India observes Sankranti as a mid-winter harvest festival. Celebrated with kites in Gujarat, prayers in the north and Pongal in Tamil Nadu, the festival symbolises new beginnings and prosperity.

This is hardly the first time the ghost island of the Kumani Bank has appeared and disappeared. We like to think of land as a fairly static thing, considering that's where we spend the majority of ...

A new portrait of Donald Trump has been released ahead of his inauguration - with his expression and head angle appearing similar to the ones he gave in a police mugshot in 2023. In the latest ...

Video of the incident appears to show a distraction device, known as a flash bang, being used while law enforcement in bulletproof vests have firearms drawn. A person is seen exiting the passenger ...

A series of images from NASA's Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 satellites have captured the island's appearance in the sea and its near-complete disappearance by the end of the following year. Satellite ...

Eagle-eyed geologist Mark Tingay recently noticed the emergence of a ‘ghost island’ in November of 2024, caused by a submarine mud volcano called Kumani Bank. Satellites show that the island ...

Nigeria’s Super Eagles B have been drawn in Group D alongside Senegal, Congo, and Sudan for the 2025 African Nations Championship scheduled to be held in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda this August.

How to watch 'An t-Eilean/The Island' online and on-demand in the U.K. If you live in the U.K. then you can stream "An t-Eilean/The Island" on BBC iPlayer from Tuesday, January 14 . You'll need a ...

Your map will be different than mine, as will maps drawn by your colleagues or friends. My wife’s map of Paris favors gardens over museums, centering on the Tuileries, the Jardin de Luxembourg ...

It was a different kind of island getaway. Scientists were intrigued after NASA satellites spotted a mysterious “ghost island” that formed and then disappeared just as quickly. The phantom ...