​Photos of a study species: the Australian Lace-lid (L. dayi)Photo credit: Conrad J Hoskin. In the cool, wet upland streams of Queensland’s Wet Tropics, several species of rainforest frog were pushed to the brink in the 1980s and 1990s by chytrid fungus, an aquatic pathogen that attacks frog skin and has driven extinctions worldwide. For…

Parastoo Ahmadi’s performance in December 2024 has been viewed millions of times An Iranian singer who performed without a hijab in a viral online concert has been sentenced to 74 lashes.The case has sparked condemnation from human rights groups and artists around the world.29-year-old Parastoo Ahmadi was handed the punishment over a livestreamed performance that…

Russia claimed the preparations are in response to Ukraine’s repeated attacks. Russian forces have begun preparations for what Moscow described as “massive strikes” against Ukraine’s energy facilities in response to attacks on Russian civilian infrastructure and the country’s energy sector, Russia’s Defence Ministry said Sunday.The ministry said Russian forces had also continued overnight to carry…

King Charles and Donald Trump King Charles III has congratulated US President Donald Trump and the American people on the 250th anniversary of American independence, describing the occasion as a “truly historic milestone” and expressing confidence that the longstanding partnership between the United Kingdom and the United States will continue to grow stronger.In a message…

Robin Robin/Image: Jay Kogler/AAP PHOTOS A 30-year-old Indian-origin man has been jailed for 27 years in Australia for fatally stabbing a fellow international student and attempting to kill another after a drunken argument in Melbourne.Robin Robin was sentenced in the Victorian Supreme Court on Friday for murdering 22-year-old Navjeet Singh Sandhu and attempting to murder…

British Indian Army during World War I. (Representative Photo) More than a century after the First World War, nearly 10,000 forgotten soldiers of the British Indian Army, many of them Punjabis, have finally been officially recognised for their wartime sacrifice.According to the BBC, The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) has added the names of 9,909…