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A 3,000-year-old horse has been discovered buried inside an ancient Egyptian fortress. (Photo: Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities) Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the carefully buried remains of a horse dating back around 3,000 years inside an ancient military fortress in the western Nile Delta, a rare discovery that is offering new clues about…

Image Credit: Vard/Marine Insight Gabe Newell’s marine research organisation Inkfish has ordered a 162-metre deep-sea research vessel from Norwegian shipbuilder VARD. The ship, named RV11000, is valued at nearly €700 million, or about $816 million, and is scheduled for delivery in the first quarter of 2030. According to Marine Insight, the vessel will be designed…

PC:  Conservation International Zinave National Park in Mozambique lost much of its wildlife during a 16-year civil war. Werner Myburgh of Peace Parks Foundation saw almost no animals there in 2014 and called the silence “like a graveyard”. Peace Parks Foundation says rewilding began in 2016 and 37 rhinos have arrived there since 2022. The…

Priscilla Chan’s fund has provided $330,000 to support Kauaʻi’s schools as the new academic year gets underway, with all 23 public and charter schools receiving a share of the funding. The unrestricted grants give school leaders flexibility to direct the money towards their most pressing needs. As reported by Hawaii News Now, the support also…

Ellision’s estate is located inside the gated Seminole Landing community and has extensive ocean frontage Chief technology officer of Oracle Larry Ellison is preparing to put his large oceanfront estate in North Palm Beach, Florida, back on the market for $165 million, five years after buying the property for $80 million.The Oracle co-founder bought the…

Texas ranchers blocked well operators from 1,604 acres in 2004; court lets oil firm cross property (Image Credit: McFaddin Ranch) A long-running dispute over access to a South Texas ranch has ended with a Texas appeals court allowing an oil company to cross private property to reach an inactive well. The dispute involves the McFaddin…

Texas man to be executed for killing convenience store clerk in 2000 A Texas man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk in 2000 is set to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday. If carried out, it would be the 30th execution in the US this year.Jamaal Howard, 46, was convicted of capital murder…

File photo: US vice president JD Vance speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force Two US vice president JD Vance has said Iran must make a “meaningful” reduction in its nuclear enrichment capacity for Washington to agree to an end to the seven-month war.In an exclusive interview with Reuters, Vance said the US remained open…

PC: United Nations Environment Programme In the early hours of 22 August, a seven-year-old Przewalski’s horse gave birth at the Alibi Reintroduction Centre, a wildlife sanctuary on Kazakhstan’s steppe. According to the United Nations Environment Programme, experts believe the male foal may be the first Przewalski’s horse born on these grasslands in two centuries. Eight…

Shehbaz’s talks offer fails to sway PTI as long march presses on Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Tuesday questioned the seriousness of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s offer for talks, calling it “merely symbolic” and saying the government had taken no concrete step beyond extending the invitation, Pakistan Today reported.PTI spokesperson Gohar said the Shehbaz…