Quote of the day by Lao Tzu Lao Tzu (also written as Laozi) was an ancient Chinese philosopher and writer, traditionally considered the founder of Taoism (or Daoism). He is believed to have lived around the 6th century BCE, roughly around the same time as Confucius. Legend says he worked as a scholar and keeper…
Ex-Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe. Former British cabinet minister and ex-Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe was struck 21 times on the head with a hammer during the fatal attack at her Devon home earlier this month, prosecutors told a London court on Tuesday.The 78-year-old politician was allegedly attacked while eating lunch, with the accused remaining inside her…
Nehemiah had been working towards the 100-hour milestone since joining the programme. (Picture: JHS) An 11-year-old boy in Florida has completed more than 100 hours of reading to rescue animals at a local shelter, becoming the first child to achieve the milestone through the Jacksonville Humane Society’s Pawsitive Reading programme.Nehemiah Turner started volunteering at the…
Advait Deshmukh apologized to his victims during the sentencing. An Indian-origin doctor in Ohio’s Toledo has been sentenced to six months in jail after he admitted that he secretly recorded women in employee restrooms at Toledo Hospital. Advait Deshmukh was sentenced in June after he pleaded guilty to one count of attempted tampering with evidence…
US Army veteran sets fire outside NYC federal building . (Photo: X) A US Army veteran was taken into custody on Monday after allegedly setting a fire, launching fireworks and firing an airsoft rifle outside New York City’s 26 Federal Plaza, a federal building that houses the FBI, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an…
Corals (Representative image) Human activity is changing coral reefs in ways that go far beyond what we can see on the surface. A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa shows that the chemicals we release into the environment are actually becoming part of coral tissue itself, and weakening corals’…
A dramatic two-day rescue operation unfolded along the Massachusetts coast after 53 bottlenose dolphins became stranded on the tidal flats of Cape Cod, prompting marine wildlife teams to race against time to save the animals. The latest rescue saw 19 dolphins successfully returned to the sea after they stranded between Brewster and Wellfleet, just a…
Every week, 73-year-old Dave Whitlow walks into the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU in Virginia, where some of the hospital’s smallest and most vulnerable patients are fighting for their lives. For the past eight years, he has volunteered as a “baby cuddler”, gently holding premature and critically…
Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming has turned to an unusual conservation strategy to save one of its fastest-declining bird populations: robot birds. Park officials and wildlife experts have deployed lifelike robotic greater sage-grouse that mimic the species’ elaborate courtship dances, puff out their chests and broadcast recorded mating calls in an effort to attract…
ASEAN top diplomats highlight their concerns during closed-door meeting Southeast Asian foreign ministers have expressed “serious concern” over renewed US-Iran hostilities, calling for an immediate cessation of attacks across all fronts in the Middle East and warning that the escalating conflict threatens global energy supplies, trade, and food security.“We are deeply concerned that these developments…
Long before modern theatres began using motorised stages and rolling sets, ancient Greek theatre builders appear to have solved the same problem using wood, stone tracks and simple wheels. New research from a team at Kumamoto University in Japan has strengthened the case that theatres from the Hellenistic period used large, moveable wooden stage structures…
A major railway construction project in England has uncovered a remarkable glimpse into the past, with archaeologists discovering a 1,740-year-old Roman silver coin bearing the name of Emperor Carausius. Found during excavations for the East West Rail route linking Oxford and Cambridge, the coin is helping researchers understand the timeline of ancient activity in the…
