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Menendez, along with his brother Lyle, has served 35 years of a life prison term for fatally shooting their parents.Erik Menendez has been denied parole, more than 30 years after he and his brother Lyle killed their parents in the family’s luxury Beverly Hills home.A California panel ordered the 54-year-old to stay in prison on Thursday, defying a lengthy campaign waged by family, friends and celebrities like Kim Kardashian.“Erik Menendez was denied parole for three years at his initial suitability hearing today,” said a brief statement from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR).The result will be a huge…

File picture of NRI industrialist Lord Swraj Paul | Photo Credit: PTI Leading British industrialist Lord Swraj Paul passed away in London on Thursday (August 21, 2025) evening, family sources said. He was 94. Lord Paul, founder of U.K.-based Caparo Group of industries, had been taken ill and hospitalised recently, where he passed away surrounded by members of his family. The House of Lords peer was born in Jalandhar and relocated to the U.K. in the 1960s in pursuit of treatment for his little daughter Ambika’s cancer. After she passed away aged four years old, he set up the Ambika…

Election workers process absentee ballots on Nov. 4, 2024, in Portland, Maine. Maine is forgoing roughly $130,000 in election security grant money because the state does not plan to comply with new requirements from the Trump administration. David Sharp/AP hide caption toggle caption David Sharp/AP The Trump administration has indicated it may withhold tens of millions of dollars in election security funding if states don’t comply with its voting policy goals. The money comes from a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) grant program, and voting officials say new requirements from the administration will make the money inaccessible for most of…

FILE PHOTO: Google has released a report sharing the environmental footprint from Gemini estimating that a single text prompt uses about five drops of water. | Photo Credit: Reuters Google has released a report sharing the environmental footprint from Gemini estimating that a single text prompt uses about five drops of water or 0.26 millimetres. The report also stated that a text prompt for their AI chatbot consumes the same amount of electricity as watching TV for less than 9 seconds or around 0.24 watt-hours (Wh), which produces about 0.03 grams of carbon dioxide emissions. “Over a 12-month period, while delivering…

There’s a lot to remember when packing for trips these days, from what can and can’t go in a carry-on to how many pairs of underwear you should pack. However, the luggage concerns don’t end when you’re all packed up because there’s plenty to think about when you arrive at your hotel, including where you can safely place your luggage to keep it clean, dry, and free of pests—like those icky, awful bed bugs. While you likely already know not to put your luggage directly on the bed when you check into a new room, it turns out you may…

Ukrainian servicemen of the 44th artillery brigade fire a 2s22 Bohdana self-propelled howitzer towards Russian positions at the frontline in the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine on Wednesday. Danylo Antoniuk/AP hide caption toggle caption Danylo Antoniuk/AP KYIV, Ukraine — Russia launched one of its biggest aerial attacks of the year on Ukraine, firing 574 drones and 40 ballistic and cruise missiles overnight, the Ukrainian Air Force said Thursday, while a recent diplomatic push to stop the three-year war is trying to gain momentum. The attack mostly targeted western regions of the country, the air force said, where much of the military aid…

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar may have expressed surprise over the additional 25 per cent US tariff slapped on India over energy imports from Russia, reiterating that “it was the Americans” who said “we should do everything to stabilise the world’s energy markets, including buying oil from Russia”. There is, however, a growing realisation in New Delhi’s policy circles that India may have ended up becoming a “soft target” to pressure Russia into ending the Ukraine war – collateral damage in US President Donald Trump’s ambition to squeeze Russia’s crude exports and pressurise Moscow to get on to the negotiating…

The attack is the second in the past three months to prevent a UN aid convoy from delivering to North Dafur.A drone attack has hit a convoy of 16 trucks carrying desperately needed food to Sudan‘s famine-hit North Darfur region, the United Nations said, as warring parties trade blame for the attack.UN spokesperson Daniela Gross told reporters on Thursday that all drivers and personnel travelling with the World Food Programme (WFP) convoy were safe.At least three of the trucks caught fire, according to a WFP statement quoted by the Reuters news agency. Gross said all trucks had caught fire, according…

A view of Telangana High Court building in Hyderabad. File | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL Telangana High Court on Friday (August 22, 2025) declined to stay the tabling the report of Justice (Retired) P.C. Ghose Commission — which inquired into the allegations of irregularities in execution of Kaleshwaram project — on the floor of Assembly. After hearing the arguments for two consecutive days in the two writ petitions seeking to quash the Commission’s report, the High Court bench comprising Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice G.M. Mohiuddin said ‘no interim directions need to be passed’ in the matter.Bharat Rashtra Samithi…

Coco Gauff of the United States. | Photo Credit: AP Two-times Grand Slam champion Coco Gauff has parted ways with coach Matthew Daly just days before the start of the U.S. Open, ESPN reported on Wednesday.World number three Gauff will continue to work with longtime coach Jean-Christophe Faurel and has also brought biomechanics specialist Gavin MacMillan.She was seen training on Wednesday at the Billie Jean King Tennis Center in New York with both Faurel and MacMillan, who previously worked with world number one Aryna Sabalenka, helping her with her serve and forehand.Gauff’s own serve has been under scrutiny. She committed…