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TOKYO (AP) — Japan became the fifth country in history to reach the moon when one of its spacecrafts without astronauts successfully made a soft landing on the lunar surface early Saturday.
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — The air smells burnt in Lahore, a city in Pakistan’s east that used to be famous for its gardens but has become infamous for its terrible air quality.
SINGAPORE: Along with many parts of the world, four South Asian countries — Bangladesh, Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka — face elections this year. Their elections come at a time of somewhat peculiar situations in their domestic political landscapes.
Japan recently became the fifth nation to successfully complete a soft landing on the moon's surface, joining a select few countries — the U.S., Russia, China and India — in accomplishing this feat. But moon landings are likely to become more common over the next few years. Globally, more than 100 lunar missions, both by private companies and by governments, are expected to take place by 2030, according to the European Space Agency.
A Japanese robotic spacecraft successfully set down on the moon on Friday — but its solar panels were not generating power, which will cut the length of time it will be able to operate to a few hours.
BEIJING (Reuters) -- Russia leapfrogged Saudi Arabia to become China's top crude oil supplier in 2023, data showed on Saturday, as the world's biggest crude importer defied Western sanctions to purchase vast quantities of discounted oil for its processing plants.
MUMBAI -- When Mumbai-based fashion designer Nadima Saqib started selling clothes to the Indian diaspora five years ago under her namesake label, she noticed that young women living outside the South Asian nation were not used to wearing traditional garments such as the shawl-like dupatta or the long, loose tunic known as the kurta. Instead, they would ask her to alter items into pieces such as a shirt to wear with a pair of jeans. That prompted Saqib to begin designing short tunics and styling them with matching trousers to create coordinated sets her clients would love.