A unique gilt-bronze armchair by French designer Claude Lalanne sold for $1,079,500 in December 2025 after arriving through the auction house’s consignment portal. The chair features a frame wrapped in vines and monkeys cast in patinated bronze, paired with a seat made from ostrich leather.According to Sotheby’s, the armchair was made in 1998 and numbered…

Sridhar Vembu gets trolled for announcing that his employees won’t get appraisal this year, days after urging NRIs to return to India and build for India. When the US administration announced the suspension of the Green Card process of eight top IT companies, including Microsoft, that would hugely impact Indian techies hoping to get permanent…

Photo credit: Oprah/ Instagram When deadly wildfires devastated Lahaina and Kula in August 2023, Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne Johnson launched the People’s Fund of Maui with an initial $10 million commitment. The idea was simple and urgent: put cash directly into the hands of adults who could no longer live in their primary homes. The…

FILE – Mount Tumbledown stands tall behind Stanley on the Falkland Islands, also known as Islas Malvinas, March 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan, File) Argentina on Tuesday said it has approached an international maritime tribunal seeking to halt an oil development project off the disputed Falkland Islands, escalating its dispute with the United Kingdom, which…

Archaeological excavations on Scotland’s island of Lismore have revealed a medieval cemetery. (Photo: Lismore Gaelic Heritage Centre) The residents of Lismore, a tiny Scottish island with around 190 inhabitants, have helped uncover an extraordinary chapter of its early Christian history by raising funds to investigate its monastic past. Excavations led by a professional archaeologist revealed…

A 58-acre family ranch in Utah’s Heber Valley has been permanently protected from urban development following a funding package backed by federal, state and local authorities. The Flying A Ranch Preserve, located in the historic North Fields area of Wasatch County, will remain an active agricultural property where 70 cattle continue to graze. The permanent…

Published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, the research adds to scientists’ understanding of the ecosystems that existed in Gondwana, the ancient southern supercontinent that included much of modern-day Africa. Sometimes a major scientific discovery starts with something barely visible. Researchers studying Moroccan fossils found tiny black circles along a long bone. Under a microscope,…

 A 42-year-old man died after reportedly falling off the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia. A 42-year-old man died after being thrown from a roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia near Atlanta, with witnesses saying he struck other riders before falling to the ground, the Associated Press reported.The deceased was identified as…

Tony Robbins’ hunger-relief work began not with a fundraising campaign, but with a memory from his childhood. As the motivational speaker and author has recounted, his family was struggling financially when he was about 11 years old, and a stranger arrived at their home with groceries and a frozen turkey for Thanksgiving. The experience stayed…