went on trial behind closed doors in Paris on Monday, accused of running a neo-Nazi child exploitation ring in which young girls were allegedly coerced into performing sexual acts online and engaging in self-harm. The group is believed to…
Donald Trump says a ‘threat’ led US to move bombers from RAF Fairford
RAF Fairford – in the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire – has been at the centre of an incident being investigated by counter-terror police. Five men were initially arrested on suspicion of terror offences and subsequently released on bail. A…
Russian officials say ‘situation under control’ after plague reports
Moscow on Monday downplayed reports that a laboratory technician had died of plague, stressing that post-mortem tests had not detected the disease, while Washington said it was closely monitoring the situation. Reports on Friday that plague had killed a…