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I’ve watched Google take center stage at Samsung Unpacked events and unveil its key software announcements for years, and today’s batch of Gemini updates didn’t feel any different. Alongside Samsung’s hardware reveals, Google confirmed a handful of Gemini upgrades landing across the new Galaxy lineup (before its own Pixel devices), and one of them might matter more to switchers than anything Samsung itself announced. ✔️Order a ride? 🚗 ✔️Add items to cart? 🛍️ ✔️Make a dinner res? 🍽️ Stop app-hopping 🙅‍♂️ Whether you’re hands-free or multitasking, just ask for what you need and Gemini’s on it. You’re in control and can view, jump in, or stop the task…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Tuesday that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company on its own in what the company called an “unprecedented cyber incident.” “We had a significant security incident during evaluation of our models,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a statement posted on social media. AI startup Hugging Face said last week that it had detected an intrusion into its data processing systems that it suspected was caused by an AI agent autonomously acting on its own. “We suspected last week’s cyberattack might have come from a frontier lab, given the sophistication of…

Bluehost has launched AI agents to help businesses grow 24/7 Agents span a range of services including website building, store management, and customer service Other AI tools include a domain name generator, copywriting, and a hosting agent Bluehost, one of the biggest website hosting and building companies in the world, has announced the rollout of ‘intelligent AI agents’ that can build, grow, and run your online presence. According to a press release shared with TechRadar Pro earlier this week, the new AI agents will offer capabilities ranging from building websites and running online stores to capturing leads, answering customer questions, and…

Businesses are moving quickly to bring artificial intelligence (AI) into the workplace, exploring how it can support everything from recruitment and workforce planning to performance management and employee services. Employee confidence in this technology, however, is struggling to keep up. Research suggests only 46% of people say they trust AI systems, while almost a third (31%) of employees are concerned they could be replaced by AI. Michael Vavakis Social Links Navigation Chief Transformation, ESG and People Officer at Ricoh Europe. As AI becomes more involved in decisions around hiring, performance and progression, employees are asking more…

OpenAI has revealed that one of its artificial intelligence models independently stole login credentials and hacked into another technology company’s system, in what is widely seen as one of the first known incidents of AI systems acting autonomously. “We had a significant security incident during evaluation of our models,” CEO Sam Altman posted on X on Tuesday. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list The incident comes as calls mount from technology rights advocates for stricter guardrails on rapidly evolving AI systems. They have grown so powerful in a short span of time that alarming phenomena such as deepfakes and sophisticated cyberscams…

Scientists today face challenges of extraordinary scale and complexity. From shaping and simulating the intricate dynamics of fusion plasma, to exploring the vast search space of new materials, to making sense of the exabytes of data pouring out of the world's most advanced experimental facilities. The demands on modern research are unprecedented. Frontier AI can help address these challenges, while accelerating groundbreaking scientific discoveries. In December, we shared our commitment to the White House's Genesis Mission — the national effort to harness AI and double the pace of American scientific discovery within a decade. Since then, Google…

Lisa Su, chair and chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), during the 2026 CES event in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Monday, Jan. 5, 2026. Bridget Bennett \| Bloomberg \| Getty Images Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday announced a strategic partnership with Anthropic and said it will invest up to $5 billion in the artificial intelligence company. As part of the deal, the chipmaker said Anthropic will deploy 2 gigawatts of its AMD Instinct MI450 Series graphics processing units, or GPUs, in AMD Helios rack-scale solutions. The first gigawatt, a measure of power that's become a common metric for describing AI data center capacity,…

There's a reason teachers hate chatbots. The AI happily writes your essays, aces your exams, and never asks the questions a real tutor would. Did you actually learn the subject? A real tutor checks what you know, homes in on what you don't, and watches to see if you're getting better. Study notebooks are Google's attempt to link all three onto Gemini study notebooks, which went global in June 2026. So I did the only sensible thing and let Gemini tutor me for a week. Related NotebookLM is the best study partner you could have How to set up a study notebook in Gemini Credit: Lucas Gouveia / Android Police The feature is available globally on personal…

is probably one of the most useful capabilities we can give to an LLM agent. Once the agent can write and execute code, many tasks become possible. For example, the agent can inspect files or datasets, write data processing logic, or produce artifacts for downstream consumption. That opens the door to a much wider range of agentic applications. In this post, let’s build a coding agent with the OpenAI Agents SDK and Docker. We’ll first build the mental model, then walk through a small case study where we ask the agent to analyze a CSV file, and return a report with charts. In the end, we’ll also summarize the practical details that make this pattern…

Cascade, a startup building a platform to help architecture, engineering and construction firms find and win projects, has raised a $3.5 million seed round from Andreessen Horowitz Speedrun, Ada Ventures, and Snowball VC. Launched in 2025, Cascade is a result of its founders, Hannia Zia and Joana Ferreira, witnessing first-hand the difficulty construction businesses face with predictably securing work. “My mother worked in a company that sold materials to construction companies, and my uncle built mansions in the Middle East. They’re incredible at their craft but just don’t have access to the right tools to get more work,” Ferreira told TechCrunch.…

The publisher of Harry Potter has received a multimillion-pound payout as a beneficiary of a $1.5bn copyright settlement between AI startup Anthropic and thousands of authors over the use of their protected work to power chatbots. Bloomsbury, which is home to bestselling novelists Sarah J Maas and Susanna Clarke as well as JK Rowling, said it had 14,087 titles listed within the settlement, with a proposed compensation of about $3,000 each. The London-based company expects to receive the cash from the settlement in instalments, potentially starting in the second half of this fiscal year, with the proceeds to be split with authors. After a deduction of…

A groundbreaking lawsuit accusing Meta Platforms of using discriminatory AI tools to decide who would be laid off shines a spotlight on the steep obstacles workers face in challenging employers over the technology, especially in uncovering how it was deployed. The case helps illustrate why a widely predicted wave of employment lawsuits over AI use has yet to arrive. Legal ⁠experts say workers often have little understanding of how AI systems are used ⁠in the workplace and many have also signed away their right to sue in court, agreeing instead to resolve workplace disputes through a private process called arbitration that can keep such claims from…

AI and ML OpenAI tries the consulting path with 'Presence', charging enterprises boots-on-the-ground prices to deploy agents As AI models become commoditized, maybe there's margin in the plumbing Having popularized AI with the cheapskate masses, OpenAI has turned its attention to enterprise customers who might actually pay for its services. The debt-fueled maker of frontier models on Wednesday announced the debut of Presence, a web service designed to make it easier for enterprises to deploy AI agents for a handful of common business tasks. "Today, Presence supports real-time experiences across voice and chat, such as customer support, outbound sales,…

As political parties prepare for this year’s local elections, the debate has become strikingly familiar: potholes, refuse collection, water infrastructure, policing, housing. These are essential responsibilities of local government, but the campaign has largely become a referendum on ANC-led governance. There is remarkably little discussion about whether our cities can realistically compete as a manufacturing hub in the global economy, or how we intend to capture more value from the strategic minerals that will underpin artificial intelligence and clean energy. Our politicians remain fixated on managing the industrial economy while more and more…

