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Great white sharks don’t always flee after orca attacks

Great white sharks don’t always flee after orca attacks

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) are often unfairly the stuff of marine nightmares. But these infamously fearsome creatures are sometimes eaten by an animal even higher on the food chain—orca whales (Orcinus orca), also known as killer whales. As far as we know, these cetaceans are the sole predator that can kill a great white, Charlie Huveneers, director of Flinders University Marine and Coastal Research Consortium in Australia, tells Popular Science. This predator relationship was particularly emphasized in 2015, when passengers on a cage-diving boat at Australia’s Neptune Islands witnessed a group of orcas presumably kill a great white shark. After this event, white sharks in the region disappeared for approximately two months. Many people blamed killer whale predation and pointed to comparable situations in South Africa. In fact, researchers believe  that episodes of this sort make sharks suddenly leave gathering sites along coasts, with some papers proposing that these disappearances can occur for stretches of weeks to months, …

Thousands Flee Northwest Pakistan After Mosques Warn of Possible Military Action

Thousands Flee Northwest Pakistan After Mosques Warn of Possible Military Action

Published by Sam Flores

By Muhammad Amin Afridi and Saad Sayeed BARA/KARACHI, Pakistan, Jan 31 (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of ‌people ​have fled a remote mountainous region in northwestern ‌Pakistan in recent weeks, residents said, after warnings broadcast from mosques urged families to evacuate ahead of a possible ​military action against Islamist militants. Residents of the Tirah Valley, in the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa that borders Afghanistan, said they have moved out of the area into nearby towns ‍despite heavy snowfall and cold winter temperatures because ​of the announcements to avoid the possible fighting. “The announcements were made in the mosque that everyone should leave, so everyone was leaving. We left too,” said Gul ​Afridi, a shopkeeper who ⁠fled with his family to the town of Bara located 71 km (44 miles) east of the Tirah Valley. Local officials in the region, who asked to remain unidentified, said thousands of families have fled and are being registered for assistance in nearby towns. The Tirah Valley has long been a sensitive security zone and a stronghold for Tehrik-e-Taliban …

Civilians flee Kurdish-held region in northern Syria ahead of army deadline

Civilians flee Kurdish-held region in northern Syria ahead of army deadline

Published by Sam Flores

Civilians fled a Kurdish-held region of northern Syria on Friday before a deadline set by the army, which seeks to expand its control over the area after driving Kurdish forces from Aleppo. The government is seeking to extend its authority nationwide following the ousting of longtime leader Bashar al-Assad in December 2024. Keywords for this article Source link

Sarah Ferguson preparing to flee the UK as top ‘contender’ home is revealed

Sarah Ferguson preparing to flee the UK as top ‘contender’ home is revealed

Published by Daniella Wilson

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s move from Royal Lodge to Marsh Farm on the Sandringham Estate is now imminent, taking place before 25 January. As he loses his family home starts a new life in Norfolk, HELLO! understands that his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson will not be joining him. Until now, Sarah has remained living with her ex, but a source close to the 66-year-old has told us that she is ready to part ways. “She has stood by him all these years but is now ready to spread her wings. She won’t be moving in with him to the new house on the Sandringham Estate. She won’t be moving into Beatrice’s Cotswolds home though. Eugenie’s home in Portugal is a contender while she finds somewhere,” the insider says. Sarah pictured inside Royal Lodge Why Portugal is the perfect place for Sarah Ferguson Sarah’s daughter Princess Eugenie has had a Portuguese base since 2022, when her husband Jack Brooksbank began working for property developers, Discovery Land Company. It is believed Eugenie and Jack, along with their two sons August …

6 EastEnders spoilers: Jasmine plans to flee after Chrissie Watts lie

6 EastEnders spoilers: Jasmine plans to flee after Chrissie Watts lie

Published by Daniella Wilson

It seems that Jasmine Fisher’s (Indeyarna Donaldson-Holness) dark side resurfaces again in EastEnders next week when she tells a big fib to grandmother Kat Moon (Jessie Wallace). Zoe Slater (Michelle Ryan) is still locked up for a murder she didn’t commit, and Jasmine reckons she’d rather leave Albert Square than wait around for the verdict. Her meddling soon involves Max Branning (Jake Wood), who is determined to stop her leaving with Oscar (Pierre Counihan-Moullier). Meanwhile, Ravi Gulati (Aaron Thiara) is struggling to cope after attacking son Nugget (Juhaim Rasul Choudhury), and Billy Mitchell (Perry Fenwick) passes on a message from half-brother Teddy (Roland Manookian) to George Knight (Colin Salmon). Elsewhere, Ian Beale (Adam Woodyatt) is bickering with Elaine Peacock (Harriet Thorpe) again, and Sam Mitchell (Kim Medcalf) has her lumpectomy operation. Here’s a look at everything happening in EastEnders between Monday 19th and Thursday 22nd January 2026. 6 EastEnders spoilers for next week 1. Jasmine Fisher plans to flee Walford with Oscar Branning Kat (Jessie Wallace) will do whatever it takes to get Zoe (Michelle …

Californian billionaires flee potential one-off 5% wealth tax

Californian billionaires flee potential one-off 5% wealth tax

Published by Sam Flores

Peter Thiel, cofounder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies, at the Bitcoin 2022 Conference at the Miami Beach Convention Center, in Miami, on April 7, 2022. CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP The ballot initiative is still just a proposal: It has not yet received the 874,000 signatures required for it to be put to a vote by Californians in November, and the state’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, does not support it. Nevertheless, the initiative has threatened to drive the Silicon Valley billionaires out of the state. Known as the “2026 Billionaire Tax Act,” the initiative proposes a one-time 5% wealth tax on California’s billionaires, payable over five years. 90% of the tax revenue would be used to offset the $100 billion (€85.7 billion) in budget cuts imposed by the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” the budget law that the United States Congress passed in July 2025, under the auspices of President Donald Trump. The remaining 10% would go to food assistance programs and public education, which is in a curiously dire situation for such a wealthy state. The …