UK bans IRGC and proxy Iranian organisation ove attacks on Jewish community The UK has listed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation, in a major escalation of diplomatic tensions with Tehran, as it also outlawed a proxy group behind a series of arson attacks on Jewish sites in Britain.The Home Office announced…
Pic courtesy: Daily Record Brian Hurton, a 55-year-old man from East Kilbride, Scotland, died alone after calling 999 twice, only to be told to wait for a call back. Despite informing them that he was struggling to breathe and feared he would collapse, no ambulance was sent. By the time medical help was finally dispatched,…
The body of a missing South Korean sailor has been recovered off the east coast, a day after he disappeared during patrol near the de facto maritime border with North Korea, the navy said on Monday.The sailor, a seaman apprentice, failed to report for duty on Sunday morning while the vessel was on patrol near…
MacKenzie Scott is still worth $33 billion after giving away $10 million a day for seven long years Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has kept a net worth of $33 billion even after giving away about $10 million every day for the past seven years.The ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has donated more than $26…
An ordinary hillside in Oregon transforms into something extraordinary every autumn, revealing a giant smiling face that appears almost as if nature decided to create its own work of art. The seasonal spectacle is not the result of digital editing or a natural quirk but a carefully planned reforestation project carried out in 2011. Foresters…
Marine animals do not just struggle when ocean temperatures spike, they actually shrink, and a massive new study shows this pattern has been repeating for nearly 450 million years. Researchers built one of the largest collections of marine body size data ever put together, drawing on almost 9,000 recorded changes and over 1.6 million individual…
Iran launches ‘eye-for-an-eye’ operation after fresh US strikes Iran launched what it described as an “eye-for-an-eye” military operation against the United States on Monday, targeting American military facilities across the Gulf after fresh US strikes hit Iranian military infrastructure over the weekend. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they struck US military facilities in Bahrain and Kuwait,…
In January 1906, the SS Valencia was nearing the end of what should have been a routine passenger voyage along the Pacific coast. The ship was carrying travellers from San Francisco to Seattle, following a route used regularly by coastal steamers. But as the vessel approached the waters near Vancouver Island, conditions began to change….
Long before the Arctic looked the way it does now, a stretch of Norway’s northern coastline supported an unexpectedly rich mix of wildlife. That picture has emerged from a cave where thousands of years of natural deposits quietly protected the remains of animals that lived during a comparatively mild phase of the last Ice Age….
Richard Feynman is remembered as one of the twentieth century’s greatest physicists, a Nobel Prize winner whose work transformed quantum electrodynamics and whose wit made science accessible to millions. Yet behind the celebrated scientist was a man who experienced profound personal loss at a young age. In 1945, his wife, Arline Greenbaum Feynman, died from…
Every living organism inherits a unique combination of traits, from eye colour and blood type to resistance against certain diseases. These characteristics are determined by genes, but genes themselves can exist in different forms. These alternative versions are known as alleles. While one allele may produce a particular trait, another may result in a different…
Eight-year-old Wyatt Biggs from Florida has transformed an unusual fascination with robot vacuums into a thriving online brand. What began as a childhood obsession with a family Roomba at the age of three has grown into a collection of more than 50 robot vacuums, a YouTube channel, a children’s book and a merchandise business that…