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has told American diplomats to push back against a phrase that has spread through allied capitals since the summer: the tech “kill switch.” In a cable dated July 16 and reviewed by Reuters, Rubio instructed envoys to counter the idea that Washington can remotely disable American technology abroad, a fear that hardened after the government briefly blocked foreign access to Anthropic’s top models in June and revived European talk of digital sovereignty. “Pausing narrow uses or requiring a 30-day testing window prior to release of a highly potent new technology is not a ‘Kill Switch,’” the cable reads, according to…

Jibo, the social robot with a cult following, is getting a successor, and it’s going in a very different direction to before. It’s called iKairos, and it embraces the current trend for AI wearables, then makes the resulting product useful at home too. Related I was stuck with two viable options for picking the right chatbot on my phone What is iKairos? Credit: iKairos Lingverse’s iKairos is a modular AI device. It can be worn, and then placed on a dock at home, giving it more versatility than a device like the Google Home Speaker, without limiting functionality like an AI wearable such as Friend. CEO and co-founder of Lingverse, Jiawei Gu, said:…

While Gemini works to complete the task, you can track the step-by-step progress on your screen, multitask in other apps, or close your phone and let Gemini run in the background. If you need to make a quick adjustment or add a personal touch, you can step in to handle a specific detail and then hand control back to Gemini to complete the rest. Gemini is designed to notify you when the task is ready for your review and final confirmation. 2. Raise the bar on your projects with Gemini Notebook. To help you manage deep projects and synthesize complex information, we are bringing the power of Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) directly to your device.…

I have struggled to set goals for most of my life. I’ve wondered for a while what they actually do for me. When I was younger, my dad had us write down big, ambitious, long-term goals. I still have some of those handwritten notes. Two of them were: 1. Earn a college scholarship for academics or athletics. 2. After college, get a job that I actually like instead of just worrying about money. Both came true. So, here’s a reasonable question: Did they happen because I wrote them down? Or because I did the work to make them a reality? The answer is yes. Goals work as fuel for action, but the action is what makes it happen. This is a subtle but important…

Passionfroot, a German startup building a marketplace connecting B2B creators with brands, said on Wednesday it has raised $15M in a Series A funding round led by Insight Partners. Rebecca Liu-Doyle, managing director at Insight Partners, said Passionfroot is placed well at a time when creators are specializing as AI companies look for more visibility. “Passionfroot has the perfect dynamics on both sides to warrant a true marketplace for B2B creators. On the demand side, there is increasing consumerization of the way B2B brands go to market. That’s a product of, in part, AI technology requiring evangelism, narrative building and education. On the…

Google introduced AI task automation in beta back in February, giving you a way to delegate simple tasks to Gemini, such as asking it to order a rideshare or a meal for delivery on your behalf. As part of its announcements with Samsung at Galaxy Unpacked, the company has revealed that it's expanding task automation's support from a handful of apps to 40. In addition, it announced that the feature will be available straight from the Galaxy Z Flip 8's Flex Window by long-pressing the power button. While Google didn't list the apps that will work with task automation, it said that the expanded support will allow Gemini to shop for you, make dinner…

It’s a tough time to be in the market for any type of gadget, and that includes practically everything Samsung announced today. While its refreshed lineup of foldables and smartwatches all look excellent, they’re also more expensive than their predecessors across the board. That makes Samsung’s typical trade-in values — even on the Galaxy Watch 9 and Watch Ultra 2 — more vital than ever. Galaxy Watch trade-ins have never really received the same sort of offers as Samsung smartphones — even accounting for the obvious differences in MSRP — and unfortunately, the same is mostly true this year. Only owners of previous Galaxy or Apple Watches even have the…

U.S. data centers are on track to consume about 20% of the nation's electricity by 2035, up from 5.9% today, according to a new BloombergNEF forecast The research firm raised its 2035 demand projection to 194 GW, an 83% increase on the forecast it issued in December, and calculated that even a record pace of grid connections sustained every year for a decade would leave a 19 GW supply shortfall. Go deeper with TH Premium: AI and data centers (Image credit: Microsoft) BNEF's December outlook put 2035 demand at 106 GW, and that figure was itself 36% above the projection the firm published in April 2025, which works out to roughly 78 GW. The 2035 number…

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…

(ATTN: RECASTS headline, lead; ADDS more info throughout, photos) SEOUL, July 22 (Yonhap) -- Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday unveiled an expanded lineup of Galaxy Z foldable smartphones -- the Galaxy Z Fold 8, Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra and Galaxy Z Flip 8. The new lineup, powered by Alphabet Inc.'s Gemini artificial intelligence (AI), is designed to offer devices tailored to different user lifestyles, along with more personalized AI experiences, the South Korean tech giant said. This image provided by Samsung Electronics Co. on July 22, 2026, shows its new lineup of Galaxy Z foldable smartphones -- the Galaxy Z Flip 8 (from R), Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra…

Thousands of users are reporting on Downdetector that Instagram is experiencing an outage. At the time of writing, there are nearly 1,400 reports, and it looks like they started around 7:30 AM ET. Looking at the heat map, the outage is affecting several major cities, including New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Atlanta.

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…

Samsung has launched three foldable phones for the first time ever: the Galaxy Z Fold 8, the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra and the Galaxy Z Flip 8. Alongside these, two new smartwatches, the Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 and Galaxy Watch 9, also made their debut. Here's a rundown of what is new. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 series, Galaxy Watch Ultra and Galaxy Watch 9: Price and availability Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 price in India for 256GB variant is set at Rs 1,79,999; the 512GB model is priced at Rs 1,99,999; and the 1TB version is priced at Rs 2,39,999. The phone is launched in Lavender, Graphite and Cream colour options. There is an online-exclusive colour Pistachio.…

During its July Unpacked event, Samsung officially unveiled its next-generation of foldable Galaxy devices. There's the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, which, despite the name, is really the successor to the Galaxy Z Fold 7. The Galaxy Z Fold 8, instead, is actually a new device, introducing a lighter design (and a slightly smaller price tag) than the Z Fold 8 Ultra. Finally, there's the Z Flip 8, which actually doesn't change much from the Z Flip 7. If you're in the market for a new foldable smartphone, these new devices might be on your radar. Even the Z Flip 8's minor adjustments might prove a worthwhile upgrade if your Flip device is more than a few years…

The display crease on Samsung foldables has seemingly gone from tolerable to nearly nonexistent with the recently released Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra. For years, the majority of Samsung’s new foldables have come with marginal improvements to what might be the main drawback of foldables, beyond cost. The inner display crease has always been an issue, and on the eighth generation of foldable phones, Samsung finally got it right. It’s genuinely a sort of shock coming from the Galaxy Z Fold, which had a dip running down the display. That dip looks like a canyon, now. The Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra barely has a faint deviation down the center of…

