Antonelli crowned world champion as Verstappen wins in Mexico.

Updated by Faith Barbara N Ruhinda at 0906 EAT on Monday 2 November 2026 Antonelli, 20 years and 68 days old, finished third behind Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton. His historic achievement came on a day when tensions between seven-time world champion Hamilton and his Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc threatened to boil…

Search launched for Americans seized in Mexico

By Will Grunt A search is under way for four US citizens who were kidnapped in north-eastern Mexico last week in a clash which left one Mexican citizen dead. The Americans were driving through Matamoros in Tamaulipas state in a white minivan when a group of unidentified gunmen shot at them. They were then placed…

Another eighth jounalist shot dead in Mexico this year.

Armando Linares, director of Monitor Michoacan, the latest to be murdered in a spate of killings that has stirred international concern. Published by Faith Barbara Namagembe at 1241 EAT on Wednesday 16/03/2022. A journalist has been shot dead in western Mexico, becoming the eighth killed so far this year in an unprecedented spate of killings that has…

Locked down but hopeful: Weary world ushers in 2021

By E K Benj Updated at 3:49 PM GMT on Friday, 1st January 2021 Nations around the world have said goodbye and good riddance to 2020. The festivities were toned down as millions stayed at home due to COVID, but the new year still carries high hopes. Most NYE celebrations were watched from home, if…