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GRINDAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Vignir Kristinsson smiles as two women, the only customers all morning, enter his gift shop filled with handmade things of oak. After perusing decorations ranging from animals to kitchen cutting boards, one woman bought a small black-stained tree.After decades of making cabinets for a living, Kristinsson, 64, said his daughter persuaded him to turn passion for woodworking into a business. Five years ago he and his wife opened the shop in Grindavik, a coastal town of 3,800 people about 50 kilometers (30 miles) southwest of Iceland’s capital, Reykjavik. Business was good.Then the volcanic eruptions began.Since December…

The study, led by the University of Tübingen and published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, marks a major advance in ancient DNA recovery. It challenges long-held assumptions that genetic material can only survive for millennia in frozen or sheltered environments like caves or permafrost. Instead, the Schöningen site, known for its well-preserved wooden tools, is now the backdrop for an equally remarkable preservation of genetic material—this time, from a long-extinct equid. Located in Lower Saxony, the Schöningen site first gained attention in the 1990s when lignite mining exposed an unusual collection of Paleolithic wooden spears. Alongside these artifacts were fossilized…

Show Quick Read Key points generated by AI, verified by newsroom Amid the ongoing uncertainty over seat-sharing within the Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance), the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation on Tuesday announced its first list of 18 candidates for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections 2025. The early announcement comes even as the alliance partners, including the RJD, Congress, and Left parties, are still finalising their seat distribution formula. The Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation, a key constituent of the opposition bloc in Bihar, has decided to field candidates from several strongholds where it has maintained a steady grassroots presence.…

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New Delhi: Bihar deputy chief ministers—Samrat Chaudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha—and several ministers including Mangal Pandey, an MLC, have been fielded by the BJP in the Bihar assembly election slated next month. Their names figure in the list of 71 candidates released by the party Tuesday.Of the 71 candidates in the BJP’s first list, nine are women. The party has denied a ticket to senior party leader and speaker of the Bihar assembly Nand Kishore Yadav who has served as a minister in several departments in Bihar. Yadav is a seven-term MLA from the Patna Sahib seat. In place of…

After the release of the last living hostages and Palestinian prisoners and detainees, the tenuous ceasefire in Gaza was holding Tuesday while questions remain over other key parts of a U.S. plan for the region.The long list of uncertainties includes when Hamas will return to Israel the bodies of the 24 hostages believed to be dead in Gaza, and Israel’s insistence that a weakened Hamas disarm. The future governance of Gaza is unclear.Israeli military said troops in the northern Gaza Strip had “opened fire to remove the threat” of several people approaching them on Tuesday across the “yellow line” and…

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday announced its first list of 71 candidates for the Bihar Assembly elections 2025, fielding two leaders who lost in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls alongside several ministers, seasoned MLAs, and political heirs. The list, released by the party, reflects a blend of experience, legacy, and new entrants, marking the beginning of an intense electoral battle in the state. Two Lok Sabha Poll Losers Get Another Chance Among the most notable names in the list are former Union Minister Ramkripal Yadav and Mithilesh Kumar Tiwari, both of whom failed to win their parliamentary contests…

Opener KL Rahul scored an unbeaten half-century as India defeated the West Indies by seven wickets in the second Test on Day 5 to complete a 2-0 clean sweep of the two-match series at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on Tuesday. Resuming at the overnight score of 63/1, India scored the remaining 58 runs to chase the 121-run target in 35.2 overs. Rahul scored 58 not out off 108 balls and shared a 79-run second-wicket partnership with Sai Sudharsan (39 off 76 balls). After Sudharsan’s skipper Shubman Gill came to the crease but he also did not last long,…

Show Quick Read Key points generated by AI, verified by newsroom Some big names have been dropped from the BJP’s first list of candidates for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections, signalling a major reshuffle in the party’s strategy. Notably, current Bihar Assembly Speaker Nand Kishore Yadav, a seven-term MLA from Patna Sahib, has been replaced by Ratnesh Kushwaha, a government lawyer who fought a high-profile case in the Patna High Court regarding an AI video of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mother. Several other sitting MLAs, despite previous victories, have also been denied tickets, while the party has fielded prominent new…

Bihar Election 2025: Popular folk and devotional singer Maithili Thakur joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Patna, Bihar, on Tuesday, ahead of the impending Bihar Election 2025. Her entry into the saffron party has intensified speculation about her political future, although her name was notably absent from the BJP’s first list of candidates. RJD MLA Bharat Bind also joined the ruling outfit. Speaking to reporters in Patna on Tuesday, Thakur stated that the final decision rests with the public. However, she offered a clear endorsement of the current ruling alliance, stating that she has “seen the improvements made by…