1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (528+ words) Sunday September 13, 2026 More than 50,000 people have been stranded in Kushtia's Daulatpur upazila as the Padma River continues to rise rapidly, inundating large areas of Chilmari and Ramkrishnapur unions. The rising water has submerged roads and other communication routes, flooded farmland…...

1+ hour, 24+ min ago   (462+ words) Sunday, September 13, 2026 · Lagos The basement radiates an eerie feeling prevalent in the medieval catacombs. Corpses are not buried here. Neither is it a hiding place for Christians fleeing Emperor Nero’s persecution. But it has much to do with death all…...

8+ hour, 21+ min ago   (411+ words) A stretch of desert north of Saqqara, first scratched in the 19th century, has surrendered another secret. For more than 4000 years, the sand covered a mastaba whose painted walls survived almost untouched by time. A joint Spanish-Egyptian mission returning to a…...

10+ hour, 29+ min ago   (572+ words) A Londoner with a fascination for the city's lost landmarks has brought demolished medieval streets back to life with the help of AI. Daniel Coughlin's YouTube channel The Curious Compendium of Architectural What-Ifs traces the capital's changing landscape through periods…...

2+ hour, 49+ min ago   (373+ words) Alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, opium, magic mushrooms… Humanity has known (and used!) these psychoactive substances for a long, long time. Some of them, like tobacco and alcoholic beverages, have been around for over 10,000 years. But what purpose did they serve? Were…...

6+ hour, 28+ min ago   (105+ words) Contemplating the March and Braai story is like looking at an Escher painting with its weird series of cyclical steps, where moving through hierarchical levels unexpectedly brings you right back to where you started. So, forwards we must march. And…...

4+ hour, 18+ min ago   (115+ words) Tulu Nadu flag flies at 7,077-metre peak! Udayavani Tulu Nadu flag flies at 7,077-metre peak! Ujire youth climbs Mount Kun in Ladakh CM Shivakumar says Ganeshotsava to be celebrated peacefully amid BJP allegations A Ganesha home in Haleangadi! Father's half-century…...

4+ hour, 16+ min ago   (1207+ words) The kingdom’s traditions and institutions have endured through colonial rule, independence and decades of upheaval Kampala, Uganda – Uganda became independent from British colonial rule in 1962, but independence did not mean the end of its traditional kingdoms. The new republic inherited…...

4+ hour, 29+ min ago   (77+ words) The Godavari has an extensive network of tributaries that contribute to its enormous river system. Some of its major tributaries include the Pravara, Purna, Manjira, Indravati, Pranhita and Sabari. Before reaching the Bay of Bengal in Andhra Pradesh, the river…...

42+ min ago   (796+ words) Unilever's Lever House in Port Sunlight(Image: Liverpool Echo) For nearly 100 years, Unilever has made products found on the shelves of homes all around the world, and their unmistakable branding and advertising has been familiar to generations of customers. A…...