NEW DELHI — Priyanka Chopra Jonas on July 12 shared a childhood picture on her social media account, along with a birthday note to wish her brother Siddharth Chopra. She took to her Instagram handle and shared a post featuring a childhood picture and a recent picture of Siddharth posing with the siblings’ mother, Madhu Chopra. In the picture from their childhood, Chopra-Jonas and Siddharth could be seen enjoying the waves at a beach together. In the second one, Siddharth and Madhu were seen posing beside what appeared to be a food truck. The truck featured a special message from Chopra-Jonas and…
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LONDON — Bollywood actor Anushka Sharma and India skipper Virat Kohli celebrated their daughter, Vamika, turning six months old yesterday with a picnic in England. The family flew to England in June for the World Test Championship (WTC). Sharma shared a few pictures from the celebration and penned a heartfelt note. “Her one smile can change our whole world around! I hope we can both live up to the love with which you look at us, little one. Happy six months to us three,” she wrote. In the first picture, Sharma can be seen lying down on a sheet with Vamika on her chest while the…
STANFORD, Calif. — A study reveals children gained more than an hour of sleep per night after participating in a mindfulness curriculum at their elementary schools. The study, led by the Stanford University School of Medicine, was published in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. The study is the first to use polysomnography techniques, which measure brain activity, to assess how school-based mindfulness training changes children’s sleep. The curriculum taught children how to relax and manage stress by focusing their attention on the present, but it did not instruct them how to get more sleep. “The children who received the curriculum slept, on average, 74 minutes more…
LAGOS, Nigeria — Ifeyinwa Ilomuanya, a young graduate from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, had been without a job for three years before some friends got her interested in a clothes business. She would get a consignment of assorted clothes from dealers without making any monetary deposit. Since she could not afford to rent a shop, she relied on her Twitter handle to market. She requested her followers to retweet her posts announcing new batches of clothes. “By re-posting pictures of the products, I sell,” Ifeyinwa told Zenger News. “Explaining their quality, cost, how to place an order, delivery process, and…
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A baby orca faces a race against time to find his lost family after his discovery, beached and abandoned, north of Wellington, the capital of New Zealand. Hundreds of New Zealanders have joined the cause to both protect the youngster and find his mother. Without a reunification, the orca — given the name Toa on July 13 in a Maori ceremony — will die. “We have hope,” Orca Research Trust founder Ingrid Visser said. “We put a man on the moon. Surely we can get a whale back to its family.” Visser is coordinating the rescue effort…
CANBERRA, Australia — An energy research hub at the Australian National University is leading the charge on future-proofing the electricity grid. The Australian Capital Territory Chief Minister, Andrew Barr, will join Australian National University Vice-Chancellor Brian Schmidt on July 13 to officially open the new Distributive Energy Resources Laboratory building. Barr has been a Labor Party member in the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly since April 5, 2006, after being elected on a countback to replace former Treasurer Ted Quinlan, who resigned mid-term. So-called distributed energy generated in homes and businesses is changing how Australia produces and manages electricity and may…
SYDNEY — With an end to lockdown on Friday “almost impossible”, businesses and workers bracing for a fourth week with little to no income call for the revival of the JobKeeper program and other financial supports. New South Wales recorded 112 new local Covid-19 cases in 24 hours to 8 pm on July 11, at least 46 of which were out in the community for part or all of their infectious period. Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant has warned the numbers — a record since the state’s first wave in 2020 — may not mark the peak of the outbreak, with…
HOBART, Australia — A mining company’s controversial plan for expansion in the Tasmanian wilderness has hit a bump, with the federal government ruling an environmental assessment of the proposal is required. The majority of Chinese government-owned Minerals and Metals Group wants to build a new tailings waste storage dam in the Tarkine rainforest. The Minerals and Metals Group is a mid-tier global resources company that mines, explores, and develops base metal projects worldwide. The plan has sparked eight weeks of protests, spearheaded by the Bob Brown Foundation, and the arrests of more than 60 activists at the site. The federal Department of Environment ruled…
The bones of two 210-million-year-old dinosaurs unearthed in Switzerland are now on display at a dinosaur park in Germany. The two dinosaur skeletons, which belong to the Plateosaurus genus and consists of over 330 bones, went on display at the Munchehagen Dinosaur Park in the town of Rehburg-Loccum in the German state of Lower Saxony on July 6. Park scientific director Nils Knotschke said the reptiles, named Emil and Emily, are direct ancestors of the long-necked sauropods, considered to be the largest land animals of all time. The fossils, which are estimated to be around 210 million years old, come…
A young female elephant named Kibali from the Vienna Zoo in Austria has unexpectedly died of heart failure one week before her second birthday. Tiergarten Schonbrunn Zoo in Vienna announced the death of its young female elephant Kibali on July 10. Shocked zoo officials reported Kibali was feeling well and did not show any symptoms of illness. “Kibali seemed a little matte — she didn’t show any other symptoms. Nevertheless, she was under close watch. Yesterday, she just overturned in front of animal carers and vets and was immediately dead, “Tiergarten said in a post on Facebook. Detailed vet examinations…