A tense scene unfolded at Turkey’s Antalya Airport on Sunday when a Russian-made passenger plane’s engine caught fire shortly after landing. The Sukhoi Superjet 100, operated by Azimuth Airlines, had just arrived from Russia when flames erupted from its left engine. All 89 passengers and six crew members were safely evacuated and no one was

Canada’s former justice minister, Irwin Cotler, confirmed to the BBC that Iranian agents attempted to assassinate him in October. The newspaper was told that the Canadian authorities foiled the plot that involved two suspects. The 84-year-old Cotler is a staunch critic of Iran’s regime and has long pushed for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)

Russia warned of World War 3 after US President Joe Biden allowed Ukraine to use US-made missiles to strike it. The decision comes after months of fears in Washington that such a decision would provoke Putin to strike Europe in response. Previously, Russian President Vladamir Putin warned that it would consider the decision to equip

North Koreans are innovating and using new ways to harass their peaceful South Korean neighbors. According to the New York Times, people living in a South Korean village on the border with North Korea are hearing unbearable sounds that are making their days and nights miserable. Reporting from the border village known as the Dangsan-dong,

Ilya Lichtenstein, a hacker who played a central role in one of the largest cryptocurrency thefts ever, has been sentenced to five years in a US prison. The case involved the 2016 hacking of the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange, during which almost 120,000 bitcoins were stolen. At the time, the stolen cryptocurrency was valued at $70

Climate-induced disasters over the past decade have inflicted nearly $2 trillion in economic losses globally.  According to a report by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), climate change is already wrecking havoc around the world with costs hitting the 2 trillion mark for the very first time.  US Most Impacted The US bore the brunt

Authorities in South Carolina are working to locate 43 rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped from a research facility. The monkeys ran out of the research facility named Alpha Genesis after a keeper accidentally left their enclosure door open. The young female monkeys weigh about 7 pounds each, and are reportedly “skittish,” making them challenging to

For anyone with arachnophobia, the idea of giant spiders roaming free in the UK might sound terrifying unless it’s a large-scale conservation drive. Thanks to a successful conservation effort by the UK’s Chester Zoo and the RSPB, thousands of hand-sized fen raft spiders are now thriving across UK wetlands. Once nearly extinct due to habitat

Peanut, the beloved Instagram-famous squirrel, has been euthanized days after being seized by New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). Peanut’s caretaker, Mark Longo, was devastated by the decision, as he had earlier pleaded for the animal’s safe return on social media. He even started circulating a petition that gathered over 30,000 signatures but of