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Throughout your working life, there’s certainly some things, some ‘behind-the-scenes secrets’, you discover that you were completely unaware of. And it could even alter how you view things. This is exactly what happened to a former hotel room cleaner, who now cannot stay in a hotel room without considering certain “disgusting” things she discovered during her stint as a housekeeper. …

A Ukrainian drone attack damaged at least two foreign vessels and the oil terminal infrastructure at Russia’s key Black Sea port of Tuapse on Sunday, as Kyiv tries to undermine Russia’s war effort by targeting its energy infrastructure. For several months, Ukraine has been striking Russian oil refineries, depots and pipelines in a bid to undermine the Russian economy, and …

Ukrainian drone strikes have ignited major fires in Russia’s city of Tuapse, setting ablaze an oil tanker and the town’s port overnight on Sunday in a move that could disrupt Moscow’s fuel exports. A large part of Russia‘s crude and refined products reach international markets via the port in Russia‘s southern region of Krasnodar. According to the Security Service of …

A drone was seen over a military base in a NATO country for the second time in less than 24 hours, Kyiv Independent has reported. The drone was spotted over the Kleine Brogel Air Base in Belgium late on Saturday night, Belgian Defence Minister Theo Francken announced on X this morning. This comes just one day after several drones had …

Ceasefire talks aim to calm tensions between the two South Asian nations, but longstanding mistrust lingers The armed clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan in October along the 2,640-km-long Durand Line seriously aggravated the chronic instability in this region. Friends of both countries took action to prevent a further deterioration of the situation. The Taliban, which resisted the US, can resist Pakistan’s …

An tattoo artist allegedly sexually abused a British holidaymaker after she asked him to ink a butterfly on her left hip on a night out in Ibiza. The 50-year-old “took advantage” of the fact she wasn’t wearing underwear to put his fingers inside her in an assault said to have lasted 25 minutes. The alleged victim was left unable to …

Anyone who believes Hong Kong does not have a serious screen addiction problem just isn’t paying attention. According to research by the NGO Look Up Hong Kong, more than half of our children aged 6-10 years already own a smartphone. The figure rises to 98 per cent for those aged 14 and above. A 2023 survey by the Hong Kong …

The world is home to some incredible hotels that push the limits of architecture to the extreme. From Sweden’s Icehotel, which is carved each winter, to Florida’s undersea hotel, where guests must scuba dive to get to their rooms, to Gamirasu Cave Hotel in Turkey, with rooms carved into ancient volcanic rock – but all of these accommodations have one …

US President Donald Trump has said his meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, earlier this week will pave the way for lasting peace between the nations.  The two leaders met for the first time in six years Thursday on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Busan, South Korea. Beijing said they reached a consensus to resolve “major trade …

China and Iran should strengthen “wise and balanced” cooperation to jointly counter modern challenges and shape a new world against unilateralism and hegemony, according to Tehran’s top envoy in Beijing. Describing ties with China “decisive” to regional peace, Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said the strategic partnership between the two countries had gone beyond a bilateral level and could improve the roles …