Spain’s blood-red Río Tinto river is as acidic as vinegar, and Nasa says it could help scientists find life on Mars | World News

PC: David Santiago Garcia/Aurora Photos/Getty Images At first glance, the Río Tinto in southwestern Spain looks almost unreal. For around 50 kilometres, the water flows in shades of deep red and orange that seem more fitting for an artist’s palette than a natural river. Yet its extraordinary appearance is not the result of artificial dyes…

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For centuries, China’s hanging coffins had no known builders. Ancient DNA now points to the Bo people | World News

The Hanging Coffins at Sagada, PC: Palu Malerba Scattered across remote cliff faces in southern China, wooden coffins have hung suspended for centuries, wedged into rock crevices or resting on driven wooden stakes hundreds of feet above the ground. Who built them, and why they chose height over a conventional grave, remained an open question…

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SAD backs women’s quota, delimitation bills after Badal-PM Modi meet fuels buzz | India News

NEW DELHI: Shiromani Akali Dal on Saturday backed the immediate implementation of the Constitution Amendment Bill, providing for women’s reservation, along with “fair and equitable” delimitation, a day after party president Sukhbir Singh Badal met Prime Minister Narendra Modi.In a post on X, Badal said the party draws inspiration from the Sikh Gurus, who championed…

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Colorado teen Jude Kofie taught himself piano by ear at 10; a stranger bought him a $15,000 grand piano, and now he has released his debut album

Jude Kofie at Octave Records’ studio (Image Credit: PS Audio) Colorado teenager Jude Kofie has reached another milestone in a remarkable musical journey that began when he taught himself to play the piano by ear at age 10. Kofie has now released his debut album, ‘Introducing Jude Kofie,’ on Octave Records. PS Audio’s Copper magazine,…

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Senate confirms Trump’s ex-lawyer Todd Blanche as US Attorney General | World News

Todd Blanche confirmed as as US Attorney General/Image: ANI Todd Blanche, who previously represented Donald Trump in criminal and federal cases, has been confirmed as the US Attorney General after a narrowly split Senate vote.Blanche secured the position by 50-49 early Saturday, becoming the head of the Justice Department after months of questions from lawmakers…

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‘Congress not realising own errors’: Rijiju draws parallel with Indira Gandhi post Emergency | India News

NEW DELHI: Parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju on Saturday stepped up his attack on Congress, accusing the party of failing to acknowledge its “errors and shortcomings.”In a post on X, Rijiju contrasted the current Congress leadership with former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, saying she had been “blunt” in admitting the actions she took during the…

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Greenland: Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked US oil firm pushes ahead with Arctic drilling

File photo: Houses covered in snow are seen on the coast of a sea inlet of Nuuk, Greenland (Picture credit: AP) A US oil company with links to people in President Donald Trump’s political circle has begun moving drilling equipment ashore in Greenland’s remote Jameson Land region, despite not having received approval from the local…

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IT ministry asks Meta to revamp algorithms, submit roadmap to tackle deepfakes | India News

Meta officials arrive at the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to meet Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on the issue of the deletion of PM Modi’s video message to students from Facebook. NEW DELHI: The ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) has asked Meta to revamp its algorithms and submit a compliance roadmap aimed at…

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Kinshasa: Kinshasa is growing faster than almost any city in Africa, but its population boom is not making people richer | World News

Representative Image of daily life on a bustling Kinshasa street amid fast-paced urban expansion (AI-generated image) Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is expanding faster than almost any other city on the African continent, yet that growth has coincided with falling living standards for the overwhelming majority of its residents. According to…

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