Quote of the day by Franklin D. Roosevelt (AI-generated image) Franklin D. Roosevelt said this in a speech on the fourteenth of April, 1939, months before the Second World War began. “Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds,” he told the audience. “They have within themselves the power to…
The ancient Appalachian Mountains may be hiding one of the United States’ most valuable untapped natural resources. According to new research by the US Geological Survey (USGS), the mountain range contains an estimated 2.5 million tons of lithium, enough to manufacture around 500 billion smartphones, 180 billion laptops or 130 million electric vehicles. The discovery…
UK court dismissed the lawsuit saying parties failed to prove that info was obtained unlawfully Prince Harry, along with several other high-profile British personalities on Tuesday lost their privacy lawsuits against the publisher of the Daily Mail, marking a significant setback in the Duke of Sussex’s long-running legal battle with the British tabloid press.London’s High…
Indian engineer charged with killing his wife in this apartment in Bellevue, Washington State. 30-year-old Avinash Narne, an Indian software development engineer working in the US, has been charged with the murder of his wife, nine months after she was found dead in their Bellevue home in Washington State. The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office…
Spaceflight has carried everything from satellites and scientific instruments to memorial capsules and plant seeds beyond Earth’s atmosphere. Soon, another unusual payload will join that list. A specially engineered diamond is set to become the first of its kind to travel to space aboard Vikram-1, the maiden orbital launch vehicle developed by Indian private space…
Each year, as autumn turns to winter, the sun sets over Utqiagvik, Alaska, and does not rise again for roughly 65 days. Formerly known as Barrow, Utqiagvik sits at the very northern tip of Alaska, about 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle, making it the northernmost community in North America. This extended stretch of…
Saudi Arabia’s new Package Visa combines flights, accommodation and visa processing into one booking Planning a holiday to Saudi Arabia could soon become as simple as making a single booking.In its latest move to transform the country’s tourism industry, Saudi Arabia has launched the pilot phase of its new Tourist Package Visa service, an initiative…
Few creatures have earned a reputation for resilience quite like the cockroach. It can survive extreme temperatures, withstand surprisingly high levels of radiation compared with humans and squeeze through impossibly narrow gaps. Yet perhaps its most astonishing ability is surviving for days after losing its head. While the idea sounds like an urban myth, it…
Born in 1937 in the village of al-Awja near Tikrit, Saddam Hussein rose through the ranks of Iraq’s Ba’ath Party before becoming the country’s president in 1979. (File photo) Even after losing power and facing trial for crimes against humanity, Saddam Hussein remained defiant. Sitting inside a Baghdad courtroom in 2006, the former Iraqi president…
For most people, asteroids are distant objects that remain hidden behind telescope lenses and scientific instruments. That will briefly change in April 2029, when one of the best-known near-Earth asteroids is expected to become visible without specialist equipment across large parts of the world. The object, called Apophis, has attracted scientific attention for more than…