Editors Desk

Paris 2024 organisers canceled Monday's swimming training session due to inadequate water quality in the Seine, following a similar cancellation on Sunday. Despite recent heavy rains impacting the river's pollution levels, they remain optimistic that conditions will improve in time for the men's triathlon on Tuesday.

Will it pay off?

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro won re-election with 51.2% of the vote on Sunday, according to the electoral council, following a campaign marred by claims of opposition intimidation and fears of fraud. Opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez, who had been leading in independent polls, won 44.2% of the vote. 

Many netizens have called the Paris Games’ opening ceremony the worst ever

The reported airstrikes came after Israel accused Hezbollah killing 12 civilians in the Golan Heights

The Eritrean Civil Aviation Authority has halted all routes of the neighboring country’s flagship carrier

Augustus Caesar goes on the open-source warpath

Why tourists who flock to see the country's beautiful landscapes will have to get a visa from next year.

The Aussie wife of Kanye West is officially in her ‘topless’ era, stepping out for a movie date in an outrageous look.

Sportswear company issues statement after accusations it was conflating Palestinian identity with terrorism

Final preparations are under way as the French capital prepares to host the 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. Streets and bridges are closed, large areas are inaccessible, and security is tight as the city gears up for an unprecedented Opening Ceremony on Friday involving a 6-kilometre (4-mile) floating procession down the River Seine. 

With a promise to lay out “what lies ahead”, US President Joe Biden will address the nation from the Oval Office on Wednesday. In what could be his last major speech as president, he is poised to explain his stunning decision to drop out of the presidential race last Sunday. But many expect Biden will insist he still has much to offer, even as Kamala Harris takes over the Democratic presidential nomination.  

Just two days before the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony kicks off, France was granted conditional approval to host the 2030 Winter Olympics. Set to take place in the French Alps, the green light was given by the International Olympic Committee on Wednesday under the condition that the next prime minister gives a financial “guarantee” for hosting the Games.

The search giant was in talks to acquire Wiz for $23 billion

France's leftist party France Unbowed (LFI) announced its plan to introduce legislation on Tuesday to repeal President Emmanuel Macron's contentious pension reform, which raised the legal retirement age from 62 to 64. The bill, according to LFI chief lawmaker Mathilde Panot, seeks to reverse changes that sparked widespread protests last year.

Prices have risen by 172% in Russia’s biggest cities over the past three years

The company’s strategy to set prices low for Echo speakers and other smart devices hasn’t paid off.

The actress dated her ex in 2020 before breaking up the following year.

Speaker Mike Johnson’s threat to challenge Vice President Harris’s nomination in court should be frivolous. But who knows with this Supreme Court?