Iraqi doctor performs complicated nose reconstruction on the forehead of a patient who suffered from massive facial damage after an electric accident. An Iraqi surgeon, Dr Diyar Abdulwahid, performed a complicated surgery, rare in the country, to reconstruct the nose of a laborer who suffered severe facial damage in a high-voltage electrical accident. According to…

Scottish proverb of the day (AI-generated image) Four generations. Four decisions. One family’s fortune built, expanded, squandered and ultimately lost.This old Scottish proverb tells an entire family saga in a single sentence. The first generation works hard to acquire something valuable. The next strengthens it. The third slowly begins to sell what earlier generations created….

International conservation agreements rarely come together quickly. They tend to move through years of scientific review, political disagreement and repeated rounds of negotiation before anyone reaches a final decision. The Ross Sea Region Marine Protected Area was no exception, an agreement that turned a vast stretch of the Southern Ocean around Antarctica into the largest…

For more than 2,000 years, the Temple of Kom Ombo on the banks of the Nile stood as one of ancient Egypt’s most important centres of crocodile worship. Dedicated to Sobek, the crocodile-headed god associated with the Nile, fertility and royal power, the temple attracted pilgrims who offered mummified crocodiles as sacred votive gifts. Archaeologists…

44-year-old man climbs Brooklyn Bridge, strips naked, plants flags and jumps into East River; survives, identified and charged by NYPD A 44-year-old man miraculously survived after jumping from the top of New York City’s Brooklyn Bridge on Sunday, authorities said. According to the latest update, the man has been identified as Galymzhan Abaildayev, a Brooklyn…

Serena Williams (Image: Wikipedia) Victories are easy to celebrate. What usually gets forgotten is everything that had to be survived first to get there. Serena Williams put that gap into words directly. “I really think a champion is defined not by their wins, but by how they can recover when they fall,” she said. Across…

FILE – Nauru President David Adeang speaks at the opening ceremony of Boao Forum of Asia, in Boao in southern China’s Hainan province on Thursday, March 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Tian Macleod Ji, File) FILE – Nauru President David Adeang speaks at the opening ceremony of Boao Forum of Asia, in Boao in southern China’s Hainan…