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8 vs. Motorola Razr Ultra: Which is the better buy? How to choose between two of the most notable flip phones on the market. Mat Smith for Engadget If nostalgia hits and you just absolutely need to get a flip phone, you're in luck because there are quite a few options these days. Even better, two of the most capable flip phones on the market just dropped within weeks of each other. The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8 arrived at Galaxy Unpacked on July 22, 2026, for $1,200, while the Motorola Razr Ultra has been available since May for $1,500. As many similarities were found between these phones, there are plenty of differences too, so…

After a grand reveal in the latest Galaxy Unpacked event, preorders for the brand-new Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8 and Galaxy Z Fold 8 are now live. Retailers and mobile networks have several launch deals available for those interested in picking up a device on August 7, so I've had a look through and picked out the best options. One of the standout deals in the US is at the official Samsung store, where you can get savings of up to $1,200 with a trade-in, as well as an extra $30 off if you registered your interest ahead of Unpacked. As for the networks, you can get even larger discounts of up to $1,900 at T-Mobile when you add an eligible line, or get a…

Samsung officially revealed its next foldables at Galaxy Unpacked, giving us exciting devices like the Galaxy Z Fold 8, Z Fold 8 Ultra, and Galaxy Watch 9. And while you can purchase them directly from Samsung, you might be able to get a better deal by going through a carrier. You'll no doubt see a bunch of promotions for Samsung's foldables over the next couple of weeks, so it's best to keep your options open until the official retail launch on August 7. However, if Verizon is your only go-to for carrier deals, then we've got all the details of its latest promotion. Samsung's foldables aren't cheap While exciting, Samsung's foldable phones have never…

Samsung is trying to jazz things up once again in the foldable space, and the mantra this time around is going smaller and lighter. The result of those efforts is the Galaxy Z Fold 8, and it’s the first time in years that I vocally said “wow” the moment I picked it up. It’s pocketable, light, sleek, and most importantly, oozes functional charm. Just take a look at how petite it is when held alongside a modern-age iPhone. In an age when smartphones are getting thicker and bulkier, the Galaxy Z Fold 8 wants to stand out in a rather unique fashion. Even in the unfolded state, it’s less than a millimeter thicker than an iPhone 17 Pro (9.7 vs 8.75 mm). If…

Samsung has just unveiled a host of new Galaxy devices at its Galaxy Unpacked event – the most interesting of which is the shorter, squatter and wider Galaxy Z Fold 8, which closely resembles the form factor expected for the iPhone Ultra. Like Apple, Samsung can’t escape the global memory crunch. The Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, which is effectively the successor to last year's Z Fold 7, and the Galaxy Z Flip 8, have both received a hefty price hike. That said, Samsung’s new wider, shorter Galaxy Z Fold 8 is more affordable and might end up being the most popular in terms of design (yes, the names are all very confusing). Available to pre-order now, here’s…

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Looking back on the past few years of foldables, one of the biggest things I’ve felt Samsung’s entrants have been missing has been an anti-reflective display on the inside. Finally, that’s arriving with the Galaxy Z Fold 8 series, and the results are excellent. Anti-reflective displays are not some brand new concept. Matte screen protectors have been around for ages, and Samsung started using an anti-reflective glass from Corning in recent generations of its Galaxy S Ultra lineup. But I kept on circling back to 2023’s OnePlus Open, which was the first foldable I’d tried with an anti-reflective layer on a foldable display. Put simply, it was a game…

Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event revealed a ton of new hardware, but what you're probably really curious about is all the new foldable phones that were announced. For this year, Samsung's lineup includes the Galaxy Z Fold 8, Z Fold 8 Ultra, and Z Flip 8. Like every year, the Z Fold 8 series is going to get the most attention, which means folks are going to be looking out for serious deals. The good news is that T-Mobile is stepping up to the plate in a big way, offering up to $1,900 in credit with an eligible trade-in when you purchase the Galaxy Z Fold 8 or Z Fold 8 Ultra. Of course, you're going to need to sign up for a plan, with the option to…

TEHRAN- The 18th International Exhibition of Doors, Windows, and Related Industries opened at the Tehran Permanent International Fairgrounds on Tuesday, July 21, showcasing the latest achievements of 61 domestic and foreign companies. According to IRNA, 54 domestic companies and 7 foreign companies from China, Turkey, Spain, South Korea, and Germany participated in the 18th International Exhibition of Doors, Windows, and Related Industries. These companies have put on display their latest products, equipment, and technologies in various sectors of the door and window industry and related fields. This exhibition provides an opportunity to create a…

Oklahoma Sen. Alan Armstrong discusses the critical need for permitting reform to boost American energy independence. He explains that despite abundant U.S. oil and gas resources, outdated processes and litigation delay essential infrastructure projects. Armstrong, a former CEO, highlights how legal challenges can halt multi-billion dollar projects, emphasizing the need for robust political action to streamline energy development. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: House Republicans are staking out their position as congressional permitting talks heat up with a sweeping legislative package aimed at lowering energy costs,…

It’s not often that Apple debuts new iPhone screen sizes, but this fall the iPhone Ultra will introduce two displays in shapes and sizes never before used in iPhone. Here’s what to expect. iPhone Ultra to introduce two new screen shapes and sizes iPhone Ultra’s inner screen will be similar to the iPad mini (pictured) Apple’s iPhone lineup has offered mostly the same variety of screen sizes for years. There have been slight variations, but for the most part recent iPhones have come in two main sizes: a 6.1-6.3-inch option, and a larger 6.7-6.9-inch version. This year with the iPhone Ultra though, we’re getting two brand new iPhone screen sizes that…

"Tehran will retaliate agianst region's infrastructure like bridges or energy sites linked to the US if the US strikes Iranian bridges or power plants," the Iranian Tasnim news agency reported, citing military source.

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. —RTVM screengrab MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Wednesday launched the Bangsamoro Convergence Program at Maguindanao del Norte. The program gathers all government services in one stop to deliver frontline government assistance across the region. The national government turned over P3.4 billion in projects and assistance to the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) during the program, which was held alongside the “Bawat Bayan Makikinabang” event. “Complementing this initiative are the frontline services being delivered by the Bangsamoro Government. There are 15 BARMM Ministries…

The U.S. has launched strikes on Iranian targets following attacks that killed three American service members in Jordan and Iraq. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The American soldier believed to have been killed in Jordan during an Iranian attack is being remembered as living a "life of courage and selflessness." The Department of War announced that Sgt. Angel Rampersad, 28, of Ozone Park, N.Y., is one of the three soldiers believed to have been "killed in action on July 17, 2026, during an enemy attack at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base" in Jordan. U.S. Central Command said over the weekend that the service members died as CENTCOM and partner…

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MOSCOW, July 22. /TASS/. Flights in the Moscow air hub area until 2:59 a.m. Moscow time on August 12 may only be conducted at altitudes up to 4,900 meters, while transit flights are prohibited, the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya) announced. TASS has compiled the key details of the decision. Regulator’s statement - Rosaviatsiya has issued a notice (NOTAM) for air transport operators regarding flights in the Moscow air hub area. - Until 2:59 a.m. Moscow time on August 12, flights within its boundaries may only be conducted at altitudes below flight level 160 (approximately 4,900 meters). - Transit flights through the Moscow aviation hub are…

