1917: Third Battle of Ypres: Canadian troops recapture the high ground in the village of Passchendaele from the Germans in West Flanders, Belgium, during World War I; over 200,000 casualties occur on each side, and 24,000 German prisoners are taken 1948: Earthquake in Ashgabat kills 100,000 in Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic 1948: Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey […]
“Jane and Zhen” is a short film born from questions about love, choice, loss, creation and eternity. Bringing together a young Chinese woman and a twenty-five-year-old Jane Austen in a dreamlike encounter in Bath, the film explores the unexpected ways in which human emotions can cross cultures, generations and time. Following its international festival journey, […]
The US has withdrawn all of its bombers from RAF Fairford, the UK military base at the centre of an incident being investigated by counter terror police. A statement from a Pentagon official confirmed on Sunday it had removed its bombers – thought to be about a dozen B-1s – from the base back to […]
Australian retail and wholesale veteran Angela Skrinos has turned 35 years of industry experience into a triple award-winning business model, securing three honours at the 2026 AusMumpreneur Awards.
Cyprus records third-highest share of air travel in the EU in 2024, according to Eurostat.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is due to arrive in Athens on Tuesday, placing defense cooperation at the center of a visit that Greek officials view as a reaffirmation of the strategic relationship between Greece and the United States.
1274: Around 1,000 soldiers of the Mongol army land on the Japanese island of Tsushima in the first attack of Kublai Khan’s Mongol invasion of Japan 1789: Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand […]
Along the US’s South-eastern coast, Gullah Geechee communities preserve a distinct culture and language rooted in West Africa that is spoken nowhere else on Earth. It’s low tide at Fish Haul Beach, a marshy stretch on Hilton Head Island’s northern fringe. Fish Haul was the first beach I ever visited as a child, and now […]
The Consulate General of Greece in Sydney has held an information session for how Greek citizens living in Australia can register for the Special Electoral Roll and exercise their voting rights through postal voting.
With Giorgia Meloni and Nicușor Dan as first signatories, the group also wants cohesion funding preserved, national rebates scrapped and NextGenerationEU loan repaid more slowly to free up fiscal space.
