UAE announces public holiday for Islamic New Year 2026/Image: Getty Images The United Arab Emirates has declared Monday, June 15, a public holiday for both government employees and private sector workers to mark the Hijri New Year 1448.The announcement was made by the Federal Authority for Government Human Resources and the Ministry of Human Resources…
Most people hate drilling holes in walls. The noise, the dust, the anchors that don’t work, and then months later, the patches that never quite match the paint. It’s annoying and repetitive, something we all accept as just part of living. Argentine inventor Marco Agustín Secchi, 29, looked at that problem and decided it was…
UK grooming gang (Photo: West Yorkshire Police) A grooming gang of 15 men has been sentenced to a combined 188 years in prison for the repeated sexual abuse of a teenage girl in Bradford, bringing to an end a long-running investigation and a series of court trials spanning several years.The men were convicted for a…
Imagine living in a city that never stays in one place. Instead of being built on land, it floats across the world’s oceans, carrying tens of thousands of residents while offering schools, restaurants, hospitals and even a stadium. That is the vision behind Freedom Ship, an ambitious proposal for what could become the largest vessel…
Vickrum Digwa, the Sikh man sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Southampton teenager Henry Nowak, has appeared in court alongside his father and brother after all three were charged with multiple weapons offences.The charges relate to a range of weapons allegedly found on December 4, 2025, a day after the fatal stabbing of…
The disappearance of a Los Alamos National Laboratory employee that baffled investigators for nearly a year has taken a grim turn after her remains were discovered in a remote New Mexico forest. Melissa Casias, 54, vanished in June 2025 and was the subject of an extensive search effort. Authorities recently confirmed that human remains found…
A line attributed to Amal Clooney tends to surface in discussions where the tone shifts between concern and expectation. It is not the kind of sentence that tries to impress. It sounds more like something said in the middle of a longer conversation about how things are changing and who is actually expected to carry…
Most drones rely on GPS and powerful computers to find their way around. That makes them heavy, expensive, and power-hungry, basically not practical for anything small. But honeybees? They navigate perfectly with brains smaller than a grain of rice. Now, scientists at Delft University of Technology have figured out their secret and built drones that…
Henry Nowak (left) and Vickrum Digwa (right) The chief constable of Hampshire police has apologised to the family of 18-year-old Henry Nowak, who was handcuffed and arrested by officers moments before he died after being fatally stabbed by 23-year-old Indian-origin Sikh man Vickrum Singh Digwa in Southampton last December.Chief Constable Alexis Boon told BBC that…
UK MP takes on Elon Musk’s xAI in groundbreaking deepfake legal challenge / Image: File A British Labour MP has launched a groundbreaking legal challenge against Elon Musk‘s artificial intelligence company xAI, arguing that AI developers should be held accountable when their systems create harmful content.Jess Asato announced that she has filed a claim in…