Indian student builds world’s smallest vacuum cleaner
Sept. 4 (UPI) -- A college student from India broke a Guinness World Record by transforming a refillable ballpoint pen into the world's...
Turkish, Egyptian leaders stress joint stance on Gaza conflict
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi on Wednesday called for a ceasefire in the besieged Gaza Strip, stressing that...
Anti-whaling campaigner wanted by Japan to remain held in Greenland
Canadian-US environmentalist and anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson is to remain in custody in Greenland for a further four weeks as legal wrangling over...
Brussels demands information on Hungary’s new visa rules for Russians
The European Commission and Hungary are still at odds over new Hungarian visa rules for foreign workers from Russia and Belarus, with Brussels...
Fake CV lands top ‘engineer’ in jail for 15 years
The man who had been chief engineer at South Africa’s state-owned passenger rail company has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for...
Scholz hails ‘important step’ as Germany deploys new defence system
The German military put its first IRIS-T SLM air defence system into service on Wednesday, with Chancellor Olaf Scholz in attendance.Speaking in Todendorf...
A migrants’ boat capsizes off Italy and about 20 are reported missing
ROME (AP) — About 20 migrants are believed to be missing after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean this week, the U.N. refugee...
Poland to assist with rebuilding Lviv after Russian air attack
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has offered assistance in reconstructing buildings in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv that were destroyed overnight in...
Ukraine foreign minister latest to announce departure from government
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba is leaving his post as part of a major government reshuffle after two and a half years of...
Volvo becomes latest carmaker to scale back electric ambitions, eases goal to at least...
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Sweden-based Volvo Cars has eased off on its pledge to stop selling cars with internal combustion motors by 2030,...
