US has intensified a global crackdown on so-called “birth tourism,” revoking hundreds of visas and targeting what officials describe as organised networks helping foreign nationals travel to the country primarily to give birth and secure US citizenship for their children.The US State Department said on Wednesday it is stepping up enforcement action against applicants who…
A Perth-based comedian has claimed he was banned from almost every venue in Western Australia for 12 months following an incident he says he still does not fully understand.Jasky Singh said the statewide restriction was imposed after an incident at The Gold Bar in Kalgoorlie, in the state’s Goldfields–Esperance region, in November. The ban applies…
Soulja Boy and Kai Cenat (Image Via Getty) Soulja Boy has announced a new project called Rapper University after spending the last few days talking about Kai Cenat’s Streamer University 2026. The rapper revealed the idea on X, saying he plans to create his own Twitch-based program aimed at aspiring artists. The announcement came shortly…
Elizabeth Fry (Image: Wikipedia) A prison cell is a strange place to find a social reformer.Yet that is exactly where Elizabeth Fry spent much of her time during the early nineteenth century. While many of her contemporaries viewed prisons as places where offenders simply received the consequences of their actions, Fry saw something else. She…
Three members of an ISIS-linked gang have been convicted of murdering British botanists Rod Saunders and Rachel Saunders before dumping their bodies in a crocodile-infested river in South Africa, bringing an end to a case that remained unresolved for more than eight years.Durban High Court found Sayefundeen Del Vecchio, 44, his wife Bibi Patel, 34,…
Federal authorities have arrested Indian-origin businessman Mahender Makhijani, accusing him of defrauding a bank out of nearly $100 million through a scheme that involved forged real estate documents and misleading financial records.The 44-year-old man is a lawful permanent resident from India who lives in Corona del Mar, California. He was taken into custody on Wednesday…
The family of Stephen Ogilvie, the man critically injured in a knife attack in Belfast, has appealed for calm and rejected the violent unrest that erupted across the city in the aftermath of the incident.“We want to make it absolutely clear that overnight unrest is not welcome, and peaceful protest is the only way forward,”…
A worn volume bound in faded red leather has been formally recognised by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation as one of England’s earliest surviving paper-based archives. It is the kind of object most visitors would walk past without realising they are looking at something that predates printing presses, predates modern record keeping,…
For decades, scientists believed that an average life expectancy of 90 years was a distant milestone that no country would reach anytime soon. Then a landmark study published in The Lancet challenged that assumption. Researchers projected that South Korean women born in 2030 could live an average of 90.8 years, making them the first population…
Vehicles set on fire by protesters. (AP Photo) British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday strongly condemned the anti-immigrant violence that erupted across Belfast overnight, calling the scenes “shocking and completely unacceptable” and vowing that those behind the disorder would face the “full force of the law.““It is clear that people were targeted last night…