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8-year-old Florida boy collected over 50 robot vacuums, learned to repair them and built a YouTube brand that earned up to $1,800 in a month: Meet Wyatt Biggs | World News

Eight-year-old Wyatt Biggs from Florida has transformed an unusual fascination with robot vacuums into a thriving online brand. What began as a childhood obsession with a family Roomba at the age of three has grown into a collection of more than 50 robot vacuums, a YouTube channel, a children’s book and a merchandise business that […]

‘We heard an explosion, then flames spread’: Survivors recount Bangkok pub inferno that killed 27

Europe death toll tops 10,000 during late-June heatwave; scientists blame human-caused climate change

More than 10,000 excess deaths were recorded across Europe during the record-breaking heatwave that swept through western parts of the continent in late June, according to official mortality data cited by Reuters.Figures released by EuroMOMO, a mortality monitoring network backed by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the World Health Organization […]

Till death do us bark: ‘Paw-sitive’ start as pets serve as witnesses in Ecuador weddings

Andres Alquiga and Diana Tupiza place the paw print of their pet as a symbolic witness to their marriage QUITO: When Diana Tupiza and Andres Alquinga decided to get married, they selected a rather unusual witness for the civil wedding ceremony: Luna, their Pekingese pup who stamped her paw print on the marriage certificate.With recently […]

Ho Chi Minh: Quote of the day by Ho Chi Minh: ‘Write in such a way that you can be understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women’ and why simple words have the power to change the world

Alexander: Quote of the day by Alexander the Great: ‘An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep’ and how a leader who controls fear, controls the battlefield

Scientists just created a Black Hole-like energy system in a lab without moving anything, recreating a 50-year-old theory that could transform future communication and quantum technology

Artistic rendering of Penrose super-radiance: electromagnetic waves with selected rotation patterns are amplified as they interact with a system that appears to rotate at superluminal speeds. (Credit: Dalila Pasotti and Hadiseh Nasari) Physicists have successfully recreated some of the extreme physics of black holes inside a laboratory by building a stationary device that can copy […]

Two giant Asian praying mantis species are spreading across Europe, helped by climate change and urbanisation, and scientists warn they are threatening pollinators, frogs and lizards

Two Asian praying mantises are spreading across Europe, and scientists warn they may now threaten native wildlife Two giant Asian praying mantis species are rapidly spreading across Europe, leading scientists to officially classify them as invasive threats to native wildlife.These fast-breeding predators are steadily moving north, helped by rising global temperatures and the warm conditions […]

While Jeff Bezos was sitting in the passenger seat writing Amazon’s business plan in 1994, his wife MacKenzie Scott was driving them on a 2,000-mile road trip across US in a borrowed car

In an old interview posted on YouTube, Bezos recalled brainstorming on a laptop in the passenger seat while MacKenzie Scott drove him across the country Before Amazon became a three-trillion-dollar global company, its entire business plan was written on a laptop sitting inside the passenger seat of a borrowed 1988 Chevy Blazer.The idea for the […]

Nigel Farage’s approval rating hits new low amid funding row as Count Binface steals spotlight in Clacton bypoll

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and Count Binface Nigel Farage’s personal approval rating has fallen to its lowest level since the 2024 general election, according to an Opinium poll, as the Reform UK leader faces scrutiny over his party’s finances and political donations.The survey of around 2,000 Britons found Farage’s net approval rating had dropped […]