Globe-trotting: Top feline diplomat comes out of retirement

Britain’s top feline diplomat has come out of retirement for a new, ‘purr-fect’ job. Palmerston, former chief mouser at the Foreign Office, is now the UK's chief four-legged representative in Bermuda. The news, posted on Palmerston’s official DiploMog account on social network X, comes more than four years after it was announced that he was retiring from public life to a “quieter and easier” life in the countryside. On retirement, Palmerston was adopted by Foreign Office diplomat Andrew Murdoch, who has now been appointed governor of Bermuda, a tiny British territory in the mid-Atlantic.

Monkeys cause power outage in Sri Lanka

Colombo: Sri Lankan authorities have been working to restore power following a nationwide outage that occurred on Sunday, the state-owned electricity producer and supplier, Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), announced. Secretary to the Ministry of Energy, Professor Udayanga Hemapala, confirmed that the outage was caused by an imbalance in the national grid. Local media, citing Energy Minister Kumara Jayakody, reported that the outage was triggered by a group of monkeys that entered the substation and caused damage. IANS