Sisi has asked for an urgent parliamentary session to authorise the military to help defend Saudi Arabia should the kingdom request its assistance. Egypt on Sunday announced that it was ready to militarily assist Saudi Arabia for safeguarding its security and stability, as Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis step up their assaults on the world’s largest oil…
Pakistan sets 2035 Moon landing target as space programme expands, minister says (representative image) Pakistan aims to land on the Moon by 2035 as it expands its space programme, planning minister Ahsan Iqbal said on Sunday, announcing that the country’s first astronaut would embark on a space mission from China on November 25.Addressing the concluding…
A long-running legal dispute over a one-third-acre lakefront property surrounded by a public park has reached a key stage. A state appeals court has ruled that local officials can take the land using their legal powers to acquire private property. The Michigan Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that allows Kalamazoo County to…
Brazilian man Edimar Martins travelled over 1,200 miles to meet his AI-generated girlfriend. (Photo: Instagram) A Brazilian man who sold all his belongings and travelled more than 1,200 miles to meet the woman he hoped to marry was left heartbroken after discovering that his online girlfriend was an artificial intelligence-generated character.Edimar Martins, 49, a bricklayer…
A Florida appeals court has overturned an order requiring a man to pay his former wife $2,675.87 per month in financial support after a marriage that lasted just 249 days. In its decision, Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeal ruled that the trial court made a mistake by ordering nine months of temporary alimony without…
St. Johns County Utilities officials have gathered to celebrate the completion of the State Road 207 Water Reclamation Facility. The $191.8 million project is the largest capital improvement project in the county’s history. Located at 3055 State Road 207 in Elkton, the new plant treats wastewater and turns it into reclaimed water that is not…
Photo courtesy: franksinatraschoolofthearts.org In 2001, late singer and painter Tony Bennett and his wife, Susan Benedetto, helped open a public high school in New York for students who wanted to pursue the arts alongside their academic studies. It began in temporary quarters with space for 250 students. Twenty-five years later, the Frank Sinatra School of…
File photo: US Vice President JD Vance (Picture credit: AP) TOI correspondent from Washington: US Vice President JD Vance has conceded that his rhetoric on H-1B visas was “imperfect,” but his attempt to distinguish his criticism of corporate hiring practices from hostility towards immigrants has exposed a deeper contradiction in the Trump administration’s immigration politics,…
In 2015, Taylor Swift gave $50,000 to Seattle Symphony; 11 years later, its school programme lives on (Image Credit: Instagram/ @taylorswift) In December 2015, Taylor Swift donated $50,000 to the Seattle Symphony after being moved by its recording of Become Ocean, a contemporary orchestral composition by John Luther Adams. According to an announcement published by…
Women’s health research is shifting towards a whole-body approach, connecting heart, brain, mobility and ageing to improve long-term wellbeing. Aging is rarely a single-system story. The heart, brain, muscles and blood vessels change together, yet medical research has often studied them separately. A new five-year research project at Cedars-Sinai is taking a broader view, investigating…
