In this image taken from a video people are rescued from an overloaded ferry that capsized on Zimbabwe’s Lake Kariba on Tuesday Search and rescue operations continued Wednesday after a govt passenger ferry capsized on Zimbabwe’s Lake Kariba, claiming at least 44 lives, authorities said. A witness said that after the ferry sank in rough…
The senators said delays could prevent students and exchange visitors from reaching the US in time for the beginning of the academic year With the US fall academic season weeks away, a shortage of timely student-visa appointments has emerged as a growing concern for international students, including Indians, with 30 US senators now pressing the…
Zhu is credited with supplying the tenacity to push through changes such as China’s WTO membership, which helped transform China into the world’s biggest exporter BEIJING: Former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, the impatient, sharp-tongued reformer who helped ignite China’s explosive economic boom by forcing wrenching change on state industry in the 1990s and leading the…
Voltaire was an influential French Enlightenment philosopher and writer who championed reason, freedom of thought, and religious tolerance while criticizing injustice and intolerance. Imagine standing on the deck of an ocean liner when a sudden storm tears the ship open. The engine stops, water rushes into the lower parts of the ship, and the vessel…
Quote of the day by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivered a powerful speech on July 4, 2026, on the occasion of America’s 250th birthday, addressing the burning issue of migration, weaving in his story of coming to the US as well. “The city I see today looks…
Montesquieu was a French Enlightenment thinker who advocated the separation of powers among the legislature, executive, and judiciary to prevent abuse of power. In 1995, a young online bookseller operating from a Seattle garage put a simple sign on its office wall: “Get Big Fast.” To a casual observer, it looked like a typical Silicon…
Was Jamal really behind the deletion of IShowSpeed and Kai Cenat’s Minecraft Hardcore world? Viral clip explained A viral clip from IShowSpeed’s Minecraft Hardcore stream made it look like his brother Jamal had erased the world he and Kai Cenat had spent hours building. That is not what happened. Jamal did delete a saved world…
Quote of the day by David Goggins. David Goggins is a retired United States Navy SEAL, an accomplished ultra-marathon runner, ultra-distance cyclist, triathlete, public speaker, and author. Born into severe adversity, Goggins endured a traumatic childhood marked by physical abuse, poverty, racism, and learning disabilities. As a young adult, he found himself working a dead-end…
From Dredge to Delta: USACE, Partners Restore Roughly 70 Acres of Wetlands at Deal Island Wildlife Management Area A $13.5 million restoration project in Somerset County, Maryland, has successfully turned dredged river sediment into about 70 acres of tidal wetland habitat, according to the US Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District Website.The project at the…
Afghanistan only country where girls formally barred from secondary, higher education, Unesco says An estimated 2.4 million Afghan girls remain excluded from secondary education, five years after the Taliban returned to power, according to a report by Unesco.Unesco said Afghanistan remains the only country in the world where girls and women are formally barred from…