Data has become the working memory of modern life. It stores family photos, business contracts, school research, product designs, customer records, and years of conversations. As more of that value moves onto phones, laptops, SSDs, cloud accounts, and external drives, the cost of losing access keeps rising. That is exactly why windows data recovery matters more than ever in a digital-first world. For individuals, data loss can mean losing irreplaceable moments and essential documents. For businesses, it can interrupt operations, delay decision-making, damage customer trust, and create direct financial loss. The problem is not limited to dramatic cyberattacks. Everyday issues…
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Buying a wedding ring feels like it should be simple. Walk in, pick something shiny, walk out. Then you’re standing under a jeweller’s lights facing forty options that all look the same, and suddenly it isn’t simple at all. Here’s how to actually get through it without second-guessing yourself for weeks. Start With How You Live, Not How It Looks A wedding ring isn’t a piece you take off after a night out. You’ll wear it cooking dinner, lifting weights, gardening, typing all day. That daily grind matters more than most people realise when they’re picking a design. If you…
Large crowds turned out in Gaza City for a mass funeral for 112 people, mostly women and children, who were killed in an Israeli strike on a residential block in late 2023, early in the Gaza war. The bodies – belonging to members of two extended families – have only recently been recovered from under the rubble in a two-week-long operation. Dramatic footage showed the remains lined up in rows, each victim covered with a Palestinian flag and some with a photo of the dead, before relatives carried them away. The funeral is said to be the biggest of its…
More than 150 migrants have been rescued after the boat they were using to cross the Channel caught fire on Tuesday morning, French authorities have said. The boat was attempting to cross to the UK when its engine caught fire, according to the French maritime prefecture of the Channel and North Sea. It said 157 people have been rescued and were taken to port in Boulogne-sur-Mer. There are no reports of anyone having been injured or killed. It comes just a day after Prime Minister Andy Burnham pledged his government will be “relentless” in curbing the number of people arriving…
The Moon has endured countless blows over millions of years. Asteroids and meteors have given the satellite its signature pockmarked surface and network of craters. More recently, it has also experienced impacts from the plucky little probes and landers that Earthbound space agencies have sent hurtling its way. Now on Wednesday, scientists expect the Moon will experience yet another collision, this time from a drifting SpaceX rocket that has been travelling at around 2.43 kilometres per second, or about 5,400mph. The upper stage (section) of one of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets will “impact” the Moon on 5 August, according to…
Detectives from the DCI Nairobi Regional Office have arrested Ally Ahmed Ally, an advocate, over the alleged theft of Sh49.4 million entrusted to him for the purchase of a parcel of land in Nairobi. The suspect, who practises under the firm of Rasheed Rage and Nassir Advocates, was arrested within Kilimani Sub-County for the offence of Stealing by Agent, contrary to Section 283(b) of the Penal Code. Investigations established that the complainant entrusted the suspect with Sh49,400,500 on diverse dates between November 16, 2023 and January 3, 2024 to facilitate the purchase of the land. However, instead of applying the…
Just last year, Prashant Kishor, one of India’s best-known election strategists, failed to win a single seat for his Jan Suraj party in the crucial state elections in Bihar. Many saw it as a disastrous electoral debut and wondered whether he would return. Now, Kishor has pulled off an unexpected comeback. He has won a prestigious by-election and is set to be sworn in as a lawmaker for the first time. The result has surprised many political observers. While most caution that it is too early to draw broad conclusions from a single by-election, the victory has revived debate over…
Four people have been killed by a soldier in Russian-annexed Crimea in an apparently random gun rampage. The Moscow-installed regional governor Mikhail Razvozhayev said the gunman opened fire on his fellow soldiers, killing one and wounding another. He then went on to kill three civilians in the village of Khmelnytske – two men, aged 71 and 59, and a 64-year-old woman. Three other people were also injured. The attacker has been detained and the motive behind the shooting was being investigated, Razvozhayev said. He has not been publicly identified and local officials have not released information about which branch of…
Hundreds of Ethiopians from the Tigray region have crossed into neighbouring Sudan following fighting between regional forces and the Ethiopian army over the weekend. In one of the most serious confrontations since the end of the civil war in the area four years ago, intense clashes broke out on Saturday morning in Shererina, near the border with Sudan. A member of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) said the violence, which continued into Sunday, involved heavy artillery and drones. The two-year civil war in northern Ethiopian between the TPLF and the federal government, which led to the deaths of hundreds…
Thirty-five people were killed in a drone strike by the Sudanese army on a traditional court session in the north of the Darfur region, a local rights organisation has said. Dozens more were reported injured in Sunday afternoon’s attack. The Emergency Lawyers Group, which monitors violence against civilians, said the attack occurred in Ghara al-Zawiya village that is controlled by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The army has not commented. The RSF holds most of Darfur, in the west of the country, as the two sides continue to fight in the three-year-long civil war that has devastated the country,…
Two workers who died in a shopping mall explosion that followed a powerful earthquake in Japan last week were asked by a boss to re-enter the building to secure cash. Their employer, general goods store Habita, has apologised for the “loss of two precious lives”. The two were among 38 people who died in the magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Kumamoto prefecture on 28 July. Seven of the fatalities were from Aeon Mall. “The instructions given at the time were inappropriate, and I truly regret them,” Habita sales director Goji Yuse said, NHK reported. One of two workers has been named…
A letter from Morocco’s King Mohammed VI confirmed that the country has named a major highway after US President Donald Trump. Last week, in a social media post, Trump thanked the king for the honour, but there was not a parallel announcement from the Moroccan authorities. But Morocco’s state press agency has published a letter the king wrote to the president telling him that the name-change was taking place as “a personal expression of my high regard”. Formerly the Tiznit-Dakhla highway, the road enters Western Sahara, most of which Morocco occupies and claims sovereignty over. But part is controlled by…
A Nairobi court Monday ordered the mother and son linked to the murder of clinical psychologist Dr Victoria Nthunya Mutiso to remain in custody for 21 days, ruling that there is a real risk of witness interference if the two are released. Rose Mbithe Mulwa and her son Chris Mulwa will be held separately, with the magistrate directing that Rose be remanded at Kileleshwa Police Station and Chris at Kilimani Police Station pending the completion of investigations. The court said the alleged threats made against Dr Mutiso before her death, taken together with the killing itself, provided a factual basis…
The Mavoko Law Courts ordered the detention of advocate Angela Mulwa and Nelson Masiga until Tuesday at 2 p.m. pending a ruling on an application by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) seeking to hold them for 21 days. The two are under investigation over motor vehicles believed to be linked to the murder of prominent psychiatrist Dr. Victoria Mutiso. Prosecutors told the court that detectives require additional time to complete investigations, including tracing the ownership and movement of the vehicles and establishing their possible connection to the killing. The DCI asked the court to allow the suspects to remain…
A senior Nairobi police officer was on Monday arraigned before the Makadara Law Courts over allegations of kidnapping, robbery with violence and extortion targeting online business vendors, before the case was withdrawn. This was after both the complainants and the accused informed the court they had reached an out-of-court settlement. Inspector Kelvin Mwangi Muraguri, the Deputy Officer Commanding Station (OCS) at Drive In Police Post, appeared alongside his co-accused, Stephen Okello Obewa. The two had been charged with robbery with violence contrary to Section 296(2) of the Penal Code. According to the charge sheet, the alleged offence occurred on July…