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The user asks “what is the effective date of this policy?”. Retrieval returns five candidate line-windows and passes them all to the LLM in one prompt. The LLM reads all five to extract the same date the first candidate already had. Chunks two to five were signatures, footnotes, and a paragraph about historical dates. Paid for nothing. Send the top-1 first, ask the LLM if that is enough, and stop when it says yes: sequential feeding cuts the token cost by 80 % on this class of question. The rest of the article catalogues where sequential wins, where a single-call over all K is the right default, and how the question parser dispatches between the two.…

As Chinese open-weight AI models grow in capability and popularity, arguments about what should be done about them have once again reached a fever pitch. There’s talk that the Trump administration might try to ban them (though it hasn’t yet acted on the idea). Meanwhile, proprietary model makers, particularly OpenAI and Anthropic, appear increasingly concerned about them. Open-weight models such as Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 or Alibaba’s Qwen offer inference at a fraction of the token cost of closed-source models from these large U.S. labs. The fear is that they also pose some sort of threat. Certainly, they threaten the profit margins of the large…

In brief Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue thanked Z.ai on X saying the Chinese model became "a key part of our defense" during the breach OpenAI's own models carried out. American frontier AI refused to assist with the forensic investigation—safety filters couldn't tell a security researcher submitting real exploit code from an attacker. Delangue's conclusion: defenders everywhere, not just vetted partners with special API access, need powerful unrestricted AI they can run locally before an attack happens. Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue just sent the most pointed thank-you note in AI right now—to a Chinese startup—the day after OpenAI confirmed…

The Army previously urged workers to get behind AI, offering them unlimited tokens Limits have been reinstated by the long-term future is less certain Iran operation saw token consumption skyrocket The US Army has reportedly been forced to reinstate limits on GenAI use after workers quickly used the full allowance of tokens early, revealing that even one of the most well-funded agencies in the world can't keep up with AI's unpredictable and rising costs. In May 2026, it was revealed that the Army would give users unlimited tokens, but by mid-June that token pool had already run dry. Now an internal email, verified by Wired, confirmed that these limits…

OpenAI Ceo Sam Altman speaks to journalists after meeting with US House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on June 3, 2026. Brendan Smialowski \| AFP \| Getty Images OpenAI said that its artificial intelligence models were behind an "unprecedented cyber incident" that affected the open-source developer platform Hugging Face, rattling researchers across the industry. The company said a combination of its models GPT‑5.6 Sol and a more capable model that has not yet been released escaped a sandboxed testing environment, accessed the internet and exploited a vulnerability to gain access to Hugging Face's systems. The model…

AMD will deploy up to 2 gigawatts of Instinct MI450 Series GPUs for Anthropic and make a strategic equity investment of up to $5 billion in the Claude developer; the companies have announced in a joint press release. The first gigawatt is scheduled to come online in the first half of 2027 in AMD Helios rack-scale systems, and the same announcement confirms for the first time that Anthropic already runs AMD's current-generation MI355X GPUs. Go deeper with TH Premium: AI and data centers (Image credit: Microsoft) The equity component runs in the opposite direction to AMD's landmark deal with OpenAI, which handed the customer warrants for up to roughly…

Generative AI is rapidly becoming part of everyday business operations. Employees use AI assistants to summarize documents, search enterprise knowledge, draft content and automate routine tasks. Organizations are also beginning to deploy AI agents that interact with business applications and execute workflows with minimal human intervention. These technologies promise significant productivity gains, but they also introduce new security considerations. As AI gains access to the same identities, business data and systems that cybercriminals already target, it can increase the speed and scale of ransomware attacks if not properly governed. AI does not…

Topline Open AI admitted publicly that its artificial intelligence systems hacked into the servers of another AI company on its own and wasn’t able to be stopped until the victim, Hugging Face Inc., deployed a model from China to battle the fully autonomous cyberattack. Open AI CEO Sam Altman. Getty Images Key Facts Hugging Face, an open-source platform for artificial intelligence and machine learning, said it was hacked by an “autonomous” AI agent system earlier this month, which Open AI on Tuesday admitted was its own intelligence models in an incident it called "unprecedented." Open AI said its models—specifically the recently released…

The pitch from data broker ISBNdb is blunt: the world’s best AI training data is sitting on a shelf. The catch is that getting at it means slicing the spine off millions of books, then never admitting which lab paid for the job. AI has a pollution problem of its own making. So much of the web is now machine-written that models risk feeding on their own exhaust. One company thinks the antidote is sitting on a shelf: old, printed books, published before the chatbots arrived. 404 Media reported that ISBNdb now sources physical books in bulk for AI labs to scan into training data. The firm calls itself the world’s largest book database. “The world’s best…

Art by Marcas, used with permission. This article, written by Daniel Stanley, Marianna Araujo and Diogo Santos, is published here through an agreement between Instituto Fogo Cruzado and Future Narratives Lab with Global Voices. For more information, see the report “Challenging narratives on police violence in favelas.” In 2025, as Instituto Fogo Cruzado, Brazil’s leading civil society monitor of armed violence, and UK-based research organisation Future Narratives Lab were finalising a study on messaging around police violence in favelas, we were shaken by a grim turn of events. In a single favela raid in Rio de Janeiro on October 28, 122 people were…

OpenAI says its AI models went rogue and attacked a digital library Kate Conger July 23, 2026 — 1:06am Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA San Francisco: OpenAI said on Tuesday (California time) that two of its artificial intelligence models went rogue and successfully hacked into Hugging Face, a digital library of AI technology that is popular among developers. The incident, which happened last week while OpenAI was testing the cybersecurity capabilities of its systems, displayed the kind of science-fiction potential that AI companies warned would soon become a reality. The…

Substack has a name for the moment you realise a post you admired for its human voice actually came from a bot: Claudefishing. Now it is handing readers a button to catch it, powered by the AI detector Pangram. The newsletter platform has launched an AI-detection feature. In a pointed post titled “Against Claudefishing,” chief executive Chris Best said readers can now scan posts, notes, replies, and comments. The tool estimates how much of the text a person wrote, and how much came with AI assistance. The scan works on text longer than 100 words, published from today onward, and the result shows only to the person who asks for it. It is live on the…

Top US AI developers Anthropic and OpenAI cheered when Australia announced it would set new AI rules. Big tech celebrating limits on their Silicon Valley VC-funded free-for-all might seem counterintuitive but there’s a much broader play than just what happens in one relatively small market. Anthropic and OpenAI aren’t even on sharemarkets yet but this week lost billions in predicted value after being shown up by a Chinese startup. Moonshot AI on Friday launched a new model, Kimi K3, advertising it as the first open-source model of its size, allowing more user modification than Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Analysts are judging K3 is…

Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. OpenAI said on Tuesday that an autonomous agent powered by its advanced artificial intelligence models went rogue during a security test and triggered ‌a hack that compromised the infrastructure of the AI startup Hugging Face last week. The ChatGPT creator was testing capabilities of some of its most advanced models in a controlled environment, but the agent escaped containment, reached the internet and broke into Hugging Face to…

New research, funded in part by the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab, explains a new method that helps AI make 3D CAD programs from images, which would help product designers and engineers more quickly and easily create 3D prototypes. Naturally, this also sparks deep-rooted dread over it helping robots to build themselves, relegating humanity to the trash. But setting aside my noir nightmares, the new method looks like it could be of significant benefit to some 3D designers and engineers. According to the paper [PDF], the method the researchers have come up with "reduces dependence on inference compute" and performs much more efficiently than the usual…

OpenAI has announced Presence, a new enterprise product for deploying and managing AI agents across customer-facing and internal business workflows. The offering is designed for eligible enterprise customers that want agents to answer questions, access company systems, take approved actions and escalate to human workers while operating under company-defined policies, permissions and evaluation standards. Presence is available immediately through a limited general availability program. OpenAI Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) and select global systems integrators lead deployments, and the product is not available on a self-service basis. OpenAI has not…

As BCIs move from laboratories towards commercial use, Neurochip.com founder Herbert Sim warns that unequal access could separate people not only by income or connectivity, but by physical and cognitive capability. At the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, Chinese President Xi Jinping warned that technological progress must not create “new historical injustices.” He called for a more open and inclusive approach to AI, particularly for the Global South, while urging governments to keep the technology “secure and controllable.” The warning was directed at artificial intelligence. But it may apply even more urgently to technology…

To defend an anti-AI Pope from claims a machine helped write his words, his camp reached for an unlikely tool: AI. An Australian firm has certified Pope Leo XIV’s writings as human-made, using a suite of the very detectors the technology has spawned. Pope Leo XIV has made AI one of his defining themes. His first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, published in May, warned that the technology could come to dominate humanity. Now a collection of his reflections on education and AI, Maps of Hope, has been certified as human-authored. The awkward backdrop The certification follows an uncomfortable episode. Soon after the encyclical appeared, AI researcher…

AMD says it’s going to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic, while helping to expand the AI company’s computing power, according to an announcement on Wednesday. As part of the new partnership, Anthropic will deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD’s Instinct MI450 AI GPUs using the chipmaker’s new Helios rack-scale system, as reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal. The companies plan to deploy the first gigawatt in the first half of 2027, building upon recent data center deals Anthropic has reached with SpaceX and TeraWulf. Anthropic has also signed AI infrastructure deals with Google, Broadcom, and Amazon, with rumors suggesting that it could reach an…

AI was supposed to level the playing field. So far it has done the opposite. The enterprises that already had the most resources are pulling further ahead, while the small businesses that stand to gain the most are still waiting for tools built for them and their workflows. The appetite is there with 72% of small business owners in the US see AI as a way to support their staff and work more efficiently. What is missing is access. Most of what ships today is built for enterprise scale and enterprise budgets. Mukund Jha Social Links Navigation Founder \& CEO at Emergent. That is a design problem as much as a pricing one. Tools built for large…

Brazil · Business Key Facts —Net profit. R$1.559 billion (US$307.5 million), down 2.1% year-on-year. —Revenue. R$10.143 billion (US$2.0 billion), nearly flat with a 0.6% dip. —EBITDA margin. 21.8%, slipping only 0.3 percentage points from a year ago. —Foreign share. 61% of revenue came from operations outside Brazil. —Share reaction. Stock rose roughly 7% to 10% on the margin resilience. WEG, the Brazilian electrical-equipment exporter, reported a 2.1% drop in second-quarter net profit on 22 July 2026, a result that handily beat market fears of an 8% plunge and sent its shares up sharply. The Brazilian manufacturer produces electric motors,…

Samsung's latest foldable phones are now available for preorder, but it looks like Amazon might have one of the better promotions this time around if you're not looking to sign a contract. For a limited time, you can score a $350 gift card with purchase, that can be used on anything you want at a later date. The Galaxy Z Fold 8 is the stand-out Any time you have any new device, it is going to be the stand-out from a packed lineup. If you didn't get a chance to watch the event, Samsung introduced the Galaxy Z Fold 8, Z Fold 8 Ultra, and Z Flip 8 during its Galaxy Unpacked event. The Z Fold 8 Ultra is the successor to the Z Fold 7, but the Z Fold 8 is a…

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Intel will design, package, and fabricate Fortinet's sixth-generation Security Processor (SP6) on its Intel 4 node, the companies announced on July 21, giving the process its first named external foundry customer, roughly three years after it entered production. Intel told Tom's Hardware the agreement reflects "the strategy Intel outlined for Intel 4 several years ago," including support for custom networking ASIC workloads. Intel's own record from those years reads differently, however, with the company's 2021 roadmap having scoped Intel 4 to two internal products. And through 2022, it told engineers and investors that Intel 3, not Intel 4, would be…

iMac Update Expected This Year, Model With OLED Display Also in Works Apple has finished development of a new iMac that it plans to release later this year, according to a report today from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The updated iMac is one of 11 new Mac models that Apple plans to release over the next two years or so. The next iMac will unsurprisingly have a newer chip, but the report did not indicate if Apple plans to use the existing M5 chip or the upcoming M6 chip. No major design changes have been rumored for the next iMac, so it will likely continue to have a 24-inch LCD screen. However, the report said Apple is planning a subsequent iMac with an…

iOS 27’s tentpole additions include Siri AI and new Apple Intelligence features. But one of my favorite features so far is a convenient addition for quickly pasting items from your iPhone’s clipboard. Here’s how it works. iOS 27 adds paste shortcut above keyboard for one-tap access to your clipboard Every year Apple prepares a bunch of new features for iOS, and this year that includes additions to Apple Wallet, Messages, CarPlay, and more. Many new features, however, might go easily overlooked by the average iPhone user. But there’s one iOS 27 addition in particular that I suspect readers will find themselves using a lot. After you copy text to your…

If you thought the whole point of a foldable smartphone with multiple screens was that “one size does not fit all,” then you were only half right. It seems that we’re rapidly entering the era of multiple foldable phone size choices with — no surprise — Samsung in the lead. That’s just one reason why now, in addition to the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8 and the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, we have the unusually proportioned Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8, a flexible smartphone that, when folded closed, is quite close to the dimensions of a passport. All three of the new devices were officially unveiled at Samsung Galaxy Unpacked on July 22, and you can read our first…

According to Downdetector, T-Mobile users are reporting that the network appears to be down. Looking at the heat map, the reports are coming in from all across the country, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, Minneapolis, New York, and more. There are hundreds of reports so far, and it looks like problems began around 10 AM ET.

If canned soup takes you back to your student days and jarred pasta sauces no longer appeal, it's time to invest in one of the best hand blenders. This versatile kitchen appliance makes it easy to prepare everything from soups to homemade sauces from scratch. Also known as stick or immersion blenders, these compact appliances come in a wide range of styles and price points, making it difficult to know which one is worth buying. To help narrow down the options, I tested a selection of hand blenders in my own kitchen, blending everything from soups to smoothies to find the models that deliver the best performance. It’s worth noting some hand blenders…

Moving from an iPhone to an Android phone has never been an easy process, but Google is trying to change that. With Android 17, the company has introduced a rebuilt Android Switch that can move far more of your data than any past version ever could. Google worked with Apple to create the new transfer system from the ground up, allowing far more information to move wirelessly than before. The upgraded experience is already rolling out to eligible Pixel devices and is also available on Samsung’s new Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Galaxy Z Flip 8 through Smart Switch. What makes Android 17’s new transfer process different? Google The previous iPhone to Android…

Users of Meta Platforms’ social media services reported experiencing issues with Instagram and Facebook late Wednesday, July 22, as thousands of outage reports poured into monitoring website Downdetector. Many users took to other social media platforms to ask whether Instagram was down after encountering problems sending and receiving Direct Messages (DMs). Others reported that conversations failed to load, while some said posts and stories were not refreshing properly. READ: Massive outage hits Facebook, Instagram users Facebook users also experienced intermittent issues, with some reporting difficulties accessing their News Feed, logging in, and…

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Google has shared more information about its improved Android Switch utility, including what data can be moved and which phones are supported. The new version of Android Switch requires Android 17 and is available on Pixel 8, 9, and 10 phones, as well as Samsung’s latest foldables. The Pixel 8 can only use Android Switch during initial setup. Other eligible phones can access the feature at any time. With the stable release of Android 17 for Pixel devices last week, Google introduced a new-and-improved device transfer tool to make it easier to switch from iPhone to Android. Built in collaboration with Apple, the…

The contract is one of the key system packages required for the operation of the Kochi metro phase-II corridor. File photo Kochi Metro Rail Limited (KMRL) has awarded a ₹91.6-crore contract to Siemens Limited for the communication systems as part of the second phase of the Kochi metro. The contract is one of the key system packages required for the operation of the Phase-II corridor. The agreement was signed on Tuesday (July 21, 2026) by Johnson T.C., chief engineer, KMRL, and Amit Bhardwaj and Udayaditya Pathak on behalf of Siemens Limited, according to a release. The contract covers the installation of the communication systems that will enable the…

Samsung’s latest round of folding Galaxy Z phones and updated smartwatches were announced at its July 2026 Unpacked event and set to launch on August 7th. The Galaxy Z Flip 8, Fold 8, and Fold 8 Ultra don’t seem geared toward people who bought last year’s model; Aside from a few design updates and AI features, there’s not a whole lot that’s new — unless we’re talking about the Z Fold 8. The Z Fold 8 is the foldable that will probably get the most attention in the US this year, that is, unless Apple’s rumored foldable arrives in the coming months. While its name makes it sound like the successor to last year’s Z Fold 7, it’s a new, shorter variation…

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe at any time. It’s relatively easy to see a digital IMAX showing of Christopher Nolan’s new film The Odyssey, although at this point you’ll likely need to reserve a seat well in advance. But only the truly dedicated cinema buffs will catch the summer blockbuster on actual 70mm film as the acclaimed director intended. That’s because only 41 theaters in the…

Samsung’s newest foldables are here. At Galaxy Unpacked, the company announced the Galaxy Z Flip 8, Galaxy Z Fold 8, and Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra. All three devices will be available on August 7th, but you can preorder them now starting at $1,199.99, $1,899.99, and $2,099.99, respectively. You probably noticed that Samsung’s foldable lineup looks a little different this year. Rather than simply updating the Galaxy Z Fold 7, Samsung now has two book-style foldables: the productivity-focused Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra and the shorter, wider (when folded) Galaxy Z Fold 8 that’s geared more toward entertainment. The Galaxy Z Flip 8, meanwhile, is a touch thinner…

Meta is overhauling how WhatsApp works in the car, giving CarPlay and Android Auto users a lot more to do than just sending texts and making calls. The company announced the change in a newsroom post today, alongside several other updates rolling out to the messaging app. WhatsApp finally works hands-free in the car Until now, WhatsApp’s presence on CarPlay was limited to composing messages or placing a call, both of which still pulled a driver’s attention away from the road. Meta says the refreshed version adds hands-free playback and replies for incoming messages, a visible call history, and one-tap access to favorite contacts, all surfaced through…

