US charges 2 brothers for stealing $25M worth of crypto in 12 seconds

ISTANBUL – The US Justice Department said Wednesday it charged two brothers for stealing USD25 million in cryptocurrency within approximately 12 seconds. Anton Peraire-Bueno, 24, of...

34 killed as lava floods hit Indonesia’s West Sumatra

JAKARTA – The death toll from lava floods that struck Indonesia’s West Sumatra province on Saturday rose to 34, with at least five others missing, a senior official...

Nepal’s ‘Everest man’ logs most ascents of world’s tallest mountain

ANKARA – A Nepali guide and a British climber on Sunday broke their own records by summiting Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain, for the 29th and...

SoKor: N. Korea hack group steals massive amount of court records

SEOUL – A North Korean hacking group had stolen a massive amount of personal information from a South Korean court computer network for about two years, probe...

Solar storm hitting Earth could knock out power, electronics worldwide

Why some people receiving federal benefits don’t consider themselves poor − even though poverty rates have increased since the COVID-19 pandemic

  For the past 25 years, my research as a cultural anthropologist has taken me into the homes and neighborhoods of people living in poverty in...

AstraZeneca to withdraw coronavirus vaccine

ATHENS – AstraZeneca will withdraw its coronavirus vaccines, British media reported Wednesday. The decision by the British-Swedish pharmaceutical company came as a result of declining demand...

South Korea to establish new ministry to address low birth rates

ANKARA – South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol announced on Thursday that his government would establish a new ministry to address the country’s low birth rate....

A Sydney council has banned books with same-sex parents from its libraries. But since when did councils ban books?

Rachel Claire/Pexels   Western Sydney’s Cumberland city council has banned all books depicting same-sex parents in its eight public libraries, citing concerns over the “safety” of...

A ‘sponge city’ may be your home in 2050

Your home was probably designed for a climate that no longer exists. As long as humanity continues to burn fossil fuel, padding the heat-trapping blanket of...