Meghan Markle’s light-hearted interaction with a young fan during a visit to a British school to make International Women’s Day in 2020 has gone viral on TikTok.Meghan visited Robert Clack Upper School in Dagenham, East England, during her final round of royal engagements, following her decision to step down from her working role within the…
India Test team in action© AFPThe Indian cricket team is focusing on building workload for the bowlers, who had an extensive run in the IPL, ahead of the World Test Championship final against Australia starting on June 7 at The Oval. In the bowling department, while the likes of Mohammed Siraj, Shardul Thakur, Akshar Patel,…
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION SpaceX’s Dragon Freedom spacecraft floats in the Gulf of Mexico after splashdown Tuesday night. Credit: SpaceX America’s most experienced space flier and her three private astronaut crewmates undocked from the International Space Station and plunged back to Earth late Tuesday, blazing through the night sky like a fiery…
London Calling: How does India look from afar? Looming world power or dysfunctional democracy? And what’s happening in Britain, and the West, that India needs to know about and perhaps learn from? This fortnightly column helps forge the connections so essential in our globalising world. The curry has conquered the world; the sari less so. It…
New Line Cinema Iconic horror acting icon Robert Englund says he’s gotten “too old” to play Freddy Krueger again. The upcoming documentary “Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story” goes into Englund’s intriguing screen career that spans many movies, TV series, video game characters and directing. As an actor, he has over 160 credits…
Obesity is a risk factor for metabolic pathologies such as insulin resistance, T2D, dyslipidemia, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. The pathophysiology of obesity-induced metabolic complications includes chronic low-grade inflammation, oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, impaired angiogenesis, hypoxia, and cell death. A research team from the University of Barcelona and the CIBERobn has developed a way to fight…
Are you your harshest critic? Do you say things to yourself that you would never dream of uttering to a good friend? You probably know you should be kinder to yourself, but often it’s difficult to practise self-compassion. This is especially true if you’ve grown up believing you need to be hard on yourself to…
Three students are given an assignment to develop a film script about land ownership. Soon, their studies are disrupted as they participate in student protests about university fees and decolonising academia. In their further research they uncover a traumatic history of the Eastern Cape, of cattle killing and land dispossession – and that there is…
A platform is transforming the retail landscape by aggregating the online shopping experiences of anonymous shoppers across a wide range of retailers. Humii, founded in 2022 by Andy Evans and Lee Ritson, challenges the limitations of traditional benchmarking tools with its innovative platform. By capturing various data points throughout the entire online shopping journey, Humii…
Matika Little is a Sydney-based Wiradjuri and Kamilaroi journalist and advocate. She is the creator and co-host of Coming Out, Blak, a podcast and online community whose mission is to celebrate and support First Nations people in the Queer community. In a conversation with Star Observer, Little spoke about the podcast, the Indigenous Voice to…