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Parents’ fears after top fee-paying school teams up with Bitcoin fanatic
Lomond School, a fee-paying private school in Helensburgh charging up to £48,000 a year, has entered a “long-term partnership” with Scholarium, a Swiss-based organisation run by Iranian-Austrian lecturer Rahim Taghizadegan that promotes “Bitcoin citadels”, tax avoidance and “unschooling”. The deal has alarmed parents, who say they were given little transparency about the arrangement and only…
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Bebe Cave: Swoon review – dazzling portrait of marginalised muses and the male gaze
Bebe Cave’s multicharacter comedy Swoon, showing at the Pleasance Dome in Edinburgh, uses slapstick and physical comedy to satirise the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and examine how women were treated as passive muses rather than people with their own stories. The show explores the gap between the elevated artistic status given to figures like Elizabeth “Lizzie” Siddal,…
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Utter tragedy as four members of same family, including little children, are killed in horror house blaze started by son, police say
A California man has been charged with murder after allegedly setting fire to his family’s home in Richmond, killing his father, his sister and her two young children. Sergio Ivan Rivera-Vega, 32, is accused of deliberately starting the blaze on Tuesday night, which claimed the lives of his father Jose Rivera, 47, his five-year-old nephew…
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Two years after launch, Walmart’s Flipkart is closing in on India’s quick-commerce leaders
Walmart-owned Flipkart’s quick-commerce arm, Flipkart Minutes, is rapidly narrowing the gap with India’s established instant-delivery leaders two years after its 2024 launch, even as Amazon separately pushes into the same market. The service now handles 1.1 to 1.2 million orders a day, up sharply from around 390,000-400,000 in November, bringing it close to Swiggy’s Instamart,…
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Police make arrest after gunfire during California high school football game leaves 1 dead
A 15-year-old was arrested on suspicion of murder and gang participation after a 17-year-old was fatally shot at a Bakersfield, California stadium.
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Robot beats Bolt as US midterms rocked by scandal and Iran claims war win
A humanoid robot at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing recorded 9.39 seconds for 100 metres, faster than Usain Bolt’s official human world-record time of 9.58 seconds. More than 2,000 humanoid robots were reported to be taking part in the five-day event, which included athletic and team-sport competitions. The result demonstrates rapid advances in…
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“It’s with a heavy heart that I’m announcing my retirement from drumming.” Former AC/DC man Chris Slade calls time on career at 79
Former AC/DC drummer Chris Slade has confirmed his retirement from drumming at the age of 79, releasing a personal statement explaining that a “small stroke” suffered around seven years ago has worsened over time and left him unable to continue performing. The Welsh musician, who began his professional career at 16 alongside Tom Jones, said…
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The clock’s ticking for a ‘Greenwich Moon time’ as world powers eager to exploit lunar resources
Space agencies and researchers are working towards establishing a standardised lunar time system, sometimes dubbed “Greenwich Moon Time”, as growing international interest in exploiting the Moon’s resources makes a shared timekeeping framework increasingly urgent. Currently, missions to the Moon rely on the timekeeping systems of whichever country or agency launched them, creating a lack of…
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Mom’s fury as 18-year-old son’s organs were donated to ARGENTINA without her consent after his untimely car crash death
An Ohio mother has spoken of her anger after her 18-year-old son’s organs were donated to a recipient in Argentina following his death in a car crash, saying she never gave consent for them to be sent abroad. She has accused the organ procurement organisation involved of failing to properly inform or consult her before…