JULY 20, 2022
Japan, Singapore, and South Korea have the world's strongest passports, according to the most recent rankings made public by Henley Passport Index. For the sixth year running, a Japanese passport continues to be the most effective and allows for hassle-free travel into 193 nations. Singapore and South Korea, which are ranked second and third in the most...
JULY 20, 2022
More than 4 million people have left their jobs each month in the U.S. so far this year — and according to new research, this record-breaking trend isn't going to quit anytime soon.
About 40% of U.S. workers are considering quitting their current jobs in the next 3-to-6 months, a report from McKinsey and Co. published last week,...
JULY 20, 2022
While the country was gradually inching back on track after being mangled by the pandemic followed by a series of lockdowns, the Indian rupee hit an all-time low against the U.S. dollar in early trade on Tuesday recording at 80.05 per dollar, further deteriorating the economy.
For the first time in a decade, the dollar reached its highest...
JULY 20, 2022
Medical workers tend to a patient with the COVID-19 at a hospital in eastern France. Obesity is one of several conditions that researchers have linked to an increased risk of developing long COVID. (Jean-Francois Badias / Associated Press)
From the start of the pandemic, patients and doctors alike have been frustrated by the sizable minority of coronavirus infections...
JULY 20, 2022
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen addresses a media conference at EU headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, July 20, 2022. The European Union's head office on Wednesday proposed that member states cut their gas use by 15% over the coming months that any full Russian cutoff of natural gas supplies to the bloc will not fundamentally...
JULY 20, 2022
Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting has come in support of Virat Kohli, who is struggling to get among runs on the field these days. Many former cricketers, including Kapil Dev, have opined that Kohli (if needed) should be dropped if he does not score runs in future. Ponting however believes that Kohli still has it in him...
JULY 19, 2022
A POSITION paper by the Karnataka government on the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, uploaded recently, has revived discussion on something that has long been known to historians of mathematics — that what we call the Pythagoras theorem was already known to Indians from the Vedic times.
The position paper, part of Karnataka's submissions to the NCERT for...
JULY 19, 2022
Open book with planets floating out of it. - Mimma Key/Shutterstock
Taking measurements in space is no easy task. After all, you can't just make a cosmically long ruler in order to figure out distances when you're talking about objects that are millions and billions of miles apart. The difficulty in measuring space has led many to...
JULY 19, 2022
Former President Donald Trump. - Joe Maiorana/AP Photo
The Wisconsin Assembly Speaker said Trump urged him to decertify Biden's win earlier this month.
Robin Vos told WISN-TV 12 News that Trump raised the topic following a state Supreme Court ruling on ballot boxes.
When Vos refused, Trump took to social media to slam the election official.
Donald Trump...
JULY 19, 2022
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM — The U.K. recorded its highest-ever temperatures on Tuesday with readings of over 104 degrees Fahrenheit, as a heat wave scorched the nation and sparked fires around the capital.
A provisional reading of 40.3 degrees Celsius was recorded in the village of Coningsby in eastern England, according to the national meteorological service, surpassing the previous...
