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Scottish gran wins £4 million Cornwall mansion with £15 Omaze entry. (Photo: SWNS) A 72-year-old grandmother from Scotland was left stunned after initially believing she had won a horse, only to discover that she had actually scooped a £4 million coastal mansion in Cornwall with a £15 Omaze entry.Mary Dickson, from Castle Douglas in south-west…

The blast was reported near the Old Police Lines in Kohat, in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Pakistani officials said Saturday that one of the suicide bombers who targeted a Khyber Pakhtunkhwa mosque was an Afghan national.The explosions killed at least 21 people—including 15 police officers offering Friday prayers at the mosque—and injured 103 others, with…

A company firing Americans and hiring H-1Bs will now be flagged by the US agencies. Amid mass layoffs being announced by several companies, the Donald Trump administration came up with a new executive order that directly links layoffs with H-1B hiring. H-1B is a visa program that allows companies to hire skilled workers from foreign…

Sikh Spiritual Centre Toronto/Image: SSCT website Two Ontario gurdwaras are facing a lawsuit over more than $13 million in loans that were secured against their properties, adding another legal dispute to the growing list of cases involving lawyer and former Liberal MP Rajvinder Grewal.Sikh Spiritual Centre Toronto (SSCT) and Nanaksar Thath Ishar Darbar were sued…

Thousands join protest outside Kennedy Center. (AP Photo) Thousands of protesters gathered outside the Kennedy Center in Washington on Friday evening, forming a human chain around the iconic arts venue as they opposed President Donald Trump’s plans for the institution and his threat to potentially demolish it.The demonstration, organised by arts advocacy group Hands Off…

Charles Spencer, the brother of Britain’s late Princess Diana Earl Spencer, Princess Diana’s brother, has doubled down on his claim regarding an alleged phone call with her ex-husband, King Charles, shortly after her death in 1997.“I can tell you here and now, those are exactly the words he (Charles) said. I was hyper alert to…

A massive data-centre campus planned in Grayslake, Illinois, has moved a step closer to construction after the village issued its first building permit, paving the way for an 800,000-square-foot facility. The larger development is expected to involve as much as $18 billion in private investment, but the project has also triggered opposition from residents who…

Representative Image (AI-generated) A robot has assembled a working tabletop laser cavity in less than 30 minutes, handling the precise alignment usually done manually. Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT’s) researchers have developed a reconfigurable robotic optics laboratory that can pick up and position mirrors, lenses and other components, fine-tune them with micron-scale precision and even…

Karandeep Anand/Image: Reuters Karandeep Anand, who most recently served as CEO of Character.AI, is moving from the consumer AI industry to one of the world’s biggest entertainment companies after being appointed The Walt Disney Company’s new Chief Technology Officer.Disney said Anand will join as Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer on October 2….

Ellen DeGeneres(Image Credit: official promotional still from The Ellen DeGeneres Show) Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi bought a 1917 farmhouse in Santa Barbara’s Toro Canyon in 2018 for $6.7 million, spent a year restoring its original character with modern touches, and sold it in 2019. The four bedroom, five bathroom home on about 25…