Nearly two years into the government’s Dharti Aaba Janjatiya Gram Utkarsh Abhiyan (DAJGUA) programme for basic interventions in targeted tribal-dominated villages, progress has been slow, with the least progress seen so far in interventions that were supposed to be under the Union Ministry of Education, the Union Rural Development Ministry, and the Union Jal Shakti Ministry, among others, a review of the scheme by the Centre shows. The DAJGUA scheme has been running since October 2024 and was intended to bring as many as 25 interventions to remote tribal villages and blocks under 17 Ministries. Since the programme was launched, only four out of the…

U.S. President Donald Trump warned Wednesday that Washington would destroy an Iranian bridge or power plant each time Tehran attacks a ship transiting the strategic Strait of Hormuz, escalating tensions as concerns grow over maritime security in the Gulf. Trump’s latest threat to target civilian infrastructure came as the unpopular war spirals with no clear offramp, threatening further worldwide economic disruption and sending fuel prices up ahead of midterm U.S. elections this fall. Both sides have dug in on their dispute over the strait, a crucial waterway for global energy that remains largely closed because of Iranian attacks. The U.S. carried out…

Austria opened a new police station in Adolf Hitler’s former house on Wednesday, in the hope of deterring today’s ascendant far-right extremists from making the pilgrimage to the Nazi dictator’s birthplace. In a ceremony to mark the opening, Johannes Waidbacher, mayor of the small town of Braunau-am-Inn, said he hoped the transformation would show that the local community is “confronting its history, that it is assuming responsibility”. The decision to turn the house into a police station follows a long and delicate debate over what to do with the site, in a country often criticised for not taking full responsibility for its role in the Holocaust. A…

The US on Wednesday is set to announce a deal with Saudi Arabia that would allow the oil-rich Gulf nation to enrich uranium, according to US media reports. Riyadh has long asserted its right to a civilian nuclear programme, but Israel and several policy experts warn that it could spark a nuclear proliferation threat in the region.

KRASNODAR, July 22. /TASS/. The Krasnodar Region will analyze the potential Ukrainian targets as the number of drone attacks on civilian facilities in the region grow and will strengthen their anti-terrorist protection, Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said. "We are doing our best to protect the critical facilities, but the enemy is trying to destabilize the situation by targeting peaceful, civilian enterprises. I have instructed my colleagues, together with the owners of the enterprises that affect people's lives, to ensure anti-terrorist protection on an equal footing with critical infrastructure. It is important to promptly analyze potential targets,…

It has been almost a year since the Avinashi Road was thrown open for public use, but it still lacks pedestrian-friendly facilities like footpath. \| Photo Credit: SIVA SARAVANAN S For almost 11 km on Avinashi Road in Coimbatore city, from Uppilipalayam to Chinniyampalayam, pedestrians struggle to cross the road or walk along the road edges as there are no proper footpaths or facilities to cross the road. The busy Avinashi Road houses colleges, schools, commercial buildings and hospitals on either side and is is used by many pedestrians, including the elderly and schoolchildren. In a few spots, there are pelican crossings. In some places, police…

Dagen McDowell highlights how Iran's financial support of terror proxies, including the Houthis in Yemen, has led to a maritime embargo against Saudi Arabia. This significant escalation in the Middle East jeopardizes critical oil shipping lanes in the Red Sea, causing global investors to remain on high alert due to potential economic repercussions. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused Iran on Wednesday of flying members of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps into Yemen, saying Tehran’s actions helped ignite a renewed confrontation between Saudi Arabia and the Iran-backed Houthi rebels. "They decided to…

Listen to this article Estimated 5 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. Iran launched a missile attack on a Jordanian city on Israel's doorstep on Wednesday, and alerts were issued in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia as a nearly two-week upsurge in fighting continued. Jordan's military said it intercepted four Iranian missiles over Aqaba, while two others fell in "uninhabited areas." Plumes of smoke could be seen overhead in videos filmed by people in the nearby Israeli city of Eilat. Jordan said it also…

Ever since humans have been writing stories, the idea of invisibility has been a seductive one. Writers have used all manner of narrative devices to introduce the ability to vanish from sight into their stories—magic, manipulating the body’s refractive index, high-tech cloaking devices, camouflage, and more. It turns out, however, that you can get a pretty good approximation by just spinning really fast. That’s the idea behind a drone developed by researchers at Northwestern University, anyway. The drone is called “Phantom Twist”, and it rotates around its central axis at 25 times per second (that’s 1500 rpm, to save you doing the math).…

After 17 years, the Nigeria military’s efforts to contend a Jihadist insurgency do not seem to be successful. The military is facing fresh hurdles with foreign fighters, including those from the Middle East joining the insurgents. The foreigners are bringing skills and technology that have proved very valuable in the Jihadists’ fight against the military. Details by FRANCE 24 correspondent in Lagos, Sam Olukoya.

Mali’s military has suffered one of its deadliest losses in years. At least 50 soldiers were killed in an ambush near the northern town of Anefis, in an attack claimed by Tuareg separatists and Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists. The assault is the latest in a string of setbacks, with militants also targeting Malian and Russian Africa Corps forces, downing a military helicopter, and briefly seizing territory. More with Hénio Nsaibia, West Africa Senior Analyst at ACLED.

Students of Corporation Primary School Aathimoolam II, having breakfast during the inauguration of Chief Ministers Breakfast Scheme, in Madurai on September 15, 2022 \| Photo Credit: R. Ashok The Tamil Nadu government has issued an order renaming the Chief Minister’s Breakfast Scheme after former Chief Minister K. Kamaraj. The scheme will henceforth be known as the Perunthalaivar Kamarajar Breakfast Scheme. The Breakfast Scheme for students in Classes I to V in government and government-aided schools was launched during the previous DMK regime. After the TVK-led government assumed office, Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay directed that the scheme be…

Washington — The U.S. and Saudi Arabia have reached a commercial agreement for U.S. companies to run nuclear power for the Saudis on Saudi soil, a regional official familiar with the agreement told CBS News. The agreement is expected to be signed Wednesday at about 1:30 p.m. The commercial deal would have U.S. companies running, not giving, the Saudi government nuclear power on Saudi soil for the nation's use, for purposes like supporting AI data centers. The deal may allow the Saudis to enrich their own fuel for nuclear reactors. The corporations involved have not yet been disclosed. Although it's a private-sector deal, Congress would need to be…

Member states of the International Criminal Court (ICC) will vote on Friday on whether to fire chief prosecutor Karim Khan for alleged sexual misconduct in a case ‌that has damaged the tribunal’s credibility at a time when the US has ramped up its attacks on the court. Khan, 56, denies any wrongdoing. The vote on his fate comes just a week after Washington announced a renewed diplomatic campaign to dismantle the ICC, which it says is a threat to US sovereignty. “The court is already in a precarious state,” Mark Ellis, the executive director of the International Bar Association and a longtime ​ICC observer, told Reuters. “The Khan situation is a…

