September 18, 2026

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In 1892, Everton left their landlord with an empty stadium over a rent dispute, so he started a football club just to fill it. That club has since won more titles than any other in English football | Football News

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A bitter rent dispute split Everton and created Liverpool, shaping Merseyside’s fiercest football rivalry. Merseyside’s oldest rivalry likes to present itself as a story about football, about who has bragging rights to a city split down the middle. But strip away 130 years of scarves and songs and what’s left is a much smaller and…

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Oysters can carry a bacterium that can be deadly to humans without getting sick; scientists found how it survives inside them |

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PC: By Taishonambu/Wikipedia Oysters can carry a type of bacteria that can cause serious and sometimes deadly infections in people, yet the shellfish can carry the microbe without showing the same kind of illness. The organism is Vibrio vulnificus, an estuarine bacterium that can become closely associated with American oyster tissues. Researchers have found that…

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Uttarakhand B.Ed final answer key 2026 released at ukentrance.samarth.edu.in, results expected soon: Direct link to download here

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Uttarakhand BEd answer key 2026 Soban Singh Jeena University (SSJU), Almora has released the final answer key for the Uttarakhand State-Level Combined B.Ed and M.Ed Entrance Examination 2026. Candidates who appeared for the entrance test held on August 16 can now download the final answer key from the official entrance portal. The results are expected…

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Javed Akhtar says he’s proud of Shabana Azmi for joining protests at Jantar Mantar against NEET paper leak: ‘This isn’t the first time, when our relationship was developing, this is what she was involved in’ | Hindi Movie News

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Javed Akhtar recently opened up about his wife Shabana Azmi’s long-standing commitment to speaking out against injustice, saying he feels “proud” of her for joining the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) protests in New Delhi last month.While several Bollywood personalities voiced their support for the protesting students online, Azmi chose to be present at Jantar Mantar,…

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In 2017, a professor found a dried coconut leaf on a walk; years later, it had inspired straws designed to replace plastic

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A fallen coconut leaf on a Bengaluru campus led professor Dr Saji Varghese to develop biodegradable drinking straws, turning farm waste into a practical alternative to single-use plastic. A walk across a university campus in Bengaluru gave English professor Dr Saji Varghese an unexpected idea in 2017. He noticed a dry coconut leaf that had…

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In 1973, Christopher Cadbury funded the £40,000 purchase of a Seychelles island stripped for coconuts and seabird eggs; today over 1 million seabirds breed there each year

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For decades, the small island of Aride in the Seychelles was treated less as a wildlife sanctuary and more as a source of income. Its forests were cleared for cultivation, coconut plantations covered parts of the island and its seabirds became a resource that could be harvested. Sooty tern eggs, in particular, were collected in…

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India buys record 2.6 mbd Russian crude oil, refines some of it and now sends it back as petrol: why one of world’s biggest oil suppliers Russia has been forced to import 1 million barrels in 2 months from India

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India has become an important source of gasoline, or petrol, for Russia. There is a strange irony to the situation. Russia, known to be one of the world’s biggest oil exports and a country among the top 10 with highest crude reserves, is being forced to import petrol. What’s even more interesting is that the…

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‘Will continue to support all efforts for lasting peace’: PM Modi meets Iranian Prez | India News

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NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday met with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisations Summit in Bishkek and discussed various aspects of bilateral ties.After the meet, PM Modi said that he reiterated New Delhi’s commitment to strengthen its long standing friendship with Iran across diverse sectors.“Met President…

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A Spanish vineyard has gone more than 20 years without irrigation or pesticides; its cover-cropped topsoil now has over twice the organic matter of nearby tilled soil

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Representative Image (AI-generated) For more than two decades, the soil between rows of grapevines in a Spanish vineyard has remained covered with spontaneous vegetation instead of being repeatedly tilled. The unusual approach was associated with a striking difference beneath the vines: soil managed with long-term vegetation cover contained more than twice as much organic matter…

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