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Football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has added another feather to his already illustrious career by bagging the Best Middle East Player 2025 award — marking his third consecutive win. “I still motivate myself to carry on, it doesn’t matter where I play to score goals and keep going,” Ronaldo said in a star-studded ceremony in Dubai. “I want to win more trophies and reach a number, and I will reach that number,” added the Portuguese footballer. Taking to Instagram, Ronaldo said that it was a “special moment to end the year on”. “I carry on with the same passion, commitment and hunger…

Google has announced a major policy change that is expected to ease a long-standing inconvenience for millions of Gmail users worldwide. For the first time, users will be able to change their existing @gmail.com email address to a new @gmail.com address without creating an entirely new Google account. Previously, Google only allowed users with third-party email addresses linked to their Google accounts to update their login credentials. Gmail addresses were considered permanent and could not be altered. However, the company has now confirmed that this restriction is being lifted. According to Google, users will soon be able to update the…

Researchers from the Texas A&M University College of Engineering and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) system called OmniPredict, designed to improve safety for self-driving cars. OmniPredict is the first system to use a Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) to forecast how pedestrians may behave. It draws on the same kind of underlying technology used in advanced chatbots and image recognition, but its goal is different. By pairing what it sees with contextual details, the system aims to predict, in real time, what a person is likely to do next. Early…

KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiyy said on Monday that a 20-point peace plan to end Russia’s war should be put to a referendum in Ukraine. Speaking to reporters in a WhatsApp chat, he added that a ceasefire of at least 60 days would be necessary to hold such a referendum.

JERUSALEM/PALM BEACH: US President Donald Trump is expected to push for progress in the stalled ceasefire in Gaza when he meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday for talks that will include Israel’s concerns over Hezbollah in Lebanon and Iran. Netanyahu said this month that Trump had invited him for talks, as Washington pushes to establish transitional governance and an international security force for the Palestinian enclave. Trump has said he could meet with the Israeli leader soon, but the White House has not confirmed details. The White House did not respond to a request for comment about the meeting. Netanyahu, who is expected to visit Trump’s…

KATHMANDU: Two popular leaders have formed an alliance ahead of March parliamentary elections in Nepal that will challenge the older parties which have dominated the Himalayan nation’s politics for over three decades, party officials and analysts said on Monday. Rapper turned-Kathmandu mayor Balendra Shah, known as Balen, a popular elected official, joined the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) or national independent party, led by a former TV host-turned politician Rabi Lamichhane on Sunday, party officials said. They said under the agreement with RSP, 35-year old Balen will become the prime minister if the RSP wins the March 5 elections while Lamichhane, 48, will…

NEW YORK: New York mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is set to become the US city’s first Muslim mayor, and the youthful optimism of his Democratic Socialist platform will be put to the test as he takes office Thursday for a four-year term that faces high expectations. Festive swearing in Just after the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve, New York Attorney General Letitia James – friend to Mamdani, foe to President Donald Trump – will swear in the new mayor. In a high-stakes tit-for-tat, James recently sued Trump, and he tried to have her indicted in return. At midday, left-wing icon and Vermont…

ISLAMABAD (DI NEWS) : In 2025, the world is undergoing accelerated transformation amid rising turbulence and uncertainty. The interconnectedness between China’s development and the global landscape continues to grow, with China exerting increasingly profound and positive influence on global growth, technological transformation, and global governance. To continuously observe how China is perceived by the world, the Global Times once again launched the “Global Survey on Impression and Understanding of China,” covering 46 countries and about 51,700 respondents, to objectively, comprehensively, and accurately understand how foreign public perceives, understands, and evaluates China. About the survey This global survey was conducted by…

The annual solar power generation at PetroChina Tarim Oilfield, China’s third-largest onshore oil and gas field, has surpassed 2 billion kWh. To date, Tarim Oilfield has completed five centralized solar power projects with a total installed capacity of 2.6 million kilowatts. There are also 239 distributed photovoltaic projects at production stations and individual oil and gas wells, which accumulated 63,000 kilowatts. “Based on the national residential electricity consumption in 2024, the 2 billion kWh of green electricity generated here can meet the annual electricity needs of more than 1.8 million people,” said Liang Yulei, head of the new energy department…

China on Monday released a survey report on the coral reef ecosystem of Huangyan Dao, which is located in Sansha City of the southernmost Hainan Province. The survey report showed that the average coverage rate of hermatypic corals within the Huangyan Dao National Nature Reserve has reached 38.8 percent, and the coral reef ecosystem of Huangyan Dao is generally in good condition. The report is based on underwater diving surveys, satellite and aerial remote sensing, combined with analyses of historical data, to assess the status of the coral reef ecosystem of Huangyan Dao. It shows that 135 species of reef-building…