SIMFEROPOL, July 22. /TASS/. The ever more frequent attacks by Ukrainian forces along the Russian Black Sea coast continue to target civilians and civilian infrastructure exclusively, State Duma Deputy Major General (Retired) Leonid Ivlev, has said in an interview with TASS. Last night, southern Russia once again came under fire. In the Krasnodar Region, drone debris struck a business premises, tragically killing an employee. In the city of Krasnodar itself, fragments of UAVs damaged two apartment buildings and a warehouse complex. These assaults resulted in two fatalities and nine injuries. Yalta was also targeted, with one drone striking a…

An expert team constituted by the Kerala government to conduct a comprehensive probe into the debris slip near the tunnel road entrance at Kalladi in Wayanad will visit the disaster site on Thursday (July 23, 2026). It is expected to submit a report in a month. A release said on Wednesday (July 22, 2026) that the team members would reach there by the afternoon. The team’s mandate includes finding the causes of the tragedy, evaluating the environmental approvals given for the tunnel road project by the Union and State governments, and examining the approvals by the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change, and also checking if the company…

An woman injured in the bus accident being treated at the district civil hospital in Dharwad on Wednesday (July 22). \| Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT An elderly woman was killed and 20 others suffered injuries after a KSRTC bus lost control, fell into a road-side ditch, and overturned on the outskirts of Dharwad on Wednesday (July 22). The deceased woman has been identified as Hasanabi Kengannavar, 60, a resident of Munavalli in Saundatti taluk of Belagavi district. The injured persons are being treated at the district civil hospital in Dharwad. The mishap occurred reportedly due to a mechanical glitch at Kashi Nagar on the outskirts of Dharwad.…

Intermittent heavy rainfall lashed several cities in Punjab over the previous 24 hours, the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) said on Wednesday. According to the Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa), 123 millimetres of rain was recorded in Lahore, a record 245mm in Gujranwala and 95mm in Gujrat. The PDMA said 139mm of rainfall was recorded in Sialkot, 138mm in Mandi Bahauddin, 117mm in Narowal, 85mm in Hafizabad, 70mm in Chakwal, 64mm in Okara, 35mm in Jhang, 33mm in Layyah and 32mm in Jhelum. The disaster management authority further said that since the start of the monsoon season in the province, at least 17 people have died in…

A band of extreme weather that ripped through states including Kentucky and West Virginia Tuesday night sparked devastating tornadoes and record flash flooding that left dozens of people trapped in their houses and vehicles, and injured several others. First responders in one West Virginia county were overwhelmed by the volume of calls as waters rose to unprecedented levels, with rescuers cutting through attic roofs to free those inside. In Kentucky, there were reports of multiple tornadoes, flooding, landslides, and widespread damage to infrastructure, including a bridge that was swept away. Patrick Morrisey, the governor, placed all 55 counties…

LILOAN, Cebu — A 33-year-old worker died after being crushed by six granite slabs while unloading cargo from a truck in Purok Tulay, Barangay Sta. Cruz, Liloan, on Tuesday, July 21, 2026. The victim, identified only by the alias “Saturnino,” a married resident of Sitio Bangko, Barangay Tigib, Argao town, was declared dead on arrival at the Eversley Childs Sanitarium and General Hospital in Mandaue City. READ: Construction worker dies after falling from 33rd floor of skyrise According to the Liloan Municipal Police Station, the victim and his co-workers were delivering 11 granite slabs to a bunkhouse in Barangay Sta. […]...Keep on reading: Worker…

Ukrainian State Border Guard Service maritime units carried out a search-and-rescue operation in the Black Sea, evacuating the crew of the bulk carrier Golden Rose after it was struck by a Russian drone during the night of July 22. The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine reported the operation, according to Ukrinform. According to preliminary information, the drone struck the vessel's stern, triggering a major fire. The burning bulk carrier was detected using technical surveillance systems, after which State Border Guard Service patrol boats were immediately dispatched to the scene. VIDEO The rescue operation was conducted under extremely…

The funeral ceremony for the martyred students of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab was held today, with thousands of mourners—including families of the martyrs and officials—paying their respects.

Minister for Tourism and Culture Kandula Durges kick-starting drinking water grid works in Nidadavolu town in East Godavari district on Wednesday. \| Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Minister for Tourism and Culture and Nidadavolu MLA Kandula Durgesh on Wednesday performed bhumi puja for ₹94.31 crore water grid project under the AMRUT 2.0 (Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation) scheme at Nidadavolu in East Godavari district. The Godavari water will be drawn from Sir Arthur Cotton Barrage at Vijjeswaram to supply to every household in the Nidadavolu municipality by January 2028. “The water grid project includes laying water grid, 10…

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A delegation of the KKCCI, led by president Sharanabasappa M. Pappa, submitting a memorandum to Minister for Large and Medium Industries and Infrastructure Development M.B. Patil in Kalaburagi on Wednesday (July 22). \| Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT A delegation of the Kalyana Karnataka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KKCCI) met M.B. Patil, Minister for Large and Medium Industries and Infrastructure Development, in Kalaburagi on Wednesday (July 22). Members submitted a memorandum to him, urging the State government to expedite the setting up of the PM MITRA Mega Textile Park at Kalaburagi and facilitate the revival of the dormant GE Heavy…

Annamayya District Collector Nishant Kumar directed officials on Wednesday to initiate urgent steps to ensure uninterrupted drinking water supply across Madanapalle town, in light of reports of disruptions in some of the municipal wards. The Collector was conducting inspections alongside the municipal officials to assess the situation and review the steps being taken to restore normal supply. At the Ramarao Colony sump, Mr. Nishant Kumar inspected the water distribution mechanism and instructed officials to expedite the filling of storage facilities. He directed that fire service vehicles be deployed wherever necessary to transport water and ensure…

A 21-year-old youth, son of former AIADMK MLA P. Periyapullan, was killed after his motorcycle crashed into an earthmover on Sardar Patel Road in Guindy on Wednesday. According to the police, the victim has been identified as Ulaga Athipathi, of Melur taluk in Madurai. The accident occurred around 7.30 a.m. when Ulaga Athipathi was riding his motorcycle from Gandhi Mandapam flyover towards Guindy. The police said that his motorcycle rammed into a JCB earthmover near the Highways Department office on Sardar Patel Road. In the impact, he was thrown off the bike, and the JCB ran over him. He sustained severe injuries to his body and died on the spot. On…

BRUSSELS, July 22. /TASS/. European Union forces boarded the Cameroon-flagged oil tanker MV South Star in the Mediterranean Sea over suspicions that it was sailing under a false flag, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said. "The oil tanker MV South Star, suspected of sailing under a false flag in breach of international maritime law, was boarded on July 20 by forces from the EU's Operation IRINI for flag verification," she wrote on X. Kallas said the move was aimed at increasing pressure on what she described as "Russia’s shadow fleet." She did not say whether the vessel had been released after the inspection. Kallas added that the European Union…