The USB ecosystem is in the midst of another transition that will affect how laptops, desktops, storage devices, displays, and peripherals connect in the second half of the decade. USB4 Version 2.0, Thunderbolt 5, and a refreshed certification program converge around higher throughput, expanded power delivery, and an attempt to simplify a standard that has accumulated layers of optionality over nearly three decades, which we've explained in our USB decoded explainer. So, what's next? In 2026, USB4 Version 2.0 and Thunderbolt 5 are now actively being implemented in the premium laptop and desktop segments, shifting from the long-running 20 Gbps and 40…

Samsung on Wednesday (July 22, 2026) launched the eighth generation of foldable phones including Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, Z Fold 8 and Z Flip 8 in India. The South Korean company introduced an Ultra variant for the first time in their foldable portfolio. The launch also includes Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 and Watch 9. These Galaxy Z8 series phones run on One UI 9 based on Android 17 out of the box. Samsung will offer 7 years of OS and 7 years of security updates to the phones. Samsung said that Indians are using foldables for content consumption, to enhance their productivity with AI and camera. In terms of design, Samsung has moved to flex titanium plate in…

TL;DR Samsung has freshly revealed the Galaxy Z Fold 8, Z Fold 8 Ultra, and the Galaxy Flip 8 at an event in London. While AT\&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile have opened pre-orders for the phones, in-store availability will begin on August 7. All carriers are offering steep discounts on the new foldables, in addition to the Galaxy Watch 9 and Galaxy Watch Ultra 2. AT\&T Paul Jones / Android Authority Starting with the most-discussed foldable of the lot, AT\&T is selling the Galaxy Z Fold 8 for $0 with an eligible trade-in and the Z Fold 8 Ultra at a $1,900 discount with a similar arrangement. Similarly, customers can save $1,000 on the Galaxy Z Flip 8, also…

Lebanon and Israel are scheduled to hold their next round of US-brokered talks on 4 August in Italy, a Lebanese official told Reuters on Wednesday. The two longtime foes have held several face-to-face talks since April, billed as a way to put a permanent end to the war that began on 2 March. The ambassador-level direct meetings are unusual for countries that remain formally at war and have had no normal diplomatic relations through decades of invasion, military occupation and cross-border conflict. Five meetings hosted by the United States produced a framework deal late last month, which foresees the disarmament of Hezbollah, the progressive…

The State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has directed the authorities to sanction subsistence allowance for suspended employees without delay, observing that it is a right directly linked to their livelihood. Commission judicial member K. Baijunath issued the order while considering a complaint that the subsistence allowance due to a suspended traditional chenda artist at the Maha Shiva Temple, Thriprangode, had not been released as required. The Commission directed the authorities to process such payments in accordance with the prescribed rules and procedures. The complainant alleged that although the trustee had sanctioned subsistence allowance for…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday (July 22, 2026) sacked his Soviet-trained army chief Oleksandr Syrsky following a political crisis triggered by the removal of a popular, young and tech-savvy defence minister. The Ukrainian leader announced he was appointing joint forces commander Mykhailo Drapaty in his place. Mr. Syrsky, 60, had served in the role since 2024 and was among Kyiv's most experienced commanders, having led the defence of Kyiv at the start of Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022. His removal came after days of protests in support of ousted Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, who accused Mr. Syrsky of forcing him out and…

The Media Office of African Democratic Congress, ADC, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has accused the All Progressives Congress, APC, of failing to explain the reported N12.8 trillion Service-Wide Vote, SWV, contained in the 2026 Appropriation Act, describing the ruling party’s reaction as evidence of a “guilty conscience”. This was contained in a statement issued on Wednesday by Atiku’s Strategic Media Associate, Olusola Sanni. The statement was in response to comments by APC National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, who defended the Service-Wide Vote and dismissed Atiku’s criticism. According to Atiku Media Office, the APC ignored what it…

A sounder of wild boars spotted in a residential area at Kasthurinaickenpalayam in Coimbatore recently. The Forest Department has culled about 60 wild boars that caused nuisance to residents and farmers within the jurisdiction of the Coimbatore Forest Division since the Tamil Nadu government permitted regulated killing of wild boars in 2025. District Forest Officer N. Vengatesh Prabhu told The Hindu that culling of five wild boars were done during the term of his predecessor, after the order was issued by the government, and the remaining were carried out after he assumed office. As per the Government Order, culling of wild boars by specially trained…

US strikes killed at least 53 people, including three children, since 27 June, Al Jazeera reported. The Iranian health ministry said more than 590 others have been wounded in US attacks since the renewed US attacks on the country. At least 18 US soldiers have been killed and hundreds wounded since the war began in late February, according to US Central Command.

Demonstrators demanding the release of ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores gather on the day of the hearing on criminal charges, including narcoterrorism, against Maduro and Flores at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse in New York City, U.S., July 22, 2026. \| Photo Credit: Reuters Venezuela's ousted president Nicolas Maduro is set to appear before a New York court on Wednesday (July 22, 2026), his third public hearing since the U.S. military captured him in a nighttime raid in January. The former leader, 63, and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been held in a Brooklyn jail since the U.S. military…

Russian forces have launched 79 attacks against the positions of Ukraine's Defense Forces since the beginning of the day. According to Ukrinform, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this on Telegram. "As of 16:00, the aggressor has carried out 79 attacks on the positions of the Defense Forces," the General Staff said. According to the report, Russian artillery continues to shell border areas. Today, the Sumy region came under fire in the settlements of Neskuchne, Korenok, Sopich, Potapivka, Kucherivka, Rohizne, Budky, Volfyne, Ulanove, Buniakyne, Seredyna-Buda, Buvalyne, Bachivsk, Hirky, Sukhodil, and Tovstodubove. In the…

A US missile struck the Iranian island of Larak on Wednesday, the Tasnim news agency reported, in the latest attack to target the Islamic republic’s islands in and around the Strait of Hormuz. The islands have been hit multiple times as the two sides fight over the strategic waterway, which Iran has sealed following the collapse of a preliminary deal aimed at ending the war. Here AFP looks at the significance of the Iranian islands in the strait and the nearby Gulf: Larak This small island occupies a particularly strategic position at the narrowest point of the Strait of Hormuz, the key shipping route that Iran has choked shut. A site for Iranian oil…

Russia said Wednesday it had struck the Ukrainian cities of Odesa and Chornomorsk, hitting port infrastructure and vessels that it said were supporting the Ukrainian military. Russia's Defense Ministry said the latest strikes had targeted a dry-cargo ship unloading at Chornomorsk port, as well as a military cargo store and fuel and lubricant storage tanks. It said it had also hit loading and storage facilities at Odesa, and a dry-cargo ship and a bulk carrier that were transporting cargo to Odesa for the Ukrainian military. Russian drones also hit three warehouses storing Ukrainian drones, the ministry added in a statement. Reuters could not…

A traffic accident involving a tour bus and a truck in Egypt's Ras Sadr region left 26 Turkish citizens injured, Turkish and local officials said Wednesday, as the passengers were traveling with a group that also included Azerbaijani tourists. The crash occurred on the Sharm el-Sheikh-Cairo highway on Wednesday morning, leaving a total of 31 people injured, including 26 Turkish citizens, four Egyptians and one Azerbaijani national. The bus was part of a 22-vehicle tourist convoy traveling from Sharm el-Sheikh to the Giza Pyramids. After receiving initial medical treatment at the scene, the injured were transported by ambulance to Sharm el-Sheikh…

TEHRAN, July 22. /TASS/. The United States, which uses the most advanced technologies and intelligence tools, has been unable to locate the missile production facilities that continue to operate, IRNA news agency quoted Abolfazl Shekarchi, a spokesperson for the Iranian Armed Forces, as saying. "Even the location of some of our missile production facilities is unknown to the enemy, despite all the intelligence tools and technologies they possess. They do not know where they are located, and they are at sea," he said. Shekarchi noted that the production of drones and missiles in Iran did not stop during the war or during the ceasefire. The latest…

Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Canada's High Commissioner to the U.K. Bill Blair says the government is engaged in talks to urge the U.K. to reconsider joining its multinational defence bank now that Andy Burnham is the country's new prime minister. The Defence, Security and Resilience Bank, also known as the DSRB, is a Canada-led financial institution in the works that's aimed at giving low-cost loans to countries to help them rearm against Russia and growing…

Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor, doubled down on his support for the international criminal court on Wednesday, a day after calling on federal authorities to execute the court’s warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu’s arrest should he visit the city in the fall. “I call on the federal government to join the international criminal court and to execute both this warrant as well as any warrant the international criminal court holds,” Mamdani told reporters at a press conference on Wednesday. Those remarks came less than 24 hours after Mamdani called the Israeli prime minister a “war criminal” who is “not welcome in New York City” in a video statement…

The Manchester synagogue killer previously planned an attack on Israeli soldiers at a UK base aimed at causing 'multiple fatalities', a court heard today. Jihad al-Shamie, 35, was captured on mosque CCTV discussing the plot with 'committed jihadist' Mohammad Bashir, 31, a delivery driver. The pair discussed getting 'war ready' and how Al-Shamie had 'had enough of this world' in messages sourced from phones seized by police but only examined after the synagogue attack. Bashir is now facing jail for driving Al-Shamie on a reconnaissance mission to the UK Defence Academy in Oxfordshire base two months before he launched the vehicle and knife attack at…

United States President Donald Trump has approved an agreement that would allow Saudi Arabia to develop a civilian nuclear programme with the potential to enrich uranium on its own soil, marking a significant shift in longstanding US non-proliferation policy, according to media reports. Citing people familiar with the discussions, the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times reported on Tuesday that Trump is expected to ask Congress to approve the agreement, which could pave the way for US companies to help build Saudi Arabia’s nuclear industry. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list The timing is likely to prove controversial, with the US…

Wes Streeting has said increased defence spending would make “an enormous contribution” to economic growth as he emphasised that the military will be a spending priority for Andy Burnham’s government over other departments. The new defence secretary, in a speech at the Farnborough airshow, did not make any extra financial commitments but promised he would give the arms industry “clarity and confidence” in contrast to the row that contributed to the fall of Keir Starmer. Spending more on defence would come at “an opportunity cost across government”, Streeting said in a subsequent briefing, meaning the Ministry of Defence have to show “we are spending…

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Kwara State Command, said it handled more than 100 gender-related cases in the first half of 2026, including securing a life imprisonment sentence against a convicted sexual offender between January and June. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the command’s Public Relations Officer, Ayoola Shola, said the command’s Gender Unit recorded 36 domestic violence cases during the period, with 12 currently undergoing mediation. The command also handled 19 child custody disputes, noting that 15 had been resolved while four remained pending. “The command also handled 19 child custody disputes, of which 15…

MOSCOW, July 22. /TASS/. Russian forces delivered strikes throughout the day on July 22, hitting Ukraine’s ports and logistics centers used by the Ukrainian army, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported. TASS has gathered key facts about the strikes. Defense Ministry’s statements - During the day on July 22, the Russian Armed Forces continued delivering strikes on Ukraine’s ports and sea vessels, and also logistics centers involved in the interests of the Ukrainian army, the ministry reported. Results of strikes - As reported by the ministry, Odessa port infrastructure facilities used to unload and store military cargo were hit. - Russian ground-based and…

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Alphonsus Odudoh, a federal lawmaker from Akwa Ibom State, has raised an alarm over the menace of flood in his constituency. Mr Odudoh represents Ikot Abasi/Mkpat Enin/Eastern Obolo Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives. Speaking under a motion of urgent national importance during the House of Representatives plenary on Wednesday in Abuja, the lawmaker reeled out scores of material and human damages caused by flood since the beginning of the rainy season. He called on the federal government to intervene to tackle the situation. He lamented the level of degradation caused by the natural disaster, calling for urgent response by relevant…

Tropical Storm Bertha closes in on Gulf Coast, expected to bring major flooding Tropical Storm Bertha is expected to hit Louisiana and other Gulf states with major flooding as it continues to travel toward land. CBS News' Lana Zak has more.

The wreckage of a Pan American Airways plane has been found 74 years after it crashed, prompting mandatory airline safety briefings. The Clipper Endeavor was found 2,000ft below sea level off the coast of Puerto Rico with a sonar-equipped drone. It went down on 11 April 1952 following multiple-engine failure shortly after take-off. Everyone onboard survived the impact - but passengers struggled to locate life vests and rafts as the plane rapidly sank. Of the 69 passengers and crew onboard, just 17 survived. The disaster led to sweeping reforms in aviation safety, including compulsory pre-flight safety briefings on every commercial flight. The…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size A possible tornado Tuesday afternoon has caused “significant” damage near Harrington, Que., in the Laurentians. Environment Canada meteorologist Dominic Martel said an investigation is underway but he is “pretty certain” the storm consisted of a tornado. A tornado warning was issued for southwestern Quebec around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. It was lifted two hours later. Get breaking National news Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story. Hydro-Québec reported hundreds of customers remained without power in the area Wednesday at 10 a.m. Martel said…

MOSCOW, July 22. /TASS/. Danish shipping company Maersk has announced the suspension of its operations at the port of Chernomorsk in the Odessa Region due to risks. "Dear customers! We are forced to inform you that due to the current situation affecting operations, the operator is unable to continue providing services through the port of Chernomorsk. Services through this port will not be provided until further notice," a statement on the company's Ukrainian Telegram channel reads. The company indicated that the vessel MEDKON MIRA V.629S with import cargo scheduled for discharge at Chernomorsk has been diverted to the Romanian port of Constanta, where…

A woman injured by a runaway driver with a history of mental health problems in northern Italy in May has died of her injuries. The 55-year-old woman was seriously injured along with her husband and six others in the car ramming in the city of Modena and never regained conscious, the local hospital said in a statement. Another victim who had both legs amputated has returned home to Germany. Salim el Koudri, 31, an Italian of Moroccan origin ran over eight people on a busy street in the city centre on May 16. READ ALSO: Eight injured as driver in Italian city runs over pedestrians The unemployed economics graduate had been treated in the past for a…

A man wanted on a felony warrant spent about 90 minutes in the Pacific Ocean off Will Rogers State Beach before Los Angeles County lifeguards surrounded him and helped take him into custody. (Credit: FOX 11 Los Angeles) NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Police are investigating a "random" attack where a woman was stabbed to death in the parking lot of a shopping mall in a California beach town. Rachell Summers, 73, from Capitola, was discovered with multiple stab wounds outside the food court to the Capitola Mall; it happened just before 1 p.m. Monday. The mall is located a little more than a mile from Capitola Beach, a popular beach resort…

A teenager's life was tragically cut short after he jumped off a cliff at a rock quarry in Tennessee on July 12. Evan Marsch, 17, lost consciousness and subsequently drowned after his fatal plunge from a cliff at Bellevue Quarry. Police and the Nashville Fire Department responded to the incident after receiving a call at 5.55pm. According to witnesses, Marsch jumped from the cliff with three of his teen friends. After emerging from the water, they noticed he was unresponsive and attempted to bring him back to shore. However, local authorities said his body sank and was later recovered deceased by the Nashville Fire Department at around 7pm. The quarry…

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Woman is killed when man plunges from 12-storey apartment building and lands on top of her - as he survives fall By JADA BAS, REPORTER Published: 11:19 EDT, 22 July 2026 \| Updated: 11:26 EDT, 22 July 2026 A young woman was killed after a man who jumped from a 12-storey building crashed on top of her - and survived. Houra Inaba, 23, was walking on a pavement in Nagoya, Japan around 1am last week when Shinsei Taguchi, 29, fell from a height. The victim had been with a friend at the time of the terrifying incident and called emergency services who raced to the scene. The pair were taken to hospital, but Ms Inaba was sadly pronounced dead at around 5:30…

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Wreckage of Pan Am plane that crash-landed in 1952 discovered off Puerto Rico The wreckage of a Pan Am plane that crash-landed in 1952 was found off the coast of Puerto Rico last month. The crash led to preflight safety briefings becoming the norm on commercial flights.

