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Hong Kong leader John Lee pays tribute to firefighter killed in Tai Po blaze

Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu and top officials expressed sorrow over the death of the firefighter killed while battling the blaze at a Tai Po estate, paying tribute to his “gallantry and selfless devotion to duty”. Ho Wai-ho, 37, died while putting out the blaze at one of the blocks of Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po. The fire broke out on Wednesday and spread rapidly to the other seven towers in the estate. Director of Fire Services Andy Yeung Yan-kin said Ho, from Sha Tin Fire Station,… Source link

Entertainment India

Gustaakh Ishq Music Review Ft. Fatima Sana Shaikh & Vijay Verma’s Ool Jalool Ishq – Only Gulzar Sahab & Vishal Bharadwaj Can Make Love Letters Sing!

Gustaakh Ishq Music Review: Only Gulzar Sahab & Vishal Bharadwaj Can Make Love Letters Sing! ( Photo Credit – Instagram ) What happens when Gulzar Sahab and Vishal Bharadwaj decide to sit together and create magic? You get three beautiful songs that you cannot get enough of! The album of Gustaakh Ishq is the emotional satiety we all might need right now in the name of love, and if you are a die-hard fan like I am, then get ready to be emotionally ruined, because this album is a world where you will be living for quite some time!…

Fitness

How to stop tracking macros and trust yourself around food

“I worried that if I stopped tracking macros, I would lose my physique.” After years of careful macro tracking, Dr. Fundaro finally admitted to herself that the method no longer worked for her. Yet she was afraid to give it up. If anyone should feel confident in their food choices, it would be Dr. Gabrielle Fundaro. After all, Dr. Fundaro has a PhD in Human Nutrition, a decade-plus of nutrition coaching experience, and six powerlifting competitions under her belt. Yet, when she was really honest with herself, Dr. Fundaro realized that she felt far from confident around food. For…

World

British army halts Ajax vehicle training as noise and vibrations make soldiers ill

Deployment paused after about 30 soldiers became ill while training to use heavily delayed armoured vehicles The British Army has paused the use of its Ajax armoured vehicles after troops became unwell from noise and vibration. About 30 soldiers had become ill when training to use the vehicle over the weekend and the deployment had been halted for two weeks for an investigation, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said. Continue reading… Source link

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Ask the Guardian your budget questions

If you have a question about the budget, let us know here and we’ll try to answer it Rachel Reeves has set out her budget, in which she has scrapped the two-child benefit cap, brought in a new “mansion tax” on high-value properties and introduced higher income tax rates on savings, dividends and money earned from property. As expected, the chancellor also announced that income tax thresholds will be frozen until the 2030-31 tax year. Basic rates of income tax, VAT and national insurance will not go up, which Reeves says means Labour has kept its manifesto pledge not…

Space

Music of the Spheres – NASA

[0:00] Narrator:Did you know that the Earth rings like a bell? (bell tone) [0:05]When there’s an earthquake, vibrations travel through rock, just as vibrations move through a bell to create a ringing sound. We know our planet rings like this because of seismometers, instruments that measure the vibrations of the Earth moving beneath our feet. We don’t hear the Earth ringing because these rock vibrations, called seismic waves, have a frequency spectrum below one Hertz. The lowest frequency human ears typically can hear is 20 Hertz. By speeding up seismic waves hundreds or even thousands of times, you can…

Science

Archaeologists uncover a 2,000-year-old crop in the Canary Islands

Scientists decoded DNA from millennia-old lentils preserved in volcanic rock silos on Gran Canaria. The findings show that today’s Canary Island lentils largely descend from varieties brought from North Africa around the 200s. These crops survived cultural upheavals because they were so well-suited to the islands’ harsh climate. Their long-standing resilience could make them valuable for future agriculture. Source link