Franco Fontana passes away at the age of 92 (Image source: Wikimedia Commons) Franco Fontana, an Italian photographer famous for turning landscapes into abstract images through the masterful use of colour, geometry and shadows, has died at the age of 92, Italian media reported on Saturday.Starting his career in the 1960s, when black and white […]
US set to take control of major portion of Venezuelan oil wealth The US is set to take majority control over a huge amount of Venezuela’s oil wealth in an unprecedented manoeuvre that officials said would create the world’s second-largest private oil company by reserves and secure American petroleum supplies for decades to come.President Donald […]
President Donald Trump waves after arriving off Air Force One, Friday, Aug. 28, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) CIA Director John Ratcliffe proposed a trilateral meeting between US President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during his covert trip to Moscow this week, in a bid […]
FBI lowers the hiring bar for the agency. The FBI used to reject anyone if they admitted that they had hired sex workers in the past, stolen from an employer, or engaged in acts of bestiality. But now, these factors are not immediate deal-breakers, CBS reported. The FBI is willing to give candidates a pass […]
An entrepreneur began melting discarded plastic into walls Workers at a recycling plant in central Mexico are turning five and a half tonnes of discarded plastic bottles and old toys every day into strong building materials, helping low-income families get better homes while keeping waste out of local dumps. The process, developed in 2013 by […]
Sisters Hema Sunil Amin, left, and Hemangini Jitendra Patel went missing in Nepal floods. (Phoro: BBC) Tulshi Patel, a Pharmacist from Milton Keynes, England, has been looking for her mother, Hemangini Jitendra Patel, and her aunt, Hema Sunil Amin, who went on a pilgrimage to Tibet. Patel last spoke to her mother and aunt on […]
Moment Energy co-founders Gabriel Soares, Edward Chiang, Sumreen Rattan and Gurmesh Sidhu Six years after four engineering graduates began experimenting with used electric vehicle batteries in a British Columbia garage, their clean technology company has opened the largest second-life battery manufacturing plant of its kind. Moment Energy, founded in 2020 by Simon Fraser University graduates […]
Vikram Ravi said it was nothing but a miracle that his parents (right) survived the deadly flood in Nepal. Vikram Ravi, the son of the Indian-American couple from California who went on a pilgrimage to Tibet, said it was nothing but a miracle that his parents were safe and he was immensely grateful for this […]
In 1997, artist and preservationist Karen Groebli walked into a boarded-up, condemned Victorian mansion in San Diego’s Bankers Hill neighborhood and saw potential where others saw only ruin. As she later told Homes.com, the plaster was hanging from the walls, original gas lines dangled from the ceiling, broken windows littered the floors and the interior […]
Sydney’s DrSadhana narrated how she was love-scammed by Andrew Pearce. Sydney’s Dr Sadhana Govindasamy met Andrew Pearce on a dating app and said they hit it off immediately after their first date. Pearce was charming, charismatic, and very well-spoken, and Dr Sadhana was completely smitten and head over heels for him. In an interview to […]
