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Meet Angel Marino, 18, whose first flight to Australia at seven sparked an aviation dream and led to a scholarship covering four years of tuition plus A$25,000 a year

For the uninitiated, now in its seventh year, the SYD100 Scholarship was set up to support people from underrepresented backgrounds in aviation including women and young people from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. For Angel Marino, the life-changing journey began thousands of feet in the air. Her first flight was at the tender age of…

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In 1807, pigs were released on New Zealand’s Auckland Islands as food for castaways; 192 years later, 17 were rescued before the feral population was eradicated

On a remote, windswept archipelago far south of New Zealand, a small herd of pigs lived out more than two centuries as one of the world’s most isolated feral populations. Their ancestors were left on the Auckland Islands in 1807, released by sailors as a living food store for any shipwrecked castaways who might one…

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Underwater sensors caught a rare event off Cornwall: one porpoise became trapped in a net while two animals exchanged possible distress calls

Bycatch, the accidental capture of animals in fishing gear is considered the world’s greatest direct human-caused threat to dolphins and porpoises. Off the coast of Cornwall, a set of underwater sensors was listening to the ocean when it detected something researchers rarely get to see. According to an online report by Phys Org, two harbor…

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Officer asked to show Outlook or Teams as evidence of working: OPT student shares domestic travel experience to New Mexico

OPT student says immigration officer asked to see office email as evidence of their employment. (AI image) An OPT student has shared the questions they faced from an immigration officer when a friend’s group went to New Mexico for the long weekend earlier this month. The student said the group consisted of OPT and STEM-OPT…

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‘They’re desperate to affect election’: Trump declares Iran war will end after US midterms

Trump declares that Iran war will immediately end after midterm polls US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the Iran war will end “immediately” after the upcoming US midterm elections later this year.Speaking to reporters, MAGA supremo Trump said, “I think the war will end immediately after the election… They’re desperate to try and affect…

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In 2020, Kesha bought a Los Angeles mansion for $4.95 million; after a $5.95 million listing and $7 million relisting, it sold for $6.68 million, $1.73 million above her purchase price

Kesha sells her sprawling Los Angeles mansion for $6.68 million, earning nearly $1.7 million on her 2020 purchase. (Photo: Instagram/Realtor) Kesha has sold her sprawling Los Angeles mansion for $6.68 million, nearly two years after she first attempted to offload the property. The sale gives the pop star a profit of almost $1.7 million on…

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