Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to promote democracy. Donald Trump, heavily backed by Pakistan for the prize, was snubbed despite his self-promotion and claims of peacemaking. Pakistan’s public support for Trump now appears diplomatically costly. The Nobel Committee stressed that lobbying holds no sway, favouring enduring peace efforts over rhetoric and self-congratulation.

Classified as ‘endangered’ by IUCN, the report highlighted that tiger conservation efforts halted a steeper decline, with numbers rising for the first time in a century

Citing census figures, Shah said the Hindu population had dropped steadily over the years while the Muslim population had sharply increased