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Boy, three, dies after being found face down in back garden pond, inquest hears By DAVID OLASEINDE Published: 11:08 EDT, 22 July 2026 \| Updated: 11:08 EDT, 22 July 2026 A three-year-old boy died a day after he was found in a pond in his garden, an inquest heard. An inquest held at Bootle Town Hall today heard how Reuben Reynolds was found face down in a pond in the rear garden of his home on Brownmoor Lane in Crosby on Saturday, July 18. Evidence, read to the court by coroner's officer Laura Daniels, said: 'On Saturday, July 18, Reuben was located face down in a pond in the rear garden of the property in Crosby.' The child, who was born in Liverpool,…

Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) said Tuesday it removed two pilots from duty before a flight departing Geneva earlier this year after they appeared to be under the influence of alcohol, prompting an internal investigation. The airline said that crew members had raised concerns several hours before the flight in March and informed their supervisors. SWISS said the pilots were taken off duty while still at their hotel, before departing for the airport, and were replaced by other pilots. The reports from the crew were sufficiently specific that the airline questioned the two pilots' fitness to fly. "The two pilots have not flown since, and the…

This 1950s Airplane Disaster Prompted the Flight Safety Demonstrations Passengers Know Today. Searchers Just Found the Wreckage in the Atlantic Ocean A team of explorers used an autonomous underwater vehicle to locate the remains of the Pan American ‘Clipper Endeavor’ about five miles off the coast of Puerto Rico Sarah Kuta \| Daily Correspondent July 22, 2026 11:02 a.m. The Clipper Endeavor was about the same size as a Boeing 737. Clint Fewell, courtesy of czimages.com In the spring of 1952, a commercial plane flying from Puerto Rico to New York crashed into the Atlantic Ocean after losing power, killing 52 passengers and crew members. For the last…

MOSCOW, July 22. /TASS/. Ukraine is expected to face its toughest winter in the past five years because of its vulnerable power grid, the country's State Agency for Restoration and Infrastructure Development said. In response to an inquiry from the Telegraf news outlet, the agency said the risk of widespread power outages, substation shutdowns, and heating disruptions remains very high this winter. The agency attributed those risks to the lack of protection for the country's power infrastructure. In particular, no contracts were signed in 2025-2026 for the construction of protective facilities for energy infrastructure. Meanwhile, work to protect…

The heavily polluted Kuzhikandam creek at Eloor in Kochi. File photo The inordinate delay in carrying out the remediation of the heavily polluted Kuzhikandam creek in Eloor municipality has come in for criticism from greens and local residents. The Kerala State Pollution Control Board (PCB), which had earlier set August 2027 as the deadline for completing the project, has been prompted to redraw its plan following a directive issued by the Kerala High Court on July 15, 2026. The Division Bench of Chief Justice Soumen Sen and Syam Kumar V.M. said the court was not at all satisfied with the progress of the work expected to be carried out by the PCB…

The Russian military attacked Zaporizhzhia, causing a fire at an industrial facility and injuring several people. Head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration Ivan Fedorov announced this on Telegram, according to Ukrinform. "The smoke rising over the city is the result of an enemy attack on Zaporizhzhia. A fire broke out at a food industry enterprise following the Russian strike," Fedorov wrote. One person was initially reported injured. Vehicles and buildings at the site caught fire. Later, Fedorov said the number of injured had risen to three. "The number of people affected by the Russian attack on the regional center is increasing.…

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What Nolan Wells' preliminary independent autopsy findings revealed about his death Mississippi teen Nolan Wells vanished while on a Fourth of July boat trip with a group of friends. His body was found days later. Attorney Ben Crump shared the results of the teen's preliminary independent autopsy commissioned by Wells' family. CBS News' Skyler Henry has the latest, and legal contributor Jessica Levision joins to discuss.

Astronauts have grown a common crystal in space — but this extraterrestrial version is exhibiting a very uncommon behavior. Under a microscope, the crystal looks more like a tiny futuristic sculpture than something that formed naturally. The pyramid-like assembly curls in on itself in stair-stepped layers, seeming almost too orderly to be real. But according to scientists, the striking shape is what happens when gravity stops calling the shots. The image, shared on July 18 by NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and accompanying video were captured aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and show potassium chloride crystals growing in microgravity — the…

(This is Part 3 of a series on the life and work of Chandrasekhar. Read Part 1 and Part 2 first.) The whole affair very nearly drove Chandra out of physics altogether. He couldn't stay in Europe living under Eddington's shadow, so he did what a lot of people have done when a place stops having room for them: he left. He moved to the United States. But the wound traveled with him. Chandra carried the anger and the hurt for decades and returned to that day again and again for the rest of his life. There's a line from Arthur Miller's biography of him, "Empire of the Stars," that gets at the human cost of the whole thing: even though science deals in…

Back in 1985, an electrical engineer at Polaroid named Bill Freeman had an idea for a three-sided zipper. Not a novelty item, not a quirky art piece, but a genuinely functional fastener capable of switching objects between soft, floppy states and rigid, load-bearing structures. He submitted it to a design competition. They rejected it. He patented it anyway, then tucked the prototype away in his garage, where it sat for nearly four decades. That detail alone should give us pause. How many brilliant ideas are sitting in someone’s garage right now, waiting years for the tools and technology to finally catch up? Freeman is now an MIT professor, and the…

To gauge the value of the paleontological heritage of La Rioja (a small region in northern Spain better known internationally for its wines) it is necessary to travel back 120 to 130 million years. From that time, the Early Cretaceous — of which more than 170 sites and over 11,000 dinosaur footprints remain —experts have reconstructed an ecosystem dominated by a vast lake on a broad alluvial plain that was about 400 square kilometers (154 square miles) and where rivers emptied into the area. At that time, the Iberian Peninsula was a large island near the Canary Islands, with a humid subtropical to tropical climate that produced lush vegetation,…

Nolan Wells' preliminary independent autopsy results read by attorney Ben Crump The body of Mississippi teen Nolan Wells was discovered days after he went missing during a Fourth of July boat trip. Attorney Ben Crump read the results of a preliminary independent autopsy commissioned by Wells' family to the public.

In the frigid North Atlantic waters around Northeast Greenland National Park, researchers spotted something miraculous: an Arctic bobtail squid with her eggs. This, according to the findings published in Polar Biology, is the first time this species of squid has been spotted in the park. Arctic bobtail squid (Rossia moelleri) are a rare sight, and capturing footage of one in this national park is even rarer. “Northeast Greenland National Park is the largest national park on Earth but one of the least biologically documented marine regions in the Arctic,” Paige Maroni, from The University of Western Australia’s School of Biological Sciences, and lead…

That avocado that you may have smeared on your toast to start your morning was a clone. In fact, the avocados that sit quickly aging on your counter or arranged in piles above signs displaying their ever-increasing price in grocery stores from Los Angeles to Beijing are genetically indistinguishable. And that makes them vulnerable. Because the Hass avocado variety, the most popular cultivar on Earth, was cloned from a single tree in 1926 then grafted onto root stock around the world, each of the fruits contains basically identical DNA. This lack of genetic diversity means that a single pathogen or environmental perturbation could potentially wipe out…

A mysterious cluster of blackened skin lesions affecting catfish in New England turned out to have a stranger cause than anyone would have predicted: a contagious form of cancer. Researchers in Vermont studied melanoma tumors collected from brown bullhead catfish (Ameiurus nebulosus) living in Lake Memphremagog. The tumors on different fish were genetically much more similar to each other than their hosts, they found, strongly pointing to the cancer’s infectious origin. It’s only the fourth ever kind of transmissible cancer discovered in animals, and there remain many questions about this cancer and others like it, the researchers say. “Transmissible…

Ancient Genes Reveal That Big, Bright Avocados Were Carried Through the Americas Thousands of Years Ago People brought large avocado seeds from South America to Central America, kicking off a burst of diversity for the fruit Riley Black \| Science Correspondent July 22, 2026 11:00 a.m. Fruit grows on a native avocado tree in southern Mexico Kevin Wann The buttery avocado is the fruit of a warmth-loving tree now grown all over the world. Yet the familiarity of the fruit and its delicious culinary applications obscures the fact that there isn’t just one form of avocado. An array of avocados with slightly different characteristics are found throughout…

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It's rare that cancerous tumours can spread from one individual to another. But a genetic study suggests that's what's happening with melanoma tumours among catfish in Quebec and the northeastern U.S. The discovery represents the first known transmissible cancer in fish and one of very few transmissible cancers ever found, reported the study published in the journal Nature on Wednesday. Julie Dragon, co-leader of the new study, noted that only three other transmissible cancers have ever been identified so far — in Tasmanian devils, dogs and shellfish. "These conditions are incredibly rare in nature," she said. "So something has to be happening to…

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe at any time. About 5,000 years ago, avocados went on an excellent adventure. Humans migrating north towards Nicaragua from parts of South America brought avocado seeds and then planted the fruit in Central America’s humid lowlands. The avocados then hybridized with the native varieties, producing a wide range of avocados that are large with smooth skin,…

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Most genomic studies begin by asking participants to upload one of the most identifying and irrevocable pieces of data they own, their DNA. I continue to investigate whether multi-party computation can offer a different model, one in which a study can produce useful results without anyone collecting the participants’ genomes in the first place. That question has now led me to build a proof of concept with Stoffel MPC. One hundred simulated participants successfully computed aggregate allele counts without any party seeing the complete dataset. This post explains what I built, how it performed and what I learned. Stoffel MPC has launched Stoffel…

The White House wants to reallocate hundreds of billions of dollar worth of federal funding away from universities and peer reviewed research panels The funding would instead go to individual scientists and AI-native laboratories The credibility of the plan is undermined by the US government's track record on science and AI The Trump administration has unveiled plans to shift around $200 billion dollars of research funding into individual scientists and a ‘national AI-for-science initiative’. The move would pull funding from university research and ‘slow’ consensus peer review panels in an effort to stay ahead of China, which is making strides to…

The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon had been closed for a year and a half to travel another 57 years into the past. From March 2025 until this past Saturday, the day it reopened to the public, the private foundation worked on renovating its interior spaces to restore them to the spirit of 1969, the year it opened. The artistic wonders, from Ancient Egypt to the 20th century, amassed by the man who at his death in 1955 was considered the richest person in the world are now again on display, bathed in a dim light, with some rooms carpeted in a greenish hue that links the interior of the brutalist building to the grass of the courtyards around which…

How to read a painting. Most of us walk through museums reading the little labels and nodding. Name, date, oil on canvas. This is the rest of it: the eight questions art historians actually ask, asked out loud on the paintings everyone knows. a sheets.works story

Normandy’s application to have the D-Day beaches in northern France listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site could finally be accepted at the end of July, after it's submission nearly 20 years ago. The nomination also includes Pointe du Hoc, the German artillery battery at Longues-sur-Mer, Port Mulberry, and numerous military cemeteries and memorials. The UN cultural agency is set to male a decision between July 24 and 27.

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VIDEO Astronomers have discovered an object orbiting a brown dwarf or “failed star”. Is it the first exomoon, or moon outside our solar system? Astronomers are debating what to call it. Why? Because moons orbit planets … And this exomoon is orbiting a brown dwarf, which is an object that’s too massive to be a planet but not massive enough to shine like a star. Video via ESO. Did we find an exomoon around a brown dwarf? Exomoons are moons that exist outside our own solar system. We’ve yet to definitively find a single one! That’s because they are small and dim, circling exoplanets that are also small and dim, hidden in the glare of the stars they…

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Can you imagine in the far distant future in a colony planet an elite commando unit doing battle with the Xenomorphs? Four decades ago, James Cameron took Ridley Scott’s quiet, gothic space-slasher and injected it with pure, high-octane military adrenaline. The result was ‘Aliens’ (1986)—a cinematic juggernaut that didn’t just avoid the sophomore slump but completely redefined the parameters of what a sequel could achieve. As we cross the monumental 40th-anniversary threshold of this legendary release, we are reminded of why this film still stands unchallenged at the absolute peak of Hollywood’s creative powers. As I previously detailed in my…

NASA has discovered more than 6,000 exoplanets peppered throughout the galaxy, but astronomers have yet to confirm the existence of a single exomoon. A newly discovered moon-like object could be a promising candidate. In a study published today in the journal Nature, researchers describe a three-tiered hierarchical system: a satellite orbiting a brown dwarf, which in turn orbits a star. While the satellite fits a moon-like classification in several ways, astronomers lack a concrete definition for exomoons, so the authors can’t definitely say this is the first one. Still, their work demonstrates an effective technique for finding moon-like objects…

This graphic illustrates the areas of Jupiter’s moon Io sampled by the Microwave Radiometer (MWR) instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft during two close flybys. The black overlapping lines show the instrument's footprints during Perijove 57 on Dec. 30, 2023, when the spacecraft primarily mapped the northern hemisphere. The blue lines represent Perijove 58 on Feb. 3, 2024, which focused heavily on the moon’s mid-latitudes and equatorial regions. Both passes mapped the side of Io that constantly faces Jupiter. The sweeping, overlapping patterns are a result of the spacecraft spinning at two revolutions per minute as it flew past the moon at a…

Australia’s emergency services and military personnel are being trained to read paper maps, navigate without GPS support, and sail by the stars in case something knocks out the nation’s space capabilities. A panel at the 19th Australian space forum in Adelaide on Wednesday was asked to consider what would happen “if we suddenly lost access to critical space infrastructure – no satellites, no GPS, no remote sensing, no secure communications?” Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email The experts warned that Australians are unaware just how dependent they are on space, and how vulnerable that connection is to enemy attacks and solar flares. It’s…

Astronomers are homing in on a distant realm where the lines between star, planet, and moon are blurred. Researchers have recently discovered that something appears to be orbiting a brown dwarf in the CD-35 2722 system, about 73 light-years away in space, that defies the usual labels. A brown dwarf is already something of a cosmic maverick — too large to be called a planet, too small to be a star. Experts sometimes refer to brown dwarfs as "failed stars" because they're not quite massive enough to sustain hydrogen fusion in their cores. That leaves researchers at a loss for what exactly to call this thing circling it. Because the object orbits a brown…

When is a moon not a moon? That’s the riddle raised by a new study, and the answer appears to be, when it’s a planet. Or maybe it’s vice versa. Such are the strange semantic questions raised by studies of CD-35 2722 b, a brown dwarf with about 30 times the mass of Jupiter that’s orbiting a small star some 73 light-years from Earth. The brown dwarf appears to have its own satellite, much like Earth has the moon, albeit one almost as big as the largest planet in our solar system. While astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets, CD-35 2722 may be the first star system found that exhibits this three-tiered “star-brown dwarf-satellite” hierarchy.…

Lisa Grossman is the astronomy writer. She has a degree in astronomy from Cornell University and a graduate certificate in science writing from University of California, Santa Cruz. She lives in Minneapolis.

Since the discovery of the first world beyond the solar system in the 1990s, astronomers have become adept at spotting extrasolar planets, or exoplanets. But while NASA's exoplanet catalog has burgeoned to over 6,000 confirmed entries, moons around these worlds, known as exomoons, have proved elusive. In fact, we have failed to make a single confirmed discovery of an exomoon despite being certain that just as the planets of the solar system have their own natural satellites, worlds in other star systems must have them too. Now, this controversial drought of exomoons may have become even more confusing and, frankly, weird. That is because while…

This map represents data captured by the Microwave Radiometer (MWR) aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft, indicating heat rising from just beneath the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io. While infrared instruments measure the temperature of the moon’s surface, the lowest frequency microwave channels (0.6 and 1.25 gigahertz) on the MWR can penetrate between about 6 and 20 feet (2 and 6 meters) into the crust. The colors on this map illustrate a distinct temperature gradient across the moon, with the most extreme, localized heat output in red. The most prominent red anomaly in the upper left (between 60 and 120 degrees west longitude) reveals subsurface temperatures…

Can a state build enough beds for a national sporting event and still leave behind something for its own people once the crowds leave? Meghalaya's government seems to be betting yes. In February this year, chief minister Conrad K. Sangma announced a scheme offering 70 per cent subsidy support for homestays across the state, timed to meet accommodation demand ahead of the National Games 2027. The announcement came at the Land Handover ceremony for the proposed five-star Holiday Inn Resort at Hotel Polo Orchid in Tura, an event organised by the department of tourism. Here's a breakdown of what the scheme involves and how it fits into Meghalaya's larger…

NASA’s Juno mission has provided the first measurements of the temperature below the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io, revealing significant heating within the shallow subsurface of the most volcanically active world in the solar system. Collected during two close flybys, the data also shows that most of Io’s surface is remarkably smooth and composed of material of very low density. Published Wednesday in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, these findings break new observational ground for both fiery and icy worlds beyond our planet. Io’s extreme volcanism is powered by tidal heating. The moon is constantly stretched and squeezed by Jupiter’s…

The skeleton crew in Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is essential if you'd like the full Pirates of the Caribbean experience, ghost story and all. The skeleton crew, officially known as the Deceased Crew Attire ship vanity, turns your living sailors into an emaciated undead horde. Here's how to obtain the skeleton crew in Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced and how to farm enough bones. Where to buy the skeleton crew in Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced The skeleton crew outfit is sold on a small island in northwest Gibara, directly south of Andreas Island. This is an unmarked location at coordinates (550, 638). When you get close enough, you…

The State Service of Ukraine for Ethnic Affairs and Freedom of Conscience (DESS) has completed an investigation into whether the Pochaiv Holy Dormition Lavra has signs of affiliation with the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), a foreign religious organization whose activities are prohibited in Ukraine. The DESS announced the findings on its website, according to Ukrinform. "The results of the investigation established that such signs are present. In particular, it was determined that the Pochaiv Holy Dormition Lavra is a structural unit of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) and is part of the Kyiv Metropolia of the UOC, which, under Ukrainian law, is…

Following the success of NASA’s DART mission, Chinese researchers are planning a new planetary defense test that they claim is bolder and better adapted to protecting Earth from hazardous asteroids. Scientists from the China National Space Administration outlined a plan to directly change an asteroid’s trajectory relative to Earth by striking it with a spacecraft at high speed, according to the South China Morning Post. China is aiming to pull off the space stunt before 2030, deploying two spacecraft: one to strike the asteroid and another to observe the impact. Fast impact The upcoming mission is designed to test new technologies that would keep…

NASA is supporting the Genesis Mission, a national effort to drive the use of artificial intelligence in tackling complex scientific and engineering challenges to advance a new era of discovery. President Donald J. Trump issued the Executive Order “Launching the Genesis Mission” on Nov. 24, 2025, creating a national mission to leverage artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific discovery. The mission is led by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and has now expanded to more than 15 federal agencies in a whole-of-government initiative. NASA is exploring how its missions, data, and expertise can support National Science and…

WASHINGTON — Commercial space station and spacecraft developer Vast has established a new division intended to support work in national security space. The company announced July 22 that it hired Melanie Stricklan to the new position of senior vice president of special programs. She is the co-founder and former chief executive of Slingshot Aerospace, a space domain awareness company, and previously served 21 years in the U.S. Air Force. “Vast combines proven spaceflight expertise, advanced manufacturing and a mission-first mindset to support the United States’ most critical national security missions in low Earth orbit and beyond,” she said in a…

