Author: Rahul M

As the weather turned cool this autumn across England, Frankie the flamingo had apparently had enough.On a blustery Sunday morning this month, the juvenile bird vanished from the zoo in Cornwall where she was born. After a frantic six-day search to find her, Frankie’s keepers learned this past week that she had traveled roughly 130 miles away — to a beach in France. Frankie’s journey was exceptional, her keepers said, as she is only a few months old and had a wing clipped, which should have prevented her from ever taking flight.“Being a young bird, we were quite surprised how…

Toy Story 5 Official Teaser Trailer The toys are back and have some new competition as Walt Disney Studios and Pixar Animation Studios released the official teaser trailer for the sequel film Toy Story 5. View trailer below. Fans are introduced to the new character Lilypad, a high-tech frog-shaped smart tablet voiced by Greta Lee (“Past Lives,” “The Morning Show,” “TRON: Ares”) that makes Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang’s jobs exponentially harder when they have to go head to head with the all-new threat to playtime. I still don’t know how I ultimately feel about Toy…

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security has diverted thousands of federal agents from their normal duties to focus on arresting immigrants living in the country illegally, undermining a wide range of law enforcement operations in response to mounting pressure from President Donald Trump, a New York Times investigation has found. Homeland Security agents investigating sexual crimes against children, for instance, have been redeployed to the immigrant crackdown for weeks at a time, hampering their pursuit of child predators.A national security probe into the black market for Iranian oil sold to finance terrorism has been slowed down for months because…

PARIS — As far as his friends at the outdoor gym knew, the always cheerful 39-year-old man from a hardscrabble suburb of Paris had left his past behind. He no longer talked much about his years as a star of the city’s urban dirt bike subculture, a rider known as Doudou Cross Bitume who made his name doing wheelies up the Champs-Élysées. When asked why, his friends said, he told them he had since had children and didn’t want them associating him with that bad-boy image. Weaving in and out of traffic at high speeds on just one wheel in…

BERLIN (AP) — Poland’s foreign minister said Sunday that an “offensive” auction of Holocaust artifacts has been canceled in Germany, relaying information from his German counterpart, following complaints from Holocaust survivors. Radoslaw Sikorski made the comments on the X platform, saying he and German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul “agreed that such a scandal must be prevented.” The top Polish diplomat thanked Wadephul for the information that the auction was canceled. Earlier, a Holocaust survivors group called on the German auction house Felzmann to cancel Monday’s sale of hundreds of Holocaust artifacts, including letters written by prisoners and other documents that…

NBC The mission of the USS Enterprise is to boldly go where no one has gone before, but its crew can’t get anywhere without the expertise of the ship’s best mate, Montgomery Scott (James Doohan), AKA Scotty. The Enterprise’s chief engineer first appeared during “Star Trek: The Original Series,” Season 1, Episode 3, “Where No Man Has Gone Before.” James Doohan is responsible for a key portion of Scotty’s backstory, and he continued to tell Scotty’s story long after the original series ended. Doohan reprised his role in multiple “Trek”…

Researchers have created a device that generates mechanical power at night by harnessing the natural temperature difference between warm ground and the cold of outer space. Engineers at the University of California, Davis, have created a device capable of producing mechanical energy at night by taking advantage of the warmth near the ground and the […]

Miikka Skaffari/Getty Images “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” debuted in 1999 and quickly became one of the best crime shows of all time. That same year, sitcom juggernaut “Friends” launched its sixth season, where it was already among the most beloved TV comedies ever made. But both shows might have looked very different, according to “SVU” star Mariska Hargitay. She revealed in 2025 that she auditioned for the role of Monica Geller back in the early ’90s. In fact, she says she auditioned more than once, testing for the…

Researchers used IBM’s quantum computers to create scalable quantum circuits that simulate matter under extreme conditions, offering new insight into fundamental forces and the origins of the universe. Simulating how matter behaves under extreme conditions is essential for exploring some of the deepest questions about the universe. The Standard Model of particle physics describes how […]

Apple TV+ “The Morning Show” packs some major firepower cast-wise. Featuring “Friends” legend Jennifer Aniston and film star Reese Witherspoon, it’s one of the more high-profile programs on Apple TV. And it turns out both actresses apparently pull down a hefty chunk of change for participating in the series. It was reported that they each made over $1 million during Season 1, and their salaries had doubled — and then some — by the time Season 4 rolled around. In fact, it cost $50 million just to pay salaries for that show’s…