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DeepSeek founder and chief executive Liang Wenfeng received a hero’s welcome during his hometown visit for the Lunar New Year holiday, according to local media and social-media posts, as the Chinese start-up remains under the spotlight for its impact on the artificial intelligence (AI) industry. Liang, 40, on Tuesday returned to Mililing village in Zhanjiang, a port city in southern Guangdong province, where a red banner was raised hailing the low-profile tech entrepreneur as “hometown pride” for bringing honour to the local community, according to social-media posts. His visit on Lunar New Year’s Eve marks the day when Chinese families traditionally hold reunions...

A 16-year-old model living In Mumbai's slums dreams of making enough money to buy her family a house, but says that 'such a happy person' in spite of her circumstances. Maleesha Kharwa features in a new BBC documentary Streets of Gold: Mumbai where she explains that she hopes to become a supermodel so that she can move out of the illegal squatters settlement in Bandra, where she lives with her father, brother and sister. The so-called 'Princess from the slums' was discovered in 2020 by Hollywood actor Robert Hoffman after a chance meeting while he visited India. The Step Up actor then set up an Instagram account for her, where she now has more than 400,000, followers, and started a...

Gold, shiny yellow metal has been valued throughout history for jewelry, currency, and investment. The steady rise in gold prices reflects increasing investor interest in the yellow metal amid global market fluctuations. What if we tell you that a massive 1,000-ton gold deposit, valued at approximately €78 billion (600 billion yuan) has been found! One of the largest finds in recent history, this discovery is likely to shake up the global gold market and drive economic growth. Well, this massive yellow metal deposit has been discovered in Pingjiang County, Hunan Province, China. According to the news report in Indian Defense Review, the gold deposit lies within the Wangu gold...

A father, they say, is a daughter’s first hero. While it may sound cheesy, it doesn’t make it any less true for Jeline Ang, the founder of The Music Scientist, whose father’s actions spoke oh, so much louder than words. Ang Poh Thong, now 71, once had his own Heavy Machinery Rental Company, building it from the ground up through grit, determination, and sheer force of will, paving the way for Jeline and her two siblings. A decade ago, however, he retired. At the age of 60, when he was suffering from poor health, he sold his company. Then, “my dad took a leap of faith—not for himself, but for me,” she explained, adding that he invested S$1 million in...

Mother of the Bride” star Brooke Shields‘ stunning Hamptons home has officially become an empty nest after her younger daughter, Grier, flew off to college, joining her older sister, Rowan, at school—and leaving the 59-year-old actress devastated. Shields, who shot to fame at age 12 while starring in the infamous 1978 movie “Pretty Baby,” dropped both of her daughters off at Wake Forest University at the end of August. Soon after, she opened up about her grief over their departure in a candid TikTok video filmed on the porch of her property in Southampton, NY. However, in the weeks since, Shields appears to have found the silver lining in her empty-nester...

Mariah Carey’s penthouse might be sitting pretty in Manhattan, but her financials? Not so much. The diva has stacked up mortgages totaling $18.6 million on her posh Tribeca pad — most of which was cashed out in loans. The 55-year-old music legend reportedly has a taste for the finer things, blowing a shocking $1 million a month on designer clothes, gifts and extravagant expenses.   (Her extravagant lifestyle, including a reported $1 million monthly splurge on designer items and luxury experiences, has driven her to take out significant loans.Mariah Carey/X)   Insiders tell the Daily Mail her split from billionaire James Packer back in 2016 wasn’t just...

Ana de Armas has traded in Venice Beach for Vermont. The actress reportedly decided to flee the high-profile Los Angeles lifestyle after being besieged by paparazzi during her brief relationship with "Justice League" star Ben Affleck from 2020 to 2021. She reportedly had lived in Venice Beach, CA, for about seven years before moving in with Affleck in his Pacific Palisades pad. The two met while filming the thriller "Deep Water," and they went on to date for nearly a year after that, subjecting themselves to the harsh glare of publicity. (Ana de Armas has traded in Venice Beach for Vermont.Getty Images) She left Los Angeles after their relationship ended in January 2021 and chose a...

Contrary to the popular belief formed by his movie “8 Mile,” Eminem did not actually live in the Continental Mobile Village shown in the film. He grew up in different Metro Detroit trailer parks and predominantly in a house on 19946 Dresden Street in Detroit’s Greensbriar neighborhood. It was a cinematic representation of the typical environment where Eminem might have grown up. The trailer used for filming in the Continental Mobile Village was brought there by the movie crew and is not the actual place where Eminem spent his early years. Eminem’s childhood home is located at 19946 Dresden Street in Detroit, Michigan. This is the house most associated with his...

A viral video shows a dramatic robbery near Kokhraj police station in Kaushambi district, Uttar Pradesh, where two miscreants snatched money bags from a trader on a bus. During their escape, one bag fell onto the highway, scattering cash and triggering a chaotic scramble among passersby and dhaba visitors to grab the loose notes. (The bags contained several lakhs of rupees, but only Rs 4–5 lakh could be recovered after the mob looted the scattered cash. (X/@moliticsindia) The incident took place around 9:30 pm when a luxury bus travelling from Varanasi to Delhi made a brief stop at Jaiswal Dhaba. Bhavesh, a cumin trader from Gujarat’s Patan district, was targeted by the...

A Taiwanese man died of suspected lead poisoning after using the same rusty thermos for over ten years, despite visible signs of metal degradation. Taiwanese media recently reported the tragic death of a man whose severe lung infection was exacerbated by heavy metal poisoning. The man reportedly started experiencing health problems about a year ago, and blood tests showed that he was suffering from heavy metal poisoning. While trying to discover the source of the contamination, doctors learned that the man had been using the same thermos on a daily basis for the last 10 years. Upon examining the container, they discovered rust had formed inside of it, which hadn’t prevented the...