Nine family members set out on a one-hour boat trip from Micronesia, but a storm left them stranded in the Pacific Ocean for nearly 100 days. (Photo: Facebook) What was supposed to be a one-hour boat journey turned into a nearly 100-day fight for survival in the Pacific Ocean. Nine family members from Micronesia found…

Sonia Gandhi also criticised the shrinking space for opposition voices in Parliament under NDA government NEW DELHI: Congress Parliamentary party chairperson Sonia Gandhi has said publisher Penguin Random House India was “uneasy” with criticism of the government, in her first reaction to the controversy over the publication of her upcoming memoir, ‘Belonging: A Journey of…

​American chestnut trees in West Virginia face an uncertain future. An orchard at the former Clements State Tree Nursery in Mason County, established in the 1970s from surviving wild trees, stands on land sought by AI infrastructure developer Nscale. Conservation concerns centre on whether the mature trees can survive a proposed relocation.​Nscale describes its Monarch…

A Ukrainian artillery gun fires at Russian targets in the ongoing conflict. (Image credit: Ukraine’s defence ministry) Europe’s armies are racing to replenish their ammunition stockpiles after years of supplying artillery shells to Ukraine left many countries with depleted inventories. Their efforts to rebuild exposed a major weakness: European defence manufacturers have struggled to ramp…