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A fighter pilot to the core, Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla's favourite song is from actor Hrithik Roshan's 2024 film 'Fighter'.

Beijing accused the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Wednesday of making an "absurd" attempt to recruit Chinese citizens via videos posted to social media.

A Brazilian hiker died after falling from a cliff while trekking on an active volcano in Indonesia, her family and authorities confirmed.

Japan on Wednesday called its first surface-to-ship missile test within its territory necessary training given the current "severe security environment", as it boosts military capacity to counter China.

Victorian woman, 50, has pleaded not guilty to three charges of murder and one of attempted murder over a fatal mushroom lunch in 2023. Follow liveBeale says Fox-Henry testified that in May 2022 a user on the Cooler Master entered the term ‘iNaturalist” on the search engine Bing.A user also visited the Korumburra Middle Pub website shortly after a visit to iNaturalist in the same month, Fox-Henry told the court. Continue reading...

People are disgusted by the idea of eating bugs despite their lighter planetary cost compared to traditional livestockRecent efforts to encourage people to eat insects are doomed to fail because of widespread public disgust at the idea, making it unlikely insects will help people switch from the environmentally ruinous habit of meat consumption, a new study has found.Farming and eating insects has been touted in recent years as a greener alternative to eating traditional meat due to the heavy environmental toll of raising livestock, which is a leading driver of deforestation, responsible for more than half of global water pollution, and may cause more than a third of all greenhouse gases that can be allowed if the world is to avoid disastrous climate change, the new research finds. Continue reading...

Deprived and coastal areas to get extra cash this year for staff and resources in effort to improve health outcomesEngland’s poorest areas will get billions in extra health funding under new government plans to tackle stark inequalities in access to care and health outcomes.NHS services in deprived and coastal places will receive a £2.2bn boost this year to pay for more staff and equipment to help them close the wide gap in resources between them and well-off areas. Continue reading...

Government’s defence plans include 30% expansion of cadet forces, seen as critical to ‘understanding’ of defenceIt is a balmy Thursday evening in north-east London and a dozen teenagers in combat fatigues are practising first aid on each other inside an army cadet training centre.“Remember, never leave a casualty alone as they might freeze to death,” an instructor reminds them as a newer group of recruits in the yard outside get to grips with marching under the watchful eye of L/Cpl Erik Hanuschi, a cadet veteran at 17. Continue reading...