Forest City was meant to become a futuristic metropolis near Singapore, but its empty towers and quiet streets earned it a very different reputation. That unusual setting later attracted a group of technology entrepreneurs who saw the underused development as an opportunity to test a new way of living and working. In 2024, Network School…
The Danube does not arrive at the Black Sea as it once did. For thousands of years, the river carried enormous quantities of sediment towards its delta, steadily building and reshaping the low-lying landscape where river channels meet lagoons and the sea. That process changed after large-scale engineering works altered the river upstream. Following the…
The ferry was carrying dozens of passengers and crew members. (Representative image) At least one person has died and more than 30 remain missing after a ferry sank off the coast of Vanuatu, the office of Prime Minister Jotham Napat said on Sunday.Search and rescue operations were continuing after the MV Matui sank on Friday…
Protesters blocked several routes to the conference venue while being watched by police in riot gear. The demonstrations were organised by a broad coalition of groups opposed to the AfD and its policies. Thousands of people took to the streets of the German city of Erfurt on Saturday to protest against the far-right Alternative for…
Philippine rescuers recovered 41 more charred remains from a ferry fire, authorities said on Saturday, raising the death toll to 76 and leaving 13 people unaccounted for, as forensic teams faced the daunting task of identifying the victims.That painstaking process had already begun after 30 bodies recovered on Friday were brought to a port in…
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he would be willing to meet Russian leader Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Miami for talks on ending the war, in a media interview released Saturday.The Kremlin said it had not yet made a decision on whether Putin would attend the gathering of world…
New York: The CEO of Anthropic said Saturday the AI industry should slow its fast-moving development to give safety measures time to catch up. Without it, Dario Amodei warned AI could be capable within six to 12 months of leading a swarm that could take over the entire internet, among other risks. Sam Altman, CEO…
This Australian man is banned from Bali for 10 years after he was caught having sex in public. An Australian tourist has been deported from Bali and banned from entering Indonesia for 10 years after he was allegedly caught on CCTV engaging in a sex act with a woman outside a residential property in North…
For more than a century, California’s high mountain lakes were stocked with trout to make remote wilderness more attractive to anglers. Between 1870 and 1988, fish were carried or flown into lakes and streams that had historically been fishless, creating new opportunities for recreation but also changing the balance of life in the Sierra Nevada….
More than 1,600 years ago, as fire engulfed a Roman settlement in what is now Bulgaria, a young man appears to have made a desperate decision: he climbed inside a huge storage jar and hid. He never came out. Archaeologists uncovered his remains inside the vessel during excavations at the ancient Roman colony of Deultum…