Bill Gates Epstein Meeting: ‘Grave error in judgement’: Bill Gates says he regrets meetings with Jeffrey Epstein

Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein (Images/Agencies) Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told a US House panel investigating Jeffrey Epstein that his meetings with the disgraced financier were a ‘grave error in judgment’, as lawmakers reviewed his past association with the convicted sex offender.In a written opening statement released to reporters, Gates said he ‘should never have…

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Why do humans fall in love? The answer may lie in a small rodent from the American Midwest |

Love has inspired poetry, fuelled wars, launched lifelong partnerships and broken countless hearts. It can feel overwhelming, irrational and impossible to explain. Yet some of the most important clues about why humans fall in love did not emerge from studies of couples, philosophers or poets. Instead, they came from a small brown rodent scurrying through…

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Quote of the day by Bill Nye ‘the Science Guy’: “To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to…” |

Bill Nye (Image: Wikipedia) A plastic bottle lies beside a walking trail. A discarded food wrapper blows across a park. Someone notices it, shakes their head, and walks on. A second person stops, bends down, and throws it in a nearby bin.The difference between those two reactions takes only a few seconds. Yet it says…

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Inside China’s ‘8D Magic City’: People think they’re on the ground floor until they discover they’re 20 storeys up | World News

A visitor exits a shopping centre in Chongqing and steps onto what appears to be an ordinary street. Cars pass by. Pedestrians weave through the crowd. Restaurants and convenience stores line the pavement. Everything feels exactly as it should. Then comes the surprise. Leaning over a railing nearby reveals a dizzying drop to another road…

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Iran Missile Attack: Watch: Iranian missiles strike near US Fifth Fleet HQ in Bahrain

Iranian media has reported missile strikes in Bahrain, as retaliation to American agression. Missiles have made impact, with smoke being seen above the headquarters of the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet in Manama, as Tehran responded against American strikes on Iranian territory.An air raid alert was issued in Bahrain, with residents being urged to “remain calm…

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In 1986 Chernobyl was evacuated and today wolves have returned to dominate the radiation exclusion zone in an unexpected wildlife recovery |

The first impression of the Chernobyl landscape is not drama but quiet that feels slightly unfinished, as if something stopped mid-sentence and never returned to complete it. Roads that once carried routine traffic now fade into grass and young trees, and the outlines of buildings in Pripyat sit with a kind of reluctant stillness. In…

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Quote of the day by Malcolm X: “Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry…” |

Malcolm X (Image: Wikipedia) There is a photograph of Malcolm X that often circulates in books and archives; him mid-speech, eyes sharp, body angled forward slightly as if the words are pulling him ahead of himself. It is not a posture of calm reflection. It is urgency captured in stillness.That sense of urgency runs through…

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24-year-old PhD student spotted a strange signal from space and uncovered one of astronomy’s greatest discoveries |

In the summer of 1967, a 24-year-old PhD student at the University of Cambridge noticed something unusual hidden within mountains of radio telescope data. The signal appeared as a regular pulse, repeating with astonishing precision and refusing to fit any known astronomical explanation. For months, scientists struggled to understand what they were seeing, even joking…

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