Former US President Barack Obama. Former US President Barack Obama is set to campaign for Democratic candidates in Ohio and Michigan as the party steps up efforts to regain control of Congress in the November midterm elections.Obama will campaign in Cleveland on October 24 alongside former senator Sherrod Brown, who is seeking to unseat Republican…
Image: Left/Davidson Institute/Right/Elizabeth Hanechak/LinkedIn Many young people are still working out how to change the world, but Elizabeth Hanechak has already started with the plastic choking our planet. At eighteen, the student from Russell, Massachusetts, designed a microbial system that uses an engineered enzyme and microscopic algae to break plastic waste down into drinkable water…
A private island in the northern Bahamas was once at the centre of an ambitious property venture involving Colombian singer Shakira and Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters. The plan was to create a destination where artists could stay and work, alongside boutique hotels and luxury residences. The project never progressed as intended, leaving Bonds Cay…
In Albania, student protests escalated into violent clashes with police in the capital, Tirana. Student demonstrations in Albania turned violent on Tuesday as protesters threw bricks and concrete blocks at the education ministry in the capital, Tirana. Police responded by firing tear gas and deploying water cannons to disperse the crowd.Several demonstrators were detained by…
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…
