More than 220 people have died in the US strikes on such vessels in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, Reuters reported. The US military on Sunday struck a go-fast vessel in the Caribbean Sea, killing four individuals it called “narco-terrorists”.The “lethal kinetic” strike was executed by the Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere under the direction…
Pic credit: Sotheby’s International Realty Jonathan Kelly, who made a fortune selling Squishmallows, the plush toys, has now put his Bel-Air mansion on the market for nearly $38 million, according to a report by Realtor.com. Pic credit: Sotheby’s International Realty During the pandemic, the Squishmallows craze took TikTok by storm, turning the once-niche toys into…
JUICE captures images of Earth during its flybyPhoto: ESA.int ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, known as Juice, used Earth’s gravity as a cosmic slingshot on September 28, 2026, reshaping its route to Jupiter while conserving precious fuel. Flying just 8,640 km above the Indian Ocean, the spacecraft had its trajectory deflected by 20 degrees and…
PC: Nelida Pohl/ BBC Wildlife Antarctica has only two native flowering plants, and both have spent years facing a warmer environment. A new seven-year field study found that Antarctic hairgrass (Deschampsia antarctica) and Antarctic pearlwort (Colobanthus quitensis) responded to long-term warming in different ways. Researchers placed open-top chambers around plants on King George Island to…
File photo: A flydubai aircraft at Ben Gurion International Airport A string of security failures across Oman, the UAE and Israel allowed the flydubai co-pilot to get into the cockpit, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found. The lapses nearly led to an aviation disaster reminiscent of 9/11, despite authorities having reasons to be concerned…
Myanmar nationals who were sent back from Malaysia look from a bus as they leave a Myanmar Navy base. (AP Photo) Nearly 1,500 Myanmar nationals repatriated from Malaysia arrived in the country’s largest city, Yangon, on Sunday, despite warnings from the United Nations refugee agency and rights groups that conditions for their return remain unsafe.The…
Hamam al-Hammami, the accused co-pilot in the flydubai incident (Image source: LinkedIn) New reports suggest that the Omani co-pilot accused of attacking the captain and trying to seize control of a Flydubai flight bound for Tel Aviv probably acted alone.An Israeli official told CNN that information gathered during the investigation so far suggested Hamam al-Hammami…
PewDiePie (Image via Getty) PewDiePie is stepping into the AI race with a project that is less about building the biggest model and more about making AI personal. Felix Kjellberg has introduced Ajax, a compact language model designed to run locally through his self-hosted Odysseus workspace. The project has also drawn attention because Kjellberg says…
Voters line up at a polling station during general elections in Brasilia, Brasilia (AP Photo) Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, an ally of US President Donald Trump and the eldest son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, will face each other in a runoff election on October 25 after neither…
File photo: Former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina DHAKA: Bangladesh on Sunday hoped India would act on its request for former PM Sheikh Hasina’s extradition and expedite the process, saying that “while legal process is certainly a factor, political will is also essential”.The remarks came a day after Indian high commissioner to Dhaka Dinesh Trivedi at…
