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The worst-ever flooding to hit Pakistan till date, continues to have a devastating impact on lives, with many of those affected still left homeless and vulnerable.

In a significant development for Caribbean regional travel, interCaribbean Airways is excited to announce the upcoming launch of its new non-stop flight service connecting Bridgetown, Barbados, and Kingston, Jamaica.

On Saturday, Aditya-L1 reached the spot in space from where it will be able to continuously watch the Sun.

IFEMA MADRID once again leads the Official Calendar of International Trade Fairs for 2024, with 39 trade shows organised by this institution of international scope, in addition to 6 more organised by other operators.

Hollywood megastar Will Smith made a surprise call to a Guinean man who cycled across Africa to get to university.

Jamaica’s GPE (Generation Procurement Entity) extended to March 25 through April 1 the bidding window for the process to supply 100MW from renewable energies.

The Bulat Utemuratov Foundation has completed another successful year with Bulat Utemuratov, the organisation's founder, recently named Philanthropist of the Year 2023 by the Kazakhstan Growth Forum.

Thousands of people in Japan are spending the night in evacuation centres after a powerful earthquake.

India's space agency has successfully launched a rocket that is carrying an observatory which will study astronomical objects like black holes.

Volocopter, the pioneer of urban air mobility (UAM), successfully conducted a multi-day flight test campaign with a crewed 2X aircraft in the Japanese cities of Osaka and Amagasaki.

Ras Al Khaimah welcomed the New Year with yet another record-breaking eight-minute-long firework and drone display setting two new Guinness World Records titles in a stunning spectacle that lit up the skies along 4.5km stretch of Ras Al Khaimah’s waterfront.

Qatar Duty Free (QDF), owner and operator of all retail and catering outlets at Hamad International Airport in Doha, unveiled Souq Al Matar – an experiential mixed retail and dining concept – at a grand opening event attended by QDF’s leadership, VIPs, international and local media, and KOLs.

Jamaican radio host, television personality, and attorney-at-law, Khadine Hylton-Wilkinson, better known as Miss Kitty, was the people’s choice for Best of Jamaica’s Jamaican Media Personality of the Year in 2023, a survey hosted by Jamaicans.com, a premier cross-media platform.

Marva Wisdom, a senior equity and leadership practitioner, accepted the honour acknowledging her ‘teams’ or ‘the many people who have helped along the way’ as responsible for her success.

As Kiribati's Kiritimati Island became the first country to celebrate the New Year, jubilant crowds gathered to bid farewell to the hottest year on record, after a chaotic year.

On 23 August, massive celebrations broke out across the country when Chandrayaan-3 touched down in the lunar south pole region - an area on the Moon's surface that no-one had reached before.