Bangladesh’s top court has ordered Nobel laureate and microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus to pay more than $1 million in taxes on a $7 million donation made to three charitable trusts, lawyers said Monday. Yunus, 83, is credited with lifting millions out of poverty with his pioneering micro-credit bank, but he has fallen out with Prime […]
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Irish no-frills airline Ryanair on Monday announced surging profits for its first quarter, recovering from disruption to traffic one year earlier in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Profit after tax soared to 663 million euros ($738 million) in the three months to the end of June from 170 million euros in the carrier’s […]
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Eleven people died after the roof of a school gym collapsed in northeastern China, state media reported Monday. The collapse in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang Province was caused by construction workers illegally placing perlite — a form of volcanic glass — on the building’s roof, state news agency Xinhua said. Heavy rain then led the perlite to […]
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Authorities evacuated nearly 2,500 people from the Greek island of Corfu on Monday as crews fight several wildfires in heat-battered Greece. Tens of thousands of people have already fled blazes on the island of Rhodes, with many frightened tourists scrambling to get home. About 2,400 visitors and locals were evacuated from Corfu from Sunday into […]
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Rival gangs fought in a prison in Ecuador, killing at least six inmates in the latest riot to hit the troubled penal system, the government said Sunday. Another 11 prisoners were injured in the new bout of violence in the Guayas 1 prison in the port city of Guayaquil overnight Saturday into Sunday, the agency […]
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