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Representative Image of the recovery of Macquarie Island’s wildlife and seabird populations (AI-generated image) Macquarie Island, a windswept strip of land halfway between Australia and Antarctica, spent nearly two centuries under siege from animals that were never meant to be there. Sealers and whalers introduced cats, rats, rabbits and mice to the island in the…

Representative Image of three ancient Assyrian kings emerging from obscurity amid cuneiform tablets (AI-generated image) For nearly a century, historians have relied on the Assyrian King List as the authoritative record of who ruled the ancient Assyrian Empire, especially during its later centuries. Now, new research suggests that record was never as complete or impartial…

Golden Emerald Cross From 16th‑Century Shipwreck, PC: Teddy Tucker In 1955, a Bermudian diver named Teddy Tucker pulled a gold cross studded with seven emeralds from the wreck of a sixteenth-century Spanish galleon resting in the reefs off Bermuda. It would go on to be called one of the most valuable single objects ever recovered…

Super Consumers Australia research has found that many Australians either don’t have a binding nomination or may have been inadequately informed about making one. Millions of Australians may believe their superannuation will automatically go to the people they name in their will when they die. But this is not necessarily so. A recent news report…

Highway 1, Australia. Image Credit: Tony Bowden/Wikipedia Australia has the world’s longest national highway, which is a marvelous engineering example known simply as ‘Highway 1.’ Spanning approximately 14,500 kilometres, this massive highway covers around the entire mainland continent like a belt, acting as an important transport base that connects every state capital city from Sydney…

NYC First Lady Rama Duwaji is scheduled to visit Syria and Lebanon in September, New York Post reported. NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani‘s wife Rama Duwaji has a trip to Syria and Lebanon on her schedule in September and that has triggered a major row as it is not clear whether she will be accompanied by…

Tengku Puteri Ilyana Alia of Malaysia and her partner, Christopher Lionel Froggatt (Facebook photo) Tengku Puteri Raja Tengku Puteri Ilyana Alia, daughter of the Sultan of Pahang, married British racing driver Christopher Lionel Froggatt in Kuala Lumpur on Friday, August 7.Princess Ilyana, 29, is the daughter of Sultan Abdullah, the Sultan of Pahang who served…

Representative Image (AI-generated) Maryland is giving residents a new option for what happens to their bodies after death. According to WYPR, a public radio station serving Maryland, the state is now home to what is described as the nation’s largest human composting facility: a 37,000-square-foot facility in Elkridge operated by Earth Funeral. The facility uses…

Mexican national Erik Santana-Garcia. A Mexican national who had been deported from the US multiple times before illegally reentering the country has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for sexually exploiting two minors, the US Department of Justice said.Erik Santana-Garcia, 34, of Salt Lake City, Utah, was sentenced on July 30 to 20…

When billionaire hedge fund manager Ian Wace bought Tanera Mòr in Scotland’s remote Summer Isles in 2017, the 800-acre island had little resemblance to the thriving community it had once been. Its historic buildings had fallen into disrepair, its population had dwindled and much of the land had become overgrown. Wace paid about £1.7 million…