An Indian-origin software engineer from Hyderabad was killed in a road accident in the US state of New Jersey just days before she was due to travel to India, according to reports.Sripathi Deepa Reddy, 42, originally from Aakuthotapalli village in Telangana’s Rangareddy district, had been living in the United States with her husband, Ramakrishna Reddy,…
Achievements today tend to get measured by whatever ends up visible, a headline, an award, a viral post. Amal Clooney, the international human rights lawyer, pointed at something rather different. “There is lots of my work that takes place behind closed doors that is not ever seen,” she said. Most of what actually goes into…
Ryder Williams with his father, Shane Williams. What began as an ordinary summer shift on a California beach quickly turned into a life-or-death rescue that has captured national attention. On July 25, 16-year-old rookie lifeguard Ryder Williams plunged into towering waves at Seabright State Beach in Santa Cruz to save a 10-year-old boy who was…
Senate unanimously opposes pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell The US Senate unanimously approved a resolution on Wednesday opposing any presidential pardon or other form of executive clemency for Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted associate of the late financier Jeffrey Epstein who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking offences, according to The New York Post.The…
A school portrait of Michelle Louise Collier, who vanished from Fresno at the age of 15 in February 1978. Nearly five decades after a teenage girl was discovered buried in a shallow grave beneath a California vineyard, investigators have finally restored her identity through advances in forensic DNA technology. The victim, known only as “Arvin…
Ina and David Steiner/Image: Reuters E-commerce company eBay and several former senior executives have agreed to pay $55.7 million to resolve a civil lawsuit filed by a Massachusetts couple who alleged they were targeted in a sustained campaign of harassment and cyberstalking after publishing critical coverage of the company, The Financial Times reported.The case was…
A routine baggage screening at an Alabama airport turned into an extraordinary security incident after Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers discovered five Civil War-era cannonballs hidden inside a checked suitcase. The rusted artillery relics, some as large as grapefruits and wrapped individually in paper towels, had allegedly been taken by a teenager from Fort Morgan,…
Creativity often gets mistaken for producing something out of thin air. Clint Eastwood, the actor and director, put it far more bluntly than most. “You have to steal a lot,” he said. “You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.” He was obviously not talking about literal theft. He meant something…
1935 Lava Bombing Mission: US drops 40 bombs on Mauna Loa flow On December 27, 1935, something unusual happened in the skies above Hawaiʻi. US military aircraft dropped 40 bombs, not on an enemy, but on a river of molten lava pouring down the slopes of Mauna Loa. The eruption had begun a month earlier…
Quote of the day by Tiger Woods (Getty Images) Watching a champion perform can make success look effortless, as though it were simply handed to a lucky few at birth. Tiger Woods pushed back on that idea directly. “Talent is something you are born with, and a skill is something you develop,” he said. “99%…