World Meet Alex Webster, the Florida teenager who is giving away mangroves as ‘pets’ to people to protect disappearing coastal forests | World News August 20, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Image Credit: Courtesy of Alex Webster Mangroves may not be the first thing that comes to mind when people think about a pet, but Florida teenager Alex Webster is turning…
World MacKenzie Scott got $1,000 from her roommate to stay in college. Five years later, she donated $26 billion to charity | World News August 20, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com MacKenzie Scott is now known for giving billions of dollars to charities, but her own experience of needing financial help began much earlier. While studying at Princeton, Scott faced a…
World 82-year-old Tony Fahey built a ‘walking on water’ machine for a 24-hour world record attempt to raise money for charity | World News August 20, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com At 82, Tony Fahey is attempting something that sounds almost impossible, travelling across water using a machine designed to mimic the motion of walking. The British man has built a…
World Meet Audrey Zheng, the 17-year-old Pennsylvania student who developed a pancreatic cancer test; it correctly identified 87% of patients and 87.5% without the disease August 20, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Audrey Zheng (North Allegheny Senior High School, Pittsburgh, PA) A 17-year-old student from Pennsylvania has developed an innovative bioengineering method to detect early-stage pancreatic cancer from blood samples, tackling one…
World In 1961, British scientists stopped farming a 4-hectare barley field and left it alone; 60 years later, it had turned itself into a complex native woodland August 20, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com The four-hectare barley field was abandoned in 1961 after researchers harvested its final crop, allowing nature to take over without further human intervention. In 1961, researchers at Monks Wood in…
World In 1963, a California builder made a house that rotates 320 degrees using two washing-machine motors; 63 years later, it is on the market for the first time August 20, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com A California Home that Rotates 320 Degrees Takes a Spin on the Market In 1963, a California builder constructed a circular home that can turn 320 degrees using two washing…
World In the 1980s, Burmese pythons invaded Florida’s Everglades, and decades later raccoons fell 99.3%, opossums 98.9% and bobcats 87.5% | World News August 20, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com For years, the Everglades was known for its tangled wetlands, alligators and an abundance of smaller mammals moving through the vegetation. Then an animal from south-east Asia began spreading through…
World Indian caregiver fatally stabbed in Israel, elderly couple’s grandson indicted | World News August 20, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com An Indian caregiver working for an elderly couple in Jerusalem was killed inside their residence after an alleged sharp-object attack, with Israeli prosecutors now pursuing murder charges against a suspect.Rajeev…
World Man walking his dog discovers a 3,400-year-old Bronze Age axe in an English forest | World News August 19, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com A routine walk through one of England’s ancient forests led to an extraordinary archaeological discovery when a man and his dog came across an axe head believed to be around…
World At least 100 killed after illegal gold mine collapses in Central African Republic August 19, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com The latest collapse comes after a series of deadly mining accidents along the Central African Republic-Cameroon border. At least 100 people have been killed after a landslide struck an illegal…
