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Both programmes offer sponsor-free residency to attract global talent, investment, and long-term economic participation/Representative image For decades, long-term residency in the Gulf was deliberately elusive. You were welcome to work, invest, and build, but never quite to stay. For a time, that model worked. But as both the UAE and Saudi Arabia began to confront…

Thomas Stoltz Harvey pictured in 1994 holding part of Einstein’s brain which he’d kept with him for decades (Michael Brennan/Getty Images) Albert Einstein died on 18 April 1955, aged 76. His death marked the end of one of the most influential scientific lives in history. It also marked the beginning of a long, unsettled afterlife…

Mark Allen Geralds uttered a cryptic statement as he faced death on Tuesday (Florida Department of Corrections) A Florida man convicted of the brutal killing of a young mother more than three decades ago was executed earlier this month, bringing an end to one of the state’s longest-running capital cases. Mark Allen Geralds, 58, was…

A British journalist has alleged that while travelling through conflict zones over the past two decades, he was offered the opportunity to shoot civilians, describing the practice as neither “dark tourism” nor adventurism, but “murder”. His claims sit alongside a separate, ongoing investigation in Italy into allegations that wealthy Westerners paid to shoot civilians during…

The deadly shooting at Bondi Beach has left Australia and Jewish communities around the world in shock and mourning. At least 15 people were killed when gunmen opened fire during a Hanukkah gathering by the sea, turning a celebration of faith and family into one of the country’s darkest days. As authorities continue their investigation,…

Frank Veteran, Surgeon Who Treated John Lennon Recalls the Final Sign of Life After He Was Shot Frank Veteran, Surgeon Who Treated John Lennon Recalls the Final Sign of Life After He Was Shot Frank Veteran, Surgeon Who Treated John Lennon Recalls the Final Sign of Life After He Was Shot Frank Veteran, Surgeon Who…

Evidence suggests Ancient Egypt’s New Kingdom began almost a century later/ Image: Pexels For more than a century, historians have worked with a broadly agreed timeline for Ancient Egypt, anchoring its major eras to king lists, inscriptions and archaeological layers. One of the most important of those turning points is the start of the New…

The map listed 23 UK locations tied to defence manufacturing and nuclear infrastructure In February 2019, Russian state television aired a segment that stood out even by the country’s own standards of confrontational rhetoric. During a Sunday night broadcast of Vesti Nedeli, the flagship weekly news programme, viewers were shown a map of the United…

UVB-76 transmitted clustered coded signals in December as NATO–Russia tensions intensified In the second week of December, a Cold War–era Russian shortwave radio station broke from its usual pattern. Over the course of several days, UVB-76, better known as “The Buzzer,” transmitted an unusually high number of coded messages, including clusters of words, strings of…

A Pluribus advert appeared on a smart fridge, sparking a viral hospitalisation claim/ Reddit ~image Over the past week, a claim has circulated widely online suggesting that a smart fridge advertisement triggered a psychotic episode in a UK woman, leading to her hospitalisation. The story spread rapidly across Reddit, X, and tabloid news sites, prompting…