Author: Isla

The case of two-month-old Danny has sparked concern over his welfare and debate on whether home births, though legal, need to be regulated to ensure health and safety. Danny’s parents were arrested on suspicion of child neglect after not registering his home birth as required by law and failing to provide evidence of parentage. It was the latest chapter in a troubled parenting past also involving two other children born at home.The couple eventually provided DNA samples that verified parentage. Meanwhile, the Social Welfare Department obtained a protective custody court order in the boy’s best interests. He is now in…

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Smithsonian, which is visited by tens of thousands of people every week, also has several objects from India in their collections – but most are from the Air Force and airline companies. It also has a commemorative silver tray Isro presented to the science fiction author Arthur C Clarke in 2007 on his 90th birthday. “But Nandini’s sari is the first object I have collected from India for our interplanetary science collection and it’s our very first sari,” Shindell says.The garment is on display in the Air and Space Museum’s “Futures in Space” gallery, alongside different objects, including toys, games…

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Cammegh has described the receipt of a Gaming-Related Vendor License by the UAE’s General Commercial Gaming Regulatory Authority (GCGRA) as an important step in its growth, providing a pathway to supply its products and services within the UAE. As reported by Inside Asian Gaming, Cammegh and the new-look IGT are the latest companies to be added to the GCGRA’s list of licensed vendors as it prepares for the opening of Wynn Al Marjan Island in 2027. Andrew Cammegh, Sales Director for Cammegh Limited, said, “We’re delighted to have received our Gaming-Related Vendor licence from the GCGRA. This represents an exciting…

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The Day Guangzhou Baiyun Airport Nearly Collapsed June 5, 2026 wasn’t supposed to be the day Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport ground to a halt. But somewhere between dawn and dusk, the numbers told a brutal story: 401 delayed flights and 14 cancellations cascading through one of Asia’s most critical aviation hubs. I’ve watched airport disruptions before. This one felt different. It wasn’t a dramatic shutdown. It was worse—a slow-motion collapse where nearly every flight leaving, arriving, or connecting through Guangzhou faced cascading delays that would ripple across the entire Asian aviation network for days. The airport serves as the primary…

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President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Your Excellency Mr Vice President, Comrade Han Zheng, once again, welcome to St Petersburg.You and I have just taken part in the plenary session of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, which serves as one of the leading platforms for discussing economic matters. However, as we saw during the session, there is no getting away from political issues.In any case, I would like to thank you for your substantive and insightful presentation, as well as the fact that the People’s Republic of China is represented at the level of Vice President, which is a very high level. This adds a certain global dimension to this forum. You have my gratitude for coming here. Of course, I would like to ask you to convey my best wishes to my friend, President of the PRC Xi Jinping for taking…

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The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has unveiled a 21 member tokenized bond expert group to help scale issuance in the jurisdiction. Together they aim to explore policy measures, market practices and innovations. The group has already met and provided input for legal and regulatory enhancements being developed with the Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau (FSTB). In 2025 Hong Kong was the global leader in digital bond issuance, with the government issuing the largest digital bond to date in November worth HK$10 billion ($1.27 billion). That was its third issuance, with plans to make it more regular. It was…

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By Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — India’s youth have had enough. After years of exam scandals, persistently high unemployment, and opportunities slipping further out of reach, simmering frustration is boiling into open anger online and on the streets – and a demand for accountability that many say they can no longer ignore. For one Indian graduate of Boston University, watching from afar is not enough. Abhijeet Dipke, the 30-year-old founder of the satirical Cockroach Janta Party that has gone viral across India, has said he is on his way back to New Delhi, determined to turn his generation’s wrath into…

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Taiwan, the democratic island of about 23 million people, is an isolated technological powerhouse living under the shadow of its giant neighbor. China views Taiwan as a breakaway province and openly declares its intention to bring it under Beijing’s control, by force if necessary. In Taipei, officials understand that time may be running out, and the island has shifted into a mode of preparation: civilian, military and economic.That complex diplomatic reality is felt daily inside Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry. Deputy foreign ministers Chen Ming-chi and François Chih-chung Wu describe a troubling picture of quiet warfare, one aimed at isolating Taiwan and…

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At 11pm on a humid Jakarta night in March, human rights activist Andrie Yunus was getting ready to head home after finishing a recording for a podcast.Warning: This story contains details of an assault.The episode, which had been taped at a legal aid office in central Jakarta, was on the increasing influence of the military across Indonesia’s civilian institutions, an issue the 27-year-old had been very vocal about. Andrie walked to the car park and got on his motorcycle before joining the steady throng of traffic on Central Jakarta’s streets.He did not know it, but he was being followed.Four officers from Indonesia’s…

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