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Pink lakes within the New South Wales national parks estate will be protected for the first time after the NSW and Australian governments jointly purchased Pulgamurtie Station, a 74,000-hectare property about 235 kilometres north-east of Broken Hill. This landscape is home to more than 70 threatened species, including the iconic brolga, pink cockatoo and slender…

The ranch, known as “Patrón de Paz,” was located in Dripping Springs, about 40 minutes west of Austin. A 96-acre Texas ranch once owned by Patrón Tequila co-founder John Paul DeJoria came with an unusual combination of luxury, wildlife and an underground shelter. More than 120 exotic African animals lived on the property, while the…

The six journalists – Abdullah Qadry, Mohammed Ashraf Abu Emeira, Islam Barakat, Omar Helal, Mohammed Mahmoud and Mohammed Adel – were arrested during raids on their homes across Egypt. Egyptian authorities have charged six journalists working for independent fact-checking platform Matsda2sh with alleged links to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, days after security forces arrested the…

Image(s): Left/Roll on Friday/Right/Open Library Most marathon runners simply hope to finish in one piece. Archie Hunt wanted to finish fast while wearing little more than a cape and underpants. Dressed as Captain Underpants, the beloved children’s book hero, he ran the London Marathon in 2 hours, 27 minutes, and 41 seconds, beating a record…

4 Pakistani men to lose US citizenship for their identity fraud and marriage fraud committed years ago. Among the 40 men who will lose their US citizenship in the Donald Trump administration’s largest denaturalization move, four are from Pakistan. Attorney General Todd Blanche called this the largest denaturalization effort in modern history. All of them…

Indian-American toddler Advay Jain being felicitated by New York Consul General Binaya Srikanta Pradhan for his Guinness record. An Indian-American toddler, Advay Jain, has made Guinness record as the youngest person (male) to have published a book. He was 3 years and 345 days old when he published ‘Dino Learns Not To Waste Food’. Now…

Representative Image (AI-generated) A blood-cancer treatment that Stanford researchers have spent more than two decades developing has now reached an important milestone. Its first commercial patient has been treated following U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval. According to the Stanford Cancer Institute, the therapy, known as Orca-T, was given to a patient at Stanford Medicine…

Image: Stamford advocate(left) John Reznikoff has built one of the world’s strangest historical collections: hair from some of the most famous people in history. The Connecticut-based collector and authenticator holds the Guinness World Records title for the largest collection of hair from historical figures. When he received the record in 2001, his collection contained hair…

Karl Deisseroth, one of the three recipients of the 2026 Nobel Prize in medicine, smiles at home on Monday, October 5, 2026. Image Credit: AP Photo/Noah Berger Dr Karl Deisseroth had barely begun processing the news that he had won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine when an ordinary family responsibility came into…

Greenland shark, Image: Saul Goner, SeaPics Greenland became the centre of an unusual dispute over one of the world’s longest-lived vertebrates after the municipal council of Avannaata approved a proposal to cull 1,000 Greenland sharks. Under the scheme, fishermen would have received 300 Danish kroner, about $45, for each shark heart they brought in. The…