News that the recent deaths of 15 elephants may have been caused by pesticides sprayed on tomato crops surrounding Amboseli National Park has raised concerns and questions in Kenya. Last week, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) said that some of the elephants that had died between 24 June and 24 July had shown signs of…
Indian woman says monthly expenses can reach ₹2.5 lakh Life abroad often looks exciting on social media, but for most people, the real concern starts much before booking a flight. Can you actually afford to live there? That question is becoming more common as Indians explore opportunities overseas, and posts that break down everyday expenses…
The Republican-led North Carolina House on Tuesday approved a bill that would make it easier for residents to challenge other people’s votes and county boards to toss those ballots, alarming critics who say the law could cause post-election chaos. The bill, which the state Senate passed last week, allows county residents to challenge early voters’…
Authorities in California have arrested a man who was seen near a golf course owned by President Donald Trump in the Los Angeles area, just ahead of the president’s visit for a fundraising dinner there. Jeanine John Taele, 38, was found with a pistol and illegal ammunition at the Trump National Golf Course in Rancho…
Wall Street got back to its winning ways last week after navigating a hawkish Federal Reserve meeting, volatile swings in chip stocks, and a critical round of Big Tech earnings. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1% for the week, snapping a three-week losing streak. The S & P 500 gained 1% last week, while…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. (Photo credit: AFP) For a lot of kids growing up in Asian households, there’s one sentence that’s almost impossible to escape: “You can do better.” Marks, sports, career choices, even something as small as cleaning your room, there’s always one more suggestion, one more correction, one more way to do it…
Attorneys for the former Olympic canoeist the Trump administration had charged in a felony Reflecting Pool case are seeking to permanently bar any effort to resurface what they called a “politically motivated prosecution” of their client. The case against David “Davey” Hearn was “motivated by political considerations and devoid of adequate factual support,” his attorneys…
I’m in my mid-20s. I had been posting about the protests from the beginning, but 20 July was the first time I attended one. After the baton charge that day and the internet shutdown around the protest site, I went home and started sharing first-person accounts on Instagram. I also helped organise food, aid and…
Nepal’s mountain guides spend each spring leading international clients up Nepal’s highest mountains as guides or porters. When the monsoon comes around from June to September, some of them head towards Pakistan’s far north, home to some of the world’s highest peaks, including five eight-thousanders. International visitors to this rugged region are relatively few, but…
Mary, another former content writer whose name we’ve changed, says her employer encouraged the use of AI as a productivity tool. Instead of making her job easier, she says it created additional responsibilities. “We had to edit more, fact-check more because the data AI produced was inaccurate,” she says. “Technically it was more work for…