A seven-year-old child has been killed and other children injured in a stabbing at a primary school in Croatia. The country’s health minister said a teacher was also injured in the knife attack in Zagreb on Friday. The alleged attacker, a 19-year-old man and former pupil, was arrested at the scene, local media reported. Photographs…
Hellenic Coast Guard A helicopter and coastguard ships are continuing the search for any further survivors (File photo). Greece’s coastguard says at least eight people have drowned after a speedboat carrying migrants tried to evade a coastguard patrol in the Aegean Sea. The speedboat capsized, the coastguard said, after the boat driver “lost control” in…
A wooded area. A roaring fire. A bit of gently falling snow. This is my happy place. Except, it’s not out my window; it’s on TikTok. For months I have “taught” TikTok to serve me this content: people, usually dudes, building shelters by hand in the wilderness. Most of them are ultra-sped-up timelapses that start…
Ronald Diaz/ Conservation International An amphibious mouse with webbed feet and a blob-headed fish are among 27 new species scientists have discovered in Peru. They were found in an expedition to Alto Mayo – which includes the Amazon rainforest – by scientists from the non-profit organisation Conservation International and members of local indigenous groups. Up…
Seat Cushions, Backrests, and Footrests CushionLab Seat Cushion Photograph: Cushionlabs If you can’t upgrade your chair just yet, a cushion or backrest might help. Here are a few we like: CushionLab Seat Cushion for $69: This memory foam seat is comfortable, and I had no problems sitting on it for hours on end. It’s best…
EPA Marcin Romanowski had failed to attend a court hearing before it emerged he had sought asylum in Hungary Poland has accused Hungary of acting in a hostile manner by granting political asylum to a former Polish deputy justice minister accused of defrauding the state. Marcin Romanowski, 48, is facing 11 charges in Poland, including…
The Malaysian government says it has agreed in principle to resume the search for a passenger jet that vanished 10 years ago in one of aviation’s greatest mysteries. Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared in March 2014 while on its way to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur with 239 people on board. Efforts to locate the wreckage…
Skeleton of Homo naledi, found in the Rising Star cave system in South Africa John Hawks/Shutterstock Blazing the Trail Australian Museum, University of Sydney, BreakThru Films It is after 10pm and I am on a cycleway in Sydney returning from dinner with friends. It is a warm evening in the week before Christmas and people…
2024 was a big year for spatial computing, bookended by the release of two major virtual reality headsets: the powerful but expensive Apple Vision Pro and the more affordable Meta Quest 3S. While these devices transport their users to vast, strange digital realms, they can also feel limiting, because they reduce—or even sever—the wearer’s connection…
Artificial intelligence is everywhere you look right now, making its way into music streaming, social media, video games, web search, and just about every other technological field. Every time a new phone or laptop is launched these days, what’s invariably mentioned first is just how much AI it has on board. AI’s reach also extends…