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Euripides (Image: Wikipedia) There are some quotes that feel ancient immediately. The language sounds heavy. Dramatic. Almost theatrical. Yet once the meaning settles in, the emotion underneath feels surprisingly familiar. This quote by Euripides is one of those lines. Even after centuries, it still sounds painfully human because it speaks about something people continue struggling…

More than five decades ago, Apollo 14 carried an unusual payload into deep space when hundreds of tree seeds accompanied the mission on its journey around the Moon. While astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell explored the lunar surface in February 1971, command module pilot Stuart Roosa remained in lunar orbit with the seeds packed…

Who is Allen Ferrell? YouTuber banned for life from Cedar Point and all Six Flags parks over chicken nugget stunt (Image via Getty) Allen Ferrell is a U.S.-based YouTuber and social media creator known for filming unusual challenges and prank-style videos. He has built a large audience on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram by taking on…

Beneath nearly two kilometres of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, locked away since the continent froze over at least 34 million years ago, scientists have found something that changes the way researchers understand both Antarctica’s distant past and its near-term future. Using ice-penetrating radar gathered across multiple airborne survey campaigns, an international team led by…

Growth figures say Canada has slipped into what many experts would call a technical recession. Canada entered into what many experts would call a technical recession after it reported two consecutive quarters of contraction in economic growth. Statistics Canada said real gross domestic product fell 0.1 per cent on an annualized basis in the first…

A Note of Discord: US divided on the proposed Trump $250 bill TOI correspondent from Washington: America, a republic founded in rebellion against monarchy and once faintly embarrassed about personality cults, is now contemplating commemorating its 250th birthday by placing Donald Trump’s face on a brand-new $250 bill — a denomination so oddly specific it…

Millions of Social Security beneficiaries who receive their monthly payments through Direct Express prepaid debit cards are set to experience an important administrative change. The US Department of the Treasury has begun transitioning the Direct Express programme from Comerica Bank to Fifth Third Bank, which will become the new financial agent for the programme. While…

On a rugged peninsula in northern Greece lies one of Europe’s most unusual and secluded places. Known as Mount Athos, or the Holy Mountain, this autonomous monastic community has barred women from entering for more than 1,000 years. Home to centuries-old Orthodox monasteries, ancient manuscripts and a population made up almost entirely of monks, Mount…

China’s key maritime vulnerability starts at the Strait of Hormuz rather than the Strait of Malacca, creating a fresh arena of strategic competition in the Indian Ocean involving Beijing, India, France and the United States, according to a new report released ahead of the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit in Singapore.The London-based International Institute for Strategic…

Former US attorney general Pam Bondi on Friday appeared before the House Oversight Committee for a closed-door interview over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, admitting there were “redaction errors” while defending the Justice Department’s actions under her leadership.Bondi’s testimony comes amid mounting scrutiny over the Trump administration’s handling of records linked to convicted…