UAE School Bus Time Limits: New 45-60 Minute Caps for Child Well-being Parents and policymakers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are increasingly debating the impacts of extended school bus journeys on children’s well-being, after reports highlighted that some students were spending two hours or more on buses daily. Responding to these concerns, UAE authorities…
UAE Partners with Starlink to Expand Global Digital Education Access The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced a strategic global partnership with Starlink, the satellite internet service operated by SpaceX, aimed at transforming digital education access worldwide, especially for students in remote and underserved communities with limited or no reliable connectivity. The initiative, launched alongside…
WhatsApp Web Calling Launched Globally: What UAE Users Need to Know WhatsApp has begun a global rollout of voice and video calling features on WhatsApp Web, allowing users to make and receive calls directly from their browser without installing the desktop app. This update brings long-awaited calling functionality to the web version of the platform,…
Fact check: Was Erika Kirk arrested after Candace Owens raised grooming allegation about 15 year old online? (Image via Getty) Erika Kirk has not been arrested and she is not under investigation. Currently, there is no public record in the United States linking her to any criminal case tied to the viral “grooming” claim. In…
A passenger plane flew with an engine shredded and charred by a midair explosion before it made an emergency landing in Benin, after an incident on an Arik Air Boeing 737 flight from Lagos to Port Harcourt in Nigeria on Wednesday.Passengers filmed the view of the aircraft’s left engine destroyed during the cross-country flight. Some…
The mystery owner of one of Jeffrey Epstein‘s most famous abodes, a ranch in New Mexico, was revealed to be MAGA millionaire and Texas Comptroller candidate, Don Huffines. The real-estate mogul purchased the convicted child sex offender’s “Zorro Ranch” in 2023, using a limited liability company he created just weeks before the purchase, reported Santa…
Ofelia Torres, the 16-year-old Chicago student who publicly appealed for her father’s release from immigration detention while battling a rare cancer, has died, reports NBC news. Ofelia passed away on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive cancer that affects soft tissue. She had been diagnosed in December 2024 and had spent…
Christianity declined in the West, losing followers, while sub-Saharan Africa grew rapidly, becoming the region with the largest Christian population/ saintandrewpasadena For nearly two millennia, Christianity expanded outward from a small Jewish sect in the eastern Roman Empire to become the world’s largest religion. Imperial endorsement in the 4th century, medieval missionary networks across Europe…
Some Americans had an extra day off to look forward to this weekend as Presidents Day, a federal holiday in the United States, fell on the third Monday of February.Presidents Day in 2026 was on Monday, February 16. The holiday, originally created to celebrate George Washington’s birthday, was now seen as a day to honour…
MacKenzie Scott donated $26 billion over the past seven years, including a record $7.2 billion in 2025, a pace of giving that makes her the third-largest philanthropist of all time by total lifetime donations, according to Forbes. Scott is a novelist and the former spouse of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. She has distributed the funds…
