Rishi Sunak will meet President Joe Biden at the White House on Thursday. Washington: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday announced a world-first summit on artificial intelligence, seeking a leading role for the UK in limiting potential doomsday risks as he visited Washington. Sunak will meet President Joe Biden at the White House on […]
Its rooms are built a staggering 1,375 vertical feet below the park’s mountains A new hotel that lets people sleep at the bottom of a Victorian mine, 400m underground has opened in the UK, Metro reported. Dubbed the ‘world’s deepest hotel’, The Deep Sleep Hotel is located beneath the mountains of Snowdonia, also known as Eryri National Park, […]
Singapore: Senior officials from about two dozen of the world’s major intelligence agencies held a secret meeting on the fringes of the Shangri-La Dialogue security meeting in Singapore this weekend, five people told Reuters. Such meetings are organised by the Singapore government and have been discreetly held at a separate venue alongside the security summit […]
Arthur Ross enrolled in UBC in 1969. More than five decades after he started university degree, Arthur Ross finally completed his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of British Columbia (UBC) on Thursday. Mr Ross, 71, is now the new record holder for the longest time to complete a university degree after taking 54 […]
Mehmet Ozyurek was cremated in his hometown of Artvin. Mehmet Ozyurek, the Guinness World Record (GWR) holder for the longest nose, died at the age of 75. GWR announced the news on its website, saying it’s “saddened” by Mr Ozyurek’s death. The Turkish man’s nose measured 3.46 inches and the record was confirmed by GWR […]
Neary 2 billion people, who live in a drying lake basin, are directly affected. LONDON: More than half of the world’s large lakes and reservoirs have shrunk since the early 1990s, chiefly because of climate change, intensifying concerns about water for agriculture, hydropower and human consumption, a study published on Thursday found. A team of […]
Pando is known as the “forest of a single tree”. Scientists have recorded the sound of Pando, the “forest of a single tree”, considered to be the largest living organism of the world. According to The Guardian, the forest is made of 47,000 genetically identical stems sprouting from a shared root system. Pando, which means […]
It was sold by Sotheby’s following a four-minute bidding battle between two bidders. New York: A Hebrew Bible more than 1,000 years old sold for $38.1 million in New York on Wednesday, setting a record for the most valuable manuscript ever sold at auction. The Codex Sassoon — which dates to the late ninth to […]
Nepal has issued a record of 467 permits this year for foreign climbers. Kathmandu: A Nepali sherpa guide climbed Mount Everest for the 26th time on Sunday, hiking officials said, becoming the world’s second person to achieve the feat. Pasang Dawa Sherpa, 46, stood atop the 8,849-m (29,032-ft) peak, sharing the record number of summits […]
