Melbourne, About 757,000 Australian children aged under 15 lived in poverty in 2022-23 – more than all the people living in the cities of Geelong, Newcastle and Wollongong combined. Children who grow up in poverty are 5 times more likely to be poor young adults: new study That’s about one in six Australian children, according … Read more
Oil shipping costs have jumped sharply, making it more expensive to transport crude oil from the United States to Japan. The oil supertanker Esteem Explorer is scheduled to sail from the US to Japan in late November, carrying around 2 million barrels of crude oil. The journey is expected to cost $81 million, compared with … Read more
Times Square hosted vibrant Durga Puja and Navaratri celebrations on October 10–11, with Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaking out about the festival in an X post. Videos of the celebrations have surfaced on social media. Times Square hosts vibrant Durga Puja and Navaratri celebrations, Mamdani speaks out as videos go viral (Pexel – representational image) The … Read more
A transgender woman has been accused of stabbing a stranger to death after he allegedly bullied her about her gender. The Chicago attack was so vicious that the knife broke off in the man’s skull, the New York Post reported. Who is Kelly Day? Chicago trans woman stabs man 13 times, kills him for his … Read more
Representative Image of diverse Calosoma beetle species with a focus on their failed introductions to Hawaii (AI Generated Image) For six decades, scientists repeatedly introduced predatory beetles to Hawaii in an effort to control crop-damaging caterpillars, but none of the intentionally released species established a lasting population. A study published in Biological Control titled Calosoma … Read more
CALGARY, Alberta — Hockey fans across North America may have to be night owls at points this season to see their team play, thanks to a move by three Canadian provinces to stay on daylight saving time. Permanent daylight time brings quirky NHL start times to Western Canada Alberta, home of the Edmonton Oilers and … Read more
A fluorescent green dye released nearly 1,870 metres below the surface of the North Atlantic has helped scientists directly observe a long-suspected movement of deep ocean water, and the water was rising far faster at the study site than the global average previously estimated.In an experiment conducted in 2021, researchers released about 55 gallons of … Read more
A man in Swansea, Wales, has been arrested 12 times after repeatedly standing in the middle of the same road and blocking traffic, but he has never publicly explained why he keeps doing it. David Hampson, who has become known as the “Silent Man”, began the unusual pattern in 2014 and has repeatedly returned to … Read more
US visa wait times in India have been updated in September. Indian applicants seeking US visitor visas continue to face lengthy waits, with the latest US State Department data showing next available B-1/B-2 interview appointments stretching to 12 months in Hyderabad, 11.5 months in Mumbai and 10 months in New Delhi.The State Department updated its … Read more
Representative Image (AI-generated) What started as piles of concrete blocks on the seafloor off Prince Edward Island soon became a magnet for marine life. Researchers began installing the artificial oyster reefs in 2021 to test whether they could provide some of the ecological functions lost from areas where eelgrass no longer grew. Within two years, … Read more