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Felix Baumgartner’s fatal paragliding crash was preceded by large boom as it spun to the ground, according to witnesses.Beachgoers knew something was wrong when they heard a loud boom ring out as a paraglider spun out of control, before killing its only occupant, extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, when it crashed next to a swimming pool near the Adriatic Sea. A 30-year-old mother watched the deadly descent unfold Thursday afternoon from nearby with her two young children, who were entranced by the constant traffic of paragliders above the beach town of Porto Sant’Elipido in central Italy’s Marche region. “Everything was normal,…

Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary M.A. Baby on Friday hit out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for “equating the CPI(M) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) as his ideological enemies.”Speaking at the Oommen Chandy Smriti Sangamam at Puthuppally on Friday, Mr. Gandhi said he fights the RSS and the CPI(M) ideologically and accused both for “having no feelings for the people.”In a video posted on his X page, Mr.Baby said it was quite unfortunate that the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha would make such a comparison in “a casual and sweeping manner.”“It is unfortunate that…

Logo of social media platform ‘X’ | Photo Credit: Reuters The Central government on Friday (July 18, 2025) presented before the High Court of Karnataka a fake social media account, created by its officials on social media platform X in the name of ‘Supreme Court of Karnataka’ — an institution that does not exist — to demonstrate how easily such accounts can be created and misused.The account, which was verified by X, was created solely for demonstrative purposes, Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta clarified to the court while showing the account on a mobile phone. “We have opened one…

When it comes to railway adventures, there are few things more exciting than falling asleep in one city and waking in the next, nudging up the blind to see what lies outside. Whether that reveals the golden haze of dawn or a moonlit night still holding on, the moment is one that’s always filled with magic.For the last three years I’ve been journeying around Europe documenting the resurgence in sleeper trains, watching passengers drift back to the romance of the railways, eschewing budget flights and bullet trains for cosy couchettes and a slower mode of travel. For scenery, comfort, and…

Berlin calls itself ‘locomotive’ of European crackdown on immigration, expelling 81 Afghans before meeting.Germany’s interior minister has hosted five of his European counterparts to discuss ways of tightening the region’s asylum rules, as his country deported 81 Afghans to their Taliban-controlled homeland. The European Union’s immigration system needed to be “tougher and stricter”, Minister Alexander Dobrindt said after Friday’s meeting in southern Germany with the interior ministers of France, Poland, Austria, the Czech Republic and Denmark, as well as EU Migration Commissioner Magnus Brunner. The cohort issued a five-page communique on their aims, which included the establishment of “return hubs”…

India and the European Union (EU) continue to differ on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS), which govern food and animal safety rules and are key to India’s agricultural and processed food exports to the EU, according to a status report released by the EU on Thursday. This report follows the 12th round of talks earlier this month. This assumes significance as the EU is India’s largest and most premium export destination for agricultural items, particularly coffee, tea, spices and rice. However, India’s exports to the EU have seen limited growth over the years, rising from $3.02 billion in FY19 to…

A still from ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ | Photo Credit: Sony Pictures The best slasher films offer a particular gory comfort, with the chase, deaths and a kind of twisted logic. I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) based on Lois Duncan’s 1973 young adult novel was immense fun and spawned two sequels, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998) and I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer (2006), a series in 2021 and countless headline options to sub-editors. The latest reboot after the show was cancelled, is a sequel to I Still…

Orango National Park on the Bijagós Archipelago off of the coast of Guinea-Bissau is a newly designated World Heritage Site. Hellio & van Ingen/IBAP/UNESCO Nomination File hide caption toggle caption Hellio & van Ingen/IBAP/UNESCO Nomination File Twenty-six sites have been added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List, designating their cultural and natural importance. Locations this year include a sacred mountain in Malawi; petroglyphs in South Korea; remains of a port and forts from 17th century Port Royal, Jamaica; a king’s palaces in Germany; and a river canyon in Brazil noted for its biodiversity. The World Heritage List, now numbering 1,248 locations,…

A new cyber threat is on the horizon — one that operates without an internet connection. Security researchers have identified Mamona ransomware, a stealthy malware that executes offline, encrypts files using locally generated keys, and erases its tracks, making detection extremely difficult.Unlike traditional ransomware that relies on remote command-and-control servers, Mamona functions entirely offline by abusing the Windows ping command. “Mamona generates encryption keys locally, making it effective even in air-gapped or isolated systems, challenging the belief that offline environments are inherently secure,” said Neehar Pathare, MD of 63SATS Cybertech. “This approach allows attackers to bypass standard network surveillance systems,…

People walk past a sign for a polling station during local council elections in Folkestone, England in May. The British government is announcing plans to lower the voting age to 16. Andrew Aitchison/In Pictures via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Aitchison/In Pictures via Getty Images The British government says it will introduce legislation to lower the voting age from 18 to 16, as part of a slew of reforms aimed at modernizing U.K. democracy. Officials announced a number of what they called “seismic changes” on Thursday, which include allowing bank cards to be used as voter ID and…