Payne’s death made me realise something disturbing...

Ryan Coogan, The Independent On Wednesday evening, One Direction singer Liam Payne died suddenly after falling from a balcony in Buenos Aires. His death came as a shock to fans,...

Kuwait announces temporary power cuts in some areas as demand spikes in summer heat

Kuwait has announced temporary power cuts in some parts of the country during peak consumption hours, saying it is struggling to meet increased demand spurred by extreme summer heat. In...

Surrender or campaign

American education and the great white lies

Recent battles over how to teach history in American schools have focused on views of America’s domestic racism, but that’s only one piece of the problem of how we view...

Not rom-com friendly

Sarah Taryam, Arts Editor I honestly thought this day would never come, but it seems like the Hollywood rom-com is on its way out. Well, probably not out but definitely...

Power restored partially after nationwide outage in Pakistan

Tariq Butt, Correspondent / Agencies Pakistan's government began restoring power to millions of people late on Monday after a breakdown in the grid triggered the worst electricity outage in...

Thousands of travellers stranded at Philippine airports due to power outage

Tens of thousands of travellers were stranded at Philippine airports on Sunday after a power outage knocked out communication and radar equipment at the country's busiest hub in Manila, forcing...

VIDEO: Woman manages traffic in Muscat after electrical grid problems cut power in parts of Oman

Gulf Today Report A video of an Omani woman managing the traffic in a street in the capital Muscat during a power outage has gone viral on social media...

Facebook global outage cost Mark Zuckerberg $8.5 billion in few hours

Gulf Today Report WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook have started to come back online after being down for more than six hours in a major outage. Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and...

Wrath of the waters

The German government on Monday pledged to improve the country’s under-fire warning systems as emergency services continued to search for victims of the worst flooding in living memory, with at...