As the skies over Amman and other Jordanian cities lit up with Jordan’s interception of Iranian drones and missiles headed for Israel last weekend, officials in the country were notably silent for hours. Tehran’s unprecedented attack on Israel in retaliation for a suspected April 1 Israeli assault on its diplomatic…
In 1960, on the banks of Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania, one young British woman would set out to change what we know about primates forever. Jane Goodall defied conventional scientific methods by immersing herself in the jungle, which led to groundbreaking discoveries about chimpanzees; most notably that they use tools, are…
The last time Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel addressed his parishioners he was standing at the front of a church delivering an Assyrian bible reading that was dramatically cut short by the dark shadow of an alleged assailant armed with a knife. From hospital on Thursday, after a traumatic week for…
After a disastrous year marked by high costs, accusations of environmental harm and project cancellations in 2023, there’s a sense the US offshore wind industry is on a rebound. There are now two dozen turbines spinning off the East Coast – a number set to more than double by the…
Police in Brazil have detained a woman suspected of wheeling a dead man, who she said was her uncle, to a bank to withdraw a four-figure loan. Footage of the woman’s encounter with the bank has sparked a nationwide discussion in Brazil after going viral on social media. It appears…
A popular lake in central Mexico that is a major tourist destination during the Day of the Dead festivities is drying up due to drought, deforestation, and the theft of its water. The lake, which is part of a municipality that shares its name and is also known as the…
A massive jawbone found by a father-daughter fossil-collecting duo on a beach in Somerset along the English coast belonged to a newfound species that’s likely the largest known marine reptile to swim in Earth’s oceans. Scientists consider the blue whale, which grows up to 110 feet (33.5 meters) long, to…
Smoking among younger middle-class women has jumped more than 25% in the last decade, according to new research. By contrast, smoking rates fell among working-class women. Using data from the Smoking Toolkit Study, an ongoing monthly survey of adults in England, researchers from University College London (UCL) looked at the…
Myanmar’s detained former leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from prison to house arrest, a spokesperson for the military government told media. “Since the weather is extremely hot, it is not only for Aung San Suu Kyi … For all those, who need necessary precautions,…
Meta’s AI has told a Facebook user it has a disabled child that was part of a New York gifted and talented programme. An anonymous parent posted in a private parenting group, asking for advice on which New York education programme would suit their child. They described the child as…