Keisha Monique Epps, 51, a truck driver, and her fiancé, Tamra Stewart. Four children allegedly lived inside the cab of a semitruck since December 2019 while their guardian drove routes between Atlanta and Miami, according to court documents. They were reportedly rarely allowed outside, attended no school for years and received little or no medical…
Gibbon Conservation Center director Gabi Skollar feeds one of the little apes Every morning, as dawn breaks over the dry hills north of Los Angeles, a chorus of sirens, deep hoots and high-pitched calls echoes across the Santa Clarita Valley. The sounds come from the Gibbon Conservation Center, a sanctuary that has spent half a…
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham. Tributes are being paid to two police officers who were among seven people killed in a head-on collision on the A66 near Middlesbrough in the early hours of Saturday.Prime Minister Andy Burnham said he was “devastated” by the deaths of PC Matthew Blades, 37, and PC Tom Clough, 38, who…
People often imagine that life will truly begin once they reach a particular destination, achieve a goal or resolve a problem. Seneca, the Roman Stoic philosopher, warned against this habit more than two thousand years ago. In his essay On the Shortness of Life, he wrote that “the greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which…
Protesters blocked major roads and intersections, burned tyres and clashed with K-Electric personnel over prolonged blackouts (ANI photo) Power protests erupted across several parts of Karachi as residents took to the streets over prolonged and unannounced outages, blocking major roads and burning tyres while demanding restoration of electricity.Demonstrations were reported in Pak Colony, Liaquatabad, Gharibabad,…
The idea came about when Peter and his younger sister Elisa were using the Magic Media AI tool by Canva. (Images: istock and Society for Science) Peter Fernández Dulay’s younger sister asked an AI tool to draw a scientist and hoped to see someone who looked like the scientists she might be one day. The…
The Clear Lake City Water Authority decided to buy the golf course and use the land to increase the area’s ability to hold stormwater. (NOAA photo) When Hurricane Harvey brought historic rainfall to the Houston area, residents of Clear Lake City, Texas, feared the worst. For Spyros Varsos, who had lived in the community for…
Representative Image (Image Credit: Canva) In 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin noticed something unusual on the Moon: tiny green flecks scattered across the otherwise grey surface. They collected samples and brought them back to Earth, unaware that the material would decades later challenge a long-held belief about the Moon. According to…
Police found the four bodies in different parts of the house, including the roof, staircase and under a bed (Image credit: @HinduUnityBD on X) Four members of a Hindu family, including a retired schoolteacher, were found dead inside their locked home in Bangladesh’s Rangpur city under suspicious circumstances, with police investigation under way, as per…
Twenty bonnethead sharks were given an unusual test at a Florida State University laboratory in 2021: could they tell where they were by reading Earth’s magnetic field? The young sharks, caught in the Gulf of Mexico, were placed in a tank where scientists recreated the magnetic conditions of different locations hundreds of kilometres away. When…