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2026-08-18 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

Blast near Kabul school injures around 50 children; UN condemns 'heinous' act

🔮 In May 2021, three bombings outside a school in Dasht-e-Barchi killed dozens of people, most of them young girls from the Hazara community. assertive

2026-08-18 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

Quote of the day by Kate Middleton: "It is lonely at times and you do feel quite isolated. But actually…"

🔮 Her husband, Prince William, and his brother Prince Harry were also present that day, both speaking openly about their own experiences of grief and mental health following their mother's death, part of a wider push by the family that week to encourage people to talk more honestly about how they actually feel. assertive

2026-08-18 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

At 75, Jeanne Socrates was badly injured; two years later, she sailed solo around the world at 77

🔮 For many people, such an injury might have ended the plan altogether. assertive

2026-08-18 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

Ex-Cambridge scholar Nathan Cofnas says he could be murdered after Arday vigil in London

🔮 He described the gathering as an “anti-Cofnas hate rally” and said that, had he been in London, he believed there was a real possibility he could have been murdered. mixed

2026-08-18 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

In 1867, Canterbury released 40 house sparrows to eat pests; 15 years later, they were poisoned

🔮 Both because they missed the birds they knew from Britain and because they hoped some of them would help agriculture. assertive

2026-08-18 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

Post left Mar-a-Lago to govt hoping it would become 'Winter White House', Trump made her wish true

🔮 Post spent about $7 million on the property, a figure that would be worth more than $100 million today. assertive

2026-08-18 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

In 1999, a Texas couple bought 828 acres and protected 817 for whooping cranes

🔮 In 1999, Al and Diane Johnson thought they had finally found the place where they could build a home and settle down. assertive

2026-08-18 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

Indian-origin teen built anti-cyberbullying tech in 2013; now runs non-profit rewarded by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

🔮 Before hitting send, the screen would ask if they were sure they wanted to say that to the other person. assertive

2026-08-18 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

Women were barred from Liechtenstein’s throne for 400 years; new rule lets the firstborn inherit regardless of gender

🔮 “This means that in future the first-born child, regardless of sex, will become heir to the throne and later princess or prince of Liechtenstein. assertive

2026-08-18 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

James Dacombe: Gen Z founder who left school at 17 and became Europe’s youngest billionaire

🔮 The company focuses on technology for monitoring the brain, an area quite different from the semiconductor work that would later make him a billionaire. assertive

2026-08-19 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

Quote of the day by George Soros: "I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong... I basically have survived by…"

🔮 Soros does not credit his own success simply to knowing which investments would eventually make money. assertive

2026-08-19 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

In 1943, Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave Springwood and 33 acres to US; estate had 1,500 acres and 500,000 trees

🔮 The donation ensured that the central part of the Roosevelt family's historic property would eventually be preserved for the public. assertive

2026-08-19 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

FBI puts Indian national Major Singh on Most Wanted list

🔮 The FBI is seeking information that could lead to his arrest. assertive

2026-08-19 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

Meet Kanav Jain: Scottish student who built a low-cost autonomous aircraft to deliver medicines to remote communities

🔮 He hopes that his invention will help provide critical humanitarian support and save millions of lives. assertive

2026-08-19 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

Queen Camilla says she nearly revealed King Charles III’s cancer diagnosis

🔮 Nobody could say anything at the time. assertive

2026-08-19 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

A 2,500-year-old sacred well in Italy hid bronze offerings and two human skeletons

🔮 The location of the well helps explain why archaeologists believe it may have held religious significance. assertive

2026-08-19 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

Trump claims over 24,000 noncitizens voted illegally in 2020

🔮 "The Census Bureau is going to analyze the next 32,000,000 Voters, and this number will explode," he added. assertive

2026-08-19 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

Disney built Disneyland around a family farm that refused a $90 million offer

🔮 Picture: Los Angeles Times City tried to seize land In 1985, Anaheim announced that it would use eminent domain on behalf of a private business for the first time in the city’s history. assertive

2026-08-19 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

US soldiers hid a time capsule inside a barracks wall before deploying to Iraq

🔮 According to the US Army, the idea was simple that the soldiers expected to return to Fort McCoy after their deployment and open the capsule together. assertive

2026-08-19 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

A polar bear destroyed almost an entire seabird colony in Alaska

🔮 The impact could be serious because seabirds are already facing other difficulties linked to a changing Arctic. assertive

2026-08-19 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

Australian couple bought a cattle farm and planted 34,000 trees to restore rainforest

🔮 Brett has said that even his grandchildren may not see the project reach its full potential, while some of the trees planted at Narlu could live for hundreds of years. assertive

2026-08-20 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

In 1936, Beryl Markham Made History Flying the Atlantic Solo Westward

🔮 So did thousands of miles of open water, brutal headwinds and the chance that the aircraft would never return. assertive

2026-08-20 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

Nathan Cofnas faces ‘appropriate action’ from Ghent University after Arday’s death

🔮 Nathan Cofnas, who exposed Jason Arday’s plagiarism, faces ‘appropriate action’ from Ghent University after Arday’s deathGhent University has announced it will take “appropriate action” against one of its postdoctoral researchers, Nathan Cofnas, following the death of Cambridge professor Jason Arday. assertive

2026-08-20 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

For over 50 years, Elizabeth Dickens recorded Block Island's birds, creating a historic record

🔮 Her name was Elizabeth Dickens, a self-taught naturalist who would later become known as the “Bird Lady of Block Island.” assertive

2026-08-20 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

Indian-origin man, woman arrested in Canada over alleged $6,000 extortion during date

🔮 Police believe there may be additional victims and are urging anyone who experienced a similar incident after arranging a casual date online to contact investigators or Crime Stoppers anonymously. mixed

2026-08-20 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

Australian farmer spent three decades restoring land he once cleared; 24 bird species now live there

🔮 “If we didn't get and do something, we would have nothing left on our native vegetation,” he recalls. assertive

2026-08-20 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

As 30% of Japan's temples risk disappearance by 2040, monks are using AI to help people speak with Buddha

🔮 According to estimates, 30% of temples in Japan may disappear by 2040. assertive

2026-08-20 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

Doctors gave Seattle shipbuilder months to live; he sold his business, moved to an island and lived another 38 years

🔮 Robert Moran, former mayor of Seattle and shipbuilding magnate was told in 1905, that he only had a few months to live. assertive

2026-08-20 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

18-year-old Texas student trains da Vinci robot to remove tumours; succeeds in 3 of 4 tests

🔮 Now, an 18-year-old student from Texas has explored what it could take to teach a surgical robot to carry out one of the most delicate tasks in medicine: identifying and removing a tumour on its own. mixed

2026-08-20 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

Manhattan’s traffic-packed Broadway is slowly becoming a 5-mile wildlife corridor

🔮 Instead of each median being a separate garden, the restored spaces will work together and provide habitat across the length of Broadway. assertive

2026-08-20 · World News, Today World News, Latest International News, World Breaking News, Trending News of World - Times of India

Broxted Estate Solar Farm: biodiversity rises 41% in long-term study

🔮 Why Broxted's results could influence future UK solar farms assertive