World

For a small island with no natural groundwater, Singapore’s water self-sufficiency is remarkable. By looking ahead to climate change, the nation has become a global example of sustainable water management. This success is built on two pillars called the ‘deep tunnel sewerage system (DTSS)’ and ‘NEWater’. The DTSS is like an underground highway, using gravity…

Dipterocarp forest at the Danum Valley Field Centre. Borneo’s tropical forests, dominated by trees from the Dipterocarp family, have some of the highest canopies in the world, with some trees reaching 100 meters Simply cutting back aggressive climbing vines in logged tropical forests allows the tree canopy to recover three times faster than planting new…

Representative Image (Source: Reuters) Iran said more than 30 civilians have been killed in recent US strikes on southern Iran, as US President Donald Trump warned that Washington would target Iranian power plants and bridges next week unless Tehran returns to the negotiating table.Government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani said on X that the strikes had killed…

Off the coast of Key West, a crew of treasure divers just pulled up something that had not come out of the water in almost thirty years. Working the wreck site of the Nuestra Señora de Atocha, a Spanish galleon that sank in a hurricane back in 1622, divers with Mel Fisher’s Shipwreck Expeditions recovered…

With eight goals so far, Lionel Messi is the joint top-scorer with France’s Kylian Mbappe Controversy over FIFA’s alleged favouritism towards Lionel Messi and Argentina refuses to die down, even as the tournament heads into its business end.Ahead of the defending champions’ semi-final clash against bitter rivals England, an online petition has been launched demanding…

Most people picture Switzerland’s mountain tunnels as an engineering flex, a way to shrink travel time between cities. But the real story behind this vast underground network is less about convenience and more about climate. Since the 1990s, Switzerland has been quietly pulling truck traffic off its fragile Alpine roads and pushing it underground onto…

British man’s Iran jail term extended by 2 years over media contact The family of British national Craig Foreman has alleged that Iranian authorities have extended his prison sentence by two years after accusing him of speaking to the media from jail, raising concerns over the treatment of him and his wife, Lindsay Foreman, who…

Photo: hdbrosriley / Instagram Some families start their mornings with coffee. This one starts it with cuddles, wagging tails and a little girl who already understands what love looks like.In a home shared by three Golden Retrievers—Riley, Twyla and Bear—and their tiny human sister, mornings follow a ritual so gentle it’s impossible not to smile….

Fear rarely announces itself as useful. Mike Tyson, the former heavyweight boxing champion, argued it can be exactly that, provided it never gets the upper hand. “Fear is like fire,” he wrote. “If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and…

Ukraine-EU sign landmark ‘drone deal’ The European Union and Ukraine have signed a landmark “drone deal” to combine Kyiv’s battlefield expertise with European industrial capacity for joint production, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen announced on Wednesday.“We need to combine our strengths,” von der Leyen said in a speech in Kyiv. “This deal will…