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Wildfires sweep Europe, exposing deadly legacy of buried wartime explosives. Photo credit: AP Europe’s intensifying summer wildfires are exposing a danger that has survived generations: unexploded bombs, mines and other wartime munitions buried beneath forests and former battlefields. Heat and drought are now increasing the risk of these buried weapons exploding.Blasts linked to old munitions have been reported in France, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands as fires swept across areas once heavily fought over during the two world wars, news agency AP reportedSarah Njeri, a peace and conflict scholar at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, said climate change…

Every now and then, you run into someone and things just instantly click. You don’t have to put on a show or filter what you say. The conversation flows without any awkward pauses, and before long, you’re opening up about things you usually keep to yourself.Emily Brontë captured that exact feeling back in 1847: “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”It’s the stand-out line from Wuthering Heights. Ironically, Catherine and Heathcliff’s dynamic in the book is an absolute trainwreck – it’s toxic, bitter, and ends badly for everyone involved. But that single sentence outlived the…

Sri Lanka’s Keshara Nuwantha appeals during the first Test vs India in Galle (AFP Photo) NEW DELHI: Test cricket is losing its place in a sport increasingly dominated by T20 leagues, and former Sri Lanka fast bowler Chaminda Vaas believes cricket boards must act before it is too late. Vaas, who played 111 Tests and claimed 355 wickets in his career, accepts that T20 cricket is likely to be the biggest format in the future. But he wants administrators to protect Test and one-day cricket, which he believes remain important for developing players and testing their skills.“I think in the…

Zeynep’s work earned her a finalist place in the 2025 Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Fourteen-year-old Zeynep Demirbas has found that ChatGPT-4o is less accurate than a mental health-focused AI model and a simpler machine-learning system at detecting stress in human written text.Zeynep, an eighth-grade student at Transit Middle School in East Amherst, New York, tested four different models using more than 3,500 Reddit posts. According to Society for Science, the posts had already been labelled by humans as showing stress or no stress.Her project, titled “Evaluating the reliability of Large Language Models for stress detection”, has earned her…

The National Testing Agency (NTA) requires deep structural strengthening to address recurring examination-security concerns, but replacing the agency altogether may not be the most useful solution, former University Grants Commission (UGC) Chairman Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar has said.Speaking to PTI, Kumar, who chairs the Review Committee for the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, said the recurring paper-leak issue should be viewed as an “end-to-end examination-security challenge,” given the scale and complexity of examinations conducted by the agency.Scale of the challengeThe Centre recently ordered several measures to strengthen the NTA and the examination system following the NEET-UG paper leak, which triggered widespread…

Govinda spotted outside Mumbai hospital amid Sunita Ahuja’s second marriage claims Govinda was recently spotted leaving a hospital in Mumbai, amid his ongoing marital troubles with estranged wife Sunita Ahuja. The sighting comes as his manager has now stepped in to deny Sunita’s recent claims that the actor was planning to marry actor Komal Rani Swarnkar, allegations that reportedly led her to withdraw her divorce case against him.Govinda Spotted at Mumbai HospitalIn a video that surfaced online, Govinda was seen dressed casually in a white shirt paired with blue denims, wearing a face mask as he exited the hospital premises.…

Woman urges employees to value their jobs amid tough job market For anyone tired of their daily work routine, quitting can sometimes feel like the easiest answer. But when finding another job becomes difficult, that decision can look very different. A recent Instagram video has opened up this conversation, with creator Mridul Gupta asking working professionals to take a moment before dismissing the value of their current employment.What Mridul Gupta saidGupta spoke about the difficulties faced by people applying for jobs and said many are not getting responses despite making repeated applications. She also pointed to experienced candidates being turned…

Team India head coach Gautam Gambhir (left) giving a pat on Saransh Jain’s chest after the all-rounder completed his practice session at the SSC in Colombo. (Photo Courtesy: Sahil Malhotra) TimesofIndia.com in Colombo: Will he, won’t he? Questions surrounding Kuldeep Yadav reached a fever pitch when the chinaman stayed away from the second training session in a row. While the official word from the Indian camp was that he was being rested from the first session, KL Rahul, who was also absent on Friday, turned up for a hit on Saturday.Kuldeep staying confined to the hotel room further raised eyebrows,…

An American Airlines flight to Dallas Fort Worth International Airport faced a mid-air scare. (File Photo) An American Airlines flight from Atlanta to Dallas Fort Worth International Airport faced a mid-air scare after a passenger’s laptop caught fire during landing, with the pilot reporting that several passengers may have been burned.According to CBS News, which obtained air traffic control audio of the incident, American Airlines Flight 2398 landed safely at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport in Texas on Friday.One passenger received medical treatment at the airport and was later released, according to airport authorities.In the audio obtained by CBS News,…

Four MIT dropouts started with an idea that failed: How their next move turned Cursor into a $60 billion AI giant. (Photo: X Post) Four students in their twenties started with a side project that did not work out as planned. They explored ideas ranging from AI tools for mechanical engineers to other experimental projects before making a major pivot.A few years later, their company had become one of the fastest-growing names in artificial intelligence.And in August 2026, Cursor officially became part of SpaceX, completing a $60 billion acquisition that turned its four young co-founders into multi-billionaires, according to estimates…