News archive of May 2024

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered what appears to be a new record-holder for the most distant known galaxy, a remarkably bright star system that existed just 290 million years after the Big Bang, NASA said Thursday.

The U.S. and Chinese defense chiefs held rare direct talks in Singapore on Friday, offering hopes for more military dialogue that could help prevent disputes over Taiwan and other flashpoint issues from spinning out of control.

Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis on Friday threatened to escalate attacks on Red Sea shipping after overnight strikes by the United States and Britain killed 16 people, according to rebel media.

North Korean state media on Friday released images of leader Kim Jong Un supervising tests of a multiple rocket launcher system, a day after Seoul accused Pyongyang of firing a volley of short-range ballistic missiles.

The photos showed Kim, in a brown leather jacket, smiling with uniformed generals as he supervised the simultaneous launch of what appeared to be 18 projectiles.

Donald Trump on Thursday became the first former U.S. president ever convicted of a crime after a New York jury found him guilty on all charges in his hush money case, months before an election that could see him yet return to the White House.

Russian strikes killed three people in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, the regional governor said early Friday, hours after the United States authorised Kiev to use American weapons to hit targets inside Russia in defense of the embattled region.

Q: Can that plastic spoon really return to nature?

On the face of it, biodegradable plastic is a miracle. It looks like plastic and works much like plastic. And it goes back to nature after you throw it away.

Cyprus' Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades announced on Thursday that Qatar and other international investors have shown interest in the development of Larnaca Port and Marina.

Vafeades will present a detailed timetable to the president of the Republic following a meeting with the local community on Friday.

The new Entrepreneurship Fund (TEPIX III) is offering small and medium-sized enterprises the chance to obtain loans of 2.2 billion euros on favorable terms, through the 12 cooperating banks.

Analysts in Greece have noted while the calm in the Aegean has been maintained, Ankara's recent moves could undermine the Athens Declaration on Friendly Relations and Good-Neighborliness agreed by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan back in December.