The earliest human genome has been found in southern Spain by an international research team. The genome belonged to a 23,000-year-old human being who lived during the peak of the last Ice Age, when sea levels were vastly lower than they are now. It was discovered in the Malalmuerzo cave on the southern Iberian Peninsula. […]
As sanitation workers continue their strike over the new pension reform that aims to raise the retirement age, tons of trash remained uncollected on the sidewalks of Paris, the capital of France. The Paris city hall reported on Monday that 5,600 tonnes of garbage remained uncollected in the streets. The workers have been on strike […]
David Vencl, a Czech free diver, set a new world record by diving 52.1 meters without a wetsuit and holding his breath. He accomplished this feat in Lake Sils, Switzerland, where the water temperature was 1 degree Celsius on the surface and 4 degrees Celsius at a depth of 50 meters. The dive lasted 1 […]
In an overnight vote, the Knesset passed three bills that will weaken Israel’s judiciary, prompting several protesters to chain themselves with plastic pipes and iron chains outside the Israeli Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem. “If you don’t start working for the public, we won’t let you work at all,” said the protest organizers to the coalition […]
Protests erupted when two arrest warrants were issued for Imran Khan, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan and Chairman of the Pakistan Justice Movement (PTI) Party. After police had come to Khan’s house in Lahore to arrest him at around 14:00 local time, a clash broke out between the police and demonstrators. The police used […]
A fire broke out in a textile factory operating in an industrial zone in Adıyaman, one of the Turkish cities severely hit by the two earthquakes in Kahramanmaraş on February 6th. Although the fire grew rapidly and caused fear and panic, no one was killed or injured in the region. It was reported that efforts […]
The Colombian navy conducted an operation on a 15-meter submarine carrying four people in the Pacific Ocean. According to the Navy’s announcement, 2.6 tons of cocaine were seized during the search and the drug’s market value is $87.7 million. Furthermore, the bodies of two people were found, while the other two were taken to a […]
Following the arrival of spring, a strange view appeared at the Lop Nur National Wetland Park in Yuli County, Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. As the snow in the area began melting due to the increasing temperatures, various animal shapes appeared on the icy lakes.
The efforts to remove the debris of the buildings destroyed in the devastating earthquakes of 7.7 and 7.6 magnitudes that occurred in the province of Kahramanmaraş in Türkiye still continue. Construction machines break the concrete and bring it to a small size that buckets can lift in a secured area. The rubble is then lifted […]
A tornado known as the ‘dust devil’ swept through Taif, Saudi Arabia, destroying everything in its path on Sunday. The tornado reached several meters in height on the agricultural land and caused major damage to the vehicles in the area. As it ripped through a field, the tornado swallowed rocks and sent massive clouds of […]