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underwater fault line under the Pacific ocean can trigger a major earthquake along the west coast, according to a Metro UK report. The Cascadia Subduction Zone, responsible for this potential threat, is spread across 600 miles of the US regions like California, Oregon and Washington. It also extends as far as British Colombia in Canada.

Derek Gatlin discovered the value of his last name during middle-school detention. A teacher urged him to get serious about school so he could land a special college scholarship. He wouldn’t need a 4.0 grade-point average, athletic accolades or a musical skill.

A federal jury in Florida has found that Banana giant Chiquita Brands must pay $38.3 million to 16 family members of people killed during Colombia’s long civil war by a violent right-wing paramilitary group funded by the company

a rare finding that blames a private U.S. company for human rights abuses in other countries. “This verdict sends a powerful message to corporations everywhere: profiting from human rights abuses will not go unpunished.

ROBERTO PAYÁN, Colombia–-When turning up at some forlorn Colombian town on his bucket list, Diego Rosselli steers his 1966 Land Rover to the Catholic church on the central square and snaps the mandatory picture. “I send the photo to someone so there’s proof that I made it," he explains. Rosselli is recognized throughout Colombia as a neurologist, author and affable professor.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro says his country will suspend coal exports to Israel over the war in Gaza

Meta also offered admins the ability to create up to 5,000 member communities that chat in real time, but it previously required group members to be part of the same Facebook Group.The new feature is likely to be useful for organisations, schools and other private groups, helping them to interact in a much more co-ordinated and structured way.Explaining how communities on Messenger will work in a support page, Meta states, “You can create a dedicated community on Messenger to connect with people with shared interests. These communities are managed by community admins, and can be found and joined by anyone on Messenger.

DuckDuckGo will now allow its users to anonymously access popular AI chatbots such as OpenAI's ChatGPT (based on GPT-3.5), Anthropic's Claude 3 Haiku, Mixtra 8x7B and Meta Llama 3 for free. The new feature aims to help people harness the power of generative AI, while also addressing privacy concerns that users may have when using these chatbots.The new feature, called AI Chat, is free to use with a daily limit and can be turned off if needed.

Fines against Toronto-Dominion Bank tied to U.S. money-laundering probes may total as much as US$4 billion following fresh allegations involving the lender, according to Jefferies Financial Group Inc. analysts — double previous estimates of the potential impact on Canada’s second-largest lender.

by Tom Schoenberg and Christine Dobby

Fresh allegations that a longtime Toronto-Dominion Bank branch worker in Florida took a series of US$200 bribes to help clients move millions to Colombia by skirting anti-money-laundering defences are adding to the lender’s mushrooming U.S. legal problems.

India exists at all. By some miracle of human ingenuity and industry, a land area barely bigger than Argentina with less water than Colombia is able to support nearly a fifth of the world’s population. The record-breaking temperatures above 52 degrees Celsius (125.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in the capital New Delhi this week are a warning sign, however. The magic spell that has sustained this achievement is coming close to breaking. That’s an issue not just for those sweltering on the streets of the world’s second-biggest city, but for the path to wealth that 1.4 billion people hope to follow. India has a far poorer natural endowment of land than Europe, North America and China, the continental economies that preceded it on the road to riches. Even the fragile benefits that its citizens have managed to eke out of this unpromising soil might now be slipping further away, as climate change exposes its deep fragility and washes away the foundations of growth.

Sofia Vergara's notable performance in ABC's very popular sitcom 'Modern Family' has been one of the pivotal points towards the franchise's immense success. Created by Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan, the TV show ran for a record 250 episodes and ended four years back, leaving hopes for fans that it may return soon. Now, Vergara's recent podcast has again fueled the rumors about Modern Family coming back for a reunion or a full-fledged season. According to 'Collider', she wants to participate in any upcoming 'Modern Family' season or show just for the experience of it all, which she must have missed for the better part of four years now.

gold coins scattered on the sea bed! A wealth of more than $20 billion is buried 600 meters deep below water! This enormous wealth has been found in the Caribbean Sea. After successfully locating the shipwreck, the Colombian government has allocated an amount of $45 million to take the entire wealth to its coffers, reports Fox News. It has launched an expedition to «claim the heritage elements for which the remains of the galleon should be valued.»

Bitcoin has achieved all-time highs against local currencies in several countries across Asia and South America, following a significant 7% surge in its price.

Chinese police in Sichuan province apprehended some suspects of an underground banking scheme on May 15 for allegedly facilitating illicit foreign exchange transactions involving about $2 billion worth of Tether’s USDT.

Sofia Vergara, Christie Brinkley, Demi Moore, Julianne Moore are aging like fine wine but they have ditched the age-old Hollywood tradition of having short-haircut. All of the beauties have preferred to keep long hair even after crossing 40 and 50, as per a Fox News report. 52-year-old Colombian actress Vergara didn't hesitate to embrace long hair. 70-year-old Brinkley too kept long blonde hair, Fox News reported.

After four decades, the unwavering belief in miracles of one mother and an unexpected gift bore fruit just in time for Mother’s Day.Montrealer Martin Moya gave his wife Diana Angarita a birthday gift that would unknowingly change their lives forever.“When something is for you, it’s for you. You know, because my husband wanted to give me that present,” Diana said.Martin gave Diana a DNA test kit from a company called MyHeritage.Diana doesn’t know her father, and her mom Carmen Angarita is an orphan who also doesn’t know her family.The present was meant to find more about their origins.

Panama is on the verge of a dramatic change to its immigration policy that could reverberate from the dense Darien jungle to the US border. President-elect Jose Raul Mulino says he will shut down a migration route used by more than 500,000 people last year. Until now, Panama has helped speedily bus the migrants across its territory so they can continue their journey north. Whether Mulino is able to reduce migration through a sparsely populated region with little government presence remains to be seen, experts say.

Amazon Prime Video has confirmed that 'Betty La Fea, the Story Continues,' the sequel to the Colombian telenovela that inspired ABC's 'Ugly Betty,' will premiere on July 19. Returning Cast Members

Saudi Aramco, an oil colossus, is planning to splurge. Microsoft is likely to spend more. The comparison with the famously capex-happy energy industry is apt not just because of the sums involved.