A rescue operation by the Kano State Fire Service ended in tragedy after a father and his 15-year-old daughter were recovered dead from an old dry well in Yancibi Village, Tsanyawa Local Government Area of Kano State. The victims, identified as Abubakar Abdullahi, 45, and his daughter, Fiddausi Abubakar, 15, reportedly fell into the abandoned well on Tuesday evening. According to the Kano State Fire Service, its Tsanyawa Division received a distress call on 21 July and immediately deployed firefighters to the scene. However, the service said darkness and difficult conditions prevented rescuers from completing the operation that night. In a statement…

The complaint alleged that the protesters assaulted security personnel deployed at the Baldota factory in Koppal on Tuesday (July 21). \| Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Six persons, including writer Allamaprabhu Bettadur and leaders of various farmers’ organisations, have been booked by the Koppal Rural police for allegedly trespassing onto the premises of the Baldota factory in Koppal, instigating farmers to demolish the main gate and compound wall, and participating in the violence. The FIR was registered following a complaint lodged by M. Mahesh, a representative of the company, after a protest was organised by the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha…

(ATTN: ADDS more details from 3rd para, new photo) INCHEON, July 22 (Yonhap) -- A massive blaze at a Coupang Corp. warehouse was fully extinguished Wednesday, about 109 hours after it broke out, firefighting authorities said. The Incheon Fire Headquarters said it extinguished the fire at the retail giant's logistics center in Seongnam-dong, Incheon, just west of Seoul, at 8:35 p.m. It took 109 hours and 40 minutes to fully extinguish the fire after it broke out Saturday, leaving two firefighters injured and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of nearby residents. The fire was the second-longest warehouse fire in South Korea after a 2021 blaze at a…

Moment teenage coffee shop worker leaps into runaway car to save women A teenage coffee shop worker leapt into a runaway driverless car to save two women stuck inside. CCTV footage shows Euan Lonnen, 18, sprinting towards the driverless vehicle outside the Highland Farm Cafe in Dingwall, Scotland, as it accelerated towards several parked cars. After unsuccessfully attempting to turn the wheel, Mr Lonnen jumped inside and pulled on the handbrake, stopping the car with just 1cm to spare before a collision. No one was injured, and neither car sustained any damage. “Not all heroes wear capes,” the cafe said as it shared the footage, praising Mr Lonnen’s…

WASTEWATER TREATMENT. The newly-completed wastewater treatment plant within the public market complex in Burauen, Leyte. (Photo taken on July 20, 2026 by JUANITO CALIBO.) TACLOBAN CITY — The local government unit of Burauen, Leyte has built the first-ever public market wastewater treatment facility in Eastern Visayas as part of its efforts to improve public sanitation and promote environmental sustainability. Designed to collect, treat, and properly dispose of wastewater generated within the Burauen Commercial Complex, the P17-million facility has an estimated annual treatment capacity of 23.4 million liters, the local government reported in a…

Rescue personnel of NDRF, SDRF and other agencies carry out search and rescue operations at the site of the NHPC tunnel collapse, in Namchi on Wednesday. \| Photo Credit: ANI Search and rescue operations at the under-construction NHPC Teesta Stage VI Hydropower Project tunnel in Sikkim's Namchi district resumed on Wednesday (July 22, 2026) after being temporarily suspended due to the accumulation of mud and water inside the tunnel, officials said. The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the Asansol rescue team resumed operations early in the day, with efforts focused on pumping water out of the tunnel, they said. At least 20 workers were…

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The manner and cause of death for Nolan Wells, the Mississippi teen who was found dead at Horn Island after a Fourth of July outing with friends, are undetermined, pending investigation, according to attorney Ben Crump, citing a preliminary independent autopsy commissioned by the family. Crump said Wednesday there was "red discoloration" in the tissue in the back of the head, according to the autopsy, but added the reason was unknown. The body was in a state of decomposition when it was received for the autopsy, Crump said, which made it difficult for the forensic pathologist to ascertain information. The autopsy was conducted on July 10, six days…

A photon is a single particle of light, and under normal circumstances, it can’t be divided. But a photon is also not a particle, in the sense that it does not have a specific location. Instead, it is an extended object. So if a photon is only partway through the process of reflecting from a perfect mirror and you yank the mirror away, what happens? The answer, from a trio of Norwegian physicists, turns out (arxiv.org link) to be more complex than I expected. A photon divided? Let’s first talk briefly about dividing and combining photons. If this were a common experience in our lives, then shining a single color of light through a piece of glass or…

Forensics discover remains of another 22 infants at Irish mother and baby house of horrors site where hundreds of corpses are feared buried By JADA BAS, REPORTER Published: 09:50 EDT, 22 July 2026 \| Updated: 10:10 EDT, 22 July 2026 Investigators at Ireland's infamous mother and baby house of horrors have made a grim new discovery, unearthing the remains of another 22 infants at the site where up to 800 corpses are feared to lie. The excavation team in Tuam, County Galway, which began its painstaking work in July last year, has recovered a total of 99 bodies. The newly discovered remains were found in coffins in an area on the south-western edge of…

The United States Coast Guard said it closely tracked Chinese polar expedition vessels transiting the Bering Sea on their way to the Arctic Ocean last week, amid unease over Beijing’s geopolitical ambitions in the region. The US Coast Guard Cutter Munro actively monitored the Chinese research ships Xuelong and Xuelong 2 as they passed northbound through the US exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and extended continental shelf in the Bering Sea towards the Arctic, the US Coast Guard said last Friday. The US Coast Guard also said it was the first time Chinese vessels had transited the waters this year. Countries enjoy sovereignty rights over natural resources…

Double Puggles: See the Adorable ‘Twin’ Echidnas Born at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park The two babies hatched earlier this year to one mother during the same breeding season—an extremely rare occurrence, according to the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Sarah Kuta \| Daily Correspondent July 22, 2026 10:00 a.m. When they hatch, echidna puggles are about the size of a jellybean and weigh half as much as a mini marshmallow. San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Conservationists are celebrating echidna “twins” born in San Diego. Known as puggles, the babies hatched earlier this year to one mother during the same breeding season—an extremely rare occurrence,…

This articleoriginally appeared in Knowable Magazine. When two species interact to the benefit of both, biologists speak of “mutualisms.” But nice as these relationships may sound, they are rarely perfectly harmonious—in fact, they can evolve to become unbalanced and exploitative. Species can cheat or manipulate each other, or downright endanger each other’s health and survival. To stop that from happening, they’ve evolved a variety of mechanisms to control or even punish each other. Guillaume Chomicki, a biologist at Durham University in the United Kingdom, has been intrigued by mutualisms for years. He specializes in a peculiar group of plants in…

This spring, I was in Jerusalem reporting a story on the common swift. These scythe-winged birds have nested in the cracks of the Western Wall and other holy sites here for thousands of years. The faithful have adapted to the swifts' presence, prayers mixing with the bird calls. And the swifts have adapted to live with humans, raising their young in the nooks and crannies of buildings and other structures. Every year, they migrate thousands of miles to return to the same city, town or village, where they reunite with their lifelong mates to nest. At the Western Wall, there were dozens of nests this year. Since seeing and hearing the birds there, I…

