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Gad Saad (Image: Wikipedia) Most friendships begin with common ground.People meet through work, school, neighbourhoods, hobbies or shared interests. Over time, conversations grow longer, trust develops and a connection forms. In the early stages, similarities often stand out more than differences. People notice what they have in common.Eventually, however, differences appear.One friend may have different…

A spacecraft drifting past Neptune would not need much imagination to picture diamonds forming in its atmosphere. Deep inside ice giants, carbon compounds are squeezed under pressures that break molecular bonds and reorganise atoms into crystalline structures. In lab experiments and planetary simulations, scientists have modelled this “diamond rain” for decades, and missions like NASA’s…

US President Donald Trump on Monday called on Iran and Israel to immediately halt hostilities after the two countries exchanged missile and air strikes for the first time since an April ceasefire, raising fears of a renewed regional conflict.Posting on Truth Social, Trump wrote, “Israel and Iran must immediately stop ‘shooting’.” The appeal came as…

Inside a modern data centre, performance is already constrained less by raw transistor capability and more by heat removal. Server racks packed tightly together push thermal systems to their limit, and operators often throttle workloads not because chips can’t compute faster, but because cooling systems can’t keep up. Against that backdrop, the claim that processors…

Rain and showers set to dominate UK weather this week / Image: File After a spell of warmer and drier weather in parts of the country, much of the UK faces a cooler and more unsettled week as bands of rain, sunshine and showers move across the nation.The Met Office says Monday will begin with…

Inside a bakery complex in ancient Pompeii, bread production did not just stop; it froze. Archaeologists working in the House of the Chaste Lovers recently uncovered something that complicates the familiar image of panic and ash-filled silence: two animals trapped beneath a collapsed room, still positioned as if the day might continue. The Archaeological Park…

The tableau on display at Brampton parade A float depicting the assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was featured in a parade held in Canada’s Brampton during the “Nagar Kirtan” – an annual Sikh religious procession. The city of Brampton, Ontario, is home to a large Sikh community estimated at around 25%.On October 31,…

Across all these cities, the pattern is consistent: rat prevalence is less about isolated infestations and more about how urban systems manage waste, density, and underground infrastructure. The most rat-infested cities in the US are not anomalies; they are large-scale environments where human activity unintentionally creates stable conditions for rodent ecosystems.Cities like New York, Chicago,…

For most people working at sea, stock ownership is rarely part of the job. For 27-year-old Maryellyn Musselman, it could be life-changing. The former engineering officer spent two years aboard a SpaceX recovery vessel off Florida’s coast. During that time, she quietly built a stake in Elon Musk‘s space company. Along with shares received through…

Screenshot of the viral video Dominican Republic plane crash Screenshot of the viral video Dominican Republic plane crash Screenshot of the viral video The pilot and co-pilot of a private aircraft were killed when it crashed on the runway at La Romana International Airport in the Dominican Republic, the Caribbean nation’s national aviation authority said….