The Congressional Progressive caucus (CPC) held a shadow hearing on Medicare for All on Wednesday, led by Pramila Jayapal and Debbie Dingell. The hearing comes as over half of the House Democratic caucus has co-sponsored Medicare for All legislation, and Senator Andy Kim introduced legislation on Tuesday that would enroll all children into Medicare until the age of 26, while Republicans passed drastic healthcare cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, including nearly $1n in cuts to Medicaid and allowing Affordable Care Act subsidies to expire. “I’m going to get this over the finish line before I die, and I don’t plan on dying soon. But I’d like to…

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder caused by the loss of dopamine-producing neurons, leading to motor symptoms such as tremors, rigidity, slowed movement, and impaired balance, as well as cognitive decline. Although current treatments help relieve symptoms, they cannot stop disease progression. Levodopa (L-DOPA), given with carbidopa, remains the standard treatment for PD by restoring dopamine levels and improving motor function. However, its benefits often decline with long-term use, and complications such as motor fluctuations and dyskinesias may develop. These limitations have prompted the search for adjunct…

Susumu Tonegawa, a Japanese molecular biologist who won the Nobel Prize in 1987 for figuring out how the body can produce sufficient antibodies to combat a multitude of infections, and who later advanced the understanding of how the brain works by discovering how memories are stored, died on July 11 at his home in San Mateo, Calif. He was 86. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Dr. Tonegawa was a professor, announced his death. “Few scientists have reshaped our understanding of biology as profoundly,” Myriam Heiman, the director of M.I.T.’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, which Dr. Tonegawa founded in 1994, said in a statement.…

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story. The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political…

Thousand Lights MLA and Speaker of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly J.C.D. Prabhakar serving food to beneficiaries of an annadanam programme which crossed a milestone on July 22, 2026. On July 22, when the daily annadanam, a free mid-day meal initiative by Teynampet resident D.M. Prakash crossed a milestone clocking 750 days on the trot, the food was understandably grander than on earlier days. Not only what was offered but how it was offered stood out. Imagine being served food by MLA of the region: that is exactly what happened at the event. On regular days, food packets would be parked on a small table, and Prakash and his associates would hand…

Is creatine a weird steroid-like hormone or drug? No. Creatine is a nutrient. Most omnivores eat a gram or two per day from meat. Your body also synthesizes a gram or two per day. You need creatine to deliver energy inside of cells. It is normal and non-weird. Does creatine increase testosterone? Unlikely. This concern comes from one study in 2009 on 16 male rugby players. But that study is considered extremely suspect. There have been at least twelve other studies that all found no change or physiologically irrelevant changes. Beyond that, it’s implausible that creatine would increase testosterone, because we know what creatine does and it has…

Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy has transformed cancer treatment, but many tumors remain resistant. A new study from researchers at the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation (CDI) identifies a previously unrecognized mechanism by which mutations in the p53 gene can limit the effectiveness of immunotherapy-while also revealing a potential strategy to overcome this resistance. The findings in the journal Cell Death and Disease could help make future cancer treatments more effective. The study focuses on the p53 tumor suppressor gene, widely known as the "guardian of the genome." Understanding the nuances of how p53 mutations…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size A drug overdose alert has been issued for Saskatoon after firefighters responded to 90 overdose calls in three days, according to the Saskatchewan Ministry of Health. The “escalation in cases and severity of intervention required” from Friday to Monday prompted the ministry to issue the advisory. In addition to the Saskatoon Fire Department, it said local harm reduction groups are also reporting an increase in calls. 2:01 Saskatoon firefighters’ union says overdose crisis stretching resources thin “There is a high risk of overdose from unknown substances circulating in the Saskatoon area,” the…

Andhra Pradesh reported three new COVID cases, all from East Godavari district, on July 22 (Wednesday), taking the case load in the State to 29. According to information from the Health Department, samples collected from 44 people from across the State, including 19 from East Godavari, were tested. Of these, three persons from East Godavari tested positive for the virus, taking the district’s tally to six. As of July 22, while 10 persons were undergoing treatment in hospitals, 12 were placed under home isolation, and three had recovered. The death toll stands at four. Published - July 22, 2026 08:47 pm IST

(MedPage Today) -- The Trump administration is withholding a combined total of more than $1 billion in Medicaid funds from California and Minnesota until those states can prove they were not funding fraud, HHS officials said Tuesday. The Centers...

Proof the Pill can make you fat? Major study finds women on the contraception are more likely to need weight loss jabs By CIARAN FOREMAN, HEALTH REPORTER Published: 11:09 EDT, 22 July 2026 \| Updated: 11:15 EDT, 22 July 2026 Taking the Pill makes women more likely to need the help of weight loss jabs to shift stubborn fat, a new study suggests. Danish researchers found that women who've used hormonal birth control are up to 63 per cent more likely to be prescribed slimming injections like Wegovy and Ozempic in later life. Those who try multiple contraceptives throughout life face a two-fold risk of using weight loss treatment. Women have long reported…

The Sanjeevani scheme has been conceptualised to address the shortcomings in implementing several State and Union government health schemes, says Health Minister Satya Kumar Yadav. \| Photo Credit: File Photo The Andhra Pradesh government has invited tenders for implementation of the Sanjeevani scheme, an integrated digital care coordination and healthcare delivery system, which is aimed at improving delivery of healthcare services. In a release on Wednesday, the Department of Health, Medical and Family Welfare said that the government released the Request for Participation (RfP), listing the terms for developing, designing and maintaining a digital…

Curcumin, berberine, and other plant-derived compounds have long attracted scientific interest because of their anti-inflammatory and anticancer properties. A new study by researchers from Wroclaw Medical University and the University of Wroclaw, however, shows that not all natural compounds act in the same way, and strong anticancer activity does not always go hand in hand with a good safety profile. The researchers compared five compounds: curcumin, berberine, biochanin A, cucurbitacin E, and CAPE (caffeic acid phenethyl ester), a component of propolis. They investigated how these substances affected fibrosarcoma cells and healthy muscle cells. A…

The newborn was shifted to the Institute of Maternal and Child Health, Kozhikode, for specialised care. A swift, coordinated response by doctors at Government District Hospital, Nilambur, saved the lives of a 25-year-old tribal woman and her newborn after a rare uterine rupture left the baby lying inside the mother’s abdominal cavity. The woman from the Cheerakkuzhi tribal hamlet near Chugathara was brought to the hospital in an autorickshaw on Monday (July 20, 2026) with severe abdominal pain. She had received no antenatal care during the pregnancy. There had been no scans, blood tests, or even blood grouping. By the time she reached the hospital…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Public Health Agency of Canada says a salmonella outbreak from contaminated pistachios is over but people should still avoid pistachio products coming from Iran. The outbreak began in March 2025 and lasted more than a year, with the final reported sicknesses happening in May. It caused 200 lab-confirmed cases of salmonella in six provinces, with the most in Quebec and Ontario. The Public Health Agency of Canada says 26 people were hospitalized and there were no reported deaths. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency continues to ban imports of pistachios and pistachio-containing products from…

University of Virginia Comprehensive Cancer Center scientists have developed a promising new experimental approach to targeting glioblastoma, the most common and deadliest brain cancer. The approach could overcome many of the limitations of treatments using existing drugs. UVA's Roger Abounader, MD, PhD, and colleagues have identified "microRNAs" that can simultaneously suppress multiple malfunctioning genes responsible for glioblastoma's formation and growth. The scientists use a combination of brain penetrating nanoparticles, focused ultrasound waves and microbubbles to deliver the miRNAs through the brain's natural protective barrier – a barrier…

A generic version of the brand-name allergy medication Zyrtec is under recall across the U.S. due to potential cross-contamination with a heartburn drug, according to the Food and Drug Administration. Drugmaker Unique Pharmaceutical Laboratories is voluntarily recalling antihistamine drugs, commonly used to treat seasonal allergies, over potential cross-contamination with ranitidine, a heartburn drug. Unique Pharmaceutical Laboratories announced the recall on July 18. A pharmacy technician observed what they described as a red dot on some of the antihistamine drugs — cetirizine hydrochloride tablets USP 5 mg — when counting and bottling the…

The Health department has withdrawn all the surveillance steps in ward 5 of Ramanattukara municipality in Kozhikode district from where a Nipah case was reported in June. A release from the office of Health Minister K. Muraleedharan said on Wednesday (July 22, 2026) that no new cases had been reported from there in the past 42 days. Meanwhile, the condition of the 43-year-old infected person, who is being treated at the Government Medical College Hospital (MCH), Kozhikode, is improving. His ventilator support has been taken off and he has tested negative for the virus thrice in recent weeks. Published - July 22, 2026 08:18 pm IST

Sen. Loren Legarda —Photo from her office MANILA, Philippines — No education reform can fully succeed while Filipino children continue to suffer from chronic malnutrition during their earliest years, Sen. Loren Legarda said in a statement issued on Tuesday as she called for stronger government action to fight child stunting. Legarda called for stronger coordination among national government agencies, local government units, schools, communities, and the private sector to fully implement nutrition and early childhood development programs, strengthen maternal healthcare, improve access to nutritious food, and ensure that every Filipino family benefits…

Researchers report that many people in the U.S. and U.K. are not consuming levels of flavanol-rich fruits and vegetables associated with better cardiovascular outcomes. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Tomatoes and soy have long been praised for their health benefits. Now, a small new study suggests that combining compounds from both into a specially formulated beverage may help reduce inflammation in adults with obesity. Researchers at Ohio State University found that adults who drank two 6-ounce servings of a tomato-soy beverage each day for four weeks experienced significant reductions in several markers of systemic inflammation,…

One of the highest courts in Europe has described VPNs as "lawful technical tools which users may legitimately use" in a landmark case. The Court of Justice of the European Union made this remark as part of a larger judgement regarding the online publication of The Diary of Anne Frank. The case in question is a complex legal dispute over copyright. As the July judgement explains, the Anne Frank Fund will hold the rights to parts of the historical manuscripts until at least 2037. However, in some EU member states, such as Belgium, these works are in the public domain. The dispute centres on a Dutch translation of the diaries which was offered free…

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story. The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political…

The security research community makes GitHub safer for everyone. That’s the simple idea behind our bug bounty program. For more than a decade, researchers from around the world have helped us find and fix vulnerabilities before they could be exploited, and we’ve worked hard to be a program worth their time. Today, we’re sharing some meaningful changes to how the program works. These decisions comes after months of reflecting on our program, analyzing what’s happening across the industry, and thinking about researcher experience. What’s changed and why The program is facing an increasing queue. We have already made adjustments to accommodate the rise…

Fox News correspondent Eric Shawn reports on the Department of Justice launching an investigation into New Jersey voter roll software errors that registered 6,600 non-citizens to vote. Gov. Mikie Sherrill acknowledged that as many as 400 registered non-citizens cast ballots in state elections under former Gov. Phil Murphy. Department of Homeland Security Sec. Markwayne Mullin warned that up to 35,000 non-citizens may remain registered on New Jersey voter rolls. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon doubled down on the DOJ's demand for New Jersey's voter registration data Wednesday after Democratic Gov.…

Chief Principal Census Officer, Directorate of Census Operations, Tamil Nadu, M. Sundaresh Babu, addressing the media on Census 2027 in Madurai on Wednesday. \| Photo Credit: G. MOORTHY The process of self-enumeration under Phase I of Census 2027, which began on July 17, has received data from over 9,000 households in Madurai district so far, said Chief Principal Census Officer, Directorate of Census Operations, Tamil Nadu, M. Sundaresh Babu. While addressing the media, in the presence of Madurai Collector Nishanth Krishna here on Wednesday, Mr. Sundaresh Babu said that a 15-day window has been provided for the people to carry out self-enumeration…

About 6,600 people in New Jersey who said they were not U.S. citizens had been incorrectly registered to vote due to a technical error during the previous gubernatorial administration, Gov. Mikie Sherrill, who took office this year, said Tuesday. She added that fewer than 400 were found to have actually voted and that the state is taking action to remove them from its voter rolls. The admission came less than a week after Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin sent letters to New Jersey and three other states alleging that those states might have tens of thousands of noncitizens registered to vote, although Mullin did not explain…

MOSCOW, July 22. /TASS/. Vladimir Zelensky tricked millions of people in Ukraine and beyond its borders into believing that he is devoid of any authoritarian tendencies, his former Press Secretary Yulia Mendel wrote on the X social network. Mendel said that during the two years as Zelensky’s press secretary, she "served as a shield for his mistakes, ignorance, and narcissism." "He was completely oblivious to what was happening in the country, government, or even his own office," she wrote. He is an actor with exceptional intuition, skilled at making people like him. \<…> Behind the scenes, there is chaos: mismanagement, narcissism, sexism, ignorance…

Fox News correspondent Eric Shawn reports on the Department of Justice launching an investigation into New Jersey voter roll software errors that registered 6,600 non-citizens to vote. Gov. Mikie Sherrill acknowledged that as many as 400 registered non-citizens cast ballots in state elections under former Gov. Phil Murphy. Department of Homeland Security Sec. Markwayne Mullin warned that up to 35,000 non-citizens may remain registered on New Jersey voter rolls. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Republican outrage went into overdrive after New Jersey Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced that the state had mistakenly registered 6,600…

Proton VPN's Stealth protocol is now available in beta for Linux GUI users The obfuscation feature disguises VPN traffic to better evade censorship It is currently supported on Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora distros In a major win for open-source enthusiasts, Proton VPN has officially launched its proprietary Stealth protocol in beta for Linux. Known for being one of the best VPN services on the market, the Swiss provider is continuing its push to bring the Linux experience up to par with its Windows and Mac counterparts. Announced on its official Reddit account, the release introduces powerful obfuscation capabilities to the platform. In simple terms,…

Beware of low-price or early stock Samsung Galaxy pre-orders after the July 22 Galaxy Unpacked 2026 event. They might be too good to be true. Scammers will be praying on those looking for stocks of the just-announced Flip 8 and Fold 8 handsets and anyone looking for a cut-price deal or an early release unit should watch where they browse. There will be fake shops out there ready to take your money, your identity and maybe drop you some malware all at the same time. There are some simple things you can do before you buy, though. Check the URL of the store you're in. It may look like one you know but AI has made it incredibly easy to create and clone…

Governments have long warned not to pay a hacker’s ransom demands, arguing that doing so only lets criminals profit from their cyberattacks and funds the next one. There’s also another reason: The hackers are unlikely to leave you alone if you pay up once, and many will come back demanding more. In a report published Wednesday, cybersecurity giant Proofpoint said it surveyed 953 companies and found that over one-third of companies that paid a hacker’s ransom were hit with a second extortion demand. The findings underscore the long-held understanding among security researchers and network defenders that it’s impossible to negotiate in good-faith with…

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story. The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political…

Image used for representation. \| Photo Credit: iStockphotos/Getty Images The government has disabled 50 OTT platforms, according to Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw. Mr. Vaishnaw, in a written response to member Sambit Patra, said, “The government has disabled 50 OTT platforms for public access in India over the last two years for displaying obscene content and violating Sections 67 and 67A of the IT Act, Section 294 of the BNS, and Section 4 of the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act.” In a written reply to Lok Sabha Member Rajabhau Parag Prakash Waje, Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting and Parliamentary Affairs L.…

The Concerned Leadership of Political Parties, CLPP, comprising the Action People’s Party, APP, Young Progressives Party, YPP, Peoples Redemption Party, PRP, Liberation Peoples Party, LPP, Young Progressives, YP, and other political parties, has expressed concern over the integrity of the forthcoming Osun State governorship election scheduled for 15 August 2026. Addressing journalists in Osogbo on Wednesday, the coalition through its spokesperson, Oluseye Titus Odesola, said it was alarmed by what it described as recent developments capable of undermining the credibility of the governorship poll, particularly regarding the transportation of election…

Cybersecurity provider Sophos has released a report entitled "The State of Ransomware 2026," pulling together responses from 2,158 survey participants, ranging from IT directors to company executives, in regards to ransomware incidents. Comparing the results to previous reports indicates that ransom demands themselves are actually decreasing—although 48% of organisations whose data was encrypted paid their attackers. The median ransom payment is now said to be $769,000, down from a neat $1 million from the previous year's study, with the median demand dropping to $698,000. Interestingly, 51% of organisations that paid a ransom coughed up less than the…

A European naval mission boarded a Russia-linked oil tanker suspected of sailing under a false flag this week, the EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas said Wednesday. Personnel operating under the Mediterranean naval initiative Operation EUNAVFOR MED IRINI boarded the MV South Star on Monday for “flag verification,” Kallas wrote in a post on X. “We’re turning up the pressure on Russia’s shadow fleet,” she said, referring to vessels with opaque ownership used to skirt Western sanctions against Russia. The EU’s naval force mission confirmed its crew boarded the sanctioned tanker in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea. Both Kallas and the EU…

Apple fixes Hide My Email flaw which exposed anonymous addresses through bounced spam logs Hidden emails created before July 7, 2026 may still be exposed in third‑party logs Users should update and consider regenerating hidden addresses to reduce lingering exposure risk A year after first being discovered, a vulnerability in Apple’s Hide My Email feature has finally been fixed - however some users will probably remain at risk until they make changes on their end, as well. The Hide My Email feature is part of the paid iCloud+ offering and allows users to quickly create a new, anonymous email address - very handy for people who don’t want to share their…

NordVPN releases a free-to-use AI tool that evaluates suspicious content NordBot aims to stop users from falling victim to social media scams It integrates directly with WhatsApp, Telegram, X, Instagram, Messenger We all know the feeling of receiving a text about a missed delivery fee or a bizarre link from a friend's hacked Instagram account. As phishing tactics grow increasingly sophisticated, the maker of TechRadar's top-rated best VPN has launched a new tool to give you a much-needed second opinion before you click. Today, NordVPN announced the launch of NordBot, an AI-powered agent designed to detect suspicious content across social media and…

