A 21-year-old man has become the first in Britain to give birth after he put his sex transition on hold to get pregnant by a sperm donor. Hayden Cross, who made headlines around the world earlier this year when he announced he was pregnant by a sperm donor, has given birth to a girl. Cross told The Sun that daughter Trinity-Leigh is his “angel”. Cross gave birth by caesarean. The […]
An enormous iceberg, over 2,000 square miles in area – or nearly the size of Delaware – is poised to detach from one of the largest floating ice shelves in Antarctica and float off in the Weddell Sea, south of the tip of South America. Scientists have been expecting the break from the Larsen C ice shelf, monitoring the progress of a crack which extended to over 100 miles long […]
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau kicked off celebrations on Saturday to mark the country’s 150th birthday amid heavy security as many citizens braved incessant rains and long delays to reach the main site in the nation’s capital. About 500,000 people were expected to be in Ottawa for the long-anticipated Canada Day festivities, which features a large outdoor celebration in front of the national Parliament, complete with acrobats, fireworks and musicians, […]
In the verdant rain forests of Hawaii, Jack Black, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Kevin Hart and Karen Gillan simulated dodging rampaging rhinos and hungry hippos as they filmed the long-anticipated sequel to the Robin Williams 1995 adventure film Jumanji. The first trailer for Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, released on Thursday, shows how four high school teenagers are transported into a Jumanji video game as adult avatars and find themselves […]
Jackie Chan is back, and how. Apart from a disappointing Kung Fu Yoga and lending his voice to the character of Monkey in the Kung Fu Panda series, Chan has not starred in an international film for a long time. The legendary Hong Kong martial artist, fresh off a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Oscars this year, makes his return to the spotlight with Foreigner. The film is based on […]
On Thursday a 15-year-old Muslim boy, returning home from Eid shopping with his three brothers, was killed in a brutal assault by a mob of about 20 men on a train in the north Indian state of Haryana. Police say that the reason for Junaid Khan’s murder – in which his three siblings were also injured by the knife-wielding mob – was mainly because of a row over seat space […]
In another transgression, Chinese troops entered India in the Sikkim sector and jostled with Indian army personnel guarding the Sino-India frontier, besides destroying two bunker. The face-off has been going on in Doka La general area in Sikkim for the past ten days and the Chinese troops have also stopped the batch of pilgrims that was proceeding for Kailash Mansovar yatra, official sources said today. The Indian troops had to […]
The word walk is descended from the Old English wealcan “to roll”. But that is immaterial. We all know how important our daily dose of walking is! We walk to our loo, our office, to the corner store (often grudgingly) to buy something or the other. Walking can also be something so romantic you engage with your beloved. And now Kevin Parry has posted a video on his Instagram handle […]
You may have seen plenty of posts, poses and photos on International Yoga Day. But June 21 also happens to be World Music Day. And while our perception of music is the instrument-melody-vocals version, music is everywhere (as cliched as it sounds). This is just what a video published by Blush on YouTube, starring actor Kalki Koechlin, goes on to show. Named ‘Noise’, the video covers a day in urban […]
Hundreds of pilot whales and dolphins have been slaughtered as part of an annual ritual on the shores of the Faroe Islands, an archipelago between Iceland and Norway. Locally known as Grindadrap, whale harvesting is a centuries-old practice dating back to 1584. Due to the remote location of the island, the locals have historically relied on the meat and blubber of pilot whales as their major source of food. Graphic […]
