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As heatwaves become more frequent and intense, cities around the world are searching for ways to stay cooler without relying solely on energy-intensive air conditioning. Medellín, Colombia, has emerged as one of the world’s most celebrated examples of nature-based urban cooling. Through its Green Corridors programme, the city planted around 880,000 trees and more than…

Coastal flooding that was once considered unusual is becoming a more familiar part of life in many parts of the world, and rising sea levels appear to be a major reason why. A new international study suggests that the gradual increase in ocean height has fundamentally changed how often exceptionally high sea levels occur, making…

Warren Buffett has spent decades being celebrated as one of history’s greatest investors, building a fortune estimated at around $147 billion through Berkshire Hathaway. Yet the billionaire says the biggest reason for his success was never stock-picking or business instinct alone. Ahead of his 96th birthday, Buffett reflected on a lifetime of investing and argued…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and his wife, Lori Huang, have pledged a $75 million matching gift to Vanderbilt University to establish a new college of art, architecture and design in San Francisco while preserving the legacy of the California College of the Arts (CCA). The donation, announced through the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang Foundation, is…

At the June meet-and-greet organised by the GLFC, half a dozen sea lampreys posed for the cameras at the Capitol. One of them even sucked on the palm of Representative Bill Huizenga, as per a CNN report. Among the few things the entire Congress agrees on, this is one: the invasive sea lampreys must go.For…

Zohran Mamdani and Laura Loomer (R) America’s far-right activist and Donald Trump loyalist Laura Loomer on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani after he called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a “war criminal” and said he was “not welcome in New York City.”Loomer, who is Jewish, called for…

Indian diplomats at the permanent mission of India to the UN are still displaced from their premises NEW YORK: Indian diplomats at the Permanent Mission of India to the UN are still displaced from their premises three weeks after evacuation orders were issued for them after structural damage was reported in a high-rise under-construction building.The…

A federal judge has approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement SAN FRANCISCO: A federal judge has approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement in which artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay thousands of authors about $3,000 per book after using pirated copies of their works to train its Claude chatbot. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin said in…

10,000 records of current and retired diplomats is believed to have been compromised A system that held roughly 10,000 records of current and retired diplomats is believed to have been compromised by an unidentified hacker, foreign ministry spokesperson Park II told reporters on Tuesday. Park didn’t confirm how many records had been accessed, but Yonhap…

WASHINGTON: The US department of justice (DoJ) said on Monday it launched a probe reviewing whether some Harvard University financial aid programmes were discriminatory. The probe is to determine whether its China-based financial aid programmes and practices exclude American-citizen students, the department said.Harvard said on Monday it “does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of…