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Meet Victoria Gowramma: Indian princess who grew up inside Buckingham Palace and became the first royal to convert to Christianity, had Queen Victoria as her godmother | World News

The British imperial dream had far more consequences than just the expansion of the empire. It left many lives destroyed, kingdoms stolen and people homeless with nowhere to go. Among these was Chikka Veerarajendra, the last Raja of Kodagu (Coorg) who was deposed by the British on 24 April 1834 CE after losing the Coorg […]

65-year-old grandfather attacked by a Yellowstone bison was cracking jokes despite breaking multiple bones | World News

A 65-year-old grandfather who was violently tossed into the air by a bull bison at Yellowstone National Park has been identified as Carl Isom-McDaniel from Washington state. The dramatic attack left him with multiple broken bones after the animal charged while he was with his grandson near the Bridge Bay Campground. Despite the severity of […]

A hidden cave in Norway protected a 75,000-year-old Arctic world until scientists finally uncovered it | World News

Long before the Arctic looked the way it does now, a stretch of Norway’s northern coastline supported an unexpectedly rich mix of wildlife. That picture has emerged from a cave where thousands of years of natural deposits quietly protected the remains of animals that lived during a comparatively mild phase of the last Ice Age. […]

Richard Feynman’s unsent love letter to his late wife shows that love doesn’t always end with goodbye |

Richard Feynman is remembered as one of the twentieth century’s greatest physicists, a Nobel Prize winner whose work transformed quantum electrodynamics and whose wit made science accessible to millions. Yet behind the celebrated scientist was a man who experienced profound personal loss at a young age. In 1945, his wife, Arline Greenbaum Feynman, died from […]

Science word of the day: Allele, know its meaning, who introduced the term, and its practical applications |

Every living organism inherits a unique combination of traits, from eye colour and blood type to resistance against certain diseases. These characteristics are determined by genes, but genes themselves can exist in different forms. These alternative versions are known as alleles. While one allele may produce a particular trait, another may result in a different […]

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 […]

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