Month: October 2025

Contrary to what was initially assumed, there will be no speed limit for pedestrians in Slovakia in the future. According to a deputy, it was a misunderstanding. October 30, 2025, 04:45October 30, 2025, 04:45 On Wednesday evening, MP Lubomir Vazny, who drafted the bill, clarified on public television STVR that the criticism and jokes were […]

Getty Images Scott Bessent is the face of America’s gamble on Argentina US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has been the point-person entrusted with selling financial markets on some of President Donald Trump’s riskiest economic gambles: sweeping global tariffs, trade talks with China and preparations to install a new leader at the US central bank. But […]

Jamaica’s prime minister Andrew Holness has described the town of Black River as the country’s “ground zero” of damage from Hurricane Melissa. The port on the southwest of the island nation bore the full force of 185 mph (295km/h) winds as the storm made landfall on Tuesday. Officials have said there are deaths but the […]

Danielle KayeBusiness reporter Reuters Apple boss Tim Cook holds an iPhone 17 pro and an iPhone Air, as Apple holds an event at the Steve Jobs Theater on its campus in Cupertino, California, US September 9, 2025. The latest iPhones have seen “a tremendous response” across the globe, said Apple boss Tim Cook as the […]

Homes and power lines have been destroyed in the Jamaican tourism hub of Falmouth, which the BBC has finally been able to access after Hurricane Melissa. Among the buildings damaged is the William Knibb Baptist Church, which was visited by King Charles during a royal tour of the island in 2008. Electricity companies are trying […]

The Trump administration will limit the number of refugees admitted to the US to 7,500, and give priority to white South Africans. The move, announced in a notice published on Thursday, will apply for the next fiscal year and marks a dramatic cut from the previous limit of 125,000 set by former President Joe Biden. […]

Israel has received via the Red Cross in Gaza two coffins which the Palestinian armed group Hamas says contain the bodies of deceased hostages, according to the Israeli prime minister’s office. Israeli forces will now transfer the bodies to Israel’s National Centre of Forensic Medicine for identification. Hamas’s armed wing announced earlier that it had […]

Nick Davis,Mandeville, Jamaica and Rachel Hagan Getty Images In Jamaica, the impact was most severe in the southwestern parish of St Elizabeth. The scale of devastation left by Hurricane Melissa is becoming clear after the record-setting storm tore through Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba, leaving at least 32 people dead. Although downgraded from a Category 5 […]

Laura BickerChina correspondent Watch: US and China’s different reports of their trade meeting Donald Trump came away from his meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping full of bombastic optimism. He called it a “great success” and rated it 12, on a scale of 1 to 10. China was less enthusiastic. Beijing’s initial statement sounds like […]

Nikita YadavBBC News, Delhi NurPhoto via Getty Images India has faced increasingly intense heatwaves in recent years Almost one-third of the heatwave days India experienced in 2024 were driven by climate change, according to a new report by the medical journal The Lancet. The report found that India recorded an average of 19.8 heatwave days […]