Day: March 15, 2023

Australia was one of only 13 countries and territories with a "healthy" air quality last year, according to a new report, as air pollution surged to alarming levels. The report by IQAir, a company that tracks air quality worldwide, found that average annual air pollution in roughly 90 per cent of the countries and territories analysed exceeded the World Health Organisation's air quality guidelines, which are designed to help governments craft regulations to protect public health. IQAir analysed average air quality from 131 countries and territories, and found that just six countries — Australia, Estonia, Finland, Grenada, Iceland and New Zealand — and seven territories in the Pacific and Caribbean, including Guam and Puerto Rico, met the WHO air quality guidelines, which call f...

The City of Light is losing its lustre with tons of garbage piling up on Paris sidewalks as sanitation workers were on strike for a ninth day. The creeping squalor is the most visible sign of widespread anger over a bill to raise the French retirement age by two years. The stench of rotting food has begun escaping from some rubbish bags and overflowing bins. Neither the Left Bank palace housing the Senate nor, across town, a street steps from the Elysee Palace, where waste from the presidential residence is apparently being stocked, was spared by the strike. More than 7000 tonnrs of garbage had piled up by Tuesday. Some of that was seen being tossed into white trucks from a private company along the protest route ahead of a planned march Wednesday, the third in nine days. Polic...

Lindsay Lohan is expecting her first child. The "Mean Girls" star announced her pregnancy in an Instagram post on Tuesday, sharing an image of a baby onesie with "Coming soon..." written on it. The post was captioned "We are blessed and excited!" READ MORE: No Harvey Weinstein retrial on rape, sex assault charges Lindsay Lohan announces she's expecting her first child with husband Bader Shammas. (Instagram / @lindsaylohan) Lohan married financier Bader Shammas in 2022, People magazine reported. A message sent to Lohan's representative was not immediately returned. The 36-year-old actor, who was once a tabloid mainstay, has lived overseas for several years and kept a lower public profile. She recently returned to acting, starring in Netflix's "F...

When a Russian fighter jet collided with a large US surveillance drone over the Black Sea on Tuesday, it was a rare but serious incident that triggered a US diplomatic protest and raised concerns about the possibility Russia could recover sensitive technology. US and Russian officials had conflicting accounts of the collision between the MQ-9 Reaper drone and the Russian Su-27 fighter jet - each blaming the other. But a Pentagon spokesman raised the possibility that the Defence Department could eventually declassify and release video it has of the collision. READ MORE: US drone hit by Russian warplane over Black Sea A Russian fighter jet struck the propeller of a US Air Force MQ-9 drone surveillance drone (pictured) over the Black Sea on March 14, causing American for...