Ana Faguy BBC News Reporting fromPort Huron, Michigan BBC At the end of a waitressing shift, Kristina Lampert used to separate her tips in two piles: Canadian cash and American. But it’s been weeks since she has done that. Freighters, the restaurant where she works, is one of the first places people can grab a […]
Anne Okumu & Brian Khisa BBC News, Gaborone Lesego Chombo/Instagram Lesego Chombo’s enthusiasm for life is as infectious as her achievements are impressive: she has won the Miss Botswana 2022 and Miss World Africa 2024 crowns, is a working lawyer, has set up her own charitable foundation – and made history in November, becoming Botswana’s […]
A few years ago, Pope Francis turned to an Augustinian priest and asked a question about a personnel decision he was considering. “If I name Prevost as the head of the office for the bishops, how do you think he will do?” the Rev. Alejandro Moral Antón, the prior general of the Order of St. […]
An Indian defense company says that it did not resell sensitive technology to Russia that was supplied by one of the biggest corporate donors to the populist Reform U.K. party. The New York Times reported in March that, according to 2023 and 2024 shipping records, the British aerospace manufacturer H.R. Smith Group exported equipment to […]
Newspapers around the world on Friday covered the election of a new pope, Robert Francis Prevost, who took the name Leo XIV, with big photos, plays on words and nods to his nationalities. Pope Leo XIV, who was born in Chicago, made history as the first North American pope, and plenty of tabloids and broadsheets […]
Margot Friedländer, a Holocaust survivor who spent more than 60 years in exile (as she saw it) in New York City before returning to Germany in 2010 and finding her voice as a champion of Holocaust remembrance — work that made her a celebrity to young Germans and landed her on the cover of German […]
When Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was selected as pope on Thursday, President Trump quickly offered the first U.S.-born pontiff a hearty congratulations. “It is such an honor to realize that he is the first American Pope,” Mr. Trump said in a statement. “What excitement.” But some of Mr. Trump’s most fervent followers do not appear […]
Billionaire art collectors rarely air their deals or dirty laundry out in public. But a battle between a pair of boldfaced names over a Giacometti sculpture is now playing out in the open, shining a rare light on a global market featuring unlicensed agents, multi-million-dollar handshake deals and pervasive secrecy. The Chinese crypto entrepreneur Justin […]
The spark for the latest round of escalation between India and Pakistan, the most expansive fighting between the enemies in decades, was a terrorist slaughter of civilians in Kashmir last month. A group of attackers managed to puncture the semblance of calm that the Indian government had been projecting on its side of the troubled […]
India and Pakistan have accused each other of “violations” hours after the two nations said they had agreed to a ceasefire following days of cross-border military strikes. After sounds of explosions were heard in Indian-administered Kashmir, India’s Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said there had been “repeated violations of the understanding we arrived at”. A short […]