AMSTERDAM: A 32-year-old student was arrested after a “targeted” shooting rampage in the Dutch city of Rotterdam left three people dead on Thursday, CNN reported citing local authorities.According to police spokesman Fred Westerbeke, the shooting first erupted in a private home on the city’s Heiman Dullaert square.The suspected gunman fatally shot a 39-year-old woman and…
British foreign secretary James Cleverly is due to visit China at the end of this month, two sources familiar with the matter said, a long-awaited trip seeking to stabilise a turbulent relationship that has sunk to its lowest point in decades. The foreign ministries of both countries did not immediately respond to requests for comment….
NEW DELHI: For the first time since quitting tennis two years ago, Serena Williams, the 23-time major winner, attended the US Open as a fan on Saturday, electrifying Flushing Meadows.Over her career, the six-time champion conquered New York, and in the third round of the 2022 event, she played her final match against Australian Ajla…
BAY ST. LOUIS: Eleven people were injured when a bus carrying University of South Carolina students blew a tire and hit a concrete barrier in Mississippi. Mississippi state troopers said the driver and a student were critically injured and taken by helicopter to hospitals after the crash Friday, while nine other students were taken by…
HYDERABAD: There seems to be no respite in sight from the long wait for a Green Card for Indians living in the US. Even as the official website of the US Bureau of Consular Affairs maintains that the process takes no more than 24 months, NRIs that TOI spoke to said the wait time reflecting…
BEIJING: Chinese internet giant Tencent announced on Wednesday a 41 percent year-on-year jump in second-quarter net income to 26.17 billion yuan ($3.6 billion). Following years of meteoric growth, Chinese tech firms faced a stringent crackdown by authorities in recent years, which weighed heavily on their profitability. Tencent also announced an 11 percent increase in revenue…
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Thursday his government is planning to introduce tougher anti-smoking measures — a move expected to eventually ban smoking in outdoor spaces, including pubs and restaurants.Smoking has been prohibited inside pubs, restaurants, and most workplaces in the UK since 2007. Despite this, smoking-related illnesses continue to strain the National…
LONDON: King Charles‘s former butler, Grant Harrold said that the monarch has a cheeky sense of humour as he gives ‘bizarre’ presents to his staffers on Christmas Eve.In a conversation with the Mirror on Wednesday, the etiquette expert said “One time he left a tin of salmon and one year I got a salt and…
BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping headed to South Africa on Monday, state media reported, where he will attend the BRICS summit in Johannesburg. The state visit will be Xi’s second international trip of 2023, after making an official trip to Russia in March. “Chinese President Xi Jinping left Beijing on Monday for the 15th BRICS…
NEW DELHI: Responding to Mamata Banerjee‘s letter to PM Modi, Union minister for women and child development Annapurna Devi said West Bengal CM gave “factually incorrect” information in “what appears to be” an attempt “to cover up the delay in operationalising Fast Track Special Courts (FTSCs)”.Banerjee, first wrote to PM Modi on Aug 22 following…
