‘A New Form of U.S. Colonialism’: Venezuelans Bristle at U.S. Oil Takeover
A deal giving the U.S. majority control of vast Venezuelan reserves strikes at the heart of national identity. Source link
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Why Australia’s giant cuttlefish mating season has gone silent
Every winter, a sliver of the South Australian coast hosts the world’s largest mating event for giant cuttlefish. Some years, hundreds of thousands of the unique marine species endemic to Australia gather along the Cuttlefish Coast for the annual mating season, bringing their colourful, shape-shifting figures to the shallow waters and attracting thousands of keen…
In 2022, he left a ₹83 lakh Google job in Dublin and returned to Punjab for growing organic food; today, Mantaj Sidhu runs a farm-to-home business for hundreds of families |
Sidhu’s compensation at Google was around €100,000, including bonuses and shares, equivalent to roughly ₹83 lakh at the time. For Mantaj Sidhu, leaving a well-paid Google job in Dublin was not a decision he made overnight. After nearly five years with the company, he began questioning what he was working towards and eventually decided that…
NASA readies to launch its next-generation space telescope
NASA on Sunday is set to launch a next-generation telescope into space that’s expected to survey hundreds of millions of stars and billions of galaxies. Its findings could also unlock clues about dark energy and dark matter, and some of the universe’s biggest enigmas. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is slated to lift off…
Lenín Moreno: Former Ecuadorian president imprisoned for corruption
A former president of Ecuador has been sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty of taking bribes. Lenín Moreno insisted he had not taken money from a Chinese firm which secured a contract to build a hydroelectric plant in the Latin American nation. The 73-year-old will serve his sentence under house arrest…
OpenAI to end model access to Cursor after acquisition by SpaceX
A combination photo shows CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman (L) on April 28, 2026 and Elon Musk on April 29, 2026 during the trial in Elon Musk’s lawsuit over OpenAI for-profit conversion at a federal courthouse in Oakland, California, U.S. Manuel Orbegozo | Reuters OpenAI announced late Friday that it is ending developers’ access to…
Nepal Floods: “It was a terrifying wall of dirt and water and we jumped out of the bus”: Couple recalls their near- death experience in Nepal floods
Couple recalls their near-death experience in Nepal floods (Image Credit: Instagram/ @cbsnews) Anjana Raja and Pattabiraman Venkatesan, a couple from the San Francisco Bay Area who were travelling on a pilgrimage to Tibet, described a terrifying escape after a huge mass of mud and debris suddenly rushed toward their tour bus near the Nepal-China border….
Palestinian woman and NBC News team attacked by masked Israeli settlers in West Bank
Masked Israeli settlers attacked and injured a Palestinian woman and members of an NBC News team reporting in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Saturday. Four members of an NBC team were interviewing Aida Ahmed Abdullah and her family in the Palestinian town of Jalud, near Nablus. Abdullah said they had been driven out of their…
Norway’s Haakon remembers ‘my dear father’ in first speech as king
He assumes his new role at a difficult time, as the royal family has faced health challenges and scandals this year. Mette-Marit came under scrutiny when it was revealed that she had had a three-year friendship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, for which she publicly apologised. She later received a lung transplant,…
Nepal tragedy: Goddess at Palanchok Bhagawati Temple was reportedly ‘sweating’ days before the disaster, reviving an ancient belief about calamities |
Devotees noticed what they described as ‘sweat’ on the idol during evening prayers on August 22. (Photo: Niranjan Shrestha/AP) An unusual incident at a temple in Nepal has caught attention after devotees claimed that the idol of Goddess Bhagwati began “sweating” (was reportedly seen with moisture) days before devastating flash floods hit the country. The…