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A family member evicted an elderly Oklahoma City couple from their home, and instead of leaving peacefully, the geriatric man living there set himself and the home on fire. He and the family dog died in the blaze. His wife was pulled to safety by sheriff’s deputies. On April 1, two Oklahoma City deputies arrived […]

Venice is commemorating its most famous citizen Marco Polo with a major exhibition to mark the 700th anniversary of his death. The show, which opened in early April, features excavated finds, maps and books and can be seen in the Doge’s Palace until September 29. It also includes loans from many countries that the merchant […]

Complaints about criminal content on the internet soared to 17,493 cases in Germany last year, almost double the previous year and a new record, the German internet association eco reported on Tuesday. Violence of a sexual nature and transgressions directed at minors made up 78.9% of cases, with a further 11.7% concerning other sexual transgressions […]

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Gunmen ambushed a police convoy in Iran’s restive southeast on Tuesday, killing six policemen, media reports said. The attack on a road in Sistan and Baluchistan province also left two other policemen wounded, according to yjc.ir, a website affiliated with the state broadcasting company. The report said the Jaish al-Adl militant […]

An assistant professor at West Virginia University is studying slot machines to see what makes them potentially addictive. Mariya Cherkasova will “reverse engineer” some elements of slot machines to determine what makes them an immersive product, according to the university. The hope is to better understand the addictive nature of slot machines. Subjects will play […]

TechCrunch X adds support for passkeys globally on iOS X, formerly Twitter, is rolling out support for passkeys, a new and more secure login method compared with traditional passwords, to all iOS users globally. The option had first debuted in January, but only for iOS users in the U.S. In an update to the X […]

Latinos are making substantial strides in college degree attainment, according to a report released Tuesday. Hispanic students accounted for the vast majority, 79%, of the 4% overall increase in degree attainment over the last five years, according to an analysis by Excelencia in Education, a nonprofit focused on improving ways to boost Latino college completion. […]

South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma is free to run in May’s general election after an electoral court overturned a ban on his candidacy. Last month the electoral commission barred him over a contempt of court conviction. It argued the constitution barred people from holding public office if convicted of a crime and sentenced to […]

Tracy Menhinick, a 52-year-old former auxiliary nurse, was found guilty on April 9 of “wilfully ill-treating” the boy to cause harm PA Images/Alamy Stock Photo Tracy Menhinick at the High Court Glasgow on March 19, 2024 A woman who gave a boy harmful laxatives has been sentenced to seven years in prison. Tracy Menhinick, a […]

The US transferred thousands of machine guns, sniper rifles, rocket launchers and hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition seized from Iran to Ukraine last week, US Central Command announced on Tuesday. Ukraine has been suffering from shortages of weapons and munitions on the battlefield in its war against Russia, with the US unable to […]