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More than 10,000 excess deaths were recorded across Europe during the record-breaking heatwave that swept through western parts of the continent in late June, according to official mortality data cited by Reuters.Figures released by EuroMOMO, a mortality monitoring network backed by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the World Health Organization … Read more

A massive fire at a popular live music venue in Thailand’s capital late on Sunday killed at least 27 people and left 63 others injured. Officials said many victims died after becoming trapped near the pub’s bathrooms while trying to escape thick smoke. Authorities have launched an investigation into the cause of the blaze, which … Read more

A massive fire at a popular live music venue in Thailand’s capital late on Sunday killed at least 27 people and left 63 others injured. Officials said many victims died after becoming trapped near the pub’s bathrooms while trying to escape thick smoke. Authorities have launched an investigation into the cause of the blaze, which … Read more

File photo: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Ukrainian PM Yulia Svyrydenko stepped down Sunday as President Zelenskyy announced fresh changes to Ukraine’s govt, saying he had offered a new and important position to the former premier.Svyrydenko, who has served as Ukraine’s economy minister, was named PM in July 2025 at the age of 39 after playing … Read more

Andres Alquiga and Diana Tupiza place the paw print of their pet as a symbolic witness to their marriage QUITO: When Diana Tupiza and Andres Alquinga decided to get married, they selected a rather unusual witness for the civil wedding ceremony: Luna, their Pekingese pup who stamped her paw print on the marriage certificate.With recently … Read more

‘Write in such a way that you can be readily understood’ In 1962, a team of structural engineers faced a serious problem at the newly built international terminal of an American airport. The signs guiding passengers to baggage claim, exits, and customs were filled with complicated official language. Tourists got lost, children became separated from … Read more

‘An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep’ In May 1940, the British Expeditionary Force was trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk, facing destruction from the advancing German army. By every visible measure of military equipment, battlefield position, and numbers, the Allied forces were … Read more

Artistic rendering of Penrose super-radiance: electromagnetic waves with selected rotation patterns are amplified as they interact with a system that appears to rotate at superluminal speeds. (Credit: Dalila Pasotti and Hadiseh Nasari) Physicists have successfully recreated some of the extreme physics of black holes inside a laboratory by building a stationary device that can copy … Read more

Dubai’s Emir is so wealthy that he bought a 63,000-acre estate in the pristine Scottish Highlands, yet has visited only five times in twenty years The billionaire ruler of Dubai has expanded his huge 63,000-acre estate in the Scottish Highlands to include ten luxury properties, a hunting lodge and three helipads. However, he has visited … Read more

In an old interview posted on YouTube, Bezos recalled brainstorming on a laptop in the passenger seat while MacKenzie Scott drove him across the country Before Amazon became a three-trillion-dollar global company, its entire business plan was written on a laptop sitting inside the passenger seat of a borrowed 1988 Chevy Blazer.The idea for the … Read more