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No one was hurt in the assault, but the attack threatened to escalate Yemen's grinding war and the damaged passenger plane at Abha airport served as a powerful reminder of the danger that Houthi rebels pose to Saudi Arabia.

Source: dailymail

AstraZeneca has unveiled plans to build a new Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing facility in partnership with IDT Biologika at the German firm’s Dessau site, in a move aiming to speed up production and defuse a row with the EU over supplies.

Source: theguardian.com

The socialite and reality TV star testified about abuse she says she suffered years ago at a boarding school in Utah, as she lobbied Monday for a bill seeking to regulate the state’s troubled teen industry.
Hilton was sent to Provo Canyon School for 11 months at age 17 where she says she was abused mentally and physically, recalling that staff members would beat her, force her to take unknown pills, watch her shower and send her to solitary confinement without clothes as punishment.

Source: apnews.com

The world’s second-largest brewer, which makes Europe’s top selling lager Heineken as well as Tiger and Sol, said it would save 2 billion euros ($2.4 billion) over the three years to 2023 under CEO Dolf van den Brink’s “EverGreen” plan. Savings will be achieved by redesigning its organisation, reducing the complexity and number of its products and identifying its least effective spending, Heineken said.

Source: reuters.com

A Warsaw court ruled on Tuesday that two historians tarnished the memory of a Polish villager in a book about the Holocaust and must apologize, in a case some academics warn could deter impartial research into Poland's actions during World War Two. More than seven decades on, the conflict remains a live political issue in Poland, where the ruling nationalists say studies showing complicity by some Poles in the killing of Jews by Nazi Germany are an attempt to dishonor a country that suffered immensely in the conflict. The court ruled that Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski, editors of the two-volume work "Night without an end. Fate of Jews in selected counties of occupied Poland," must apologize for saying Edward Malinowski gave up Jews to the Nazi Germans.

Source: nbcnews.com

The U.S. Navy’s top admiral on Tuesday condemned two new racist incidents involving hate symbols on warships, which sources said included a noose that was left on a Black sailor’s bed.

Source: reuters.com

This is the first time the two stars have acted together on-screen.
The Oscar winners will star in the upcoming Bullet Train, which Bullock, 56, has recently joined, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Source: people.com

A skier who was mauled by a brown bear was hoisted to safety out of Alaska backcountry over the weekend, officials said. The attack happened after a group of three was hiking up a mountain and unknowingly happened on the bear's den, troopers said.

Source: nbcnews.com

A koala has been rescued after causing a five-car pileup while trying to cross a six-lane freeway in southern Australia. Police said the crash in heavy Monday morning traffic in the city of Adelaide caused some injuries but no one required an ambulance.

Source: apnews.com

Princess Eugenie has given birth to her first child, a son she shares with her husband Jack Brooksbank. The royal announced the birth of the couple’s son on Instagram, where she shared a black-and-white photo of herself and her husband holding the infant’s hand.

Source: independent

The U.S. military has gone a full year without a single combat death in Afghanistan for the first time in 20 years.

Source: foxnews.com

Just over a year after the January 26, 2020 helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna, and seven others, the National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB) met to determine the accident's probable cause.

Source: people.com

The United Arab Emirates' first mission to Mars arrived at the red planet on Tuesday and successfully entered orbit on its first attempt. The Emirates Mars Mission, known as the Hope Probe, sent back a signal confirming it's in orbit.

Source: cnn.com

Cuba took a long-awaited and likely irreversible step towards massively expanding the island's private sector. On Saturday, Cuba's communist-run government announced that Cubans will soon be able to seek employment or start businesses in most fields of work.

Source: cnn.com

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has condemned derogatory remarks about women by the head of the Tokyo 2020 Games organising committee, Yoshiro Mori, as “absolutely inappropriate”. The unusually strong intervention came after Mori complained last week that meetings tended to drag on because “competitive” women in attendance “talked too much”. The 83-year-old former prime minister later apologised and retracted his comments while also attempting to justify them, inviting further criticism. On Tuesday hundreds of people who signed up to volunteer at this summer’s rescheduled Tokyo Olympic Games resigned in protest at Mori’s remarks.

Source: theguardian.com

A preliminary investigation found the driver lost control of the vehicle while traveling up a snowbank and skidded over the ramp barrier wall.

Source: nbcnews.com

When you're in pain, you can usually tell someone about it. But for people with communication difficulties, that isn't always an option, meaning pain often goes undetected, misinterpreted or wrongly treated. To give a voice to those who can't report their suffering, such as people with dementia, PainChek, an Australian startup, has developed an app that uses facial analysis and artificial intelligence (AI) to assess and score pain levels.

Source: cnn.com

Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son, the founder and chairman of SoftBank Group, wants his investment funds to produce between 10 and 20 “golden eggs” a year. Son likes to compare his SoftBank Group to a goose that lays golden eggs by accelerating the growth of promising companies until they go public. He often points to Alibaba and Yahoo! as early successes that led to more recent investments in companies like Uber and DoorDash.

Source: forbes