A former Taliban commander has been sentenced to 42 years in prison for supporting attacks that killed three US soldiers and for his role in the kidnapping of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Rohde and two others in Afghanistan.The sentence was handed down on Tuesday in Manhattan. It brings a close to a case that combined…
A worn volume bound in faded red leather has been formally recognised by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation as one of England’s earliest surviving paper-based archives. It is the kind of object most visitors would walk past without realising they are looking at something that predates printing presses, predates modern record keeping,…
Archaeologists working in western Slovakia did not expect the perimeter ditch of an early farming settlement to become one of Europe’s most unsettling burial puzzles. But as excavation layers were removed from the Neolithic site near modern-day Vráble, what emerged was not a typical cemetery. It was a boundary feature filled with disarticulated, headless human…
For decades, scientists believed that an average life expectancy of 90 years was a distant milestone that no country would reach anytime soon. Then a landmark study published in The Lancet challenged that assumption. Researchers projected that South Korean women born in 2030 could live an average of 90.8 years, making them the first population…
Vehicles set on fire by protesters. (AP Photo) British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday strongly condemned the anti-immigrant violence that erupted across Belfast overnight, calling the scenes “shocking and completely unacceptable” and vowing that those behind the disorder would face the “full force of the law.““It is clear that people were targeted last night…
The UK Gurdwara Alliance has issued a public clarification stating that social media commentators Harman Kapoor and Bobby Singh do not represent the Sikh community, Sikh institutions or any recognised Sikh representative body.In a statement, the organisations said neither individual had been authorised, appointed or mandated to speak on behalf of Sikhs. They stressed that…
At least 12 people were killed and nine others injured after gunmen opened fire at an informal settlement in Cleveland, east of Johannesburg, South Africa.The South African Police Service said officers responded to reports of a shooting in progress late on Tuesday evening at around 11.10 pm at the Jumpers informal settlement, where they found…
Every summer, millions of people head towards America’s beaches expecting sunshine, surf, and warm coastal waters. Yet beneath those same waves lives one of the ocean’s most misunderstood predators. Shark attacks remain exceptionally rare, but they are not evenly distributed. Some areas of coastlines in the United States have more incidents of shark attacks than…
Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) administration launched a search operation for four protesters and announced a bounty of Rs 1 crore for information leading to the arrest of leaders linked to the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) after massive protests in region, according to a report by Dawn.PoK authorities have also ordered sedition proceedings against two JAAC…
Donald Trump on Wednesday launched retaliatory strikes against Iran after Tehran shot down a US Apache helicopter near the troubled Strait of Hormuz. The escalation came amid months of tensions in the Middle East following the launch of the US mega military campaign against Iran – Operation Epic Fury.The US military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) said…
