Author: News Desk

China: The Chinese government’s data has stated that the country’s economy grew 3 percent in 2022, one of the weakest performances in the modern history of the world’s most populous country. The low economic growth might have resulted from the country’s strict coronavirus regulations, which significantly affected businesses. The National Bureau of Statistics figures showed that the economy expanded 2.9 percent during the final quarter, slowing from 3.9 percent growth during the July-September period. Excluding 2020, the Chinese economy in 2022 had its weakest performance since 1976, the final year of Mr. Mao Zedong’s three-decade rule. “The good news is…

London, UK: “Queen” has been selected by young people as the Oxford children’s word of the year for 2022. Oxford University Press (OUP) surveyed their word of the year “Queen” was selected by nearly half of the children. According to OUP, feelings of pride connected with the late monarch as well as sadness and loss. Compared to boys, girls were more likely to select “Queen” as their top term (52 percent of girls chose “Queen” against 39 percent of boys). The Oxford Children’s Corpus, the largest children’s English language database in the world with over 500 million words was reviewed, and it was…

United Kingdom: Scientists have warned that the return of the El Nino climate phenomenon later in 2023 will result in global temperatures rising “off the chart” and delivering unprecedented heatwaves. The reports stated that El Nino will return later in 2023, exacerbating extremely hot weather across the world and making it “very likely” to exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius warming. Both El Nino and its counterpart, La Nina, are part of a larger-scale climate pattern known as the El Nino-Southern Oscillation, or ENSO. ENSO is based on the variation of both sea surface temperatures, or SSTs, and air pressure tendencies in…

Italy: The most wanted mafia boss in Italy, Mr. Matteo Messina Denaro, who had been hiding out for three decades, has been arrested by the Carabinieri police. Mr. Denaro, who was arrested at a healthcare centre in Palermo, the capital of Sicily, is alleged to be a Cosa Nostra mafia boss. The mafia boss was given a life sentence in absentia for his role in the 1992 murders of anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. “Today, January 16, the carabinieri … arrested fugitive Matteo Messina Denaro inside a sanitary structure in Palermo, where he had gone for therapeutic treatment,” Mr.…

United States: A new research has stated that the human urge to help and pet animals has begun from the earliest years of life. In the study published by the journal Human-Animal Interactions, the scientists describe how toddlers were twice as likely to hand over unreachable toys and treats when dogs showed an interest in them. The study made by observing children as young as two years old found that they went out of their way to help dogs get toys and tasty treats that were placed beyond their reach, despite never having met the animals before. The study observed…

Saudi Arabia: Barcelona won the Spanish Super Cup with a 3-1 victory over Real Madrid for the first time since the competition was revamped and moved to Saudi Arabia. In a lucrative deal for the Spanish football federation, Robert Lewandowski, Gavi, and Pedri each scored a goal on 15th January 2023 at King Fahd Stadium in Riyadh to give Barcelona its first Super Cup championship since 2018 and the first since the competition’s Final-Four format began in 2020. Additionally, it was Barcelona’s first title since Lionel Messi left the club for Paris Saint-Germain in 2013 and since former player, Xavi took…

Strasbourg, France: The president of the European Parliament will formally announce a number of reforms to clean up the international assembly in an effort to head off a corruption crisis that has rocked the body. However, a lot of MEPs and observers think Ms. Roberta Metsola’s requested modifications don’t go far enough to be able to reestablish the institution’s credibility. Belgian prosecutors are looking into allegations of fraud in the European Parliament that benefited Morocco and Qatar. $1.6 million in cash were found during the police raids. Qatar has denied any role in the incident’s wrongdoing. Morocco claims that because…

United Kingdom: Prime Minister Mr. Rishi Sunak has announced that the UK government intends to amend the law to give police more authority to control protests following demonstrations with people blocking roads or marching slowly. In recent years, the country has witnessed several protests that have shut down large parts of central London and blocked traffic on key highways, urging the police to have more power to stop the disturbance. The government passed legislation to address the issue in 2022, but is planning to go further with a new set of laws known as the Public Order Bill. The bill…

Davos, Switzerland: The “Survival of the Richest” report published by Oxfam International has stated that the richest 1 percent bagged nearly twice as much wealth as the rest of the world population put together since 2020. In the annual inequality report released during the World Economic Forum annual meeting, Oxfam further stated that billionaire fortunes are increasing by $2.7 billion a day even as at least 1.7 billion workers now live in countries where inflation is outpacing wages. While ordinary people are making daily sacrifices on essentials like food, the super-rich have outdone even their wildest dreams. Just two years…

United States: R’Bonney Gabriel of the United States was named the 71st Miss Universe. Amanda Dudamel from Venezuela and Andrena Martnez from the Dominican Republic lost out to Gabriel, who last year made history by becoming the first Filipino-American to win Miss USA. The pageant was held in New Orleans, Louisiana, with 84 women from around the world competing for the crown. When Gabriel entered the Top 5, she was asked, “Miss Universe recently made an inclusive change allowing mothers and married women to compete this year. What’s another change you’d like to see and why?” https://twitter.com/MissUniverse/status/1614472872382304256?s=20&t=Zf6-HzE-bzNxNSLMeLRokA In her response,…