A 17-year-old girl seeking help after leaving home was gang-raped on a moving sleeper bus. NEW DELHI: A 17-year-old girl’s search for help after leaving home following a tiff with her parents allegedly ended in a nightmare inside a moving sleeper bus, where two men offered to take her “your way” before allegedly gang-raping her…
They Just Built Their Dream Home on Cape Cod—Now the State Will Tear It Down A Cape Cod couple moved into their newly built dream home in March 2025. Just one month later, Massachusetts officials told them that the state would take the property through eminent domain to make way for a replacement bridge. Marc…
President Donald Trump listens as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks at a cabinet meeting. (AP Photo) A US federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration acted unlawfully in targeting AI firm Anthropic after it resisted certain military uses of its models, saying national security cannot be used to justify retaliation against government critics.US District…
Jim Stevenson (left) and Tara Tanaka (right) at their wildlife sanctuary in Florida. A Florida couple made an unusual decision more than a decade ago when they bought a 45-acre cypress swamp beside their home in Tallahassee, Florida, rather than allowing the land to be cleared or developed. Jim Stevenson and Tara Tanaka purchased the…
She never gave up on art: A grandmother whose remarkable digital creations made her an Instagram icon (Canva) There is something magical about watching someone prove the world wrong without saying a word. Concha García Zaera did exactly that.At the age of 87, the grandmother from Valencia, Spain, became an unlikely internet sensation. She sat…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX postponed the launch of its upgraded Starship megarocket on Thursday after multiple countdown stops-and-starts forced the company to call off the highly anticipated test flight.The company is now eyeing Friday for another take-off attempt of the third-generation Starship rocket, company spokesperson Dan Huot said during the launch livestream.After several rounds of stopping…
NEW DELHI: Govt is likely to allow a levy of 0.25% to 0.4% as merchant discount rate (MDR) or charges on UPI payments above Rs 2,000 made to businesses, while keeping payments made by one person to another outside the ambit.The Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, moved by FM Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday, has…
NEW DELHI: Retail inflation based on consumer price index (CPI) inched up for the fifth consecutive month to 4.4% in June from 3.9% in May, crossing the 4% mark for the first time in 17 months.This was a result of acceleration in food prices and the multiple rounds of fuel price hikes that govt undertook…
At least nine people, most of them teenagers and children, have died in separate water-related incidents across the UK during the recent heatwave and Bank Holiday weekend, according to a BBC report. The deaths have triggered urgent warnings from water safety experts, who are calling for immediate action to educate young people about the dangers…
NEW DELHI: The Gujarat high court, in its July 13 order, ruled that a Muslim family cannot bury a deceased relative on disputed land if a designated community graveyard with sufficient space is available. The court dismissed a plea filed by residents of Gujarat’s Bhavnagar district and upheld a panchayat notice asking them to shift…