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Euripides (Image: Wikipedia) There are some quotes that feel ancient immediately. The language sounds heavy. Dramatic. Almost theatrical. Yet once the meaning settles in, the emotion underneath feels surprisingly familiar. This quote by Euripides is one of those lines. Even after centuries, it still sounds painfully human because it speaks about something people continue struggling…

Who is Allen Ferrell? YouTuber banned for life from Cedar Point and all Six Flags parks over chicken nugget stunt (Image via Getty) Allen Ferrell is a U.S.-based YouTuber and social media creator known for filming unusual challenges and prank-style videos. He has built a large audience on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram by taking on…

Former US attorney general Pam Bondi on Friday appeared before the House Oversight Committee for a closed-door interview over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, admitting there were “redaction errors” while defending the Justice Department’s actions under her leadership.Bondi’s testimony comes amid mounting scrutiny over the Trump administration’s handling of records linked to convicted…

Growth figures say Canada has slipped into what many experts would call a technical recession. Canada entered into what many experts would call a technical recession after it reported two consecutive quarters of contraction in economic growth. Statistics Canada said real gross domestic product fell 0.1 per cent on an annualized basis in the first…

On a rugged peninsula in northern Greece lies one of Europe’s most unusual and secluded places. Known as Mount Athos, or the Holy Mountain, this autonomous monastic community has barred women from entering for more than 1,000 years. Home to centuries-old Orthodox monasteries, ancient manuscripts and a population made up almost entirely of monks, Mount…

China’s key maritime vulnerability starts at the Strait of Hormuz rather than the Strait of Malacca, creating a fresh arena of strategic competition in the Indian Ocean involving Beijing, India, France and the United States, according to a new report released ahead of the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit in Singapore.The London-based International Institute for Strategic…

A Note of Discord: US divided on the proposed Trump $250 bill TOI correspondent from Washington: America, a republic founded in rebellion against monarchy and once faintly embarrassed about personality cults, is now contemplating commemorating its 250th birthday by placing Donald Trump’s face on a brand-new $250 bill — a denomination so oddly specific it…

Millions of Social Security beneficiaries who receive their monthly payments through Direct Express prepaid debit cards are set to experience an important administrative change. The US Department of the Treasury has begun transitioning the Direct Express programme from Comerica Bank to Fifth Third Bank, which will become the new financial agent for the programme. While…

California man shares harrowing experience as his robotaxi started speeding at a construction site. A California couple had the most harrowing 20 seconds of their life when their self-driving Waymo robotaxi went haywire and began speeding through a highway construction zone. The company offered him $120 in free rides, compensating for the life-threatening experience he…

Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia reacted to the viral video showing a group of Indian tourists performing ‘Garba’ on an airport tarmac in Vietnam. He said culture is more about behaviour than public display.The viral video circulating across Instagram, Reddit, X and other social media platforms, shows several Indian travellers dancing in a circle near a…

Vivek Ramaswamy blasted the fake news that he was denied entry to the Knicks locker room and said he did not even wait after his team was crushed. Vivek Ramaswamy said it was a dumb thing to claim that he wanted to enter the Knicks locker room under the guise of welcoming them to Ohio…

Less than a year after the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, his widow Erika Kirk has denied rumours that she has moved on and started a new relationship.The controversy began after online conspiracy theorist Collin Scott Campbell claimed on X that Erika Kirk had been seen getting “very intimate” with casino heir…

A political dispute has erupted over the legal exemption allowing Sikhs to carry kirpans in public after Reform UK pledged to repeal the protection following a recent murder conviction.The debate was triggered by the case of Vickrum Digwa, 23, who was convicted of murdering 18-year-old university student Henry Nowak in Southampton using a 21cm kirpan,…

Nobody has seen Rep Tom Kean Jr after March 5 but he is not missing and he’s trading and calling his colleagues from an undisclosed location. 57-year-old Tom Kean Jr, the representative of the 7th Congressional district, New Jersey, was last seen on March 5. He has missed around 100 House votes since then, was…

An illegal immigrant from India has been jailed for 10 years in US after paying human traffickers to abuse minor girls at a Nebraska hotel.Kavankumar Patel, a 27-year-old citizen of Gujarat, India, who is living in the US illegally, was sentenced this week in a federal court in Omaha, Nebraska. The decade-long prison term was…

Indian-origin woman from California met a catastrophic accident during her birthday trip to Mexico earlier this month. Nina Bakhshi, an Indian-origin Californian makeup artist, had the most harrowing birthday trip this year as she chose a guided ATV (all-terrain vehicle) tour of Cenote La Noria in Mexico, where she fell from a bridge and suffered…

A Canadian man accused of supplying lethal substances linked to the deaths of more than 100 people in the UK will not be extradited to face prosecution in Britain.Kenneth Law, 60, is currently facing criminal proceedings in Canada and is expected to appear in court in Ontario on Friday. He is accused of aiding suicide…

Fire on top of a block of flats after a drone crash caused an explosion and fire on impact, in Galati, eastern Romania, near the Ukrainian border A Russian drone crashed into an apartment building in eastern Romania during an overnight attack on Ukraine, injuring two people and prompting strong condemnation from Nato and European…

Wealth between countries is often discussed as though it were a simple ranking of who has the most money. In reality, the picture is narrower and more complicated. Lists of the world’s richest countries usually measure wealth by GDP per capita, which is economic output divided by population. That changes the order completely. Large economies…

One of the key areas of scientific study in recent times includes the use of stem cell research in space. Scientists are conducting research to see how the human body is affected by microgravity, and the possibility of growing stem cells in space aboard the International Space Station (ISS) allows us to see how such…