You and I probably wouldn't immediately think of it and probably associate gambling mainly with sports games. Yet a number of people bet big, and also won money on the assassination of Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. This is what Reuters and Bloomberg are reporting.
In the heart of London's South Bank, at Observation Point, a new kind of fountain has appeared: it celebrates neither heroes nor classical myths.
When we think of the great predators of Earth's history, our mind immediately turns to the Tyrannosaurus rex, a pop icon, a film and documentary star, the very embodiment of primordial force.
In 2024, Palitana, in India's Bhavnagar district, made history by becoming the first city to ban the sale and consumption of meat.
The story comes to us from Canada and stars Nora Keegan, who was just 9 years old when she began to ask herself a very specific question: are air hand dryers bad for children's ears?
The rankings for 2026 have been officially published. Tripadvisor, the world's largest travel platform with more than a billion reviews, has published the 'Travellers' Choice Awards Best of the Best Beaches 2026', the annual selection of the most extraordinary beaches on the planet. The verdict is based on an analysis of the quality and quantity of reviews left by travelers between November 30, 2024, and December 1, 2025: millions of reviews outlining a map of the best the global coastline has to offer.
A 5-year-old boy has died after choking on a bite of food while having dinner with his parents at home in Sestu, Italy, in the city of Cagliari. The tragedy occurred on Sunday evening, February 22, during what should have been an ordinary, quiet family meal.
Over 3,400 years old, the blade is still sharp, its geometric decorations are clearly visible, and in places, the surfaces still shine.
At first, nobody believed in their project. The first year, almost all saplings perished due to drought. But the two friends never gave up.
Nothing like this had ever happened since official weather statistics exist: with 35 days of continuous rain, France recorded the longest continuous period of precipitation since 1959, the year when systematic measurements began. That record has been confirmed by Météo-France: the 2023 record, which stood at 32 days, has been officially tallied.