
Ethel Caterham, a British woman born on August 21, 1909, has become the world's oldest living person after celebrating her 116th birthday. She gained the title following the death of Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas in April. Independent in nature, she drove until she was 97, and played bridge in her old age. Ethel was born in Shipton Bellinger, Hampshire, on August 21, 1909.

Finals week hit hard. My desk looked like a disaster zone with half-drunk coffee cups, highlighters everywhere, and ten open tabs I could not focus on. Between part-time shifts and overlapping deadlines, I was barely holding it together. No matter how many to-do lists I made, time kept slipping away.

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Research-heavy assignments test even the most disciplined students. You can't wing them. They demand hours in libraries, careful evaluation of sources, and an ability to translate raw material into a structured argument. Students who juggle part-time jobs, extracurricular activities, or family obligations often find these projects overwhelming.

Leaders of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela on Friday approved the Bogotá Declaration, a document that establishes a unified position for COP30, scheduled for November 10-21 in Belém do Pará, Brazil.

Brazilian meat producers have reached an agreement with Indonesian buyers to export beef from South America's largest country to the world's fourth-most populous nation, the Ministries of Agriculture and Foreign Affairs confirmed on Thursday. The export of live sheep (ewes, rams, lambs) to Algeria was also announced.

The U.K.’s annual inflation rate was higher than expected at 3.8% in July, according to data released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Wednesday. Most economists had anticipated inflation would reach 3.7% in the twelve months to July, after it picked up to 3.6% in June, exceeding forecasts.

Whilst personnel in the UK are enduring yet another heatwave in 2025, Royal Air Force Service Personnel on the other side of the world are experiencing quite the opposite!

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva held a telephone conversation about one hour long Wednesday with his French colleague Emmanuel Macron, during which both leaders pledged to further discuss the Mercosur-European Union Free Trade Agreement to finalize it.

Britain’s Carrier Strike Group's participation in Operation Highmast is a sparkling example of the Royal Navy's shop window, but the deployment also reveals the depleted state of our domestic maritime defenses, a UK security expert has told BFBS Forces News.