Princess Beatrice and Edo Mapelli Mozzi have been pictured in Athens, Greece - amid rumours that their marriage is on the rocks. No doubt still revelling in their sixth wedding anniversary celebrations from last Friday, the pair met up with Athens-based art curator and independent art consultant Aliki Lampropoulos. Though it's not certain when the image was taken, Aliki, who served as a host committee member alongside the royal at The Charge charity gala in London in 2014, took to Instagram to share a selfie with the couple, who were seen beaming from ear to ear, yesterday. While the Greek art expert forwent a written caption, she added a bee emoji,…

Kerry Katona defends letting eight-year-old daughter use social media Kerry Katona has defended letting her youngest daughter use social media after being grilled by Susanna Reid on Good Morning Britain. Appearing on the show on Tuesday (21 July) with her 19-year-old daughter Heidi, the reality TV star discussed the rise of young girls using anti-ageing skincare products after seeing them being promoted online. As Heidi expressed concern that her younger sister, Dylan-Jorge, 12, had watched many such videos, Reid interjected to ask why Kerry would allow her access to social media. Kerry, who let Dylan-Jorge use social media from the age of eight,…

Months before 2026 even began, there was a palpable feeling in the air that it was going to be a significant year for games. Grand Theft Auto 6, Resident Evil Requiem, and Marvel’s Wolverine alone seemed like a generation-defining trio in the making. But truly special gaming years aren’t entirely defined by their biggest blockbusters; it’s often the surprises between those tentpole moments that give us the best games of the year. That’s certainly held true so far in 2026. Three months in and we’ve already had so many gems, big and small, that we could put together a pretty killer year-end list today and be happy with it. Don’t worry, we’ll save that…

The summer holidays are here, the sun is shining and your little cherubs are no doubt full of beans. With six long weeks to go until the new school year, many parents are looking for ways to keep the kids entertained without breaking the bank. From activities and days out to childcare, costs can soon add up. However, with a little forward planning, you can save up to 50 per cent on tickets to some of the UK's most popular family attractions. From theme parks and zoos to aquariums and historic landmarks, I've rounded up the best deals on family days out this summer, to help you stretch your budget further. Alton Towers (Alton Towers) This summer, Alton…

Last week, Hasbro and Nintendo announced a collaboration for a new line of six-inch action figures based on The Legend of Zelda characters. On Wednesday, they revealed the first three figures. They're who you were expecting, and they look as spectacular as you'd hope. Listings for Link, Zelda, and Ganondorf are all now live on the Hasbro Pulse website, with preorders set to go live at 8 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, July 22. They're all inspired by the characters' appearances in the series' latest open-world adventure, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Link and Zelda are priced at $27.99, while the taller Ganondorf (seven-and-a-half inches tall) is…

Valve’s handheld PC, the Steam Deck, is a genuinely brilliant piece of tech. Even four years on it’s still proving resilient to recent titles, and is often the ideal way to play so many controller-driven games. I treasure mine greatly, not least because to replace it right now would be far beyond my means. In May, in response to the multifactorial clusterfuck of component shortages and RAM prices, Valve significantly raised the price of the Deck between $240 and $300 depending on the model. Now, Boiling Steam is reporting (via WCCF Tech) that this has led to a colossal plunge in purchases, with the outlet claiming that since the hike, sales have…

Xbox has announced a new Xbox Backward Compatibility for PC program, which will let gamers play a selection of classic Xbox titles on PCs and handhelds, a move the company says marks the beginning of a bigger push into Xbox game preservation. The announcement begins with four titles that can now be played on PCs and handhelds, including the ROG Xbox Ally and Ally X. "This marks the beginning of a broader effort to preserve XBOX games from the past and bring them to PC over time," the company said in a blog post authored by Xbox "VP next generation" Jason Ronald. Alongside backward compatibility, the company says games will also include new features.…

Very good news for those eager to replay Blinx: The Time Sweeper in 2026: Microsoft just announced it will support backward compatibility for select original Xbox games on Windows PC. It is launching today in early release alongside four Xbox games that are coming to PC for the first time. “This marks the beginning of a broader effort to preserve Xbox games from the past and bring them to PC over time. And we are not just enabling you to play them on PC. We are also adding new features to make your gaming experience better than ever,” Jason Ronald, vice president of next generation at Xbox, said in a post on Xbox Wire. The four supported games are:…

Nvidia again showed off DLSS 5 at its Siggraph 2026 keynote Team Green made it clear that developers will have a level of control, with a choice of three different AI models There will be two sliders to play with, and masks to keep DLSS 5 from interfering with game assets where it's not wanted – but many gamers think devs should have much more control than this Nvidia has given us another showing of DLSS 5, the incoming tech for its GeForce GPUs which received a very stormy reception when first revealed at GTC 2026 – and unsurprisingly, changes have been made in the past few months. Tom's Hardware reports that Nvidia revealed more about how DLSS 5…

Waterparks have always felt like quite a strange concept to me in that the UK is small enough that you can just take a quick train ride and be at a beach within an hour or so, give or take. We do have them here, I've just had no reason to go one, and also the idea of having to be rescued from the inside of a slide due to getting stuck for one reason or another is a (I think rational) fear I've had since discovering them. Therefore, I'll take a pass on actually visiting one, but I won't say no to building my own in Aquapark Tycoon, a waterpark sim game that's out in early access today. Now, obviously the whole thing here is that you're building…

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story. The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political…

A movie as epic and beautiful as Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey deserves an equally epic and beautiful poster, and io9 has your first look at exactly that. Coda has teamed up with artist Rory Kurtz to release an incredible poster for the new film, which is now in theaters. It features Matt Damon as Odysseus, in all his victorious yet wounded glory, in either a bold blue or a bloody red. The blue is available as a timed edition through the end of San Diego Comic-Con on Sunday, July 26, while the red is a limited edition of 125. Here’s your exclusive first look at both versions. Rory Kurtz – The Odyssey – Regular – Coda That’s the standard version, a…

As Microsoft tries to downplay the effects on its gaming business of cutting 3,200 jobs and four studios, Xbox is rethinking its whole strategy even if the more recent comments from inside the house still sound confused at best. Don't worry though; old Xbox games are coming to PC. Via Xbox Wire, the company has announced Xbox Backward Compatibility on PC, a surprise program that aims to bring 'classics' - more on this below - to PC and handhelds like the ROG Xbox Ally for the first time ever. The emulation effort also includes features like "graphics settings, including up to 4x resolution upscaling, VSync support, Fullscreen and Windowed display…

Nvidia's Arm-based processor for laptops was unveiled after much waiting at Computex back in June. RTX Spark is Nvidia's first proper go at a consumer chip, combining CPU and GPU, and while it is of course targeted at AI workloads, it's also targeted at gaming. Now, Nvidia has confirmed which will be the first brands of RTX Spark laptop to come to market this fall and which will follow those. According to Nvidia, "RTX Spark systems will be available this fall from Asus, Dell Technologies, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft Surface and MSI, with models from Acer and Gigabyte to follow." The initial few aren't a big surprise given these are the exact companies that…

GLG Communications has honoured 50 outstanding public relations and strategic communications professionals at the fifth edition of the PR Power List Soirée and Awards, held in Lagos as part of activities marking World PR Day 2026. The invitation-only event took place on Friday at the Alliance Française, Mike Adenuga Centre, Ikoyi, under the theme, “The Golden Age of Strategic Public Relations.” The annual PR Power List is recognised as one of Africa’s leading platforms celebrating excellence in public relations and strategic communications. It recognises professionals whose work over the past year has delivered measurable impact by shaping…

Final Fantasy X and X-2’s HD remaster has been ported to just about every modern system under the sun at this point, and the Switch 2 joins this illustrious list this week. I’ve played both games multiple times over the past 25 years, and both of them hold up incredibly well. I still argue that if you’ve never touched a Final Fantasy, the original FFX is one of the best entry points, with its elegant marriage of the series’ turn-based roots and modern melodramatic sensibilities. But Tidus and Yuna’s pilgrimage gets all sorts of love every time its anniversary rolls around. What really deserves a fresh look is Final Fantasy X-2, the Yuna-led…

Following Microsoft's mass layoffs, The Elder Scrolls Online has ended up in a transitional period while remaining staff work to forge a path forwards. If you want evidence of effects the cuts are already starting to have on the MMO, look no further than its Crown Store. ESO's version of the premium currency cash shop that's become a hallmark of most massive online games with stuff to hawk - for real money, in-game money, or either depending on how much time you want to spend grinding - is undergoing some changes following the cuts. "To help manage workload, we have decided to remove the Web Crown Store from the official elderscrollsonline.com website…

Enugu State is set to host one of Africa’s largest gatherings of gaming, technology and investment stakeholders as the Enugu Gaming Conference (EGC2026) holds from 29 to 30 July 2026, at the International Conference Centre (ICC), Enugu. Organised by Events Arcade Solutions Limited in partnership with the Enugu State Gaming and Lotteries Commission (ESGC), the conference, themed “Code, Capital and Compliance: Unlocking Nigeria’s iGaming Tech Opportunity,” is expected to reinforce Enugu’s growing reputation as a preferred destination for technology, innovation and private investment under Governor Peter Mbah’s administration. The conference will bring…

Xbox announced today that some original Xbox games, which include Conker: Live and Reloaded, will be fully playable on PC via its digital store. These OG Xbox games will include new visual settings and features. And eventually, Xbox even plans to add achievements to these older titles, too. On July 22, Xbox confirmed that four original Xbox games will be made available to buy and play on the Xbox PC app. These games are: BLiNX: The Time Sweeper, Conker: Live and Reloaded, Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge, and Bill Gates’ favorite video game, Fuzion Frenzy.ÂIt’s an interesting selection made up of Xbox exclusives and launch titles for the 2001…

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We’re over halfway through 2026 already, which means it’s time to check in on all of Sony’s PlayStation Studios to see what they’re making and what games are coming to your PS5 in the months and years to come. While the console has received many great third-party releases so far this year, such as Resident Evil Requiem, 007 First Light, and Crimson Desert, only one first-party game has made its way into our hands: Housemarque’s latest shooter, Saros. It’s hard to ignore the biggest PlayStation news of the year so far, though: the decision to end the production of discs from January 2028, which leaves a big question mark over whether we’ll ever get…

Shenmue fans seem to have gained a powerful ally. Count Binface, a joke candidate running to be the next MP (Member of Parliament) of Clacton, England, is campaigning for Sega to release Shenmue 4. The series has been dormant since the long-awaited Shenmue 3 came out in 2019 after a successful Kickstarter campaign and support from publisher Deep Silver. “I need to say a galactic ‘hello’ to Sega on behalf of the Shenmue fans,” Binface said in a video posted on ShenmueDojoVOD’s YouTube channel. “I’ve got a little bone to pick with you because the fans would like to campaign for an update from you Sega about Shenmue 4. They can’t leave you guys on…

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story. The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political…

Reddit users, bored waiting for more information about the forthcoming FromSoftware Switch 2 exclusive The Duskbloods, have just been making up details about it for themselves. As reported by Ian Walker (I recognize that name from somewhere) over on Video Game Town, this “Duskposting”—where users make up imaginary bosses from the game, detail them, and even write guides for how to beat them—has been popular since the game’s announcement. It’s all good harmless fun, right up until the LLMs mindlessly scrape the made-up information and then present it to the rest of the world as stone-cold fact. One of the most fundamental flaws of LLMs like…

security Releases now reject new files after 14 days The Python Package Index (PyPI) now rejects new files being uploaded to releases that are older than 14 days. This restriction was put in place to prevent old and long-stable releases from being poisoned in case publishing tokens or workflows of PyPI projects were compromised. As far as we are aware this has not yet been abused, but there is no technical reason beyond that attackers weren't aware it was possible. Users should not yet rely on this behavior as there are no defined semantics for "releases no longer accepting new files" or APIs available to confirm the state of the release. Instead,…

Hasbro recently blew Nintendo fans' minds with the announcement that they've acquired the license for The Legend of Zelda games, opening the door to new figures of Link, Princess Zelda, and the rest of the gang. Thankfully, they aren't making us wait long to see the first fruits of that new partnership. Hasbro is unveiling the first three The Legend of Zelda: Heroes of Hyrule figures at Comic-Con, and IGN can exclusively debut images of the whole set. Check out the slideshow gallery below to see Hasbro's first figures of Link, Zelda, and Ganondorf: Hasbro's The Legend of Zelda: Heroes of Hyrule Figures - Image Gallery It's important to note that all…

What this post is: a step-by-step tour of a from-scratch CUDA inference runtime for Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct on NVIDIA H100 (`sm_90`) — every hot path annotated for why, not just what. What the runtime does today: greedy graph-tier token match passes on H100 at ≤4096 context, steady-state decode lands around \~16.7 ms/token (\~60 tok/s), and first-token latency is \~128 ms for a 512-token prompt. The one number that made everything else make sense: eager decode was \~119 ms/token. Wrapping decode in a captured CUDA graph collapsed that to \~17 ms/token. A 7× win — same kernels, just less driver. Three bugs did most of the teaching: __syncthreads()…

GitHub has redesigned the navigation architecture behind GitHub Issues to reduce perceived latency for developers by moving more work to the client-side. The engineering team introduced client-side caching, predictive prefetching, and service worker-based request handling to improve navigation performance, increasing instant navigation experiences from 4% to 22%. The changes address a common challenge in large-scale web applications: reducing delays caused by repeated network requests and client initialization during frequently repeated workflows. The work focused on GitHub Issues users who frequently navigate between issues, lists, and related views,…

Dr. Michelle Lynn Thaller, Tanya Thompson and Tony Cutraro discuss their heart-pounding grizzly bear encounter in Alaska. The hikers, who were at Anan Creek wildlife observatory, detail how they remained calm and followed ranger protocols, talking to the large animal as it passed them on the trail. This close call highlights the importance of wildlife safety. Being a wildlife photographer isn’t for the faint of heart. It takes patience, preparation and enough knowledge of animal behavior to understand when to stay put, when to move and when to get the heck out of there. CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE FROM OUTKICK And sometimes, it requires a little ice…

Let's learn about Csharp via these 207 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. Like Java, but it sucks less. In this post I'll show how to maintain a standard for everyone who works in the code, no matter the editor used. The Factory pattern allows developers to create objects without specifying the exact class of object that will be created. A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article about building and deploying a Blazor app without touching a Windows machine and realized maybe I should take a step back and explain what Blazor is…

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We start this week with Joseph’s story on how cops are using Flock to track actual people, not just cars, with searches like “male with tattoos.” After the break, Emanuel tells us all about the company that is explicitly selling mountains of books to AI companies and promising to keep the sales a secret. In the subscribers-only section, Jason tells us how he learned about the Suno hack and what it showed us. Listen to the weekly podcast on Apple Podcasts,Spotify, or YouTube. Become a paid subscriber for access to this episode's bonus content and to power our journalism. If you become a paid subscriber, check your inbox for an email from our podcast…

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The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide is your roadmap to what the younger people are up to. This week, discussions of what "quiet on the creek" means, why kids are calling each other "Tylenol babies," and what "corny on the bob, off the bob" means take us into some surprisingly choppy water. Because just like all of us, young people are wrestling with cultural appropriation, questionable health advisories, and issues of race and identity. But they're doing it with memes. What does "quiet on the creek" mean? Kids are exhorting one another to be "quiet on the creek" this week, usually in a stage whisper. The phrase's definition should be familiar to any…

Clavicular discusses the philosophy of 'looksmaxxing' on 'Hangout with Hannity.' NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Viral influencer Clavicular revealed his thoughts on "incel culture" — an online subculture of mostly young, heterosexual men who identify as "involuntary celibates," and are often stigmatized as misogynistic — as well as modern dating culture amid his controversial streaming antics. The 20-year-old internet personality, whose real name is Braden Peters, sat down with Fox News host Sean Hannity for the July 21 episode of "Hang Out with Sean Hannity." When asked about his content strategy and his views on women, Clavicular…

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This is our latest story to be turned into an MIT Technology Review Narrated podcast, which we publish each week on Spotifyand Apple Podcasts. Just navigate to MIT Technology Review Narrated on either platform, and follow us to get all our new content as it’s released. The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 OpenAI says one of its models carried out an autonomous hackIt escaped its testing sandbox and breached AI research platform Hugging Face. (Reuters $) + OpenAI described it as a cybersecurity test that went badly wrong. (WSJ $) + The hack is among the first known…

1. The number you should not trust An agent skill is a simple package of instructions for an AI agent. In practice, it is a folder with plain-English directions such as “open a pull request” or “triage these tickets.” Claude Code and most agent stacks load those directions when they seem relevant to the task. That makes skills easy to share. It also makes them risky. Anyone can publish one, and you install it the way you install anything else from the internet: drop it in the folder and go. So the security question is familiar: is this package safe? A new kind of scanner has shown up to answer that question. You point it at the folder, run the…

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › TL;DR: Get Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 for $29.97 instead of $499.99 and build, test, debug, and collaborate from one professional Windows IDE. This deal ends July 26 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Every ambitious app begins as an empty file and a slightly unreasonable idea. Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 provides the tools to turn that blinking cursor into functional software, and it is currently available for $29.97, down from its regular price of $499.99. That works out to roughly 94 percent off a professional, single-user…

