On a remote island in the Marshall Islands, a concrete dome built more than four decades ago holds roughly 85,000 cubic metres of radioactive waste left over from the United States’ Cold War-era nuclear testing programme. Known officially as Runit Dome and locally as The Tomb, the structure was built between 1977 and 1980 to…
In 1998, a Tucson resident named Brad Lancaster took a saw to the curb outside his home and cut six openings into it, creating small channels to divert rainwater off the street and into the space between the sidewalk and the road. Cutting into a public curb without permission was against city rules, and Lancaster…
Iran hands down death penalty indictment against Trump over Khamenei death Iran has issued an indictment against US President Donald Trump over the killing of former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iranian media reported on Tuesday.Tehran prosecutor Ali Salehi said indictments had been completed in 140 cases linked to the war, including 74 involving the…
Netanyahu, Trump, Zelenskyy TOI correspondent from Washington: For more than three years, the war in Ukraine and the conflict between Israel and Iran have unfolded as separate geopolitical dramas. On Tuesday however, the two appear closer than ever to becoming chapters of the same story.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived…
Punjabi man Moti Johal stopped his van and rushed to save an autistic toddler amid heavy traffic in Surrey. Moti Jahal is overwhelmed as his video of saving a child at a busy Surrey crossing in Canada has gone viral and everybody is praising him for his split-second decision to stop his car and pick…
Senator Alex Padilla was called a traitor after he pushed a new bill to make getting Green Cards easier California senator Alex Padilla reintroduced his 2025 legislation demanding to make Green Card easier for foreign nationals. Those who have stayed in the US continuously for seven years and have no criminal record should get Green…
13 Indian seafarers trapped in vessel in Ukraine amid repeated drone, missile attacks NEW DELHI: Thirteen Indian seafarers are among 15 crew members stranded on board a cargo vessel at Ukraine’s Chornomorsk port, where repeated drone and missile attacks have placed the crew in what has been described as a “life-threatening situation”, according to the…
French police seals affixed to the door of an apartment, after the bodies of five deceased infants were discovered. (Source: AFP) French prosecutors have opened a murder investigation after the skeletal remains of four infants and the decomposed body of a newborn were discovered at a couple’s apartment in the historic centre of Orange, in…
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday filed a chargesheet against 13 accused in connection with the NEET-UG paper leak case before the Rouse Avenue Court in Delhi.The chargesheet, filed by the Economic Offences Wing of the CBI, will be placed before the special fast-track court constituted to hear paper leak cases on Wednesday.According…
James Aren Duckett and Dominick Anthony Occhicon (AP Photo) Florida is preparing to carry out two executions on Tuesday, becoming the first US state in nearly a decade to execute two inmates on the same day. If both lethal injections go ahead, it will also mark Florida’s first same-day executions since 1964 and the first…