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Pope Leo XIV holds a Mass with young people participating in the Youths Jubilee at the Tor Vergata field in Rome, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025. Andrew Medichini/AP hide caption toggle caption Andrew Medichini/AP ROME — Pope Leo XIV on Sunday told more than a million Catholic youths at a closing Mass for a weeklong encounter with the next generation of faithful that they are “the sign that a different world is possible” where conflicts can be resolved with dialogue, not weapons. In his closing blessing for the Jubilee of Youth, Leo remembered the young people of Gaza and Ukraine and…

State media says armed groups violated the truce agreed in the predominantly Druze region.Druze armed groups have attacked personnel from Syria’s internal security forces in the restive area of Suwayda, killing at least one government soldier and wounding others, as well as shelling several villages in the southern province, according to state-run Ekhbariya TV.Ekhbariya’s report on Sunday quoted a security source as saying the armed groups had violated the ceasefire agreed in the predominantly Druze region, where sectarian bloodshed killed hundreds of people last month.In response to the renewed violence, the Syrian government said in a statement that “the media…

Image for representation. | Photo Credit: Reuters While the Karnataka Platform Based Gig Workers (Social Security and Welfare) Ordinance, 2025, is a step forward towards basic social security cover, there are serious lacunae related to calculation of the welfare cess.The welfare ordinance specifies ‘payout’ as the basis parameter for calculation of the welfare cess. ‘Payout’ is defined as the ‘final payment made by the aggregator/platform to the gig worker…‘. It goes on to define the ‘welfare fee’ as ranging from 1% and 5% of the payout per transaction to the gig worker. This formulation raises a series of issues. First,…

A new study ranked 117 global airports on family-friendly amenities like play areas, nursing rooms, stroller rentals, and security options.Several U.S. airports made the full list, but none cracked the top 20—Memphis International (MEM) ranked highest at No. 23. Traveling with small children is no walk in the park, even under the best of circumstances. But as families on the go know, not all airports are created equal—and a new study set out to find the 10 most family-friendly airports in the world. British stroller company iCandy recently released its Little Flyers Index, which examined 117 airports around the world…

At least 54 migrants die as boat sinks off Yemen coast, medics say

The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission’s (CERC) proposed implementation of market coupling in Day Ahead Market (DAM) segment of power exchanges from January 2026 may have little benefit for the power sector and is contrary to the findings of the pilot study conducted by Grid Controller of India, according to industry officials and analysts.They said the marginal improvements do not offer a “compelling rationale” for implementing market coupling on a full scale, particularly in the absence of a detailed “robustness and sensitivity” analysis. They added that even the January 2026 timeline for implementation would be challenging.“The results of the shadow pilot conducted…

BREAKINGBREAKING, Rescue operations are ongoing to find dozens more missing, local authorities say.At least 54 African refugees and migrants have died and dozens remain missing after a boat capsized off the coast of Yemen, according to health authorities in Abyan governorate in the south of the country.Abdul Qader Bajamil, director of the health office in Zanzibar, said on Sunday that rescue teams had recovered 54 bodies from the beaches there and surrounding areas, while 12 survivors were transferred to Shaqra Hospital.The boat carrying approximately 150 people, mostly from Ethiopia, capsized in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Shaqra, in…

In form: Namdhari topped Group A with six points from two wins. | Photo Credit: Debasish Bhaduri A 10-man Namdhari FC rallied to beat Indian Air Force 4-2 in a high-scoring Durand Cup fixture at the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan in Kolkata on Sunday (August 3, 2025).Namdhari topped Group A with six points from two wins. Samuel pounced on a loose ball inside the box to put IAF ahead early. Namdhari waited for around half an hour before Cledson Dasilva converted a penalty to equalise. Amandeep Singh secured the lead for Namdhari just before half-time. Then, Dharmpreet Singh made it 3-1…

The dominant position of Amazon and Microsoft in cloud computing is harming competition, with their impact exacerbated by technical and commercial barriers to switching, an inquiry group from Britain’s antitrust regulator said.The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) group said on Thursday the regulator should investigate whether to designate the two with strategic market status (SMS) in cloud services, which would give it new powers to intervene.It noted, however, that the CMA has said it will not consider new SMS investigations, which are conducted by its Digital Markets Unit (DMU), until early next year.Microsoft was singled out in its final report…

Watching this season of The Gilded Age and want to live for a moment within that show’s world? It’s not difficult to understand your desire. During the late-19th-century period depicted, New York City and Newport alike were grand, blank canvases upon which the wealthy were able to erect massive and splendiferous testaments to their liquidity. It wasn’t all roses, by any means—the wives approached the Newport summer season with more rigor than their husbands had for business dealings, and divorcées like poor Aurora Fane were socially destitute despite no wrongdoing on their part. (Which is why it’s more fun to…