The flip phone is back, and this one has a cause. Light, the Brooklyn maker of deliberately boring phones, has unveiled the Light Flip, its first clamshell and its fourth device in a decade. It costs $299 and lands with a pointed message: as Apple and Google push AI deeper into everything, Light is building the escape hatch. A phone that leaves things out The pitch is subtraction. The Light Flip runs LightOS, the company’s stripped-back operating system, showing white text on a black screen. There is no web browser. There is no Google Play Store. There is no social media feed to scroll. It is not quite a dumbphone, and definitely not a smartphone.…

Fox News correspondent Brooke Taylor meets Saronic CEO Dino Mavrookas to unveil the future of modern warfare with an exclusive look at autonomous drone boats. These innovative vessels are capable of military rescues without putting service members in danger, marking a significant milestone. Mavrookas emphasizes the ability to build thousands of these cost-effective, complex mission-ready ships, including the new 52-foot Mirage. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Watching a diving bird vanish beneath the water can feel almost unreal. One moment it cruises through the sky. Seconds later, it swims after prey before returning to the air. Around…

Femi Otedola, the chair of First HoldCo Plc, procured 706.1 million new shares in the banking group on Wednesday, a market disclosure said, taking his interest in the corporation to 21.95 per cent. The tycoon purchased the shares through Calvados Global Services Limited, his special purpose vehicle, in various deals worth N77.6 billion. The latest share purchase puts him roughly one per cent away from catching up with RC Investment, the bridge holder currently holding the largest stake (22.94 per cent) in the company. RC Investment, last July, emerged as the trustee for the 10.4 billion shares simultaneously offloaded by Oba Otudeko and Oye…

Brazil · Defense Key Facts —Aircraft added. The framework covers 20 additional Gripen jets, raising Brazil's planned fleet from 36 to 56 fighters. —Where they are built. Embraer will assemble the aircraft at its Gavião Peixoto industrial complex in São Paulo state. —Partnership structure. Brazil remains the only country outside Sweden licensed to produce the Gripen fighter. —Timeline. The heads of agreement was signed on 21 July 2026; a final contract is expected later this year. —Contract value. No purchase price or contract value was disclosed for the 20-jet production framework. Saab and Embraer signed a framework agreement on 21 July to produce 20…

Bad loans keep piling up in Argentina, dashing hopes that the economic pain unleashed by President Javier Milei’s harsh austerity programme had already crested. Milei has slashed inflation from triple-digit levels and returned Argentina’s economy to growth since he took office in 2023. His overhaul plan has won the country a series of sovereign credit upgrades, with the latest coming Tuesday from Moody’s Ratings, while leaving it deep in speculative territory. The government was counting on a revival in consumer credit to help broaden an export-led recovery through stronger household spending, in time to boost Milei’s chances heading into a tough…

Google parent Alphabet reports fiscal second-quarter results after the bell. Here's what analysts are expecting, according to LSEG. Earnings per share: $2.89 Revenue: $116.9 billion estimated Google's earnings mark the first major test this earnings season for the ballooning capital expenditures trade fueling the artificial intelligence revolution. In recent months, technology giants have poured billions into building new data center infrastructure to keep pace with skyrocketing demand for compute. But those massive investments have started to raise questions over the sustainability of long-term demand. Consensus estimates from FactSet expect $187.1…

What to expect from the next Fed meeting amid economic strains of Iran war The Federal Reserve is set to meet next week amid economic strains from the renewed and ongoing conflict with Iran, including higher oil prices. Ann Berry, the CEO of Threadneedle, joins with more on what to expect.

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Conservative activist CJ Pearson tells Fox News Digital Gen Z's search for belonging is fueling interest in socialism, while arguing DEI policies have left young Americans vulnerable to left-wing ideology. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Democrats are targeting "politically homeless" young people by offering them a sense of belonging, conservative activist CJ Pearson warned, arguing that the left is aggressively steering Gen Z toward socialism and DEI. "When I look at why young people are at least flirting with socialism right now, I think it's because they're politically homeless. I think they're looking for a place where they feel heard,…

[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] For a growing number of Hong Kong millionaire respondents, the mainland Greater Bay Area (GBA) cities becoming part of later-life planning, from healthcare access and living space to retirement lifestyle. Yet many have not fully worked out the financial demands of maintaining a life across Hong Kong and mainland GBA cities, according to a new OCBC Hong Kong survey. According to the bank’s “OCBC Premier Banking – Hong Kong Millionaires Dual Living and Wealth Management Study 2026”, about 30 per cent of respondents considering relocation to mainland GBA cities or already living…

Knowing what stage your HVAC system is in can help you estimate when a significant expense could arise. Sakchai Vongsasiripat/Getty Images Buying a home tends to be one of the biggest financial milestones most people will ever reach, especially in today's unusual housing market, where home prices remain high despite elevated mortgage rates. But once the closing documents are signed and the moving boxes are unpacked, a different phase of homeownership begins — one where unexpected home repair bills can compete with your mortgage payment for the top spot in your monthly budget. And, heating and cooling systems are one of the most common sources of those…

The US is putting generic medicines on the tariff map, with duties set to rise to as much as 200% in the coming years to boost local manufacturing. But will the cure soothe the pain for American consumers—or inflame it further? Dr Reddy's Laboratories said that higher import duties will likely push up medicine prices. Furthermore, despite the policy push, moving manufacturing to the country is impractical. Speaking during the company's earnings call on Wednesday, Dr Reddy's CEO Erez Israeli said any increase in tariffs would inevitably translate into higher prices for medicines in the US. "If the tariff is increased, we will have to increase prices…

Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. U.S. President Donald Trump's point man on tariffs is justifying the plan to slap new tariffs of 50 per cent on many Canadian products as part of a broader strategy aimed at reducing the U.S. trade deficit. The trade deficit, which hit $1.2 trillion US in 2025, is a "national emergency," U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told a Senate finance committee hearing on Wednesday. "That national emergency still persists, and so our…

US Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh testifies during a House Financial Services Committee hearing titled "The Federal Reserve's Semi-Annual Monetary Policy Report" on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on July 14, 2026. Brendan Smialowski \| Afp \| Getty Images He's not quite at the level of obscurity of former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, but new Fed chief Kevin Warsh has settled on a few phrases that are notable for their repetition and lack of clarity. In five public appearances, starting with his nomination hearing in April, through his first press conference, roundtable in Portugal and two congressional testimonies, Warsh has used the…

Billionaires are on the rise as the rest struggle with inequality, poverty and a cost of living crisis. Billionaires have nearly as much wealth than the bottom 50%. AI is boosting the global economy – but there’s growing concern that not everyone will reap the rewards. At the same time, efforts to battle global poverty are stalling and even in developed countries the middle class are being squeezed by the cost of living crisis. As the rich get richer is everyone else being left behind? Published On 22 Jul 202622 Jul 2026 Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo

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RBI \| Photo Credit: Reuters Indian economy has navigated well the external uncertainties and supply chain pressures, underpinned by healthy demand conditions and resilient performance of the industrial and services sectors, according to a Reserve Bank of India (RBI) bulletin. “The global economy is dealing with uncertain economic environment, supply chain disruptions and fragmented trading relationships. Amidst these uncertainties, India remains among the fastest growing major economies across the globe and has been able to sustain the momentum in economic activities through June,” senior officials said in RBI Bulletin July edition, which was…

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story. The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political…

Argentina’s dollar bonds rose after Moody’s Ratings lifted the country’s credit score, giving the nation its third sovereign upgrade in less than three months in a fresh boost to President Javier Milei. Moody’s upgraded Argentina by one notch to ‘B3’ from ‘Caa1,’ with a positive outlook. While the move still leaves the country deep in speculative territory, all three major credit-rating firms now rate Argentina above the highly distressed category, a milestone for a country that spent years among the riskiest sovereign borrowers in global markets. “The upgrade is clearly positive and reinforces the macro stabilisation story under Milei,” Murilo…

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The Duskbloods network test will take place between Friday, Aug. 21 and Sunday, Aug. 23, offering the perfect opportunity for those eager to have a taste of FromSoftware's new game and see what it's all about. If you're selected to participate, you will be able to play a pre-release version of the game, which allows for multiplayer matches with up to eight players. To help you register for the chance to be one of the first to play this game, we've put together this guide explaining how to sign up for The Duskbloods network test. How to sign up for The Duskbloods network test The application period to participate in The Duskbloods network teststartson…

Top officials and Ministers in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have recently posted about friendship and unity on social media, signalling a rapprochement months after a public fall-out between the two largest Arab economies. On Tuesday (July 21) evening, Saudi General Entertainment Authority chairman Turki Alalshikh posted a picture of the kingdom's defence minister Khaled bin Salman, alongside Emirati Vice President Mansour bin Zayed, that he said was taken a few days ago. "Saudi Arabia and the UAE: A story of brotherly relations and a strong partnership," he wrote in his post on X. UAE presidential advisor Anwar Gargash also shared the…

TEHRAN – Iraqi Ambassador to Iran Yasser Abdulzahra Al-Hajjaj has reaffirmed Baghdad's commitment to strengthening ties with Tehran, describing the relationship between the two neighboring countries as one rooted in centuries of shared history, civilization and cultural affinity, while emphasizing that Iraq's foreign policy is based on balanced regional engagement, dialogue and mutual respect. In an article published by the Iraqi News Agency (INA) ahead of Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Al-Zaidi's planned visit to Tehran, Al-Hajjaj said it was a privilege to represent Iraq in a country with which it shares deep historical, geographical, cultural and…

Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara has again publicly endorsed President Bola Tinubu for a second term, declared support for the Rainbow Coalition political alliance in Rivers, and named Kingsley Chinda as his preferred governorship candidate for the state. Mr Fubara made the declaration on Wednesday during the groundbreaking and foundation-laying ceremony of the Rivers Medical Industry project in Rumuosi, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. In a video of his remarks circulated on social media, the governor said he has returned to his political family and called on his supporters to align with the Rainbow Coalition, a political…

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A steady stream of food delivery riders carrying meals, snacks and bottled water is helping sustain a youth-led protest movement that has sprung up in the heart of India’s capital. Motorcycles weave through traffic before pulling up beside clusters of volunteers, ferrying donations from supporters across India and abroad unable to join a rare display of public dissent against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. “From Kerala to the USA, orders are coming from everywhere,” said rider Suraj Kumar, 25, sitting atop his motorcycle with a bag of kachoris, a popular deep-fried snack, as some volunteers climbed over police barricades to take delivery…

With the participation of more than 30 textile and apparel manufacturers, signing of MoUs, and the support of two Ministries, Tamil Nadu made a significant participation at Bharat Tex 2026 that concluded in New Delhi recently. The fair attracted about 6,000 overseas buyers and a large number of domestic visitors. “The fair will certainly transform into an international event in the coming years. For the garment manufacturers who participated from Tiruppur, the response from overseas buyers is promising and will turn into orders,” said K.M. Subramanian, president of the Tiruppur Exporters Association. The Southern India Textile Research Association…

NEW DELHI: The Centre is unlikely to remove Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan despite mounting demands for his resignation, as it believes he cannot be held responsible for the NEET paper leak, news agency PTI reported, citing a senior government functionary. According to the report, the government is, however, willing to favourably consider the demand for compensation for the families of students who died by suicide following the alleged paper leak. The Centre is also open to engaging seriously with protesters led by the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP), though it believes there should be flexibility over the venue of the talks, instead of…

BELGRADE, July 22. /TASS/. Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Ivica Dacic thanked Moscow for its support to his country’s territorial integrity during a meeting with Russian Ambassador to Serbia Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko. "In the course of his conversation with the Russian ambassador, Minister Dacic emphasized that both countries maintain an active political dialogue, based on longtime friendship and successful cooperation both on bilateral and multilateral levels. Among other things, he expressed deep gratitude to Russia for its strong and consistent support to preserving Serbia’s territorial integrity and sovereignty," the Serbian…

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise spoke with Fox News Digital about plans to move a fourth budget reconciliation bill, this time targeting government waste and fraud. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The No. 2 leader in the House of Representatives has confirmed plans for a fourth "big, beautiful bill" that would tackle government waste and abuse of federal dollars. "If you're a single waitress, working three shifts at a diner, Democrats voted against you keeping your tip money … so that they can give that money to fraudsters in Minnesota who were sending it to terrorist organizations," House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., told Fox…

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said that public officials on both sides of the aisle have used inappropriate rhetoric against justices during a Capitol Hill hearing. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The first Fox News Power Rankings of the 2026 midterm elections and a new poll both indicate an extremely close contest between longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Troy Jackson, the candidate set to replace ex-nominee Graham Platner as the Democratic challenger, in what's expected to be a premiere Senate battleground. The Fox News Power Rankings, which gauge the competitiveness of elections using data, reporting, and analysis,…

The Senate on Wednesday sympathised with the family of former Senator Anthony Adeniyi, who represented Ekiti South Senatorial District between 2011 and 2015. Mr Adeniyi, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), died on 24 June at the age of 75. Until his death, he was the Ekiti State chairman of the South West Agenda for Asiwaju (SWAGA), the political movement that mobilised support for the emergence of President Bola Tinubu ahead of the 2023 general election. President Tinubu, through his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, had earlier condoled with the family of the deceased. Ekiti State Governor, Abiodun Oyebanji, also mourned the…

MOSCOW, July 22. /TASS/. Moscow and Tehran have reviewed the situation in the South Caucasus and around Ukraine and reaffirmed their commitment to developing a comprehensive set of bilateral relations in accordance with the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty, the Russian Foreign Ministry said following Russian-Iranian consultations held in Moscow. An assistant to the Iranian Foreign Minister and Director General for Eurasian Affairs at the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Manouchehr Moradi, was received by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin and held consultations with the leadership of the Second Asian Department and the Second, Third,…

Born from a satirical retort to a passing comment by India's top judge, the "Cockroach Janta Party" has grown into a full-fledged movement protesting the government's mishandling of the nationwide medical entrance examination in May. Despite a violent crackdown on a peaceful march heading to the Indian parliament in New Delhi on Monday, members of the movement have kept up their protest. FRANCE 24 explains how the CJP came to be.

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Minister for Agriculture K. Atchannaidu. \| Photo Credit: File Photo Andhra Pradesh Agriculture Minister Kinjarapu Atchannaidu on Wednesday said the Centre responded positively to the State government’s proposals aimed at addressing the problems faced by tobacco and aquaculture farmers. He expressed confidence that announcements on reducing GST on unmanufactured tobacco and extending financial assistance to tobacco growers would be made soon. Addressing a press conference at the TDP headquarters in Mangalagiri, Mr. Atchannaidu said he had met Union Ministers Nirmala Sitharaman, Piyush Goyal, Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Rajiv Ranjan Singh in New Delhi on…

Kalshi, one of the leading prediction markets, is starting a midterm election hub that offers real-time forecasts driven by wagers predicting race outcomes. The hub displays election outcome forecasts, polling, fundraising statistics and historical election data, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. Kalshi bills the hub as a "one-stop-shop for state and federal election forecasting" that provides a "real-time picture of where a race stands." Kalshi and rivals like Polymarket rely on the "wisdom of the crowd" principle that the views of the masses are more likely to be accurate than the opinions of a single individual. Kalshi called the new…

MOSCOW, July 22. /TASS/. By removing Mikhail Fedorov as Ukraine’s defense minister, Vladimir Zelensky has effectively launched Fedorov’s presidential campaign with his own hands, Maryana Bezuglaya, a member of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, said. "Paradoxically, amid this mix of partnership and confrontation, [Zelensky] has already launched Mikhail [Fedorov’s] own presidential campaign, which could prove highly successful," she wrote on her Telegram channel, commenting on Fedorov’s dismissal and the protests that followed. Bezuglaya recalled that Zelensky and Fedorov had worked together for years. "Just imagine: if Mikhail managed the…

Thousands of immigrant children who came to the United States without being accompanied by a parent or guardian are now at imminent risk of losing the attorneys assisting on their legal cases, amid cuts in government funding, advocates warned this week. The Trump administration has severed ties with nearly a hundred legal organizations across the country that provide immigration advice and has been funneling kids into fast-tracked court hearings. “The Trump administration is working to strip unaccompanied children of legal representation so they can be deported faster and with less scrutiny. We cannot allow that to happen,” said Ana Devereaux, senior…

A withdrawal of service by criminal defence solicitors in Dublin is not justified and should not happen, the Taoiseach has said. The two-day stoppage across courts in the city marks an escalation of an increasingly vexed row between the profession and Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan over reforms to the legal aid system. Solicitors have criticised the implementation of a flat fee for their work with criminal legal aid clients regardless of how many appearances are involved in the case. Up to 200 solicitors have indicated they would resign from the legal aid panel in protest at the move – impacting several proceedings. The two-day stoppage in Dublin…

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fired his commander-in-chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi, in Ukraine’s biggest military shake-up in two years. Nationwide protests broke out after Zelenskyy sacked Mykhailo Fedorov as defence minister, who the Ukraine president says will now be brought back into government in a ‘prominent position’. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s senior international correspondent Luke Harding – watch on YouTube

Emiliano ‘Dibu’ Martínez has opened the door to retiring from Argentina's national team following the World Cup final defeat to Spain, saying he will reflect on whether it is time to "step aside." Following Sunday's loss, the national team goalkeeper took to Instagram on Tuesday to question his future with the Albiceleste. "I dreamed we would win it again. I dreamed of bringing it back to Argentina and making history once more," the Aston Villa goalkeeper wrote on his personal account. "The truth is the pain is difficult to explain. There are many things to reflect on and I have to see how to move forward, and whether it is time to step aside," he…

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Nina Kennedy didn’t know if she’d make it to the Games. Now she’s carrying the flag Updated July 23, 2026 — 2:12am,first published 11:59pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA Nina Kennedy had her doubts. After undergoing major surgery to repair a hamstring that tore three times in six weeks, the Olympic and Commonwealth Games pole vault champion questioned whether she could get back to her best, or better. Now, not only will Kennedy be defending her gold medal from Birmingham in 2022, she will also lead the Australian team out at the Glasgow opening ceremony, after chef de…