Archaeologists in El Salvador exhumed human remains believed to be nearly 3,000 years old on Tuesday, the Ministry of Culture said. The remains were first uncovered on July 2 in a burial site at Antiguo Cuscatlan, a suburb of San Salvador, and are estimated to date back to around 850 BC, according to the ministry, which also released images of the site. The burial pit contained a small Usulutan-style ceramic vessel shaped like a sea turtle, as well as remnants of cassava branches preserved beneath layers of volcanic ash deposited over different periods. The remains were found face down and will undergo radiocarbon dating to determine their age. DNA…

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The end-Triassic mass extinction struck about 201 million years ago and has been tied to enormous volcanic eruptions associated with the break-up of Pangea. Those eruptions released vast quantities of CO2 into the atmosphere, driving global temperatures up by an estimated 5 to 10 degrees Celsius. As the planet heated, forests dominated by trees collapsed. Ferns quickly moved into the damaged landscapes, spreading across large parts of what is now Northwest Europe and creating broad savannah-like environments. New research from an international team led by geologists at Utrecht University suggests that these fern-covered regions were highly vulnerable…

Annette Young is pleased to welcome Christopher Marinello, veteran lawyer , founder of Art Recovery International and one of the world's foremost experts in recovering stolen, looted, and missing works of art. The reopening of the Apollo Gallery at the Louvre, nine months after one of the most brazen museum thefts in recent history, marks more than the restoration of a famous exhibition space. It exposes a broader tension between public access to cultural heritage and the growing vulnerability of museums in an era of increasingly sophisticated organised crime.

Researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and Hospital Universitario Severo Ochoa in Leganés, part of the public health network of the Comunidad de Madrid, have developed a methodology that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze brain electrical activity during sleep and facilitate the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's. The study, recently published in the scientific journal GeroScience, demonstrates that analyzing nocturnal brain waves using machine learning techniques makes it possible to non-invasively identify early neural alterations and classify patients into three distinct biological subgroups. Alzheimer's is a progressive…

Sperm whales produce a specific pattern of clicking noises when they hear the noise of boats, researchers have found. The pattern is so distinct that the scientists who identified it said they can now use it to predict when ships are nearby. Researchers from Project Ceti (the Cetacean Translation Initiative), a non-profit research organisation working to decode sperm whale communication, spent four years tuning in on the calls of 15 sperm whales off the coast of Dominica. They discovered specific differences in sperm whale “codas”, the discrete and distinctive patterns of clicks that this species utters to communicate when those whales encountered…

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. Like a group of scheming teens shifting their conversation when a teacher walks by, sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) change the way they communicate when ships are near. The time between their clicks becomes shorter, and they even change how they use certain vowel sounds. The findings add another piece to the puzzle of translating the…

TEHRAN – During the Neolithic period, the inhabitants of Iranian plateau used reed mats as floor coverings in their shelters and also wrapped the deceased in them for burial. Thousands of years later, during the Safavid era, the use of silk brocade carpets woven by the artisans of Tabriz became widespread. Archaeological excavations at Ali Kosh Tepe in Dehloran county of Ilam province, uncovered a fragment of a reed mat on natural bitumen measuring 13.5 × 22 centimeters, dating to approximately 7,000–7,350 BCE. The find indicates that Neolithic inhabitants used reed mats woven in a “two-over, two-under” pattern to cover the floors of their dwellings,…

Karyn Frick likes to think big. In college, she spent the summer after her junior year studying the neurobiology of memory in a lab at Johns Hopkins University. For hours at a time, Frick would watch rats scurry through mazes, entranced by their behavior. For Frick, that early experience sparked an interest in memory that would ripple throughout her career. Years later, in a study on mice, she observed that middle-aged females were mentally older - and had worse memory - than their male counterparts. Now a neuroscientist and professor of psychological and brain sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, she's working to study how estrogens…

File photo of ABVP members staging a protest against the NEET 2026 paper leak in New Delhi on May 13, 2026. \| Photo Credit: SHASHI SHEKHAR KASHYAP The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), on Wednesday (July 22, 2026) condemned the violence that broke out during a protest at Jantar Mantar over NEET-UG and other education-related issues, alleging that “anti-social elements” and political interests had hijacked students’ legitimate agitation. The student body, in the same vein, also urged the Union government to constitute a high-level committee to review the transparency and integrity of…

The American chestnut tree was a dominant and iconic species in many Appalachian forests until it was devastated by an introduced fungus from Asia called chestnut blight. Healthy American chestnuts were giants in the forest. Forest History Society, Durham, N.C. A majestic forest tree, an American chestnut was typically 50 to 100 feet (15 to 30 meters) in height, but could grow as tall as 150 feet (45 meters) over its several-hundred-year lifespan. Its leafy canopy provided shade and beauty from Maine to Mississippi. The chestnuts it produced had helped to nourish wildlife, Indigenous peoples and European settlers alike. Its rot-resistant wood was also…

MOSCOW, July 22. /TASS Correspondent Irina Skalina/. The Pomors, or coast-dwellers, always lived as if on boundaries between worlds - between the sea and the sky, between the river and the forest. The boundaries were expanding as people continued traveling further to the north to explore the unknown. For more information, see the TASS article below. The Pomors cross It's not just a navigation sign. Clearly, people used it to indicate a dangerous location, but the cross had several more functions. In case of an accident, where people miraculously escaped a tragedy - the Pomors used to put up a cross, at the same time marking the dangerous location.…

Rod Ronnen Suskin, born 1 January 1963, died 18 July 2026. Rod Suskin spent four decades elevating astrology beyond banal newspaper horoscope columns, earning a reputation as one of South Africa’s leading astrologers and most thoughtful spiritual teachers. He brought intellectual rigour and gravitas to a discipline too often dismissed as entertainment. He did it with birth charts and planetary transits, with tarot cards rather than the divining bones of the tradition that had trained him, and with a patience that clients and colleagues remembered long after their hour with him had ended. Suskin died in Cape Town on 18 July, after a long illness, at…

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…

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 first-ever photo captured on the surface of Mars, snapped on July 20, 1976 by NASA's Viking 1 lander. (Image credit: NASA/JPL) You're looking at history. What might seem like a simple black-and-white picture of some rocks is actually the first photograph ever taken on the surface of Mars. What is it? Bright and early on the morning of July 20, 1976, NASA's Viking 1 lander touched down on the surface of Mars. This moment 50 years ago marked the first fully successful touchdown on the Red Planet, and, pretty much as soon as it landed, Viking 1 captured the first image of the Martian surface. The Soviet Union had already made multiple Mars landing…

