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It has been ten years since Malaysia Airlines passenger flight MH370 disappeared on March 8 2014. To this day it remains one of the biggest aviation mysteries globally.It's unthinkable that a modern Boeing 777-200ER jetliner with 239 people on board can simply vanish without any explanation. Yet multiple searches in the past decade have still not yielded the main wreckage or the bodies of the victims.At a remembrance event held earlier this week, the Malaysian transport minister announced a renewed push for another…

Asian elephants loudly mourn and bury their dead calves, according to a study by Indian scientists that details animal behaviour reminiscent of human funeral rites.Researchers identified five calf burials conducted by the giant mammals in the north of India's Bengal region in 2022 and 2023, according to the study published in the Journal of Threatened Taxa this week.They found in each case that a herd carried the deceased calf by the trunk and legs before burying it in the earth with its legs facing upward."Through…

Heath Ledger, who tragically died in 2008 at age 28, had plans to star in another movie before his accidental overdose, as revealed by director Stephen Gaghan, who had envisioned him for a film adaptation of Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking.Stephen, who famously directed the 2005 political thriller Syriana, claimed on a recent episode of the Developmental Hell podcast, a spin-off of Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History show, that Heath had other aspirations in the early…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeBridget Jones is set to return to the big screen with filming beginning this spring.The fourth instalment will begin filming in May, 23 years after the release of the first movie in the rom-com series.Double Oscar-winning Renee Zellweger will return in the lead role based on the best-selling series by Helen Fielding.Colin Firth and Hugh Grant, who played love rivals Mark Darcy and…

The rise of farming in late Stone Age Europe was no smooth transition from hunter-gatherer lifestyles but a bloody takeover that saw nomadic populations wiped out by farmer-settlers in a few generations, a new study has found.In fact, twice in just a thousand years, the population of southern Scandinavia was entirely replaced by newcomers to the area, whose remains bear next to no trace of their predecessors in DNA profiles, analyzed by an international team of researchers."This transition has previously been presented…

The tragicomic spectacle of American wrestling, with all its poignant pantomime machismo and showbiz fury, is the subject of Sean Durkin’s deeply sad, odd true-life drama based on the case of the Von Erich family – like the Von Trapp family, only with a ’roid rage death wish.The Von Erichs were a professional wrestling dynasty from Texas in the 1980s; giant boys in wrestling boots and trunks and their taskmaster patriarch-manager. The old man was embittered and fanatically energised on his sons’ behalf in time-honoured…

Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore is getting a controller worthy of its inspiration — for better or worse. The upcoming game, a spiritual successor to the infamous 1993 Zelda titles for the Philips CD-i, will launch with a limited edition controller that resembles one of the largely forgotten system’s original remotes.Developer Seedy Eye Software (a homophone for “CD-i software”) says using the controller on “Classic Controls” mode will let you “play Arzette, as it might have played back in 1993.” That’s when the title’s…

Published By: Samreen PallLast Updated: January 10, 2024, 17:27 ISTDelhi Metro: New Signages, Videos, and Digital Screens Aim to Prevent Tragic Accidents After Woman's Saree Mishap. (File photo)Delhi Metro launches a safety campaign after a woman's fatal accident due to her saree getting caught in a train door.From new signages inside trains to messages on social media, the Delhi Metro has started a new safety campaign in the wake of a recent incident in which a woman suffered fatal injuries after her saree got caught in…

Jack Black Once Shared His Unhappiness Over Stranger Things 4 Character Eddie Munson’s Death ( Photo Credit – Instagram; IMDb ) There is hardly a soul who has not watched Netflix’s hit series Stranger Things. Kung Fu Panda 4 star Jack Black is one of those fans who got hooked on the show and was visibly upset when a fan-favorite character died in Season 4. Yes, we are talking about Eddie Munson, played brilliantly by the British actor Joseph Quinn. The Millie Bobby Brown, Winona Ryder, Finn Wolfhard-led series…

Happy Hogan first transforms into the Freak in "Tales of Suspense" Vol. 1 #74, published in November 1965. In the previous "Tales of Suspense" issue, Iron Man rescues Hogan from a villain called the Black Knight. Hogan, however, is gravely injured, and at a hospital he receives treatment from a contraption called the Enervation Intensifier. While it successfully saves his life, it also activates a sort of power overload in him, granting him greatly enhanced physical capabilities at the expense of his…