Dan Zaksheske believes that Ryan Calrk became too much of a headache for ESPN to retain during layoffs. Things look a little different at ESPN today. Haven't you heard? The World Wide Leader laid off dozens of employees this week, including Ryan Clark, Cam Newton, Tom Pelissero and Karl Ravech. Others were let go as well, but those are some of the big names circulating the internet as of today. This isn't the first round of layoffs at ESPN — or for any company. Frankly, this is at least the third or fourth round of layoffs at ESPN since I started working at OutKick four years ago. It's become a yearly story at this point. EXCLUSIVE: ESPN TO PART WAYS…

The key point here is whether the transfers can be defined as a 'swap deal'. One of the clauses in Uefa's transfer regulations defining "player exchange transactions" is that such deals must be concluded within 45 days of each other. Clubs can still transfer players between themselves in that 45-day period, but those deals would have to be perceived as not connected to not be seen as part of a swap. Indeed Tottenham and Brighton moved centre-backs Jan Paul van Hecke and Luka Vuskovic between them in separate deals earlier this summer, though both clubs are some distance away from the threshold to be under Uefa scrutiny. Chelsea and Villa, however, are…

Wolves striker Tolu Arokodare forced the cancellation of a training session after he refused to leave the pitch. BBC Sport has been told the 25-year-old sat down and demanded the club let him move to Fiorentina. Wolves have rejected a bid from the Serie A side, having accepted an offer from Turkish club Trabzonspor. Arokodare's actions led to new boss Cesar Peixoto terminating the session on Monday. Arokodare will not be involved in Wednesday's friendly at Maidenhead United as Wolves continue their pre-season plans. The latest incident is another flashpoint in the forward's career at Molineux after he was disciplined in April following a confrontation…

ANTIPOLO—June Mar Fajardo played extended minutes in San Miguel Beer’s 128-122 win over Converge in the PBA Governors’ Cup on Wednesday here and that could bode well for his team moving forward. Fajardo had 10 points, nine rebounds, three assists and two blocks in almost 27 minutes as the Beermen stretched their unbeaten start to three games for a share of the Group A lead with the NLEX Road Warriors. READ: PBA: June Mar Fajardo dismisses injury concerns His exposure came after sitting out San Miguel’s 123-109 win over Macau and appearing for 15 minutes in the 109-104 escape act […]...Keep on reading: PBA: June Mar Fajardo logs extended minutes in San…

Declan Bogue, Fintan O’Toole and Ronan Early convene for a philosophical football final preview. At least it starts out that way, before getting down to the brass tacks of who is going to win this game and why. But first the lads grapple with the question of whether Triggers brush, with 17 new heads and 14 new handles over a 20-year span, is still the same brush? Parallels are drawn to the Ship of Theseus Paradox which has exercised thinkers for centuries: If a boat has every component replaced over time, is it the same ship or a new one? And are Mayo still Mayo, and Kerry still Kerry, in their essence, despite the passage of time and changing cast of…

Former Real Madrid star, Luis Figo, has named four players to be among those that will definitely compete for the 2026 Ballon d’Or. Figo believes Spain’s Rodri, Portugal’s Vitinha and France duo Kylian Mbappe and Desire Doue will contend for the prestigious individual prize. Speaking about the players to contend for the Ballon d’Or, the former Portugal international told Betfair, as reported by Madrid Universal, “For me, Rodri has had a great World Cup even though, in terms of goals or assists, he hasn’t stood out that much. “Mbappe and his outstanding World Cup performance will surely put him among the potential winners, too. “And I would certainly…

Dan Dakich asks Tim Brando whether Texas Tech will remain college football's villain this season or if that will be LSU As we enter day three of SEC Media Days, the discussion continues to center around issues that are only tangentially related to what will happen on the field in 2026. Everyone seems to be so preoccupied with whether the SEC will secede from college football that they forget we have an actual season to play in less than a month and a half. Fear not, SEC fans. I'm here to talk some actual football with you all, and on today's dockett, I'll be keying in on five freshmen who will have the biggest impact on the field this fall. GREG…

ANTIPOLO—Chot Reyes’ ejection perhaps typified TNT’s frustrations in its 103-87 loss to previously winless Titan Ultra in Wednesday’s 2026 PBA Governors’ Cup here. Reyes was tossed after being slapped with a second technical foul during the fourth quarter, with the Tropang 5G trailing big against a Giant Risers’ side that went on to complete the upset at Ynares Center. “Emotion-shy yun e,” joked his son and TNT assistant coach Josh Reyes. TNT’s coaching staff will have plenty to sort out after seeing the Tropang 5G getting outplayed starting the second quarter until the lead ballooned to a high of 22. […]...Keep on reading: PBA: Chot Reyes' ejection…

Known for its vibrant cities, diverse landscapes and its globally renowned steak, there are plenty of reasons why holidaymakers should be flocking to Argentina. But just as the Argentinian football team turned their backs on Spain celebrating their victory in the 2026 FIFA World Cup, it seems many tourists have turned their backs on visiting the country. Bookings for properties in Argentina plummeted by 50 per cent between the final whistle on Sunday, July 19, and Tuesday, July 21. The data, revealed by booking platform HotelPlanner.com, compared the figure to two data sets: the average booking rate for Argentinian hotels in 2026 so far, and the days…

Los Angeles Angels third baseman Vaughn Grissom turns exceptional double play by firing a bounce pass to second base. (This video contains AI-assisted content) NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Los Angeles Angels third baseman Vaughn Grissom brought some basketball onto the diamond. In the top of the third inning of the Angels’ 5-1 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday at Angel Stadium, Grissom brought the bounce pass into play. With a runner on first base and one out, Cardinals catcher Iván Herrera hit a ground ball to Grissom at third base. The 25-year-old fielded it cleanly and went to throw to second base to begin the double play.…

For now, Liverpool supporters are left with more questions than answers. Since completing its takeover of the club in October 2010, Fenway Sports Group, then known as New England Sports Ventures, has established itself as a steady and reliable custodian. The American ownership group has overseen sustained success on and off the pitch, with Liverpool winning two Premier League titles, the Champions League, FA Cup, League Cup, Super Cup and Club World Cup since 2019. Therefore, the prospect of new investors, and potentially new ideas and approaches, inevitably raises questions, particularly if they are entering elite-level sport for the first time.…

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story. The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political…

FIFA has said that the Super Eagles will only qualify for the World Cup in 2030 if they depend on stability in the structure of the country’s football. The world football governing body, in a statement on Wednesday, emphasized Nigeria’s impressive footballing production line. The three-time African champions failed to make it to a second consecutive World Cup in 2026. Eric Chelle’s men finished as runners-up to South Africa in Group C of the CAF qualifiers but lost the continental play-off final to DR Congo. FIFA has now offered advise to football administrators in the West African country. “Nevertheless, with the country’s vast footballing production…

Rangers have completed the signing of forward Azeez Falolu from Katsina United, DAILY POST reports. Falolu joined the reigning Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL, champions following lengthy discussions between both sides. He becomes one of Rangers’ early additions of the summer transfer window. Rangers technical adviser, Fidelis Ilechukwu is reported to be a huge admirer of the player. His arrival will add more firepower and depth to the Flying Antelopes’ attack. Falolu is expected to be unveiled as one of the Rangers’ new signings in coming weeks. Rangers will be hoping the young forward can hit the ground running as they seek to defend their…

Chelsea legend, John Terry, has reacted to the club’s latest signing, Morgan Rogers. Chelsea recently signed Rogers from Aston Villa for £117 million on a long-term contract. Reacting, Terry insisted that the 23-year-old will improve Xabi Alonso’s side. “The numbers are inflated; that is not the players’ issue for me,” Terry said on Piers Morgan Uncensored. “To be honest, if you were him, you’d have probably gone to Arsenal, so the numbers must have been pretty big. But I’m excited to have him. I think he’s a good player. “I think he is going to give us better than what we have got at the moment. I think he is a good addition to the squad, and I’m…

A rendering from Manica of the planned new 2031 stadium for the Kansas City Chiefs in the team's new Kansas home. Kansas City Chiefs The roof on the planned new stadium for the Kansas City Chiefs will feature a translucent ETFE material. Inside, the Chiefs expect to have seats for about 70,000 fans. Those details about the $3 billion stadium emerge in the first official renderings of the venue as the Chiefs announced the selection of Manica as the lead design architect for the stadium and HNTB as the architect of record. Planned for a 2031 opening, the new Chiefs stadium moves from Kansas City, Missouri, to Kansas City, Kansas, into Wyandotte County…

MANILA, Philippines— CJ Perez and George King powered San Miguel Beer past Converge in the 2026 PBA Governors’ Cup at Ynares Sports Center in Antipolo on Wednesday night, but they weren’t the only ones in the spotlight. In the Beermen’s 128-122 victory over the FiberXers, San Miguel’s bench also came through. That, however, barely surprised assistant coach Peter Martin. After all, bench production has never been the Beermen’s problem. Their tendency to play independently, though, has been a concern. “We’re not there yet. Obviously, we knew this would happen because these guys are all good on offense. That wasn’t a […]...Keep on reading: PBA: San…

DC Studios needs a bit of a pick-me-up after the box office and critical disappointment of Supergirl and, based on this new trailer, director James Watkins’ Clayface might just be the ticket. The movie’s first official trailer doesn’t lean quite as heavily into the body horror of its harrowing teaser, but it’s still pretty unsettling. And yes, that haunting version of The Flaming Lips’ “Do You Realize??” still underscores the whole thing. The film’s official logline reads, “Matt Hagen’s meteoric rise from Gotham street kid to Hollywood leading man is tragically cut short when a local crime boss’s actions leave him horribly disfigured. Abandoned by…

A coroner has hit out at Polish hotel bosses for refusing to share CCTV footage which may show the death of a British businessman. Recruitment expert and father-of-three Steve McBride, 40, died after falling 36 feet from a hotel rooftop during a team-building ski resort trip when he went to fetch the keys to his room in the dark. It had been hoped that CCTV from the four-star Hotel Bania in Bialka Tatrzanska might shed light on how Mr McBride came to die. But this week a coroner revealed that the Polish resort hotel had failed to respond to requests to hand over footage - a refusal that he described as 'shameful'. Senior coroner for East London Graeme…

Jameela Jamil says 'British people are the most evil people in history' as she admonishes her fellow compatriots in anti-colonial podcast tirade By RICHARD EDEN, DIARY EDITOR and HARRY DOUGHERTY, DIARY REPORTER Published: 12:16 EDT, 22 July 2026 \| Updated: 12:18 EDT, 22 July 2026 Stripped of their roles at the Queen Elizabeth II Commonwealth Trust after they quit royal duties, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Netflix series Harry \& Meghan aired attacks on the Commonwealth, with one contributor dismissing the voluntary organisation as ‘Empire 2.0’. Another commentator claimed in the 2022 documentary that the Commonwealth had ‘not changed a thing…

Nirvanna the Band the Show and Movie will finally be available to stream via Hulu on July 24 The recent film was a big hit, but the series wasn't available to watch anywhere. Comedy fans should probably block off this upcoming weekend. The cult hit Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie will be available to stream via Hulu starting on July 24. It had previously been available to rent or purchase, but who has the money for that in this economy? That's not all. Hulu is also the new home to the show that inspired the movie, Nirvanna the Band the Show. Both seasons of the 2017-ish show will begin streaming on that same date, which is a pretty big deal.…

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story. The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political…

The 2026 edition of San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) is almost upon us, and you know what that means: all manner of rumors and speculation about the surprises Marvel might have in store for us at its now-customary Hall H panel. To a certain extent, the biggest reveal has already happened. Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) diehards had expected the first official trailer for Avengers: Doomsday to be the focal point of the comic book titan's next presentation. With Avengers: Doomsday's main trailer released on Monday (July 20), though, Marvel must have something just as significant around which to center its forthcoming panel on July 25 at 5:30pm PT. As…

I'll level with you: I was never the biggest fan of The Big Bang Theory. I held a torch for Young Sheldon like my life depended on it and was even happy to give Georgie \& Mandy's First Marriage, but something has always felt off with TBBT in my eyes. Maybe it was the bright lights and constant laugh track, or maybe it was the fact that I always felt too dumb to understand the nerdy science at its core. But there's good news — new HBO Max spinoff Stuart Fails to Save the Universe has made me feel like a born-again sitcom fan. Logically, a TBBT spinoff should have followed Sheldon (Jim Parsons), Leonard (Johnny Galecki) or Howard (Simon Helberg) in…

TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY \| 35th Anniversary Trailer \| STUDIOCANAL - YouTube Watch On We’re not going to bombard you with a bunch of "Hasta La Vista, Baby" jokes, but you might want to mark your calendars for Aug. 28, 2026, because James Cameron's Oscar-winning "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" is heading back into U.S. and global theaters later this summer in honor of its 35th anniversary. While the actual anniversary of the movie's release was back on July 3rd, StudioCanal has a great reason for delaying the re-release until August. Judgment Day in the sci-fi franchise’s mythology occurs on August 29, 1997. It's when Skynet becomes self-aware and…

Dior is coming to Ireland for its pre-fall show in December. The luxury French fashion brand – helmed by Northern Irish designer Jonathan Anderson – plans to show its pre-fall 2027 collection in the Old Library of Trinity College in Dublin on December 4. While Dior hosts its regular fashion shows in Paris, it tends to pick international locations for the ‘in-between’ collections – like cruise and pre-fall shows. Previous locations include Los Angeles, Kyoto, Mumbai and Perthshire, Scotland, but this marks the first time the historic label is showing in Ireland. Jonathan Anderson took over at Dior in 2025 (Alamy/PA) Dior posted the show’s invitation on…

Sneak peek of new documentary 'Disney Worldbuilders' The new Disney+ documentary features the biggest names in entertainment sharing how their movies have come to life in Disney parks. July 22, 2026

The reflecting pool resurfacing has had many dramatic twists and turns, from algae to arrests to a second draining. Jackie Lay/NPR *hide caption* *toggle caption* Jackie Lay/NPR Of the many political dramas unfolding on any given day in the nation's capital, one character has emerged as an unlikely star: the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The shallow, rectangular landmark has been the site of historic speeches and presidential inaugurations over the decades. But now, at age 104, it's taken on a new national significance as the site of the Trump administration's embattled beautification efforts — and the criticism, misinformation and mockery that's…

Nigerian Afrobeat star, Davido, has reacted to the public apology by his official streamer, Davrel. DAILY POST reports that Davrel was criticised for allegedly disrespecting Davido over the weekend during the burial ceremony of Israel DMW ‘s late father in Edo State. A video from the event showed Davrel sitting on a chair reportedly reserved for Davido, with one of his legs placed on the seat, while the singer was still standing before someone approached Davrel to vacate the chair. Reacting to the clip, Davido’s fans, known as the 30 Billion Gang, or 30BG, dragged Davrel on social media and accused him of disrespecting the singer. Speaking amid the…

Surround sound speaker channel numbers explained: Bigger isn't always better Here's what to pay attention to when building a home theater system. Archideaphoto/Getty Images Are you considering buying a home theater setup? Then you might be wondering what surround sound channel numbers mean. Most systems are either broken down into an X.Y or X.Y.Z notation. Typically, the first digit always relates to ear-level speakers, the second relates to whether there's a subwoofer or not, while the optional third is a specific type of speaker sometimes found in ultra-fancy Dolby Atmos systems. Before you splurge on the best gear to upgrade your home theater…

If you spend any time on the artsy and philosophical side of social media (of which I am a proud denizen), you will eventually stumble upon some nostalgia-made-cool. I am as guilty as the rest. Because English has only a few words for nostalgia-adjacent emotions — like heartache, homesickness, or sorrow — English speakers tend to grasp thirstily for what other languages have to say. And other languages certainly seem to have richer accounts of a complex emotion. In Portuguese, you have “saudade,” which is a deep, melancholic longing for something or someone now lost. The Germans have “Sehnsucht” for that visceral ache that comes on when you yearn for…

Joanna Page and her husband James Thornton clashed over where they would like to live as she declared she would like the family to move to Spain. The Gavin and Stacey actress, 49, who shares four children with her actor partner, 50, revealed on their podcast she wants them all to reside in Mallorca. Speaking on her podcast Lush! with her husband, they revealed they had just returned from their family holiday to the island. But while Joanna said she would happily up sticks and relocate, James claimed he was more practical about the situation Joanna said: 'I now want to move to Spain. I say it every year.' James agreed: 'Yes every time we go away.'…

Marvel has mapped out its movie plans up to 2042, studio boss Kevin Feige has said, hinting at a "streamlined, simplified" universe post-Avengers: Secret Wars, a big push for the new X-Men, and plans to eventually unveil a live-action Miles Morales. Speaking to Chinese outlet Watching Hollywood during a recent tour of Shanghai, Feige described this year's Avengers: Doomsday and next year's Avengers: Secret Wars as a conclusion to storylines that started before the MCU itself (such as the fates of some original X-Men). At the same time, Feige also contrasted Secret Wars with the climactic Avengers: Endgame, suggesting that 2027's blockbuster would act…

A scene from the second episode of SBS drama "Agent Kim Reactivated" shows protagonist Manager Kim, portrayed by actor So Ji-sub, created entirely through artificial intelligence. Courtesy of Morpheus Studio On a snowy night, a motorcycle pursues a black sedan into a mountain tunnel. A wire trap overturns the lead escort vehicle and a mysterious man wearing a mask and a North Korean military uniform approaches the sedan. A gunfight and hand-to-hand combat follow. Overpowering the bodyguard, the man forces the terrified North Korean official into the passenger seat and speeds out of the tunnel. "You’re going to die here with me," the man says, before…

