OCTOBER 24, 2022
SOLAR Eclipse is nature's most spectacular event. A solar eclipse happens when the New Moon comes between the Sun and Earth which blocks out Sun's light. The solar eclipse will be observed on October 25, 2022, and will be visible from Europe, Western Serbia, Central Asia, Western Asia and the northeast of Africa. This is a partial...
OCTOBER 24, 2022
Mohali: Locals in Punjab`s Zirakpur congratulated Britain`s Conservative Party leader Rishi Sunak for becoming the first Indian-origin Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. "It feels proud to see an Indian-origin becoming a PM of that country, which ruled us for over a century," a resident said. "My friends DS Gill and Amar Singh Rana living in England,...
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Bill Gates founded Breakthrough Energy in 2015 to boost innovation in clean energy. Kevin Dietsch / Staff / Getty Images
A Bill Gates fund invested $50 million in a startup making sustainable aviation fuel from ethanol.
The Breakthrough Energy fund made the grant to LanzaJet, which is building its first commercial plant.
LanzaJet's ethanol is derived from...
OCTOBER 21, 2022
FILE - A syringe is placed into a vial of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccination at a COVID-19 clinic in Augusta, Maine, on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021. On Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022, Pfizer said it will charge $110 to $130 for a dose of its COVID-19 vaccine once the U.S. government stops buying the shots, but the drugmaker says it...
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Democratic New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. - Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a simple message for Mike Pence on abortion, after the former vice-president predicted “pro-life majorities” in both houses of Congress after the midterm elections.
“I’ve got news for you,” the Democratic New York congresswoman wrote. “Absolutely no one wants to hear what your plan is...
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Heads ups! Orionid meteor shower offers one of fall's fastest and brightest lights shows.
One of fall's top astronomical spectacles will appear in the night sky this week: the peak of the Orionid meteor shower early Friday.
"The Orionids are popular among stargazers because all of its individual shooting stars are fragments of the most famous comet of all time, Halley's...
OCTOBER 20, 2022
The Nakia Creek fire spreads in Washington. - Reuters/CLARK COUNTY FIRE DISTRICT 3
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - Wildfires in Oregon and Washington are blanketing much of America's Pacific Northwest with smoke, choking residents in Seattle, Portland and other parts of the two states with the worst air in the United States, according to government data.
In the Seattle area, home...
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Prime Minister Liz Truss of Britain announced on Thursday that she would resign, as her husband, Hugh O’Leary, looked on. - Alberto Pezzali/AP
LONDON — The rapid political collapse of Liz Truss ended as she announced her resignation on Thursday, a little more than six weeks after she became Britain’s leader. Her agenda had floundered, her own party...
OCTOBER 18, 2022
Has the Congress chosen a “Gandhi proxy” or a “candidate of change”? All this will be clear as the grand old party gets its first non-Gandhi president in 24 years between senior leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Shashi Tharoor, once the results of the presidential elections are declared on Wednesday.
Over 9,500 votes were cast in a secret ballot...
OCTOBER 18, 2022
Before and after pictures of a lake in Australia show the dramatic difference between drought and flooding decades apart.
Lake Eildon, located in Victoria in the south east of the country, was pictured almost empty 15 years ago during terrible droughts in 2007.
Then it was just 5.3% full, which is a record low. But now, it looks unrecognizable...
