Kirsty Waugh. Image Credit: Worcester News Kirsty Waugh from Tunbridge Wells has turned her own name into a worldwide fundraising mission while continuing treatment for a brain tumour. This 12-year-old girl has tracked down 14,000 people called Kirsty across 50 countries, bringing them together through an online map and a growing collection of photographs. The…
Australia tightens visa rules for international students. Australia has unveiled a major overhaul of its temporary migration system, with international students facing tighter rules on bringing family members, extending their stay and switching courses.The changes are particularly significant for students from countries such as India, for whom Australia has long been a major overseas education…
PC: Egypt State Information Service A newly discovered tomb at Egypt’s Saqqara necropolis has revealed the burial place of a senior Old Kingdom official, along with a wider network of burials. An Egyptian archaeological mission found the tomb of Sekhentyu-Ptah during its first excavation season in the west of the Bubasteion. The site contains a…
Dwayne Johnson (Photo: @TheRock/ X) Two people can reach a comparable level of success and carry themselves in completely different ways once they get there. One starts believing their own reputation, coasting on past results and expecting continued recognition without continued effort. The other keeps behaving, day to day, as though the position they’ve reached…
PC: National Park Service In 2003, a restoration effort at New York City’s Big Egg Marsh took a major step when National Park Service scientists and 100 volunteers planted 20,000 smooth cordgrass seedlings across an area that had been raised with clean sand. The work was part of an experiment to restore a salt marsh…
Govt issues SOP to curb stray cattle on highways, allowing fines and penalties for owners. NEW DELHI: Owners who abandon cattle on highways and expressways could face fines and penalties, with the road transport ministry issuing a standard operating procedure (SOP) to curb the menace of stray cattle and other animals causing road crashes. States…
Wife of U Min Zin has urged Trump to raise her husband’s case with Xi. A US scholar who was invited to China for an academic event and later detained on national security charges has become the subject of a direct appeal to US President Donald Trump ahead of his meeting with Chinese President Xi…
KC Venugopal hits out at EC over TMC symbol freeze NEW DELHI: Congress on Thursday criticised the Election Commission’s interim decision to bar both rival Trinamool Congress (TMC) factions from using the party’s name and reserved election symbol in the upcoming West Bengal Assembly bypolls, with party general secretary KC Venugopal calling it “CEC Gyanesh…
Representative Image of a restored Victorian fort on a picturesque Welsh island with solar panels and scenic ocean views (AI Generated Image) In 2017, British tech entrepreneur Mike Conner bought Thorne Island, a ruined 19th-century fort off the coast of Pembrokeshire in Wales, for about £500,000 after seeing a video about the property online. At…
CM Dhami unveils Goddess Yamuna statue, inaugurates Hari Ghat in Haripur Kalsi Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Thursday unveiled a statue of Goddess Yamuna and inaugurated Hari Ghat at Haripur Kalsi, as part of initiatives aimed at promoting the area’s religious and cultural development.Dhami also laid the foundation stone for the Yamuna-Krishna Temple…