Ranil Wickremesinghe, 73, has been elected the 9th President of Sri Lanka. He was voted to the country’s top job not by the people but by members of Parliament to finish the remainder of the term of Gotabaya Rajapaksa. His elevation is not likely to end the ongoing political crisis in Sri Lanka ...

The Henley Passport Index has recently released the list of the World’s Most Powerful Passports for the year 2022. Japan has the world's most powerful passport, followed by Singapore and South Korea, as per Henley Passport Index 2022. The holder of Japanese passport will get ...

International Moon Day is being celebrated for the very first time on July 20, 2022. On December 9, 2021, the United Nations General Assembly recognized the proposal submitted by the Moon Village Association and several other groups within the organization. The application to observe International ...

Mexico has topped the Expat Insider Rankings for 2022, which was released by the InterNations recently, while India has been ranked on 36th position out of the 52 countries on the list, with a high affordability score. Kuwait is the worst country for ...

As per the 27th edition of the UN World Population Prospects 2022, India is projected to surpass China as the world’s most populous country in 2023. With the 1,426 million population, China remains the most populous country in the world in 2022. India has been recorded ...

Deutsche Bahn (DB) is ready to become the world's first Intermodal Partner of Star Alliance. Under the new partnership, the DB customers and passengers of Star Alliance member airlines will be able to start or end their journey comfortably on the climate-friendly train. Germany ...

Boris Johnson said on Thursday that he would step down as Britain’s prime minister, after a wholesale rebellion of his cabinet, a wave of government resignations and a devastating loss of party support prompted by his handling of the the latest scandal that has engulfed his leadership. Mr. Johnson ...

The African country, Uganda has recently announced the discovery of a deposit of 31 million tonnes of gold ore, with extractable pure gold estimated to gross 320,000 tonnes. It will attract big investors to develop the Sector hitherto dominated by small wildcat miners. To ...

Leader of Yesh Atid Party, Yair Lapid has been officially became the 14th prime minister of Israel, after replacing Naftali Bennett. His term could be a fairly short one, as he takes over a caretaker government ahead of national elections on November 1. He is a former ...

Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the namesake son of an ousted dictator, is to be sworn in as Philippine president Thursday in one of history's greatest political comebacks but which opponents say was pulled off by whitewashing his family’s image. He took the oath at the National Museum of Fine Arts in ...