Hong Kong’s public universities will push to enrol more “quality overseas students” to ensure greater diversity on campuses, a minister has said, after mainland Chinese candidates made up more than 70 per cent of their first-year, non-local undergraduates in the 2024-25 academic year. Secretary for Education Christine Choi Yuk-lin also said that four local universities
United States President Donald Trump has announced that Israel has agreed to the “necessary conditions to finalize” a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza. Israel-Gaza war has been going on since October 2023.(File/AP) Trump said that his representatives met with officials from Israel on Tuesday (local time). He added that during the 60-day ceasefire, which is yet
A decade ago, Apple officially ended support for its professional photo editing app Aperture. While people familiar with the matter told BGR several times that Apple continued to work on a new version of Aperture, like it did with Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad, it seems these plans eventually turned into the
Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos and his new wife are winding down after their $50 million wedding by honeymooning at a White Lotus landmark. Bezos, 61 and Lauren Sánchez, 55, are reportedly spending their honeymoon at the San Domenico Palace, a Four Seasons resort in Taormina, Sicily, following their controversial and star-studded three-day-long Venice wedding. Jeff
Sgt. Maj. of the Marine Corps Carlos Ruiz was just doing what many senior enlisted Marines do: Looking out for uniform standards. Instead, he stepped into a hornet’s nest. In a since-deleted Instagram post, Ruiz used an old picture to make a point about uniform standards, blurring out the face of a soldier wearing a
The number of drone flight hours connected with the Iran War was six times longer than the normal amount of hours for an entire standard year. During the Iran War and in its aftermath, Israel pulled off and is pulling off multiple revolutions, regarding drones and regarding using robots to speed up air defense interceptor
Lee Westwood confirmed his place at The 153rd Open at Royal Portrush by coming through the Final Qualifying competition for the event. Westwood topped one of the two-round events taking place across four different venues on Tuesday, with the Englishman shooting seven-under par at Dundonald Links in Scotland. Playing at Royal Cinque Ports, both Ian
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Maintaining a healthy lifestyle—specifically, a diet rich in fiber but light on red/processed meat, regular exercise, not smoking, and sticking to a normal weight—is linked to a significantly lower risk of diverticulitis, finds a large long-term study, published online in the journal Gut. What’s more, these five components seem to offset
