In a significant shift aimed at mitigating the financial impacts of rising trade tensions, Apple has announced plans to relocate the assembly of the majority of iPhones sold in the United States to India. This move comes as the tech giant seeks to reduce its dependency on China, where it currently manufactures 80% of the iPhones sold in the US. Apple, valued at over $3 trillion, is reportedly in talks with key manufacturing partners, including Foxconn and India’s Tata Group, to increase production in India. By the end of 2026, Apple aims to have the majority of its iPhones for…
Author: Raja Zahid Khanzada
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended a ceremony for the launch of a “new multipurpose destroyer,” state media KCNA reported on Saturday. The 5,000-tonne warship was equipped with the “most powerful weapons” and built “within 400-odd days perfectly with our own strength and technology,” Jo Chun Ryong, a secretary in the ruling Workers’ Party, was quoted as saying. Kim, in a speech from the launch reported by KCNA, said the warship would be handed over to the navy and go into service early next year. The launch took place on Friday at the military shipbuilding dockyard…
Royalty, presidents, prime ministers, and a legion of faithful will pay their last respects to Pope Francis on Saturday at a funeral Mass in St. Peter’s Square, honouring his sometimes turbulent papacy. Among those attending from more than 150 countries will be US President Donald Trump, who clashed with Francis on numerous occasions over their starkly contrasting positions on immigration. The Argentine pope died on Monday, aged 88, following a stroke, ushering in a meticulously planned period of transition for the 1.4-billion-member Roman Catholic Church, marked by ancient ritual, pomp, and mourning. Over the past three days,…
The funeral of Pope Francis will take place in St Peter’s Square in the Vatican on Saturday before he is buried at Santa Maria Maggiore basilica in Rome. Here is the official programme of the ceremonies for the late pontiff who died on Monday aged 88. 5:30am — St Peter’s Square opens. 9:30am — US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania arrive in St Peter’s Square. 10:00am — The funeral mass begins. It will be presided over by Giovanni Battista Re, the dean of the College of Cardinals. Francis’s wooden and zinc coffin, sealed on Friday evening, will…
Pope Francis’s wooden coffin was carried into St Peter’s Square on Saturday at the start of a funeral Mass attended by a multitude of mourners, including powerful world leaders, pilgrims, and prelates. Applause rang out as the wooden coffin, inlaid with a large cross, was brought out of St Peter’s Basilica and into the sun-filled square by white-gloved, black-suited pallbearers. Bells tolled as leaders from more than 150 countries took their places. Dignitaries included United States President Donald Trump, who clashed with Francis on numerous occasions over their starkly contrasting positions on immigration. The open-air ceremony, con-celebrated…
The Santa Maria Maggiore basilica, chosen by Pope Francis as his final resting place, is a fifth-century church situated in the heart of Rome that already houses the tombs of seven other popes. Francis, who passed away on Monday at the age of 88, is the first pontiff in over a century to be entombed outside St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican. Pope Francis held a deep devotion to the worship of the Virgin Mary and consistently made it a point to pray in Santa Maria Maggiore before departing on international trips and upon his return to Rome. Most recently,…
Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds might be heading to the latest football game. After the “It Ends With Us” star delivered her speech at the Time100 Gala for being featured as one of the year’s most influential people, she and her husband decided to spend some quality fun time together. Lively shared a selfie where she is seen all smiles, standing beside Reynolds, who sported spectacles and a brown button-down T-shirt. Posing in front of the team logo, hours before Wrexham A.F.C. are scheduled to play Charlton Athletic F.C., she captioned the picture, “Let’s go boys @wrexham_afc,” replacing the “o”…
Vanna White has given an update on her relationship with Pat Sajak following his exit from the game show, “Wheel of Fortune,” in 2024. In a new interview with TV Insider, the 68-year-old host revealed that she and Pat are still friends. “I still see him!” she said, “We’re friends. We have dinner! Yeah, he’s still in my life.” “It’s like slipping into something very comfortable,” Vanna explained of their friendship. “I mean that in the best possible way. It’s just comfortable.” Talking about Pat’s departure from the game show, the TV host said, “It was sad for…
Penn Badgley recently discussed the controversial ending of the Season 5 of Netflix’s “YOU.” Speaking to Deadline, Penn explained that the last episodes of the much-awaited final season of the Netflix thriller will make viewers question “why are we so obsessed with this man?” and “apart from the superficial reasons, what is it about a protagonist like this that works?” Calling these episodes a “true deconstruction of Joe,” the acting sensation claimed, “And I think we deliver.” In addition to this, he addressed that the season finale will ensure that viewers are “viscerally confronted” with exactly what kind…
Virginia Giuffre, the woman who accused Prince Andrew and the late convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein of sexual abuse, passed away by suicide on April 24, 2025, according to her family in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE magazine. “Giuffre lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking,” her family stated. They continued, “Virginia was a fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse and sex trafficking. She was the light that lifted so many survivors. Despite all the adversity she faced in her life, she shone so bright. She will…
