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Indian-origin man Inderdeep Singh Gosal has been convicted of manslaughter for fatally stabbing Paul Schmidt during a confrontation over smoking at a Starbucks in downtown Vancouver.Gosal was acquitted of second-degree murder in the March 26, 2023 incident. He has been in custody since his arrest shortly after the stabbing, CTV News reported.The confrontation began after…

A Winnipeg woman who rescued a child and her father from drowning in the Red River on August 24 near St. John’s Park is being called a hero, but she said she doesn’t feel like one.“I’m just a mom. I don’t feel like a hero,” Jayclyn Morrissette, 32, told CBC. Woman saves two lives Representative…

Relatives look at pictures of missing people and victims of flash floods in Kathmandu, Nepal. (Photo: Reuters) Nepal is a Hindu-majority country where cremation is the customary final rite for most Hindus. Yet after the devastating floods that swept through parts of the country, authorities have been burying unidentified bodies instead of cremating them. The…

Jackie Chan, one of China’s best-known film stars, became the face of a high-profile campaign in 2017 aimed at reducing demand for pangolin products and helping protect one of the world’s most trafficked mammals. The campaign, called “Kung Fu Pangolin”, used Chan’s martial-arts image to deliver a simple message to consumers in China and Vietnam,…

Elon Musk and his ex-wife Talulah Riley. Elon Musk once forgot to buy his then-wife Talulah Riley a Christmas present. What happened later that night, however, was something she remembered years afterwards. Riley, the British actress who married Musk twice, recalled the incident in the BBC documentary The Elon Musk Show, which was first broadcast…

Argentina’s Lionel Messi celebrates at the end of the World Cup quarterfinal soccer match against the Netherlands in Lusail, Qatar, Dec. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan, File) Lionel Messi may have already played his final competitive match for Argentina, but reports suggest his farewell to the national team could still have one more chapter. Messi…

John Isner and Nicolas Mahut played Wimbledon’s longest match, lasting 11 hours across three days/ Image: Olympics.com A tennis match that lasted 11 hours and five minutes, stretched across three days, produced 183 games, and eventually broke the electronic scoreboard sounds more like a story written for television than something that actually happened at Wimbledon….

Ancient “brand” Qurayyah Painted Ware, PC: Marta Luciani – Qurayyah Joint Archaeological Project More than 3,000 years ago, potters working in the desert oasis of Qurayyah in what is now northwestern Saudi Arabia were producing a distinctive painted pottery that eventually travelled beyond the settlement where it was made. A new study titled Creating a brand….

Eucalyptus cladocalyx ‘nana’. Image Credit: ERA Nurseries Australia planted eucalyptus trees to fight rising soil salinity, hoping that thirsty, deep-rooted vegetation could help control the groundwater processes behind the problem. A long-running experiment in south-western Australia later showed that the effects of such plantations were more complicated than simply planting trees and waiting for the…

A project that began as an ecological lesson has transformed the lives of students at an Australian high school. In the country’s capital of Canberra, students at the Richardson Primary School in south Canberra collected more than 2,000 plastic bottles and transformed them into the walls of a greenhouse that has been working efficiently for…