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A wave of tornadoes has left a trail of destruction across several states in the US, claiming the lives of at least four individuals and leaving over 100 others injured. The states of Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Iowa bore the brunt of nature's fury as twisters tore through communities, leaving a path of devastation in their wake.

Three researchers on Monday won a $700,000 prize for using artificial intelligence to read a 2,000-year-old scroll that was scorched in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

As the British "Telegraph" writes, transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) or "chronic wasting disease" (CWD) affects the brain of the infected animal and causes symptoms such as lethargy, nervousness, increased drooling and grinding of teeth with a "blank look" like a zombie.

Two centenarians who died on consecutive days last week personify the American Century.

Profits rebounded at Warren Buffett's conglomerate along with the value of its $353 billion stock portfolio in the second quarter to hit $35.9 billion, and Berkshire Hathaway's assorted businesses also performed well, led by strong results in its core insurance businesses, particularly Geico.

Randy Meisner, a founding member of chart-topping rock band the Eagles, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 77, the group said on July 27.

His passing on July 26 night due to complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease was announced in a statement on the band's website.

An anonymous bidder has shelled out a record $19 million for a private lunch with billionaire Warren Buffet at a steakhouse in New York City.

The meal with the Berkshire Hathaway CEO was offered on an eBay auction to benefit the San-Francisco-based charity GLIDE, which helps homeless people and those in poverty. The winner can bring up to seven guests.

Helium balloons are part of nearly every American celebration, but a global shortage of the lighter-than-air gas has disrupted many traditions.

One college football team has suspended its traditional release of red balloons, and party planners will have to make do with less, if they get any.

The billionaire finance guru Warren Buffett, who complained recently that he did not know where to put his money, said on April 30 he has invested billions of dollars so far this year, even as he took jabs at Wall Street.

Billionaire Warren Buffett says his company has benefited from some "extraordinary luck" in finding acquisitions like BNSF railroad over the decades, but he has not had much of that in recent years as Berkshire Hathaway's cash pile has grown to nearly $147 billion.