The Jeffrey Epstein saga has once again reached the highest levels of American politics, with former President George W. Bush becoming linked to questions surrounding the pedophile’s controversial treatment by the justice system.A new report by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Julie K. Brown, published in the Miami Herald, suggests that senior officials within Bush’s Department of…
Hungary’s parliament on Monday unanimously approved a sharp reduction in lawmakers’ salaries and allowances, backing Prime Minister Peter Magyar’s efforts to curb administrative spending and restore strained public finances.All 189 lawmakers present in the 199-member National Assembly voted in favour of the bill submitted by the ruling Tisza party.The legislation will reduce MPs’ monthly base…
It begins, as so many Jeffrey Epstein stories do, in a room where power recognised power. In this case, the room was reportedly the Plaza Hotel in New York in the early 1990s. A young woman from Texas, Melanie Starnes, later Dr Melanie Walker, has told people that she was introduced there to Epstein by…
A group of Indian-origin men saved a woman from a stalker in a viral video from Canada. A video of a group of Indian men saving a woman from a harasser at a cricket ground in British Columbia, Canada, is winning hearts on social media for salvaging the reputation of Indians abroad. In the recent…
AI’s Every time you use ChatGPT to write a 100-word email, roughly 519 millilitres of water is consumed, nearly the volume of a standard water bottle. That figure comes from a peer-reviewed 2025 paper published in Communications of the ACM by Pengfei Li, Shaolei Ren, and colleagues at the University of California, Riverside. It accounts…
A routine shift at a McDonald’s restaurant turned horrific when a 20-year-old employee was doused with scalding hot oil by a co-worker in an unprovoked attack.Jacob Smith remains in ICU more than a week after suffering second-degree burns to his face, neck, arm and back during the incident on 30 May in Yuba City, California….
When Lauren Sánchez and an all-female crew flew aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard mission earlier this year, their fitted designer flight suits sparked widespread discussion about the intersection of fashion and space travel. Now another luxury fashion giant is preparing for a far more demanding challenge. Italian luxury brand Prada has unveiled a key component…
Nithya Raman’s performance in the LA mayor primary revives ‘election fraud’ claims from Donald Trump and Elon Musk. As Indian-origin Nithya Raman edged ahead and is now locked in a tight race with Republican candidate Spencer Pratt in the Los Angeles mayor primary, President Donald Trump and Elon Musk revived their election fraud claims. In…
Gad Saad (Image: Wikipedia) Most friendships begin with common ground.People meet through work, school, neighbourhoods, hobbies or shared interests. Over time, conversations grow longer, trust develops and a connection forms. In the early stages, similarities often stand out more than differences. People notice what they have in common.Eventually, however, differences appear.One friend may have different…
When Super Typhoon Sinlaku tore across the North Pacific in April 2026, it did something that most tropical cyclones never do it sent visible ripples not just across the ocean surface but through the sky itself, all the way into the upper layers of Earth’s atmosphere. The storm reached “violent typhoon” status, the highest category…