Sat 22 August 2026: Australian wildlife authorities are vaccinating thousands of little penguins against H5 bird flu in a major effort to protect the species. The campaign, which began Monday, targets up to 5,000 little penguins on Victoria’s Phillip Island and at St Kilda in Melbourne. The birds will receive two doses of the vaccine, […]

Sat 22 August 2026: The people who built the device in our pockets won’t even let their kids use it. There are now multiple lines of evidence showing that social media is causing harm at an industrial scale. Peter Teal, who co-founded PayPal and then the surveillance data firm Palunteer, reportedly allows his children 90 […]

Sat 22 August 2026: Who is Ahmad Hassoun, the ‘barrel bomb mufti’ close to the inner circle of the al-Assad regime? The verdict in the criminal case against Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun, a top Muslim religious figure during former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s rule, is set to be announced in Damascus on Monday. Prosecutors have called […]

Sat 22 August 2026: Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind has voiced strong objections to the enforcement of the Maharashtra Freedom of Religion Act, 2026, contending that several of its clauses erode the constitutional safeguards of freedom of conscience, religious liberty, privacy, and personal autonomy. In a statement, Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind president Maulana Mahmood Asad Madani said India’s strength lies […]

Sat 22 August 2026: Every electric vehicle, smartphone and laptop battery begins with one essential ingredient: lithium. The critical mineral sits at the centre of the global transition to cleaner energy. Lithium powers rechargeable batteries. Securing its supply is, therefore, an economic and geopolitical priority. The International Energy Agency expects global lithium demand to increase as electric vehicle production […]

Sat 22 August 2026: A U.S. judge has invalidated a Trump administration policy that halted the issuance of immigrant visas to applicants from 75 countries, ruling that it went beyond Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s legal authority. Judge Jeannette Vargas of Manhattan said in her ruling on Friday in the Southern District of New York […]

Thu 10 October 2024: One in eight girls, women raped or sexually assaulted before age 18, UNICEF says More than 370 million girls and women alive today, or one in every eight worldwide, experienced rape or sexual assault before the age of 18, the United Nations children’s agency said yesterday, Reuters reported. The number rises to 650 […]

Sat 22 August 2026: Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind has voiced strong objections to the enforcement of the Maharashtra Freedom of Religion Act, 2026, contending that several of its clauses erode the constitutional safeguards of freedom of conscience, religious liberty, privacy, and personal autonomy. In a statement, Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind president Maulana Mahmood Asad Madani said India’s strength lies […]

Thu 14 May 2026: Amid an oil blockade against the island, the US blames Cuba’s communist leadership for ‘standing in the way’ of aid. The United States has offered $100m in humanitarian assistance to Cuba on the condition that the island’s communist government agrees to “meaningful reforms”. The sum was made public in a statement from […]

Fri 12 June 2026: My mother loves butter. It is the primary fat I ate growing up. She smeared it on any kind of bread, potatoes, nut rolls or coffeecake. She baked with it exclusively. When I was studying nutrition in college, I had a teaching assistant who recommended margarine over butter. I was shocked […]

Fri 12 April 2024: JALEBIS INGREDIENTS 140 g cake flour 2 T cornflour 1/2 t baking powder 2 T clarified butter 1/4 t saffron threads 190 ml thick plain yoghurt Water (optional) Canola oil, for deep-frying Gold leaf, to garnish For the sugar syrup: 140 g sugar 250 ml water 1/4 t saffron threads, toasted […]