Nepal’s tourism industry is facing one of its most serious controversies in years after police uncovered a $20 million insurance fraud scheme linked to Mount Everest trekking routes. Authorities say a network of guides, trekking agencies, helicopter operators and medical personnel worked together to exploit international travellers by deliberately inducing illness and orchestrating unnecessary emergency…

A senior librarian in the US state of Tennessee has been fired after refusing to relocate more than 100 books from children’s sections, sparking a debate over censorship, free speech, and LGBTQ content in public libraries.The Rutherford County Library Board voted 8–3 to remove James after she refused to implement its directive to move around…

Archaeologists have uncovered a huge mud-brick building, 2,500 years old, that has been buried underneath the silty deposits and waterlogged sediments of the Nile Delta, Egypt, for thousands of years, using non-invasive geophysical methods such as magnetometry and electrical resistivity tomographic techniques. The structure was located as part of a recent archaeological project within Tell…

A seemingly awkward moment involving Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has gone viral after he was seen struggling to open a water bottle during a public event in the UK. The incident occurred during an on-stage conversation at Chatham House on Tuesday, where al-Sharaa was speaking with Director and CEO Bronwen Maddox.In the video, the Syrian…

Kristi Noem’s husband breaks silence on the ‘secret life’ row. Bryon Noem, Kristi Noem’s husband, has reacted to the major expose by the Daily Mail on his ‘secret life’ where he crossdresses and pays online fetish models for chatting, and said he would share his side of the story some day. “I will at some…

Joshua Spriestersbach, 54, was awarded a $975,000 payout after he was wrongfully arrested and thrown in a Hawaii psychiatric hospital for years/ AP A man who spent years detained in a psychiatric hospital after being repeatedly mistaken for someone else has been awarded a $975,000 payout, bringing partial closure to a case that unfolded across…