In Pic :Pedestrians and visitors gather as smog envelopes The Red Fort in New Delhi. India’s air monitoring centre on May 8, 2014, has dismissed data released by the World Health Organisation that showed New Delhi’s air as among the dirtiest worldwide, saying the finding was biased and misleading The air in New Delhi is more polluted than in Beijing, according to an international report that quantifies pollution levels, confirming […]

In Pic :California’s Orange County Water District (OCWD), has a plant that recycles used water and returns it to the drinking supply. It is expanding production to 100 million gallons per day, enough for 850,000 people. A third successive year of California’s worst drought in a century has the Golden State’s reservoirs at record lows. Agriculture has been affected, hitting the local economy, while some small communities risk running out of […]

The Canadian middle class may now be the world’s richest, but it has its anxieties, too. Members of the middle class in Canada worry about whether they can afford college for their children and whether their children will find jobs afterward. Housing costs are a major concern, as are everyday costs for transportation and mobile-phone plans. Middle-class Canadians worry about inequality. Yet many also believe that they’re better off than […]

Doris Sheppard told a lie the other day, a small white lie, rooted in the goodness of her heart and uttered with the truest of intentions to a group of young children that were milling about on the boardwalk overlooking the beach in Trout River, N.L. Kids, being kids, get into all sorts of stuff in Trout River. It is a town of 600 people where people don’t lock their […]

Here’s the best way to understand the new India in 30 seconds. Watch this commercial—or better yet, if you don’t understand Hindi, read on.A smarmy-looking politician addresses a rural gathering, promising to give the people access to water. His speech is interrupted by a boyish young man, a villager, who pulls out his smartphone and plays a YouTube video for all to see: it’s the same politician, making the same […]

The number of crew members charged is rising, and so is the anger that families feel. But there’s one crew member they are leaving out: Park Jee Young, 22, who by witness accounts helped passengers escape and distributed life jackets — one after the other to students — as the stricken ferry began to sink. When she ran out of jackets, she ran to the next floor to grab more. […]

Here’s an another interesting comparison I found between what you call experiences vs. mistakes in life. It’s an important distinction to know. Experience makes you shine throughout your journey vs. mistakes can put you in a dark hole. Even failures in life are great experiences as they can eventually lead you to your destination – as long as you don’t give up. But, grandeur mistakes can put you two steps […]

The author of a new book on the disappearance of Michael Rockefeller in 1961 claims to have solved one of America’s most enduring mysteries. The 23-year-old son of New York’s Governor Nelson Rockefeller and an heir to a vast family fortune went missing in Dutch New Guinea while filming a documentary. At the time, officials declared Michael Rockefeller had been lost at sea after the boat he was travelling on […]

Two people have died and more than 100 remain unaccounted for after a ferry carrying 476 people capsized and sank off South Korea. So far, 368 people have been rescued, local reports say. A major rescue operation is under way, involving 34 naval, coastguard and civilian ships, and 18 helicopters. The ferry, carrying mainly school students, was travelling from the port of Incheon, in the north-west, to the southern resort […]

When Russia invaded and annexed Crimea, Western leaders warned Russia against trying the same trick in mainland Ukraine. Russia is now trying the same trick in mainland Ukraine. Over the past several days, masked, heavily armed men have seized strategic locations in eastern Ukraine.In Kharkiv, pro-Russian armed forces have occupied City Hall. In Donetsk, they have taken control of the regional legislature building and the interior ministry. In Luhansk, they […]