12 C The Times of India News
Europe / The Times of India
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Bishop Ronald Hicks of Joliet as the next Archbishop of New York, replacing Cardinal Timothy Dolan. A Chicago native with deep ties to Latin America and immigrant advocacy, Hicks inherits leadership of one of the US Churchs largest archdioceses, alongside oversight of a $300 million abuse settlement fund and a shifting political landscape.
Scientists studying one of the Pacifics most active underwater volcanoes were stunned to find hammerhead and silky sharks living inside its crater. Footage captured near the Solomon Islands showed the animals swimming through hot, acidic water previously thought uninhabitable. Researchers say the discovery raises new questions about how marine life survives extreme environments and adapts to climate stress.
Mark Allen Geralds was executed in Florida nearly 37 years after murdering Tressa Pettibone in her home. In his final moments, the death row inmate declined a last meal and spiritual counsel, offering only a brief, unclear statement before lethal injection. The execution brought long-awaited finality to a case that had haunted the victims family for decades.
A family painting that spent decades hanging above a grandmothers bed stunned viewers on Antiques Roadshow after experts confirmed it was an original Henry Farny work worth up to $300,000. Acquired in the 1940s and once nearly damaged by accident, the artworks appraisal revealed not just its financial value, but its quiet passage through generations.