Like many chuds online, Elon Musk has some bones to pick with the box office smash hit The Odyssey. Musk, an accomplished ancient Greek scholar who is also known for his successful cave rescues, doesn't think Odyssey director Christopher Nolan rendered a realistic version of Homer's epic. Rather than spend his billions filming something better, Musk is going to use his proprietary artificial intelligence to set things right. The promise comes on the heels of a viral social media post on X, after a user prompted Grok to render a trailer for The Odyssey with a "correct" interpretation of the timeless classic. In practice, Grok generated a version of The…

ITV has come under fresh scrutiny after Love Island: All Stars contestants hit out at the programme's duty of care, claiming they had a worse experience on their second stint on the show compared to their original series. The network first introduced formal aftercare policies in 2019 following the tragic deaths of past contestants Sophie Gradon and Mike Thalassitis, who both took their own lives. Host Caroline Flack also died by suicide in 2020. Since then, the policies have been updated over the years to reflect modern society, introducing elements such as financial training, a social media ban and training on how to avoid gaslighting in…

Earlier this summer, Steven Spielberg returned to the movie genre that made him a household name: science fiction. Disclosure Day is Spielberg's first sci-fi action flick since 2018's Ready Player One (and before that, War of the Worlds in 2005), and it's his closest attempt in decades to recapture the magic of 1980s classics like E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Now, after a successful box office run, Disclosure Day is coming to home video. The movie is currently available to rent online, with 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD versions arriving on Aug. 25. To celebrate the news, Polygon is sharing an exclusive behind-the-scenes clip from the home…

Substack has launched a new feature that can show you which of your favorite newsletters are being written using AI. This week, the newsletter and writing platform announced an integration with the AI writing detection software Pangram that will allow users to scan posts, comments, and replies on Substack’s app to see an estimate of how much of the content was written by a human and how much was AI. In the short term, the move might be bad for Substack’s business, as it could expose many of the newsletters on its platform that aren’t entirely written by people. That could potentially erode trust in the platform’s ecosystem of independent news and…

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story. The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political…

Miguel Covarrubias took New York by storm before turning 21 and forever changed Mexican history. The post Made in Mexico: Miguel Covarrubias, the man who illustrated the Jazz Age appeared first on Mexico News Daily

Future debuts The Real Me atop the Billboard 200, earning his twelfth No. 1 album. He now claims the fifth-most champions of all time. NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 05: Future attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue) Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue Less than 15 years ago, Future appeared on the Billboard 200 for the first time. The tally is often cited as the most important for albums in the United States, as it measures the most popular full-lengths and EPs in the United States.…

President Donald Trump gives an exclusive tour of the White House Ballroom project, highlighting its design, immense capacity and enhanced security features. He emphasizes it's a gift to America for future generations. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Lil Wayne is throwing his support behind one of President Donald Trump's most talked-about White House projects. The rap icon praised Trump's plan to build a massive White House ballroom during a Monday appearance on the "Friends Keep Secrets" podcast, arguing the new venue would spare performers from being pushed outside for major events. "I'm so glad to hear Trump say — when they was mad at…

With a lucky thirteenth week at No. 1 on Billboard's Digital Song Sales chart, Ella Langley's "Choosin Texas" ties three tracks as one of the longest-running leaders. NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - NOVEMBER 19: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Ella Langley attends the 2025 CMA Awards at Music City Center on November 19, 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Taylor Hill/WireImage) WireImage Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” has spent 39 weeks thus far on the Digital Song Sales chart, which measures the bestselling tracks in the United States through paid downloads from platforms such as iTunes. Digital purchases carry less weight in determining a song’s overall popularity…

Prince George plays on Cornwall beach in new birthday tribute video as he turns 13 The Prince and Princess of Wales have paid tribute to their son Prince George on his birthday, sharing a video of the now-teenager having fun in Cornwall. George, who turned 13 on Wednesday (22 July), can be seen climbing rocks, petting his dog, and playing cricket on the beach in a new footage. “Thank you for all the birthday wishes for George today,” said the Kensington Royal account as they shared the clip online. It comes hours after Kate and William shared a previously unseen photo of the teenager from last month’s Trooping the Colour as they wished him a happy…

São Paulo · Nightlife If You Only Go to One Place Itaú Cultural – Sonora Brasiliana: Juan Falú A stunning free concert by Argentine guitar master Juan Falú on Avenida Paulista. It is the perfect midweek cultural immersion – arrive early, soak up the gallery, then let the music transport you before heading into the Pinheiros night. Tonight at a Glance —Itaú Cultural Free live Latin guitar on Paulista; artsy mixed crowd; tonight 8 pm —Bar Brahma The most iconic samba-and-MPB house in Centro; tourists and locals; live music every night —Santana Bar Sophisticated jazz and blues in Pinheiros; date-night perfection; music from Wednesday —Biri Nait Clubby…

December 10, Simon Cowell's new boy band, debuts its first project, an EP titled On Your Side, inside the top 10 on nearly every chart in the U.K. PASADENA, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 24: Simon Cowell attends "America's Got Talent" Season 21 Media Day at Pasadena Civic Auditorium on March 24, 2026 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Robin L Marshall/Getty Images) Getty Images For roughly the past decade, K-pop has largely dominated the global market when it comes to commercially successful boy bands and girl groups. South Korean acts regularly score international hits and score bestselling albums, while comparatively few new pop groups from Western countries…

Rio de Janeiro · Nightlife If You Only Go to One Place Bar da Lapa – Pique Novo This is the most traditional samba bar in Lapa, and tonight it hosts Pique Novo for a proper midweek roda de samba. The main act hits around midnight, giving you the full late-night Carioca experience in one iconic spot. Tonight at a Glance —Bar da Lapa Authentic pagode with Pique Novo, main show at midnight; the quintessential Lapa samba crowd on its most traditional night. —Rio Scenarium Samba with Arruda in a stunning antique-filled mansion; best for a dressed-up mixed crowd and a sit-down dinner with live music from 19:00. —Beco do Rato Intimate roda de samba with…

TL;DR: Pantalones Tequila and Tipsy Scoop teamed up on a Peaches \& Cream Margarita Ice Cream flavor made with Pantalones Organic Reposado Tequila. The limited-edition flavor launches July 22 and will be available at Tipsy Scoop locations through August, with nationwide shipping available through Goldbelly. Credit: Pantalones Tequila / Tipsy Scoop Matthew McConaughey’s Pantalones Tequila is giving margarita lovers a new way to enjoy their favorite summer drink — with a spoon. The tequila brand co-founded by Matthew and Camila McConaughey has teamed up with Tipsy Scoop to turn the classic cocktail into a frozen dessert just in time for National Tequila…

Decades after it became one of his first hits in the U.K., Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline" returns to the main songs tally in the nation, becoming a top 40 win again. American Pop musician Neil Diamond performs onstage at Madison Square Garden, New York, New York, July 24, 1986. (Photo by Gary Gershoff/Getty Images) Getty Images More than five decades after Neil Diamond released “Sweet Caroline” and it became one of his signature compositions, the song has taken on a life far beyond its original chart performance. For years, the track has been an unlikely fixture at sporting events, and unlike many anthems associated with one team, player or league,…

WhatsApp has announced a variety of new features today on its blog, including support for sharing Apple Music and Spotify activity to your WhatsApp Status, an iPad-focused account change, and more. WhatsApp announces Apple Music sharing, iPad signups, and more Today alongside debuting Adobe Acrobat integration for PDFs, WhatsApp has announced a few other new and recent additions. One new feature lets you share what you’re listening to in Apple Music or Spotify directly to your WhatsApp Status. From the blog post: Share what you’re listening to: Sharing music is a way of expressing yourself, and now you can easily share a song straight from Apple Music…

Lily Allen is set to star in a new Prime Video documentary charting her 'extraordinary' rise to fame. The singer, 41, has had a triumphant return to the music scene with her comeback album West End Girl, and will now appear in the feature-length film looking back at her life. The retrospective documentary will chart Lily's journey, from the "Queen of MySpace" who changed the rules of the music industry, to the cultural force she is today. As a pioneering woman in modern music, Lily's sharp wit and candid storytelling directly paved the way for a generation of today's biggest female artists. Featuring interviews with those who know her best, the…

"Na Na Na" by My Chemical Romance returns to the U.K.'s Official Rock \& Metal Singles chart, upping the band's total wins this week to four. LONDON - NOVEMBER 05: My Chemical Romance posed in London on November 05 2005. L - R Mikey Way, Frank Iero, Ray Toro, Gerard Way, Bob Bryar (Photo by Naki/Redferns) Redferns My Chemical Romance is in the midst of a huge run on the charts in the United Kingdom. The band can regularly be found on the country’s rock rankings, with both albums and songs performing well, but this spring and summer have been especially fruitful for the group. The Long Live The Black Parade Tour began in 2025 and celebrates The Black…

Spotify has rolled out its first music video charts playlist It's part of the platform's steady expansion of its music video ecosystem Spotify is once again battling YouTube, but it's not close competition Music videos in Spotify are becoming one of the most popular ways to engage in digital music streaming — now the service is expanding its video ecosystem in another attempt to one-up YouTube. For the first time, Spotify is bringing music videos to its Charts hub with the launch of Music Video Charts Global, a new top 50 playlist of the most streamed videos. Additionally, the platform has also rolled out a new Videos for You editorial playlist, which…

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Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story. The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political…

Taylor Swift may be the most-nominated artist at the 2027 Grammy Awards, and she has a shot at scoring double-digit nods with The Life of a Showgirl and several singles. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 04: Taylor Swift accepts the Best Pop Vocal Album award for “Midnights” onstage during the 66th GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena on February 04, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy) Getty Images for The Recording Academy Most years, Taylor Swift ranks among the most-nominated artists at the Grammys. The pop superstar has become such a favorite among Recording Academy voters – she’s already…

Swara Samrat Festival, which began 14 years ago in Kolkata in memory of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, has expanded to other cities over the past three years. The second Delhi edition of the festival, held recently, featured only young musicians. The festival opened with a dhrupad vocal recital by Bangladesh-born Niloy Ahsan, who is currently training under Ustad Wasifuddin Dagar. Earlier, he studied with the Gundecha Brothers. Niloy possesses a powerful voice, and the range he displayed, extending into the mandra saptak, was particularly impressive. He presented Mian ki Malhar, beginning with an expansive 45-minute alap that left him with barely 10 minutes…

Brazil · Business Key Facts —New chairman. Manuel Lino Silva de Sousa Oliveira, known as “Ollie,” a 74-year-old independent Vale board member since 2021. —Term length. Oliveira will serve as chairman through April 2027, completing the current board cycle. —Vote margin. Oliveira defeated vice-chairman Marcelo Gasparino by roughly 1.97 billion votes to 1.06 billion. —Key backer. Previ, the Banco do Brasil employee pension fund and a major Vale shareholder, publicly backed Oliveira. —Market reaction. Vale shares extended gains after the result before paring, signaling initial investor relief. Vale shareholders elected Manuel Lino Silva de Sousa Oliveira…

Last week I drove to Koringberg (a small farming town in the Swartland) to arrange the installation of prepaid electricity meters at one of Goedgedacht’s former Pathways on to Prosperity (POP) centres, where children came after school for a meal, homework support and recreational activities. For many years the centre had been a place where children came after school for a meal, homework support and the security of knowing that someone was there to welcome them. It was one of those ordinary management tasks that probably occupies far more of a managing director’s time than most people imagine. While the electricians were working, I wandered through…

The Vallarta Botanical Gardens welcomed nearly 60,000 visitors last year, with admission fees helping to fund its true mission: to conserve endangered regional flora and fauna. The post MND Local: New annual report highlights Vallarta Botanical Gardens’ expanding conservation mission appeared first on Mexico News Daily

Colombia · Politics Key Facts —Amount reallocated. COP 4 trillion (about US$1.23 billion) moved from the Colombia Solar program to the UNGRD. —Timing of impact. Government expects El Niño effects from December 2026 through March 2027, with reservoir stress peaking in early 2027. —Priority regions. 111 municipalities across 15 departments are classified as high risk; 80 tanker trucks are deployed in 22 departments. —Disaster declaration. A six-month decree window allows faster procurement and project execution to speed up preventive actions. —Agricultural support. More than COP 669,000 million (US$205.7 million) is earmarked for farm protection and…

According to the Cauvery Water Management Authority, the present storage in reservoirs of the Cauvery basin in both Karnataka and Tamil Nadu could only take care of their drinking water requirements. \| Photo Credit: file photo Taking a serious note of poor rainfall in the Cauvery basin, the Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA) that met in Delhi on Wednesday has directed both Karnataka and Tamil Nadu to strictly confine use of their storage to drinking water purposes. The CWMA, which is the apex body that monitors implementation of Cauvery water release to lower riparian States as per the Supreme Court’s verdict, directed both the States to…

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) expects coconut export revenues to exceed 2025 levels despite El Niño risks. “We’re still positive that we’ll still be able to surpass our 2025 exports… hopefully, it’s still higher than what we had last year,” PCA Head Executive Assistant Joseph Cezar Deligero said. READ: Coconut exports seen […]...Keep on reading: Coconut exports seen rising amid El Niño setbacks

By KATIE HIND, CONSULTANT EDITOR SHOWBUSINESS Published: 06:32 EDT, 22 July 2026 \| Updated: 12:03 EDT, 22 July 2026 Two and a half years after quitting This Morning, Holly Willoughby has given me a sneak peek at her new YouTube show over brunch. She told me she knows she's not everyone's cup of tea. She's not fearful of people criticising her. Her brilliant comeback will leave ITV bosses green with envy. Watch the video to find out why. Share or comment on this article: Holly Willoughby's YouTube comeback will leave This Morning bosses green with envy: KATIE HIND

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story. The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political…

If you’ve only ever interacted with Splatoon from a casual distance, it may seem like there’s not much story to Nintendo’s multiplayer series. You’re a kid-squid who shoots ink guns. What more is there to know? Anyone who has followed the series closely for the past decade, though, will tell you that Splatoon has some of the richest, weirdest lore in all of video games. That detail is relevant to know before you jump into Splatoon Raiders, the shooting series’ first single-player-focused game. While most of its emphasis is on treasure hunting, there’s a lot of worldbuilding nestled into collectible scrolls. (You’ll learn all about the economic crisis…

Image used for representational purposes only. \| Photo Credit: The Hindu The Centre is considering removing restrictions on airline ownership in airport operators and vice versa, a move that could pave the way for airline groups such as the Tata Group-owned Air India to acquire stakes in airports, according to people familiar with the matter. “The Ministry of Civil Aviation is preparing a concept note for consultations with NITI Aayog and other government ministries on the proposed changes,” said a person aware of the discussions, adding that such a proposal will need a final nod from the Union Cabinet. The proposal comes amid Air India’s interest in…

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story. The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political…

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story. The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political…

France recorded more than 5,700 excess deaths during its June heatwave, authorities have said, as swathes of southern Europe continue to endure another record-breaking period of extreme temperatures. The French national health agency said on Wednesday that it had recorded 5,764 excess deaths ⁠between ​17 June and 2 July, an excess mortality rate of 36%. More than half of the “unprecedented” total were recorded between 25 and 27 June, with deaths of people aged ⁠75 and older accounting for about two-thirds ​of ​the excess mortality, the agency said. Those who lost their lives between June 17 and July 2 died of “all causes”, none yet clearly linked to…

Approximately a billion tiny plastic nurdles have entered the River Tyne after a “devastating spill”, with the pellets thought to have spread much further than first thought. Nurdles are tiny pellets, usually about 1-5mm in size, that act as the raw material to manufacture most plastic products. On Sunday, the Wind Orca ship collided with the berthed container ship BG Orange at the Port of Tyne, causing damage to a dockside crane and injuring one person. The collision caused up to 25 tonnes of nurdles – about a billion in total, according to environmental charity Fidra – to enter the water, said South Tyneside Council. After nurdles were found washed…

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story. The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political…

Jesse Watters reports on Yellowstone National Park experiencing a surge in bison attacks, detailing instances like a grandpa being flung 8 feet in the air and a woman being dragged. He emphasizes the unpredictable nature, immense size and surprising speed of these dangerous animals, advising tourists to exercise extreme caution in their presence. A tourist is going viral for thinking it was a good idea to stand next to a massive bison. As our loyal readers know, there are many people walking this planet who are seemingly desperate to win a Darwin Award. One of the best ways to do it is to mess with wild animals out in nature, especially those with the…

Foreign tourists visiting Gyeongbok Palace in Seoul, July 13, shield themselves from the blazing sun with parasols as sweltering heat blanketed the country. Yonhap Click here for more articles by Kormedi.com. An umbrella in one hand, a handheld fan in the other. If you could bring only one while heading out in sweltering summer heat, which should it be? If you have to walk under direct sunlight, an umbrella should come first. While a handheld fan creates airflow, it cannot block the heat your body absorbs from the sun. Block sun’s heat first The reason it feels especially scorching under direct sunlight is that your body is exposed not only to the air…

More than a decade after the human microbiome was comprehensively mapped, scientists have now identified the vast communities of microbes that make up the Great Barrier Reef. Analysing DNA from seawater samples of 48 reefs, researchers have mapped the microbiome of the Great Barrier Reef, documenting more than 360,000 distinct viruses as well as more than 500 new bacterial species not previously known to science. The research, published in the journal Nature, was led by scientists at the University of Queensland and the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS). Dr Yun Kit Yeoh, a senior research scientist at AIMS and a senior author of the paper,…

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