A rare Martian meteorite and a juvenile dinosaur skeleton are among the star attractions at Sotheby’s highly anticipated Geek Week 2025 auction in New York. This extraordinary event features 122 exclusive items from natural history, spanning outer space to prehistoric Earth. The Martian meteorite, weighing 54 pounds (25 kg), is the largest of its kind…
A rare and massive meteorite from Mars, known as NWA 16788, is poised to make headlines as it heads to auction with an estimated price of up to $4 million. Weighing 54 pounds (24.5 kilograms), it is the largest known piece of the Red Planet ever discovered on Earth, making it 70% larger than any…
Hundreds of women have reported syringe attacks during the Fete de la Musique festival in France. Police are investigating potential drug-facilitated assaults, with 12 suspects arrested in Paris and 370 held across France. The attacks are not limited to Paris, with similar incidents reported in other French cities. Authorities are also examining social media for…
Niede Guidon, a Brazilian archaeologist whose work called into question a longstanding theory of how the Americas were first populated by humans, and who almost single-handedly transformed a hardscrabble region of northeast Brazil into the Serra da Capivara National Park, died on Wednesday at her home near the park, in São Raimundo Nonato. She was…
Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, was rocked by a massive combined drone and missile assault on late Friday, sending residents scrambling for cover as explosions and bursts of machine gun fire echoed across the city into the early hours of Saturday. The debris of intercepted missiles and drones fell in at least 4 city districts of the…
A series of blasts were heard in Kyiv on Tuesday midnight after Ukraine’s air force issued air raid alerts for the capital, according to report from Reuters. The Ukrainian military confirmed that air defence systems were activated, working to intercept incoming threats. RUSSIA CLAIMS IT SHOT DOWN 51 UKRAINIAN DRONES Russia’s Defence Ministry said its…
President Donald Trump came to the defense of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday, dismissing fresh reports that Hegseth shared sensitive military information in a private Signal messaging chat with his wife, brother, and others. “I guess it sounds like disgruntled employees,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “You know, he was put there…
African music lost one of its titans last week with the death of Amadou Bagayoko, a guitarist who recorded with American rock stars, performed at the Nobel concert for Barack Obama, and became a national icon in his home, Mali. With his wife, the singer Mariam Doumbia, Mr. Bagayoko composed the duo Amadou & Mariam,…
SRINAGAR: Mysterious deaths of two tribal Gujjar brothers, whose bodies were recovered days apart recently after a month of disappearance, rocked J&K assembly Monday.Opposition legislators and those of governing National Conference (NC), many waving placards, sought an inquiry into the “suspicious deaths”. Unlike in other states, the Omar Abdullah-led NC govt does not control J&K…
In terms of numbers, India captain and opener Rohit Sharma may not have produced the amount of runs fans associate with him, but the skipper’s intent in the ongoing Champions Trophy has had a positive impact on the dressing room, according to the team’s head coach Gautam Gambhir.India remained unbeaten in the group stage, beating…