Billionaire Larry Ellison once fought the entire city of San Jose so he could land his private jet at midnight, but when it came to buying a $490 million megayacht, he did it over lattes and two emails

Billionaire Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison owns a $38 million private jet and previusly owned a $490 million megayacht Tech tycoon Larry Ellison once waged a relentless two-year legal battle against the city of San Jose just to secure a midnight landing slot for his private jet. The billionaire was willing to fight a lengthy court […]

Turkey spent eight months and $120 million rebuilding an entire airport to land Donald Trump’s Boeing 747 gifted by Qatar | World News

Turkey spent eight months and more than $120 million transforming a former military airport before one of the world’s largest passenger aircraft could touch down. The aircraft, a Boeing 747-8 gifted by Qatar to the United States and expected to be converted into an interim presidential aircraft while Boeing continues work on the delayed VC-25B […]

Florida dad grabbed a 202-pound Burmese python, then it started dragging him towards a canal before his entire family took down the giant snake | World News

What began as a family outing to help remove invasive snakes from Florida’s Everglades quickly turned into a terrifying fight for survival. Carl Jackson believed he had spotted a Burmese python measuring about 12 feet as it crossed a dirt road in Big Cypress National Preserve. But the moment he grabbed the snake, he realised […]

Unicorn in the USA: Indians aren’t stealing American jobs; they are building entire HR departments

TOI correspondent from Washington: For a country currently engaged in a vigorous debate about whether immigrants are stealing jobs, swiping opportunities, overwhelming the system, and generally causing western civilization to collapse, the United States has produced a rather awkward statistic.According to a new policy brief by the National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP), immigrants have […]

The Nile’s hidden shift over 4,000 years may have saved an entire ancient African city and preserved Napata for thousands of years | World News

For a city that stood at the heart of an ancient African empire, Napata has long carried an unusual silence around it. Ruins remain scattered beneath the shadow of sandstone cliffs in modern-day Sudan, and the Nile still bends through the same dry landscape it crossed thousands of years ago. Yet archaeologists have spent decades […]

‘World inside water’: Danish farmer built an entire world map inside a lake

Long before satellite imagery and digital maps became common, a Danish farmer carved out one of the world’s most unusual geographical attractions entirely by hand inside a lake. Inspired by a stone near Klejtrup Lake that resembled Denmark’s Jutland Peninsula, farmer Soren Poulsen spent roughly 25 years transforming the waterbody into a giant miniature world […]

US town mayor fires entire police department for upsetting his wife, says he won’t block paychecks

A mayor of a small town of Georgia in the US fired the entire police department for upsetting his wife. A mayor of a small Georgia town has fired the entire police department for apparently upsetting his wife after the cops wrote some offensive comments on social media about the wife who used to work […]

‘Comparing H-1B workers to entire workforce’: Row over US entrepreneur’s claim visa holders are less than 0.5% of jobs

A social media post by US entrepreneur James Blunt claiming that H-1B visa holders make up less than 0.5% of the American workforce has triggered an online debate over immigration, tech jobs and data interpretation.Blunt shared a chart on X suggesting that around 700,000 H-1B workers form a “tiny orange cluster” compared with roughly 160 […]

‘Entire trip was spectacular’: Donald Trump hails Artemis II crew after historic Moon mission, eyes Mars next

Trump hails Artemis II crew after historic Moon mission, eyes Mars next US President Donald Trump on Saturday congratulated the crew of Nasa’s Artemis II mission after their successful return to Earth, praising the astronauts and declaring that the next phase of US space exploration will be Mars.In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote, […]

Indian-origin Shri Thanedar faces massive trolling on birthright citizenship: ‘Your entire lineage should be banned.’

Shri Thanedar got viciously trolled for his comment on birthright citizenship. Rep Shri Thanedar was viciously trolled and made responsible for his first wife’s suicide after he expressed his interest in the Supreme Court hearing on birthright citizenship. Thanedar said the hearing was deeply personal to him as he came to the US as an […]