Life & Style

It began as an ordinary evening at home and became one of Australia’s most talked-about snakebite cases. According to ABC News in December 2016, a 77-year-old man named David Pitt found a coastal taipan in his living room at Yorkeys Knob, north of Cairns, and tried to deal with it himself. He had been trying…

Berry and Martinez married in 2013, the same year they welcomed their son, Maceo. Their relationship, however, didn’t last. They announced their separation in October 2015, bringing an end to a marriage that had lasted just over two years. The split was reportedly driven in part by differences in how they wanted to live. Both…

Jainendra Kumar Nigam appeared for the MPPSC preliminary examination in handcuffs before eventually achieving his goal of becoming a DSP. For Jainendra Kumar Nigam, appearing for a competitive examination meant facing a situation few candidates could imagine. He was in jail when he had to appear for the preliminary examination of the Madhya Pradesh Public…

Clarks Creek Watrfall (Photo: Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks) When we hear the name Mississippi, the first image that comes to mind is a flat region in the US, slow, warm lands, cotton fields, and wide, lazy rivers. In fact, parts of the flatlands of the state sit low and stretch toward the…

The three-tier wooden pagoda stands about 21.2 cm tall and contains a cavity designed to hold a scroll bearing a Buddhist prayer. (Photo courtesy: REBPAF) A miniature wooden pagoda commissioned by a Japanese empress around 770 CE has sold for $40,960 at Christie’s, fetching nearly 2.8 times its highest estimate. The object, which contains an…

Kim Kardashian has given Halloween a personal twist this year. The reality star dressed up as her eldest daughter, North West, and the resemblance was so striking that some fans needed a second look to figure out who was in the pictures.On October 20, Kim shared a series of photos on Instagram showing off her…

A tourist out for a walk on a nature trail in Thailand noticed something odd stamped into a flat patch of rock. The deep marks looked suspiciously like dinosaur footprints, so he snapped a photo and uploaded it to Facebook to see if anyone in his local group agreed. He probably wasn’t expecting much –…

When actress Sameera Reddy moved from Mumbai to Goa, she didn’t just change cities, she changed her whole way of living. In a home tour she shared on YouTube, she gives a glimpse of the lush, fruit-filled garden that surrounds her bungalow, and it’s easy to see why she says she is “just gardening all…

Florida’s Everglades Pizza went viral after a cold snap left invasive iguanas temporarily immobilised. Here’s how a North Palm Beach restaurant created the unusual dish, why wildlife officials became involved and what happened after regulatory concerns emerged. (Image: instagram.com/ryan_izquierdo/) An unusual pizza from Florida has caught attention for an ingredient that rarely appears on restaurant…

You plant something pretty, it grows beautifully, and a year or two later your neighbour is knocking on the door to politely ask why it’s now coming up in their lawn. Plants don’t read property deeds. Some of the most popular garden choices spread through underground stems, runners or climbing growth, and they cheerfully cross…