Chinese proverb of the day (Image generated via Google Gemini) There is a quiet, almost funny cruelty to this saying. Picture someone striding ahead, chin up, certain they are leading the way. Then th...
John Edwards has resigned as the UK’s Information Commissioner after an independent workplace investigation found there was a “case to answer” regarding allegations about his conduct...
Queen Elizabeth (Image: Wikipedia) We are told, more or less constantly, that happiness is something you get. Buy the thing, win the prize, land the promotion, treat yourself. Queen Elizabeth II spent...
UAE opens sovereign Sukuk market to individual investors / Image – file For the first time, UAE residents and citizens will be able to invest directly in government-backed Islamic Treasury Sukuk...
Nearly two and a half centuries have passed since soldiers gathered on a grassy rise overlooking Fort Ticonderoga and listened as a newly declared nation introduced itself to the world. The hill remai...
For generations, the Canaanites have occupied a curious space between archaeology and biblical tradition. Mentioned repeatedly in the Hebrew Bible as the inhabitants of the land before the rise of anc...
An unexpected conversation at a Coast Guard unit in Seattle set Senior Chief Petty Officer Thomas Hansen on a path that would eventually lead to a historic achievement. After years spent repairing nav...
When interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered by the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile on July 1, 2025, it quickly attracted attention for more than just being the third known object from outside the ...
Jamie Varley jailed for life for murdering 13-month-old boy. A school teacher has been jailed for life without parole for sexually abusing and murdering a 13-month-old boy he adopted with his partner,...
On certain evenings in late October, the central Zambezi woodlands in northern Zambia begin to feel slightly off balance. Not visibly at first. It is more a change in pressure, as if the forest has ta...