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A pizza restaurant in Cheyenne, Wyoming, was left with 18 freshly made pizzas worth about $300 after a large order turned out to be fraudulent. L’Osteria Mondello had prepared the pizzas after receiving a call from someone who reportedly said they were ordering food for a children’s wrestling club. The customer never arrived to collect…

Representative image (IANS photo) Mexico has arrested a man suspected of shooting dead influencer Cesar Gastelum during a livestream earlier this month, authorities said Wednesday, as investigators linked the killing to his social media posts.Gastelum was attacked on August 4 while livestreaming in Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa state, a region caught in a violent…

Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama, wearing a bright red wig and a Louis Vuitton polka dot scarf, speaks during an interview at her studio in Tokyo, on Aug. 1, 2012. (Photo: AP) Yayoi Kusama, Japanese contemporary art icon known for her polka dots, died on August 14 at a hospital in Tokyo, her studio said…

PC: Official website of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey. Archaeologists in southeastern Türkiye have unearthed an unusual 11,000-year-old stone sculpture showing a human figure seated on a leopard, offering a rare glimpse into the artistic world of one of the world’s earliest settled communities. Archaeologists found the 70-centimetre-high figure…

Starlink used for communications in Ukraine ultimately became deeply integrated into its military operations Elon Musk received Ukraine’s Order of Freedom, one of the country’s highest state honours, from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday for his “outstanding personal merits” in protecting human life and freedom and strengthening ties with the United States.The award recognises Musk’s…

A 9-year-old boy from Washington has become an unlikely social media sensation thanks to a childhood hobby that is anything but ordinary. Known online as “The Toilet Kid”, Damian has developed a fascination with toilets, toilet seats and household appliances, turning his interest into a hands-on backyard project. Rather than simply collecting unusual objects, Damian…

A pair of ornamental swans bought for a private pond in Montana in the 1960s eventually became the starting point for a very different kind of wildlife story. By the late 1970s, the flock in Paradise Valley had grown to 120, drawing the attention of Yellowstone National Park officials concerned about possible competition with native…

Image(s): Left/ HBO/Right/Walailak University, Nakhon Sithammarat, Thailand A newly described mountain horned dragon from western Thailand has given the world a species name with a fantasy-inspired twist. Researchers have named the small, spiny lizard Acanthosaura syrax, after Syrax, the dragon ridden by Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen in HBO’s House of the Dragon. The animal was found…

The method, called Extreme Event Aware, or “η-learning”, does not need previous extreme events to create these scenarios. (Representational AP photo) What would a once-in-a-century storm look like if it was stronger than anything recorded before? Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a machine-learning method that can generate realistic scenarios for…

People running away for safety as from huge wave A flash flood in Nepal’s Rasuwa district sent torrents of muddy water and debris through communities along the Nepal-China border, with terrifying videos capturing people scrambling for safety as the waters surged through the region. At least 162 people have been killed and hundreds remain missing…

Beneath every footstep lies a world most of us will never see. A single teaspoon of soil, scooped from a healthy forest floor, holds more living organisms than there are humans on the planet, bacteria, fungi, protists and nematodes packed together in numbers that barely make sense on a human scale. Stranger still, the vast…

Local fishers collect waste from Guanabara Bay as part of a mangrove restoration and cleanup effort in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Decades of pollution, untreated sewage, industrial activity and waste have placed heavy pressure on the mangroves around Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay in Brazil. Yet in one of the bay’s remaining protected mangrove areas,…

China rejects Nepal’s ‘dam collapse’ claim China on Thursday rejected Nepal’s claim that the collapse of a “geological disaster dam” on the Chinese side triggered the massive devastation in Nepal.The Chinese embassy in Nepal called the claim “fake news”, including an allegation that China had failed to issue an early warning to the Nepali side,…

Image: The Guardian/Jenny Vickers A former dairy farm in the UK has undergone a striking transformation after humans stepped back and allowed natural processes to reshape the land. At Heal Somerset, a 460-acre site in Somerset acquired by the rewilding charity Heal in December 2022, the first three years of nature recovery have brought a…

An invasive species threat has reached a new stretch of the Colorado River, after scientists detected zebra mussel DNA in Utah’s portion of the river for the first time. The discovery has raised concerns among wildlife officials because zebra mussels can spread rapidly once established, potentially damaging infrastructure, disrupting recreation and altering freshwater ecosystems. The…

The expansion is an unusual second chapter for Stoneleigh, which was converted to a free public garden in 2016 when the family that owned the estate gifted it to Natural Lands. Two pieces of a historic Pennsylvania landscape were separated by a fence and a property line for more than a century. That division will…

A red fox introduced to California more than a century ago might seem far removed from the fate of a small marsh bird. Yet the two became linked in the coastal wetlands of Southern California, where the light-footed Ridgway’s rail has struggled to survive. The bird spends much of its time concealed among cordgrass and…

Image via TikTok/andreethegirl TikToker Andree Greig Baudoin, better known online as Andreethegirl, has died at the age of 39 after a long battle with metastatic cancer. Baudoin used TikTok to openly share her life, treatment, fears, and hopes with her followers. She died on August 22 at Calcutta House by Hospice of Acadiana in Lafayette,…

Turkish firm ordered to remove unauthorised holiday homes from ancient English woodland. (Photo: SWNS) A mysterious Turkish firm has been ordered to undo major changes made to an ancient woodland in West Yorkshire after a planning inspector found that much of the development could not remain on the site.According to SWNS, Azara Gid San, an…

Biological parents and their surrogate are locked in a legal battle over custody after disagreements about the pregnancy and the baby’s medical future. (Photo: AP/McKenna West) The biological parents of a critically ill newborn have spoken publicly about the heartbreaking circumstances behind their request for a surrogate to terminate her pregnancy after their unborn son…