Trump said the US could either keep economic pressure on Iran or launch a major military strike US President Donald Trump said Washington could either keep up economic pressure on Iran and allow its economy to deteriorate further or launch a major military strike, as he accused Tehran of being “devious negotiators”.In an interview with…
Quote of the day by Agatha Christie (Image: Wikipedia) Life often involves genuine risk, but not every risk is actually worth taking. Some decisions place someone in a situation where the possible consequences were obvious from the very beginning. Agatha Christie captured that exact idea in one vivid image. “If you place your head in…
NYC First Lady Rama Duwaji is scheduled to visit Syria and Lebanon in September, New York Post reported. NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani‘s wife Rama Duwaji has a trip to Syria and Lebanon on her schedule in September and that has triggered a major row as it is not clear whether she will be accompanied by…
Representative Image (AI-generated) Maryland is giving residents a new option for what happens to their bodies after death. According to WYPR, a public radio station serving Maryland, the state is now home to what is described as the nation’s largest human composting facility: a 37,000-square-foot facility in Elkridge operated by Earth Funeral. The facility uses…
Every winter, more than 100,000 giant Australian cuttlefish can be found mating along the rocky coastline of Point Lowly, northeast of Whyalla, South Australia. They put on shape-shifting, colourful displays in their attempts to attract a mate. This is the only cuttlefish aggregation in the world and thousands of enthusiastic fans travel to regional South…
3 crew members killed in Houthi attack on ship in Bab al-Mandeb, report (Representational Image) Houthi militants attacked a commercial vessel transiting the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, killing three crew members, according to initial reports by government-affiliated broadcasters. Al-Jumhuriya TV identified the victims as two Pakistani nationals and one Indonesian national.The vessel came under fire while…
A health worker in protective gear looks on at an Ebola treatment centre. (Photo: AP) Congo’s confirmed Ebola death toll has risen to 2,011, with the second 1,000 deaths recorded in about three weeks compared with roughly nine weeks for the first 1,000, as the country battles the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record.The latest government…
The sea can feel distant even to people who live hundreds of miles from a coastline. It sits beyond the horizon, beneath ships and far below the surface, largely hidden from ordinary view. Sylvia Earle spent much of her life trying to make that hidden world less remote. Born in New Jersey in 1935, she…
Representative Image of an overgrown railway transformed into a thriving wildlife habitat (AI-generated image) Deep in the driftless hills of southwestern Wisconsin lies a railway corridor that has not carried a train since 1964, yet it remains one of the busiest routes in the region, only now the traffic moves on hooves, wings and two…
Archaeologists in China have uncovered an extraordinary alcoholic drink that remained remarkably well preserved for more than 2,000 years inside an ancient bronze bottle. The vessel, recovered from a Qin-period tomb at the Shanjiabao cemetery in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, contained about 3.74 litres of pale blue-green liquid, equivalent to nearly a gallon. Scientific…
