Kaleb Ortega died after being crushed by a monument at a park What began as a family outing at a park in Washington state ended in tragedy when a 3-year-old boy was crushed by a large stone monument that toppled over within seconds, according to a lawsuit filed by his parents.Kaleb Ortega died after the…
On a low stretch of countryside not far from Stonehenge, where the road from Bulford cuts across open grassland, archaeologists have been piecing together something that never quite forms a full picture. Scattered postholes, fragments of pottery, bits of bone and charcoal that seem ordinary until they are placed in relation to each other. The…
Proverb of the day: The more grains it bears, the lower it bows Some evergreen sayings are there in all countries and cultures; only the words are different and local. In the traditional villages of the Malay Archipelago, wealth was historically measured not in gold coins or digital ledger balances, but in the yield of…
Trump, Vance say Iran agreed to IAEA inspections. Tehran denies. Photo Credit: AP The first full day of US-Iran talks in Switzerland ended with Washington and Tehran offering differing accounts of what had been agreed, particularly on the issue of international inspections of Iran’s nuclear programme.Speaking after the opening round of negotiations at the Burgenstock…
“A Thief Who Robs a Thief Has a Hundred Years of Pardon”: Imagine a scammer being conned out of his own money. Or a thief discovering that someone has stolen from him. For many people, the immediate reaction is not sympathy but satisfaction. There is even a proverb for that feeling: “Ladrão que rouba ladrão…
Maldivian proverb of the day reminds us how a rat works hard to open a coconut and a bat drinks the water like an opportunist. Somebody does the work and someone else reaps the benefit. This is the crux of this old Maldivian saying, explained through imagery of vegetation. In the Maldives, the coconut palm…
LONDON: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer nearly broke down as he found himself on the scrapheap of history on Monday when like Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss before him, he was booted out of No. 10 by his own MPs.After just two years in the job, having watched his authority within his party…
The protester was waving an upside-down American flag when she was hit, video shows. A protest outside a US immigration detention centre turned chaotic on Sunday after a demonstrator was struck by a car while waving an upside-down American flag, reports the New York Post.The incident happened outside Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey where…
A Redditor shared US visa interview (tourist visa) experience in Delhi. An individual wants a tourist visa to the US to watch the FIFA final. The visa officer asks him whether he watched last night’s match. The answer is negative. Then the visa officer asks whether he watched any match at all. No is again…
Savitha Shan posthumously received two degrees from the University of Texas two months after being killed in a mass shooting. 21-year-old Indian-origin Savitha Shan would have graduated by May, but her life was cut short by a March 1 mass shooting. Her parents Shan Muthian and Selvi Shan refuse to continue grieving and announced the…
