Beautiful country with the world’s youngest state pension | Travel News | Travel

Beautiful country with the world’s youngest state pension | Travel News | Travel

The beautiful island country of Sri Lanka has the youngest retirement age in the world where everyone can retire after just 55 years. Unlike European countries, where the population is ageing fast, Sri Lanka remains heavily skewed towards the young. While the UK’s mean age is 40 years old, Sri Lanka’s average is just 32. … Read more

How to celebrate Eid ul-Fitr in London this month

In a week’s time, approximately two billion Muslims will be celebrating Eid ul-Fitr – meaning festival of sweets – to mark the end of the fasting month known as Ramadan. Fasting is one of the five pillars of Islam and the dawn-to-dusk month-long fast is usually carried out by all able-bodied Muslims. Eid ul-Fitr is … Read more

Live updates: Russia’s war in Ukraine

A woman who survived last year’s bombing of a packed theater in Mariupol likened Putin’s overnight visit to the Russian-occupied city to “when a serial killer returns to the place of the crime.” CNN’s Ivan Watson previously spoke to Maria Kutnyakova in March last year, after she managed to escape Mariupol to Ukrainian-controlled territory with … Read more

Putin and Xi to attend G20 summit, Indonesian president says, setting up showdown with Biden

CNN  —  The leaders of China and Russia both plan to attend November’s G20 summit, its host said Thursday, setting up a high-profile showdown with US President Joe Biden. Indonesian President Joko Widodo told Bloomberg in an interview that he’d received assurances from both Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin that they would attend the … Read more