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Etihad Rail Station Access Roads Project: Sharjah announces traffic diversions near University city for Etihad rail works; Motorists face delays until August | World News

Sharjah motorists advised to plan ahead as Etihad rail construction alters key roads / Image – file Motorists travelling through one of Sharjah’s busiest educational corridors will need to plan their journeys carefully over the coming weeks after authorities announced a temporary traffic diversion to facilitate construction linked to the UAE’s ambitious Etihad Rail Station […]

Where’s the doctor’s note? Germany tightens workplace rules, no more sick leaves over call or text

Do not call in sick without a doctor’s note. Germany’s workplace rules are changing and one of the first aspects to be touched is the generous sick day policy. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz who has repeatedly bemoaned the country’s policy hailed the change as a way to strengthen the nation’s economy.“We can no longer accept […]

Texas school was secretly using stolen gas to heat its classrooms, then one invisible leak killed 295 people in seconds | World News

A routine school day in the small town of New London, Texas, turned into one of the deadliest disasters in American history when a massive explosion ripped through the New London Consolidated School, reducing much of the five-year-old building to rubble in just a few seconds. By the time the dust settled, 295 people, most […]

102 missed alerts, broken anti-drone system: US govt watchdog details security failures in 2024 Trump shooting

File photo of Donald Trump injured while campaigning for US elections The US Secret Service failed to receive 102 local police radio transmissions about the gunman who attempted to assassinate US President Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July 2024. It did not establish a joint communications room with local law […]

Scientists found ancient teeth smaller than a fingertip; they are rewriting early primate history |

pc: Discover Magazine (Image Credit: Dr Stephen Chester) A tiny tooth can disappear between your fingertips without much effort. Yet some of the earliest clues to our own evolutionary story come from fossils no larger than that. In collections of ancient mammal remains from western North America, palaeontologists have spent decades piecing together fragments of […]

A giant 3,200-year-old city hidden beneath Ireland may rewrite Europe’s ancient history | World News

Long before written records described powerful kingdoms in Ireland, a large community had already taken shape in what is now County Armagh. Fresh archaeological research suggests that this landscape was far more than a collection of scattered prehistoric monuments. Instead, it appears to have been a carefully organised centre where people lived, worked, traded and […]

Crocodile wedding: A Mexican mayor marries a caiman every year, but the real story is about people and nature | World News

Every year, a small town in southern Mexico stages one of the world’s most unusual wedding ceremonies. A mayor dresses for the occasion, a bride wears a white gown adorned with flowers, music fills the streets, and hundreds of residents gather to celebrate. The only difference is that the bride is not a person but […]

BepiColombo: The spacecraft that spent 8 years travelling to Mercury is finally arriving in 2026 |

For most space missions, the launch is the headline moment. For BepiColombo, the real milestone arrives years later. After spending nearly eight years weaving through the inner Solar System, the European-Japanese spacecraft is now approaching the point it was designed to reach from the very beginning. As reported by ESA, in November 2026, Mercury is […]

Ford Employee Fired: Ford fired an 11-year employee over a $1.95 cookie, then his bank statement changed everything | World News

A routine snack break at a Ford factory turned into a workplace dispute that has drawn widespread attention in the US. Kurt Kromm, a 60-year-old electrician who had worked at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant for 11 years, was fired after the company accused him of stealing a $1.95 chocolate chip cookie from a self-checkout kiosk. […]

Earth to reach its farthest point from the Sun on July 6, yet the summer heat will not cool: Here’s why |

Earth will reach its farthest point from the Sun on July 6, a yearly astronomical event known as aphelion. At around 152.1 million kilometres from the Sun, the planet will be about 5 million kilometres farther away than it is in early January. Yet, despite this greater distance, the Northern Hemisphere will remain firmly in […]