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Marine Le Pen teamed up with a left-wing coalition to topple the French government, pitching the country into a prolonged period of turbulence that’s likely to further unsettle investors. A majority of lawmakers in the National Assembly backed a no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s three-month-old administration following a dispute over next year’s budget. It was the shortest tenure for a premier since France’s Fifth Republic was founded in 1958. In the US, job growth picked up in November, a month after employment was constrained by two hurricanes and a commercial aircraft machinists’ strike. The unemployment rate, however, rose as long-term joblessness reached an almost three-year high.

balloons near Taiwan between Saturday and Sunday, according to Taiwan's Defence Ministry, as Beijing ramps up pressure on the island it claims as its own. China's military activities come amid speculation Beijing might organise military drills around the island in response to Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te's recent visit to Pacific allies, including US stops in Hawaii and Guam. China claims Taiwan, a self-ruled democracy of 23 million people, as its own territory, and bristles at other countries' formal exchanges with Taiwan. The United States, like most countries, doesn't recognize Taiwan as a country but is its main unofficial backer and sells it arms.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Toto! I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kolkata anymore. In the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, after a tornado picks them up and dumps them in Oz, Dorothy famously tells her little terrier Toto that she thinks they are no longer in the cornfields of Kansas.

Baba Vanga is one of those mystic leaders, also known as the 'Nostradamus of the Balkans', who will be remembered for decades for some of her reportedly chilling predictions, including the 9/11 attacks. Baba Vanga is attributed with predicting a number of calamities on the planet, and now, her predictions for 2025 have been revealed, that has included some details about which zodiac signs can end up quite richer than the other this year.

Australia Women Innings Highlights : Australia Women vs India Women Live Score: Australia Women Ellyse Perry 10 (14) Georgia Voll 80 (61) India Women Priya Mishra 0/47 (5) Australia Women vs India Women Live Score: FOUR! SMASHED! Tossed up around off. Perry advances and thumps it to long-off for a powerful boundary. Australia Women vs India Women Live Score: FOUR! Priya Mishra offers a gift and Georgia Voll pounces! Low full toss around off.

Ellen DeGeneres and her spouse Portia de Rossi's decision to relocate to the UK is related to their marital difficulties as they seek a fresh start, according to reports. The couple left the country after the outcome of the most recent US presidential election. But Ellen DeGeneres's career scandal appears to have put her marriage to Portia de Rossi to the test, leading them to move to freshen things up. According to a report by Blast, DeGeneres and de Rossi had marital problems prior to moving overseas, but they decided to stick together and defend their union.

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NASA’s goal is to create «Class III» structures, which means buildings fully constructed using materials sourced from the Moon itself. This approach would save both time and costs compared to transporting materials from Earth. The process involves harvesting lunar regolith (Moon rock) using mining robots, which would then be 3D printed into whatever structures are needed, such as homes, roads, and launch pads. Also Read: What mistakes did King Charles make in his marriage? Here's what he warned Prince William not to do

day-night Test seemed like an exciting idea, the panacea for the problem. Over the years, it seems to have lost its sheen. Except Australia, no country plays it regularly. In fact, they have hosted 13 out of 23 pink ball Tests that have been played so far. England and South Africa haven’t hosted a pink ball Test since 2017. Sri Lanka have never hosted one. India haven’t played a pink Test at home since March 2022 and there is nothing to suggest that it will change anytime soon. For all practical purposes, it has been reduced to tokenism championed by Australia whenever a touring side travels down under.

Online sales have surged 25-30% in the past one year, said Manish Gupta, chief executive of Titan's Fragrances and Fashion Accessories Division, triggering a sudden spike in a market that he estimates is now worth ₹4,500 crore. «The hockey-stick curve is starting now in the perfume category,» Gupta said, highlighting the rapid market evolution from basic deodorants to sophisticated fragrances.

Viswanathan Anand was invited to address a gathering in Bengaluru. The attendees were not chess players or coaches or sports administrators. In fact, it had nothing to do with the sport of chess. Yet, it would turn out to be a gamechanger for chess in India. WestBridge Capital, the Bengaluru-based investment firm that had invited Anand, wanted him to talk to their investors about pattern recognition and its applicability in chess and business. It’s safe to assume that those investors went home better-informed, but chess was definitely the biggest benefactor. During a conversation, Sandeep Singhal, the cofounder and managing partner of WestBridge Captial, suggested to Anand that they should “do something together… for Indian chess”.“He said, ‘let’s think about it’ and then a few months later he came back with an idea of setting up an elite fellowship, where we take the sort of brightest young individuals and try to help them with that last bit that can be the gap between someone who’s best in India to someone who’s best in the world,” Singhal says.

