X to reveal government censorship requests, Elon Musk says
Elon Musk has announced a new policy for X that will make government-mandated content restrictions transparent to users, as per reports on Sunday. Under the policy, X will inform users if a…
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Indonesia earthquake death toll rises to 51, rescue efforts continue
The death toll from a magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck Indonesia's Flores island on Saturday has risen to 51, with rescue teams recovering four more bodies on Sunday. The US Geological Survey…
Belgium High Fens wildfire forces 600 to evacuate near German border
Firefighters are battling a massive wildfire in Belgium's High Fens nature reserve that has burned about 30 square kilometres. About 600 residents in Waimes and Bütgenbach, near the German border, were ordered…
PM Modi thanks Netanyahu, Macron, neighbours for I-Day wishes
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has thanked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and French President Emmanuel Macron, among other world leaders, for their greetings on India's 80th Independence Day. In his response to…
Book traces plots that removed Sheikh Mujib and Sheikh Hasina
A new book by veteran journalist Manash Ghosh argues that Bangladesh’s founding leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his daughter, former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, were both removed from power through conspiracies involving…
Virgil Earp, O.K. Corral survivor, claimed 160 Arizona acres in 1898
Virgil Earp, the former Tombstone marshal who survived the 1881 O.K. Corral gunfight, took up homesteading 17 years later. In 1898, he claimed 160 acres near Prescott, Arizona, under federal law, and…
Skeleton with 160 fractures at Stirling Castle may be first trebuchet death
A skeleton found beneath Stirling Castle in Scotland has been identified as likely the first archaeological evidence of a person killed by a trebuchet, a medieval siege weapon. Known as Skeleton 150,…
US creator’s ‘worst part’ of India turns into praise for low costs and community
A Seattle-based content creator, Yuvaan Ibañez Garware, posted a video titled 'What's the worst part about living in India?' that ironically highlights the country's advantages. Garware, who has spent over 16 years…
Friedrich Nietzsche: higher we soar, smaller we appear
Times of India features German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's aphorism from his 1881 work Daybreak: "The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly." The newspaper explains that Nietzsche…
Arctic foxes turned Alaskan grasslands into tundra, study finds
A study in the journal Science reports that Arctic foxes introduced to more than 400 Alaskan islands for fur have transformed grasslands into maritime tundra by disrupting nutrient flow from seabird guano.…
