Great job, good education, no home: is Australia’s bloated property market destroying the middle class? | Housing

Ross Hamilton spends his work days in a laboratory developing treatments for fibrosis. At home, he sets aside as much time as possible to be with his partner, their four-year-old daughter and... Read more »

Benue, Plateau, Nasarawa renew push for state police

The clamour for the establishment of state police, electoral reforms, and true federalism took centre stage on Saturday during the North Central Zone B public hearing on the review of the 1999... Read more »

Senate, National Assembly brace for face-off over NG-CDF

A draft Bill sponsored by Wajir East MP Aden Mohamed called for the increment of the NG-CDF kitty by Sh10 billion. [File, Standard]. The stage is... Read more »

CEO salaries: How much Singapore’s top companies pay their leaders

[SINGAPORE] From telcos to banks, companies have released their annual reports in the past few months. Those reports include a breakdown of how much CEOs were paid in the previous year. Their... Read more »

FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from 100-year flood map before expansion, records show

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before... Read more »

Dozens of MPs call for UK government to recognise Palestine as state | Politics News

Nearly 60 Labour MPs have called on David Lammy and the Foreign Office to immediately recognise Palestine as a state. A mix of centrist and left-wing MPs, including some committee chairs, wrote... Read more »

Antisemitism plan a dire intervention in Australian universities

Australia’s antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal yesterday released her “plan to combat antisemitism“, which she thinks is “evident within schools and universities and has become ingrained and normalised within academia and the cultural... Read more »

Japanese Company Buys Original Birkin Bag for ¥1.47 Billion

The original black leather Birkin bag, owned and loved by Hermès muse Jane Birkin, has sold for ¥1.47 billion (€8.58 million) to Valuence Japan, the company behind luxury buyer Allu. The historic... Read more »

Samsung Days Sale 2025 Offers Up to 41 Percent Discount on Galaxy S25 Ultra, S25 Edge

Samsung Days sale 2025, the company’s India-focused sale, will kick off starting Saturday, July 12. The six-day-long sale event will exclusively take place on Samsung’s website, its Shop app, and offline Experience... Read more »

Tracing the Intellectual Heritage of Grand Ayatollah Sistani’s Political Thought

(Photo: Al-Khoei Foundation) In a message last week conveyed through one of his representatives, Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani called on Iraqis to remain steadfast in their national principles and maintain hope for... Read more »