13 Asian expats dead in Kuwait/Representative Image Kuwait is grappling with a tragic crisis as 13 expatriate workers, all of Asian nationality, have died and dozens more have been hospitalised due to toxic alcohol poisoning. The Ministry of Health confirmed that 63 cases of poisoning linked to methanol-contaminated alcoholic beverages have been treated since Saturday. […]
In July 2025, actress Michelle Pfeiffer sparked controversy when she shared posts on social media claiming that Apeel, a food technology company backed by Bill Gates, was contaminating organic produce. Pfeiffer’s posts stated that organic produce “is no longer safe” because Apeel’s edible plant-based coating, recently approved by the USDA for organic certification, is invisible […]
Authorities in China have detained six people and launched a investigation after hundreds of children in a Gansu province kindergarten were poisoned by food contaminated with industrial-grade lead pigment.The scandal, which unfolded at the Brownstone Peixin Kindergarten in Tianshui earlier this month, has triggered national outrage and drawn scrutiny over failures across the education, health, […]
A married tech CEO who went viral after being caught on the kiss cam with a colleague at a Coldplay concert is being slammed by a former employee as a “toxic” boss, with ex-staffers reportedly having second-hand embarrassment.Andy Byron is the chief executive of New York-based software firm Astronomer. He was seen in an awkward […]
Another employee of Astronomer was allegedly caught grinning in the Coldplay viral video. After Astronomer CEO Andy Byron was spotted with an office colleague in a viral video at a Coldplay concert in Boston, the company is now being called out on social media for its toxic work culture as social media users pointed out […]
A civil court in Nantes ruled Tuesday that the French government bore partial responsibility for the 2016 death of Jean-Rene Auffray, a 50-year-old jogger who suffered rapid pulmonary oedema, which sees the lungs fill with liquid, after he inhaled high concentrations of hydrogen sulfide on a beach in western Brittany.In a statement, the court said […]
This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows the Fordo enrichment facility in Iran before U.S. strikes, Friday, June 20, 2025. (Pic credit: AP) As US and Israeli airstrikes tear through Iran’s key nuclear infrastructure, international attention is shifting to a far graver question: Are these attacks triggering nuclear contamination risks across the region?US President […]
This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, where multiple buildings were destroyed from recent Israeli airstrikes. (Pic credit: AP) As Israel targeted Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz amid escalating conflict, head of the UN nuclear watchdog agency said that there is a possibility of both radiological and […]
Representative image (left) and FBI director Kash Patel Two Chinese researchers have been charged by the FBI for allegedly smuggling a dangerous biological pathogen Fusarium graminearum into the United States.Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, have been accused of illegally bringing the pathogen, a plant fungus which is an agroterrorism agent into the US […]
