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A wall of portraits inside the former bedroom of Neil Armstrong in Wapakoneta, Ohio. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Patrick Aftoora-Orsagos) In July 1969, Ken Schreiber was nine years old when Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon. The moment stayed with him, and like Armstrong, Schreiber eventually became a military fighter pilot….

Former OpenAI engineer and Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan/Image: Reuters A former OpenAI engineer accused of planting a bug in the company’s San Francisco office was in contact with a member of the Saudi royal family who urged him to return to the kingdom and join its artificial intelligence initiative, prosecutors said, as cited by CBS…

Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney attends a national unity rally in Red Deer, Alberta, alongside, from left, Monte Solberg, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, and former Premier Ed Stelmach. Voters in Canada’s oil-rich Alberta province have overwhelmingly rejected a move towards independence. They delivered a boost to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s push for national unity amid…

Oregon hobbyist Ed St. John’s backyard railway attracted volunteers, laying the foundations for a remarkable miniature railroad. What began as one man’s backyard hobby in Southern Oregon has grown into a sprawling railway landscape where tiny trains travel through thousands of acres. According to the official website, Train Mountain is far removed from the idea…

    Image: Left/Britannica/Right/Refinery29 Few beauty stories capture the power of social media as clearly as the rise of Kylie Jenner‘s cosmetics business. What began in November 2015 as a debut lip kit became Kylie Cosmetics, a brand that built a devoted audience online and then attracted one of the largest beauty companies in the world. In…

Peyton served alongside Guidry at St Peter Catholic Church in Morrow, Louisiana, where his son Oliver was an altar server. (AI image) A former Catholic deacon in Louisiana, who left the Church after a priest admitted sexually abusing his teenage son in 2018, has lost his appeal against excommunication. Scott Peyton, who resigned from Catholic…

Yellowstone National Park, the world’s first national park, is set to receive a $105 million private gift from energy infrastructure company Tallgrass, marking the largest single private contribution in the history of the US National Park Service. Announced on October 19, 2026, the funding will establish a permanent Conservation and Stewardship Fund to support scientific…

The fridge manufactured in 1910, had undergone a professional conversion for use in a restaurant. (Representational photo) A refrigerator bought on Facebook Marketplace has turned into a major home renovation project for a couple in Michigan, US. Melani Heldt, 34, and her husband Adam paid $4,995 for an antique icebox manufactured in 1910, only to…

Natural materials can provide shelter for aquatic life (Kentucky Fish and Wildlife photo) Thousands of Christmas trees that decorated homes during the holiday season have found a new purpose at the bottom of lakes in Kentucky. Around 5,000 trees were donated to a state-run recycling programme this year, with approximately 1,700 placed in Boltz Lake…

France’s violent weekend: E-bikes torched, 3,000 shops damaged, 2,400 arrested Paris has witnessed scenes of violence as protests over rising living costs and underfunded public services spread across France. The unrest has turned violent in several cities, with the French capital emerging as one of the main flashpoints.Amid the chaos, burning electric bikes have become…