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California man shares harrowing experience as his robotaxi started speeding at a construction site. A California couple had the most harrowing 20 seconds of their life when their self-driving Waymo robotaxi went haywire and began speeding through a highway construction zone. The company offered him $120 in free rides, compensating for the life-threatening experience he…

Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia reacted to the viral video showing a group of Indian tourists performing ‘Garba’ on an airport tarmac in Vietnam. He said culture is more about behaviour than public display.The viral video circulating across Instagram, Reddit, X and other social media platforms, shows several Indian travellers dancing in a circle near a…

Less than a year after the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, his widow Erika Kirk has denied rumours that she has moved on and started a new relationship.The controversy began after online conspiracy theorist Collin Scott Campbell claimed on X that Erika Kirk had been seen getting “very intimate” with casino heir…

A political dispute has erupted over the legal exemption allowing Sikhs to carry kirpans in public after Reform UK pledged to repeal the protection following a recent murder conviction.The debate was triggered by the case of Vickrum Digwa, 23, who was convicted of murdering 18-year-old university student Henry Nowak in Southampton using a 21cm kirpan,…

Fire on top of a block of flats after a drone crash caused an explosion and fire on impact, in Galati, eastern Romania, near the Ukrainian border A Russian drone crashed into an apartment building in eastern Romania during an overnight attack on Ukraine, injuring two people and prompting strong condemnation from Nato and European…

An illegal immigrant from India has been jailed for 10 years in US after paying human traffickers to abuse minor girls at a Nebraska hotel.Kavankumar Patel, a 27-year-old citizen of Gujarat, India, who is living in the US illegally, was sentenced this week in a federal court in Omaha, Nebraska. The decade-long prison term was…

Indian-origin woman from California met a catastrophic accident during her birthday trip to Mexico earlier this month. Nina Bakhshi, an Indian-origin Californian makeup artist, had the most harrowing birthday trip this year as she chose a guided ATV (all-terrain vehicle) tour of Cenote La Noria in Mexico, where she fell from a bridge and suffered…

A Canadian man accused of supplying lethal substances linked to the deaths of more than 100 people in the UK will not be extradited to face prosecution in Britain.Kenneth Law, 60, is currently facing criminal proceedings in Canada and is expected to appear in court in Ontario on Friday. He is accused of aiding suicide…

Wealth between countries is often discussed as though it were a simple ranking of who has the most money. In reality, the picture is narrower and more complicated. Lists of the world’s richest countries usually measure wealth by GDP per capita, which is economic output divided by population. That changes the order completely. Large economies…

Somewhere between the scorching extremes of hot Jupiters and the frozen depths of gas giants like Saturn lies a planet that astronomers have spent years looking for and struggling to study: a temperate giant, large enough to qualify as a gas world but sitting in a temperature range that, by the standards of the universe,…