Author: News Desk

Phnom Penh, Cambodia: The midterm election results gave President Biden an unexpected boost at the office for the second year, and he was still celebrating them when he recently arrived in Cambodia. Mr. Biden got more news from home a day after he got to Asia, which may have helped him keep going on the rest of his world tour. He also predicted that his party would keep the majority in the Senate.  “We feel good about where we are. And I know I’m a cockeyed optimist,” Mr. Biden stated recently from the lobby of his hotel. However, even as…

Melbourne, Australia: The experts were wrong, and England was correct, as the downpour that was expected held off and Jos Buttler’s team England overcame some late drama to defeat a resurgent Pakistan to win the 2022 T20 World Cup in Melbourne. The decisive innings to lead his nation to victory by five wickets and to a second T20 World Cup triumph was unavoidably supplied by Ben Stokes, a man who always manages to crowbar his way into a big moment. When England last made it to the T20 World Cup final in 2016, it was Stokes who bowled the disastrous…

Cambodia: US President Mr. Joe Biden has arrived in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for a series of summits and discussions between the US and leaders of Southeast Asian countries. The weekend of discussions in Cambodia comes before the much-awaited Group of 20 summits next week in Indonesia, where Mr. Biden will have his first in-person encounter with Chinese leader Mr. Xi Jinping since he took office. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) gatherings and the East Asia Summit on 13th November, both of which are taking place in Phnom Penh, will give the President the opportunity to engage with US…

New York, US: Kevin Conroy, a well-known voice actor whose somber delivery on Batman: The Animated Series was for many Batman fans the familiar sound of the cape-wearing crusader, has passed away at the age of 66. Producer of the series, Warner Bros. revealed that Mr. Conroy passed away following a battle with cancer. The legendary voice actor frequently appeared alongside Mr. Mark Hamill’s Joker as Batman in the renowned animated series that aired from 1992 to 1996. Mr. Conroy went on to voice Batman in a whopping 15 movies, 400 television episodes, and 20 video games, including the Batman:…

Sydney, Australia: Reminiscent of a viral moment from the COVID-19 era, a cruise ship, Majestic Princess has reached the docks of Sydney Harbor with close to 800 COVID-19-positive passengers onboard. The cruise ship anchored at the Circular Quay after leaving New Zealand and will soon leave Sydney for Melbourne. The ship’s arrival and the peculiar nature of the passengers onboard bring back vivid memories of another cruise ship, Ruby Princess’s arrival, in Sydney in March 2020, the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak in Australia. The ship which was ultimately linked to 28 deaths and more than 600 infections, triggering…

Australia: The Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ms. Penny Wong, has unveiled a $135 million relief plan for refugees fleeing Myanmar into Bangladesh, responding to a spike in border crossings since 2021. For those who are most in need, such as women, girls, and individuals with disabilities, the support package will also provide vital protection, education, and health services. The number of people in Myanmar who require humanitarian aid has increased from 1 million to an estimated 14.4 million since the military takeover in February 2021. Australia has commended Bangladesh for continuing to provide aid to the more than 919,000…

Daejeon, South Korea: In one of the most bizarre inventions, researchers have been able to devise a new to make wiring for electronics that can bend and stretch by zapping liquid metal droplets with ultrasound.  The crazy technique, connecting liquid metals with a sound which is described in the Nov. 11 issue of Science Journal, gives researchers another tool in their arsenal as they create circuitry for wearable electronics, medical sensors that adhere to the skin, and other applications where stiff circuit electronics are less ideal. The researchers started by making lines of small droplets formed from an alloy of…

California US: The micro-blogging site, Twitter’s new owner, Mr. Elon Musk has revoked the platform’s work-from-home policy and forced all employees back to the office after sacking 3,700 people. The Tesla CEO wrote in a memo to employees that the “road ahead is arduous and will require intense work to succeed.” Mr. Musk additionally stated that working from home would no longer be permitted, save in exceptional cases that the CEO would personally review. The announcement comes as the business keeps laying off employees. After purchasing the company for $44 billion, Mr. Musk fired over half of its 7,500 employees.…

Washington, D.C., US: A significant part of the wreckage of the Challenger space shuttle has been discovered in the sand at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida. The revelation by NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida comes close to 37 years after the shuttle broke apart shortly after launch on 28 January 1986, killing seven astronauts. While filming the new History Channel series “The Bermuda Triangle: Into Cursed Waters”, a television dive team, including underwater explorer and marine biologist Mr. Mike Barnette and wreck diver Mr. Jimmy Gadomski, discovered the wreck while searching for the…

Kongens Lyngby, Denmark: According to a study published on November 9 in the journal Nature, the deterioration of the ice stream might result in an increase in the ocean’s worldwide level of about 16 millimeters by the end of the century, which is more than six times what experts had previously predicted. The discovery shows that previous studies probably didn’t take into account how fast the ice will make the sea level rise. The study also suggests that parts of major ice flow in other places may also be melting and moving faster because of climate change caused by people.…