Indian doctor Jaipal Sidhu was seen wielding a cane stick during a fight over parking spot in Fresno, California. An Indian-origin doctor, Jaipal Sidhu, found himself in a tough spot earlier this month after a video of him brandishing a large cane and then slashing the tire of a car at a fight over a…
A 90-year-old woman in South Korea has drawn national and international attention after being arrested and later sentenced for laundering money linked to her son’s drug trafficking activities. According to court proceedings in Incheon, the elderly woman handled hundreds of millions of won over multiple transactions, transferring funds at her son’s direction while he was…
Natasha Cochrane De La Rosa was born in Islington, grew up in London, pays taxes and has voted in British elections her entire adult life. None of that was enough to get her back into the country where she was born.The 26-year-old has been stranded abroad since 6 April after being denied boarding on her…
Archaeological investigations carried out along the sun-kissed shore of Ibiza before building work have uncovered something of great importance: an ancient 2-millennia old wooden statue of the legendary hero Hercules. The 30-centimetre-tall statue was found about 7 metres underground inside an ancient waterlogged pit. Because organic objects such as wood decompose rapidly in a Mediterranean…
In 1932, the Government of Australia entered into an unconventional ‘war’ with an unexpected adversary, namely, a large population of approximately 20,000 emus, as reported in Australian Geographic. The emus would migrate from their traditional migratory range to the wheat-growing region of Western Australia after the economic collapse of the Great Depression caused many ex-soldier…
Sharon Simmons who delivered McDonald’s packets to Trump at White House on Monday is a ‘MAGA grandma’ who was flown from Arkansas for the photo-op. President DonaldTrump receiving a DoorDash delivery at the White House from one Sharon Simmons triggered a major controversy that it was nothing but a PR tactic and Simmons was a…
Recent archaeological excavations in the Yangtze River Delta, China, have revealed the complex socio-cultural practices of the Neolithic Liangzhu civilisation, dating back about 5000 years. Using remains from the Zhongjiagang site, researchers have found that human bones were routinely used as a source of functional and ritualistic objects like ‘skull cups’ and ‘skeleton masks’. Unlike…
(AI image generated by ChatGPT) Mario Puzo is best known for The Godfather – one of those rare instances where the movies are almost as sublime as the book – but it’s not the only book he wrote on the Mafia. There is The Sicilian, which is part of The Godfather universe and even has…
Indian man accused of stealing $3,500 from Burger King in Florida where he used to work as a manager. Kris Kumar, an Indian man, who used to work at a Burger King outlet in Florida was called ‘Burger King bandit’ after the law enforcement found that he was behind the sudden disappearance of dollars from…
Indian-origin New Jersey man Kishan Patel who was shot by off-duty NYPD officer rendering him paralyzed is back home from a rehab facility after two years. (Photo: 6 abc Philadelphia) Two years after being injured in a road rage shooting incident, which left an Indian-origin man paralyzed, Kishan Patel returned to his New Jersey home…