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Holly has a rare, fatal childhood dementia causing seizures, loss of movement, speech, sight, and independence./ Image: SWNS A five-year-old girl from Essex is living with a rare and fatal form of childhood dementia that will gradually strip away her ability to walk, talk, see and eat independently. Holly Nayler has CLN2 Batten disease, a…
South Korea’s former first lady Kim Keon Hee has been sentenced to 20 months in prison after a court found she accepted luxury gifts, including a Chanel bag and a Graff diamond necklace, in exchange for political favours. The verdict marks one of the most serious criminal convictions ever handed to a presidential spouse in…
Off the coast of northern Chile, divers are carrying out an unusual experiment that blends winemaking with marine science. Instead of ageing bottles in underground cellars, they lower them into the Pacific Ocean, secure them inside metal cages, and leave them on the sea floor for months. At depths of up to 20 metres, the…
UK households are urged to prepare torches, spare batteries and phone chargers ahead of potential power cuts/ Image: Pexels The Met Office has issued a series of weather warnings covering snow, rain and wind from late Monday through Tuesday. These include a 17-hour yellow warning for rain and snow from midnight Tuesday until 5pm, an…
ChatGPT stuns veteran investor when asked what a normal person should do to become rich/ Image: Youtube When people ask ChatGPT how to get rich, they usually expect something vague or fantastical. What surprised listeners of The Diary of a CEO was not that the question came up, but how closely the AI’s response matched…
Ricky Gervais stars in a TV series_Afterlife (Netflix) When Ricky Gervais joked in 2021 that he wanted his body fed to the lions at London Zoo, he assumed the line would land and disappear. Instead, it turned into a headline, a public response from the zoo, and a recurring bit that has followed him for…
Shri Kulkarni, Indian-born RAS Gold Medal astrophysicist. When the Royal Astronomical Society announced Shrinivas R. Kulkarni as the recipient of its Gold Medal, it marked more than another milestone in a decorated career. Awarded continuously since 1824, the medal is the Society’s highest honour, reserved for scientists whose work has fundamentally altered how humanity understands…
Orwell vs Huxley: Why ‘2026 is the new 2016’ trend is more dangerous than you think In 1949, shortly after the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the British dystopian novel that remains widely read and relevant today, George Orwell received a letter from his former French teacher at Eton: Aldous Huxley. Huxley begins by praising the…
Residents in West Sumatra, Indonesia have been urged to stop collecting and drinking water from a newly formed sinkhole after authorities found it was contaminated with E. coli, a bacteria linked to serious gastrointestinal illness.The incident unfolded in Limapuluh Kota Regency, where a large ground collapse drew crowds of locals who believed the water pooling…
Stranger Things Gets ‘Sequels, Prequels, Requels and Spin-Off’—and Episode 9 ‘Conformity Gate’ in New SNL Sketch A few weeks after Stranger Things ended, Saturday Night Live opened its first episode of 2026 by leaning into something viewers had already been joking about online: the idea that the show might be finished, but the franchise clearly…
