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In 2010, the Thai government carried out an unlikely piece of coastal engineering off Narathiwat province, sinking 25 retired army tanks, 273 disused train carriages and 198 rubbish trucks into the southern Gulf of Thailand. The plan, backed by Thailand’s queen, was meant to answer a request from local fishermen, who had watched stocks thin…
Mouton initially worked as a co-driver, accompanying her friend Jean Taibi on the 1972 Tour de Corse. For years, rallying was seen as a man’s sport. The cars were brutally fast, the roads unpredictable and the margin for error tiny. Then came Michèle Mouton. She did not enter motorsport trying to become the fastest woman….
Mouton initially worked as a co-driver, accompanying her friend Jean Taibi on the 1972 Tour de Corse. For years, rallying was seen as a man’s sport. The cars were brutally fast, the roads unpredictable and the margin for error tiny. Then came Michèle Mouton. She did not enter motorsport trying to become the fastest woman….
Representative Image of the reconstructed Thomas James Bridge with original sandstone blocks and modern foundations, showcasing flood resilience (AI Generated Image) Thomas James Bridge, also known as Settlers Road Bridge, crosses a creek near Lower Macdonald in New South Wales and holds a rare distinction: it is the oldest in-use vehicle bridge on mainland Australia….
2,400-year-old artifact from Ancient Olympia returned to Greece from GermanyPhoto credit: Greece Ministry of Culture A young German tourist visiting the archeological site of Ancient Olympia in Greece in the 1960s took home a small piece of history: a shard of pottery dating back some 2,400 years. She held on to the relic for decades…
Colonies of Laurinque elenya. Image Credit: ROV SuBastian Scientists exploring deep-sea mountains beneath the Pacific Ocean off Costa Rica have discovered a striking ‘golden coral’ so different from known species that researchers created an entirely new family to classify it. The bright yellow, tree-like coral was found between 360 and 529 metres below the surface,…
Sandy Dosanjh with husband Kalwinder Sandy Dosanjh, the wife of Vancouver Police Department detective Kalwinder “Kal” Singh Dosanjh, is no longer running for Surrey City Council in the 2026 municipal election after her husband’s arrest. The Conservative Party of Surrey confirmed that she had been removed from its slate of candidates.Sandy had been contesting a…
Visingsö Oak Forest. Image Credit: Atlas Obscura In the early 19th century, Sweden began an extraordinary project on the island of ‘Visingsö.’ Hundreds of thousands of oak trees were planted to secure timber for naval ships that would be built far in the future. Oak was strong, durable and widely valued for wooden shipbuilding, but…
Nigerian engineer Yahaya Ahmed built his first model house with 14,800 sand-filled plastic bottle (Image Credit: BBC) What if thousands of discarded plastic bottles could become part of a house instead of ending up in gutters or landfills? In Kaduna, Nigerian engineer Yahaya Ahmed has spent more than a decade exploring that possibility. His first…
Meg Radice and Audrey Jongens were kicked out of the US Open after posting their credentials online, according to their account/ Instagram @The VIP List Two New York-based content creators have claimed they were thrown out of the US Open and had their credentials revoked just hours after posting pictures of their passes online.Meg Radice…