Bashar Assad was in serious trouble was 10 years ago, at the height of the country's civil war, when his forces lost control over parts of the largest city, Aleppo, and his opponents were closing in on the capital, Damascus. Back then, he was rescued by his chief international backer, Russia, and longtime regional ally Iran, which along with Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah militia helped Assad's forces retake Aleppo, tipping the war firmly in his favor. Now, as insurgents pursue a shock offensive that quickly captured not just Aleppo, but other key cities across the country's northwest and in the south, reaching the suburbs of the capital Damascus, the Syrian leader appears to be largely on his own.

Mamata Banerjee’s recent remarks regarding her role in the opposition INDIA alliance have sparked a flurry of reactions from allies within the bloc. Speaking on a television channel, the West Bengal Chief Minister expressed frustration over the leadership and coordination of the coalition. “I had formed the INDIA bloc, now it is up to those leading the front to manage it. If they can’t run the show, what can I do? I would just say that everyone needs to be taken along,” Banerjee stated. When asked why she had not taken charge of the alliance herself, Banerjee clarified, “If given the opportunity I would ensure its smooth functioning. I don’t want to go outside West Bengal, but I can run it from here.” This statement quickly led to speculation about Banerjee’s potential leadership of the INDIA bloc, which she helped establish to challenge the dominance of the BJP.

A total of nine families from six states — Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, and Uttarakhand — fell victim to accused Indraraj Rawat's deception, they said. Rawat, a native of Rajasthan, duped three families in the state, said Nimish Patil, Deputy Commissioner of Police (trans-Hindon).

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. PARIS—The limestone facade of Notre Dame Cathedral is radiant. Its ornate gargoyles and angels show no signs of the smoke and flames that once billowed from the church.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. THE GOGGLES were bothersome. They fogged up when worn with glasses, rendering the world fuzzy when Michael Kovrig wanted to send his accusers the clearest possible message.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Seeing a common household vegetable featured creatively in a dish is a delight, especially for someone like me who often laments that the vegetarian menus in restaurants are restricted to paneer and potatoes. I understand that the economics of running a viable restaurant business means that they have to rely on produce and dishes with mass appeal.

Anantha Nageswaran has pointed out that listed companies are making higher profits but they are paying less to their employees. Nageswaran nudged the private corporate sector to hire more and find the “right balance between capital-intensive and labour-intensive growth”, underling that while profits of listed companies--as a percentage of GDP--hit a 15-year high in 2023-24, their wage cost increase decelerated. Without a judicious balance between the share of corporations’ income making up their profits and that going to workers as wages, there won’t be adequate demand in the economy for companies’ own products to be bought, the CEA said at an event a few days ago. Sustained income growth bolsters both consumption and savings, eventually spurring economic expansion. “In other words, not paying workers well or not hiring workers enough will end up being actually self-destructive or harmful for the corporate sector itself and for small enterprises,” Nageswaran said, stressing that even legendary economist Adam Smith had written The Theory of Moral Sentiments before his seminal work--The Wealth of Nations. “The most important ingredient of long term growth and consumption is to ensure employment income growth and, thus, spending power growth. Otherwise, it will become a mutually self-destructive cycle,” the CEA said.

Munawar Faruqui recently shared a heartbreaking anecdote. The ‘Bigg Boss 17’ winner revealed that his son Mikael was diagnosed with a rare disease when he was just one-and-a-half years old. To add insult to injury, Faruqui struggled with paying medical expenses. In a podcast with Janice Sequeira, he shared about his ordeal. He opened up about the financial hardships he faced during that challenging period. He disclosed that his son's medical diagnosis required injections priced at Rs 25,000 each, while he barely had Rs 700 in his pocket at the time. “That situation scares me. My son was one and a half years old back then. He fell ill, and for 2-3 days, his condition didn’t improve. After taking him to the hospital, we discovered he had Kawasaki disease. Three injections were required, each costing Rs 25,000. I needed Rs 75,000 but had only Rs 700-800 in my wallet," he said.

The federal government has approved a scaled-down wind farm in Idaho over local opposition, including from groups concerned about its proximity to a historic site where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II

U.S. stocks rose to records after data suggested the job market remains solid enough to keep the economy going, but not so strong that it raises immediate worries about inflation