Nobody has seen Rep Tom Kean Jr after March 5 but he is not missing and he’s trading and calling his colleagues from an undisclosed location. 57-year-old Tom Kean Jr, the representative of the 7th Congressional district, New Jersey, was last seen on March 5. He has missed around 100 House votes since then, was…
An illegal immigrant from India has been jailed for 10 years in US after paying human traffickers to abuse minor girls at a Nebraska hotel.Kavankumar Patel, a 27-year-old citizen of Gujarat, India, who is living in the US illegally, was sentenced this week in a federal court in Omaha, Nebraska. The decade-long prison term was…
Indian-origin woman from California met a catastrophic accident during her birthday trip to Mexico earlier this month. Nina Bakhshi, an Indian-origin Californian makeup artist, had the most harrowing birthday trip this year as she chose a guided ATV (all-terrain vehicle) tour of Cenote La Noria in Mexico, where she fell from a bridge and suffered…
A Canadian man accused of supplying lethal substances linked to the deaths of more than 100 people in the UK will not be extradited to face prosecution in Britain.Kenneth Law, 60, is currently facing criminal proceedings in Canada and is expected to appear in court in Ontario on Friday. He is accused of aiding suicide…
Wealth between countries is often discussed as though it were a simple ranking of who has the most money. In reality, the picture is narrower and more complicated. Lists of the world’s richest countries usually measure wealth by GDP per capita, which is economic output divided by population. That changes the order completely. Large economies…
The history of science is crowded with people whose ideas arrived before the rest of the field was ready for them. Tibor Gánti belonged somewhere in that uneasy category: respected in small circles, barely recognised outside them, and for years almost absent from wider discussions about how life began. His work circulated quietly through Hungarian…
One of the key areas of scientific study in recent times includes the use of stem cell research in space. Scientists are conducting research to see how the human body is affected by microgravity, and the possibility of growing stem cells in space aboard the International Space Station (ISS) allows us to see how such…
Somewhere between the scorching extremes of hot Jupiters and the frozen depths of gas giants like Saturn lies a planet that astronomers have spent years looking for and struggling to study: a temperate giant, large enough to qualify as a gas world but sitting in a temperature range that, by the standards of the universe,…
Vladimir Putin (File photo) For years, Vladimir Putin has cultivated the image of an ageless strongman, riding horses shirtless, playing ice hockey and projecting physical endurance as a symbol of political authority. But behind the carefully staged displays of vigour lies a far deeper obsession now shaping Russian state policy: the pursuit of longevity.The latest…
Britain plans 300,000 new work placements as more than one million youths remain NEET. The UK government has announced plans to provide 300,000 new work experience and training opportunities over the next three years as it seeks to tackle rising youth unemployment and economic inactivity.The programme, backed by major employers including Manchester Airport and Gatwick…