Pic credit: Joushua Lowry/ GoFundMe A North Carolina family is preparing to take their 12-year-old son to Boston for a heart procedure despite an insurance denial that arrived just days before their scheduled trip to the hospital on October 19, ABC 13 reported. The insurer reportedly called the procedure “medically unnecessary and experimental”. The boy,…
Photo credit (L-R): Bonhams; New York’s Plaza Hotel The original Plaza Hotel portrait of Eloise has one of the strangest histories in American illustration. Painted by Hilary Knight in 1956 as a birthday gift for Eloise co-creator Kay Thompson, the tempera-on-board artwork hung in the Plaza’s lobby before disappearing during a Junior League Ball in…
US Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Riley Barnes and US Ambassador to the Holy See Brian Burch, visit the Christian Palestinian village of Taybeh near Ramallah, a day after Israeli militant settlers attacked a French mayor and European diplomats during olive harvest, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. US diplomats visited…
Pakistan sets 2035 Moon landing target as space programme expands, minister says (representative image) Pakistan aims to land on the Moon by 2035 as it expands its space programme, planning minister Ahsan Iqbal said on Sunday, announcing that the country’s first astronaut would embark on a space mission from China on November 25.Addressing the concluding…
Brazilian man Edimar Martins travelled over 1,200 miles to meet his AI-generated girlfriend. (Photo: Instagram) A Brazilian man who sold all his belongings and travelled more than 1,200 miles to meet the woman he hoped to marry was left heartbroken after discovering that his online girlfriend was an artificial intelligence-generated character.Edimar Martins, 49, a bricklayer…
Sisi has asked for an urgent parliamentary session to authorise the military to help defend Saudi Arabia should the kingdom request its assistance. Egypt on Sunday announced that it was ready to militarily assist Saudi Arabia for safeguarding its security and stability, as Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis step up their assaults on the world’s largest oil…
A Florida appeals court has overturned an order requiring a man to pay his former wife $2,675.87 per month in financial support after a marriage that lasted just 249 days. In its decision, Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeal ruled that the trial court made a mistake by ordering nine months of temporary alimony without…
St. Johns County Utilities officials have gathered to celebrate the completion of the State Road 207 Water Reclamation Facility. The $191.8 million project is the largest capital improvement project in the county’s history. Located at 3055 State Road 207 in Elkton, the new plant treats wastewater and turns it into reclaimed water that is not…
Air chief marshal (retd) Sheikh Abdul Hannan of the Bangladesh Air Force was arrested in Qatar in connection with corruption charges against him in Bangladesh, an official in Dhaka said on Sunday.Akhtarul Islam, deputy director of Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), said Interpol had informed the anti-graft agency that Hannan was arrested by Qatari authorities on…
A long-running legal dispute over a one-third-acre lakefront property surrounded by a public park has reached a key stage. A state appeals court has ruled that local officials can take the land using their legal powers to acquire private property. The Michigan Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that allows Kalamazoo County to…
