Representative Image of a courtroom scene depicting a family inheritance dispute among five siblings over property and loans (AI-generated image) A California inheritance dispute involving five siblings, decades of family loans and rental income, and several property transactions centred mainly on how much a trustee could deduct from a beneficiary’s share of an inheritance. In…

A 16-year-old student from Pennsylvania, Annie McIntyre, turned an idea to help children prepare for school into a community initiative that reached seven schools across three school districts. Through a project called Build-a-Backpack, the Scranton Preparatory School student collected 60 backpacks filled with school supplies, along with hundreds of additional stationery items. She also created…

“Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls.”More than a century after Rabindranath Tagore penned these lines in Gitanjali, Marzia Khandaker Rimi, a senior leader of Bangladesh’s Rashtra Sanglap Forum, smeared black ink across his portrait in Dhaka, declaring that the poet was Indian and his image should be…

Rare 1953 James Bond book bought for £1 at car boot sale sells for £10,000 (Image Credit: Wikipedia) A book bought for just £1 at a UK car boot sale turned out to be a rare first edition of Casino Royale, the 1953 novel that introduced readers to James Bond. The copy, which retained its…

The ‘earthquake’ that never happened Japan triggered widespread alarm on Friday after its earthquake early warning system “announced” a magnitude-9.9 earthquake alert, prompting emergency phone alerts, public loudspeaker warnings and television broadcasts urging people to take shelter, before the warning was withdrawn eight minutes later.However, no major shaking followed the alert, which the Japan Meteorological…