Indian-origin doctor sentenced to jail for six months in Ohio for secret bathroom recordings, will be registered as a sex offender for 15 years

Advait Deshmukh apologized to his victims during the sentencing. An Indian-origin doctor in Ohio’s Toledo has been sentenced to six months in jail after he admitted that he secretly recorded women in employee restrooms at Toledo Hospital. Advait Deshmukh was sentenced in June after he pleaded guilty to one count of attempted tampering with evidence…

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California deploys 400 goats and sheep as ‘firefighters’ to eat an invasive weed fuelling wildfires and threatening native ecosystems | World News

As California prepares for another intense wildfire season, an unlikely team of firefighters has taken to the fields of northeast Fresno. Around 400 goats and sheep have been deployed to graze across 180 acres of land overrun by yellow star-thistle, an invasive plant that not only crowds out native vegetation but also creates dry fuel…

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Good news for family Green Card applicants in August visa bulletin, bad news for employment-based candidates; EB-1 may become unavailable

State Department says EB-1 may become unavailable for Indians for FY 2026. The August 2026 visa bulletin released by the State Department on Monday brought good news for family-sponsored applicants. The final action date for the F2A category for spouses and children of permanent residents saw substantial progress, moving from January 2025 in July to…

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Scientists deploy robot birds in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park to lure a critically declining local sage-grouse population away from an airport and revive its numbers | World News

Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming has turned to an unusual conservation strategy to save one of its fastest-declining bird populations: robot birds. Park officials and wildlife experts have deployed lifelike robotic greater sage-grouse that mimic the species’ elaborate courtship dances, puff out their chests and broadcast recorded mating calls in an effort to attract…

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American oystercatchers were largely wiped out in New England: After a $10 million conservation push across 16 states, their numbers rose 45% along US coasts | World News

They are the size of a football with bright orange bills, long legs, yellow-beady eyes and can fly up to 2,000 miles. While they populate American beaches today, once there was a time when American oystercatchers had been wiped out from New England.By the turn of the 20th century, these birds had gone extinct in…

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A landlord company managing 300 rental homes has been fined £42,500 after paramedics found tenants sleeping on floors surrounded by dead rats and human waste

Three adults were sleeping on the floor in a house surrounded by waste, including dead rats and mice. (Picture: Durham County Council) A landlord company in County Durham has been fined £42,500 after tenants were found living in unsafe conditions, including sleeping on the floor surrounded by dead rats, mice, human waste and urine.Carter Property…

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West London streets flooded annually with heavy rains: Local council was about to spend millions to fix the problem, then beavers did it for free

For Londoners living around Greenford Tube station, tiptoeing through floodwater to get to work was a part of their daily routine. The ticket hall found itself inundated after a heavy downpour with neighbourhoods flooded and sandbags routinely deployed to make way.The local council of Ealing, a borough in West London faced the daunting reality every…

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Florida confirms Burmese python breeding hotspot outside the Everglades, and wildlife experts fear it could be the start of a bigger spread | World News

For years, efforts to track invasive Burmese pythons in Florida have centred on the Everglades, where the giant snakes have become one of the state’s most persistent wildlife problems. That picture is beginning to change. Wildlife officials now say a separate breeding population has become established farther north along Florida’s Gulf Coast, suggesting the species…

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