Universities must evolve to build a more resilient economy, says Shorten

University of Canberra vice-chancellor Bill Shorten has called for a “fundamental re-imagining” of Australia’s universities as a “core instrument of our national power”. In his first major speech on the sector’s future, Shorten has urged breaking...

LONG READ: The GEMIs, the Global Emerging Markets' interlocking institutions

The international order is breaking up as the Global Emerging Markets (GEMs) build a raft of new non-Western interlocking international institutions to run their vision of a new multipolar world order. At the same time the incumbent...

China Responds to America’s New $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee

China says it welcomes industry talent following President Donald Trump’s announcement of the introduction of a new hurdle to deter H-1B visa applicants. On Friday, Trump issued a proclamation adding a $100,000 fee to H-1B visas, which employers...

Asogli State celebrates 2025 Yam Festival, calls for unity, integrity, agricultural renewal

By Michael Foli Jackidy, GNA Ho (V/R), Oct 4, GNA –Vice President Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, Saturday graced the grand durbar celebration of the Te Za (Yam Festival) of the chiefs and people of Asogli in the Volta Region. The 2025...

WMS adoption boosted

The global warehouse management system (WMS) market size was valued at USD 3.45 billion in 2024. The market is projected to grow from USD 3.88 billion in 2025 to USD 8.96 billion by 2032, exhibiting a CAGR of 12.7% during the forecast period....

Teflon Eating and Garlic-Flavored Breastmilk: The Ig Nobel Prize Winners of 2025

Once a year, a group of real Nobel Prize winners gathers in Boston to hand out fake Nobel Prizes to honor very real but ridiculous achievements in scientific research. You’ve no doubt heard about it at some point in your life. It’s the Ig Nobel...

Nigeria @ 65: Still flying on clipped wings

By Chinelo Obogo [email protected] After 65 years of independence, experts are unanimous in their submission that the Nigerian aviation sector should have soared far above the altitude it currently is. According to them, the nation, by now, should...

FG Pledges to Work With Stakeholders After Completion of Child Rights Act Review

. Tinubu, Hanatu, Sanwo-Olu, others hail Kanyeyachukwu artistic capabilities Oluchi Chibuzor The federal government has said that it will work with necessary stakeholders once the current Nigerian Child Right Act is reviewed to provide the...

China’s ‘Great Green Wall’ brings hope but also some hardship for herders

Planting the equivalent of 840,000 football pitches around Inner Mongolia’s Kubuqi Desert has created tens of thousands of jobs and helped alleviate poverty, a 2015 United Nations study found. For some ethnic Mongolians, who make up 17% of the...

Turning deserts green and lives upside down: Inside China’s massive rewilding project

ORDOS (China), Oct 3 — Inner Mongolian herder Dorj looked bitterly at the vast grasslands where his flock once grazed freely, before the practice was banned as part of a massive Chinese state greening project. Restrictions on traditional grazing...

FCWC, partners launch West Africa Sustainable Ocean Programme 

By Laudia Sawer Tema, Oct. 02, GNA – The Fisheries Committee for the West Central Gulf of Guinea (FCWC), in collaboration with its national and international partners, has launched the West Africa Sustainable Ocean Programme (WASOP)-Pillar. The...

€59m ocean governance drive launched …to tackle illegal fishing in W.A

A €59 million initiative aimed at promoting sustainable ocean governance and addressing the menace of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing has been launched in Tema. The programme, known as the West Africa Sustainable Ocean Programme...

“When you think he’s injured or tired, he’d give you a hattrick or 4 goals” - Ex-Real Madrid star sums up ‘crazy’ Cristiano Ronaldo

Emmanuel Adebayor, who once shared the locker room with Cristiano Ronaldo at Real Madrid, delivered glowing praise for the Portuguese icon, describing him as the 'best' player he has ever played with. Adebayor, who joined Los Blancos on loan from...

ILT20 auction: Grocery store assistant-turned-fast bowler Junaid Siddique lands $170,000 deal

Junaid Siddique said he felt numb while sitting on his own in his apartment in Sharjah, as he watched a bidding war unfold which finished with him landing a deal worth $170,000. The 32-year-old fast-bowler was the biggest beneficiary of the...

Festac Africa seeks to connect Africans more

Africans do not talk to each other more, and so do not know each other well; and this is the reason why Africans not only do not get along as nations to nations, but also as tribe to tribe as exemplified by the deep ethnic divisions even within...

GITFiC appeals to EBID for support to drive its Agenda 2031 

By Albert Allotey Lome, (Togo), Sept 19, GNA – The Ghana International Trade and Finance Conference (GITFiC) Technical Working Committee has appealed to the ECOWAS Bank of Investment and Development (EBID) for support to implement its Agenda 2031....

News AFP China's 'Great Green Wall' brings hope but also hardship

Inner Mongolian herder Dorj looked bitterly at the vast grasslands where his flock once grazed freely, before the practice was banned as part of a massive Chinese state greening project. Restrictions on traditional grazing are a key part of...

Bill Shorten ‘re-imagines universities’, with specialist institutions and bespoke degrees

University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor Bill Shorten has called for a “fundamental re-imagining” of Australia’s universities as a “core instrument of our national power”. In his first major speech on the sector’s future, Shorten has urged breaking...

Painting zebra stripes on cows among Ig Nobel winners

Painting zebra stripes on cows to fend off flies, lizards' favourite pizza toppings and how booze helps you speak another language: these were some of the winners at the Ig Nobel prizes, which celebrate the sillier side of science. The 35th...

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus M.Ryzhenkov takes part in the high-level week of the 80th session of the UN General Assembly (fourth day)

27 September 2025 On September 26, 2025 the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus, Maxim Ryzhenkov, continued his visit to New York to participate in the anniversary session of the UN General Assembly. The Belarusian Foreign...