ROME, July 22. /TASS/. The Venice Biennale will challenge the European Union's decision to withdraw a €2 million grant due to the opening of the Russian pavilion, Il Fatto Quotidiano reported. The exhibition said that the EC's decision "obliges them to take the steps mentioned earlier, namely, to defend their rights on all relevant platforms." Earlier, European Commission representative Thomas Reyniers said the EC had made a final decision to withdraw the grant. Russia presented its musical project "The Tree is Rooted in the Sky" with the participation of musicians from Russia, as well as Argentina, Brazil, and Mali at its pavilion at the Biennale on…

William Shatner and his youngest daughter Melanie battled stage 4 cancer at the same time, the Star Trek legend has revealed in an emotional new interview. The Star Trek legend, 95, who revealed in 2024 he had previously been diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma, fought for his life while Melanie, 61, received treatment for HER2-positive breast cancer that had spread to lymph nodes in her chest. Speaking to People, Melanie said her father's strength during his own illness got her through chemotherapy three years ago. She said, 'I was having a moment and was hysterical. I called you and said, "I think I’m dying." Her father immediately showed up at her…

The fight continues against SpaceX's controversial South Texas land swap. That deal, which the company made with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), gives SpaceX 727 acres (294 hectares) of public land that's currently part of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. In exchange, the company hands over 683 acres (276 hectares) of its territory in the area, not all of it contiguous, to the USFWS. Last month, a coalition of conservation and tribal groups sued the USFWS over the swap, saying it degrades the refuge and violates multiple laws, including the National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act of 1997. And yesterday (July…

Eye Opener: Severe weather across U.S. as Gulf states prepare for Tropical Storm Bertha Powerful storms wreak havoc across the country as the Gulf states brace for Tropical Storm Bertha. Plus, details on a potential new nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia. All that and all that matters in today's Eye Opener.

Swelling from a razor-thin crescent into a cratered world before fading back into the darkness, Mars gave NASA's Psyche spacecraft both a spectacular view — and a 1,000-mph boost toward its namesake asteroid. A new time-lapse video released by NASA, stitched from images taken throughout May, captures the probe's month-long encounter with Mars. On May 15, Psyche swooped within 2,864 miles (4,609 kilometers) of the surface, using the planet's gravity to boost its speed and adjust its trajectory toward asteroid Psyche, a metal-rich world in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter that the spacecraft is scheduled to reach in 2029. "This gravity…

WASHINGTON — Relativity Space struck a deal with Space Florida to build manufacturing and test facilities for its Terran R rocket on Florida’s Space Coast. Space Florida, the state’s space development and financing authority, announced July 21 that it signed an agreement to help finance construction of a new production facility for the company’s Terran R rocket near Cape Canaveral. The agreement also includes a commitment by Relativity Space to expand test and launch infrastructure at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The Florida Department of Transportation will provide up to $134 million in financing for those…

Watch this simulation of a galaxy flipped from edge-on to face-on after a collision with a massive dwarf galaxy. Astronomers said on July 21, 2026, that this scenario likely happened to our own Milky Way galaxy some 10 billion years ago. Video via Auriga Project and Thomas Tomlinson. Science matters. Wonder matters. You matter. Join our 2026 Donation Campaign today. Our galaxy flipped after a collision, say astronomers Astronomers think that some 10 billion years ago, our Milky Way galaxy collided with another galaxy, which they’ve dubbed the Gaia Sausage. And on July 21, 2026, a team of astronomers at the Royal Astronomical Society’s National…

In June, Botswana became the sixth African nation to sign the Artemis Accords, joining Nigeria (2022), Rwanda (2022), Angola (2023), Senegal (2025) and Morocco (2026) as part of a growing bloc of more than 60 countries committing to the peaceful, transparent and responsible exploration of space. South Africa to date has not signed – although to be fair, neither have Algeria, Egypt nor Kenya, which together represent a large portion of the continent's most developed space industries. But South Africa's case is the most curious. It has one of Africa's oldest and most capable space sectors, a satellite heritage stretching decades and historic ties to…

MOSCOW, July 22. /TASS/. The US is actively advocating for Poland to become a new G20 member, Russia's Ambassador-at-Large Marat Berdyev said in an interview with TASS. "The US has made things difficult with the suspension of South Africa this year, pushing Poland as a new member. Such moves undermine the consensus principle and the atmosphere of trust, leaving the future of existing agreements in limbo," he stated. According to the diplomat, "the US itself is aware that many of its initiatives lack unifying potential and are often shaped by domestic priorities, particularly in trade and innovation." Berdyev noted that "the development aspects and…

This chart shows the constellation Scorpius the Scorpion, holding the red star Antares at the its heart. Antares will lead you to a great globular cluster called Messier 4 (M4). It’s visible in the evenings for the next few months. Chart via EarthSky. Bright red star Antares is easy to find in the prominent zodiacal constellation Scorpius the Scorpion. And if you look just slightly west of it through binoculars, you’ll see a small faint diffuse ball of light. Through a moderate-sized telescope, that fuzzy ball resolves into a tight collection of faint stars suspended in the darkness. That’s Messier 4, called M4 for short. M4 is a globular star…

WASHINGTON — The pilot of the Artemis 2 mission says NASA’s return to the moon should start with human landings in less challenging equatorial regions rather than go directly to the south pole. Speaking at the NASA Exploration Science Forum at Ames Research Center on July 21, Victor Glover made a plea to NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman to reconsider plans to have the first Artemis crewed landings go to the lunar south pole because of the difficulties of accessing that region. Asked in an extended discussion with conference attendees about his preferred landing site for the first crewed landing of the Artemis campaign, Glover emphasized the…

Our five favourite designer luxury homes for sale right now Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA High-end materials, custom design, thoughtful floor plans, architectural lighting, landscaped gardens, high functionality, and enviable locations: there are many reasons why designer luxury homes are impressive. Here are five of our favourite designer luxury homes for sale right now. This four-bedroom brick residence is set within tranquil gardens designed by landscape architect Annie Wilkes, on a 1973 square-metre (approx.) estate in Wahroonga. The sandstone al fresco terrace makes…

A cottage perched on a clifftop in one of the UK's most sought after coastal destinations has been put on the market at £1.5million. Down End Cottage takes the term 'detached' to new heights as it stands alone with uninterrupted 180-degree panoramic ocean views, offering its owners ultimate seclusion and privacy. The four-bedroom bungalow sits within half-an-acre of private land, and offers access to a stretch of the South West Coast Path between the fishing village of Polperro and Talland Bay in south Cornwall. The 630-mile path starts in Somerset and runs along the coastline of Exmoor, continuing adjacent to the sea as it enters North Devon and then…

No, You Shouldn’t Avoid Fruits and Vegetables Due to Cyclospora Consumer ReportsCyclosporiasis outbreak in the US, by the numbers CNNCyclospora Cases in the U.S. Hit Record High The New York TimesUS says more than 1,400 infected by parasitic Cyclospora illness outbreak Al JazeeraDiarrhea-causing bug reaches outbreak proportions in NC with 500+ cases WRAL

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Adobe Elaine’s stories explore the boom in new obesity treatments, new drug payment models, the ways companies are affected by FDA changes, and the emerging psychedelics drug sector. She co-writes The Readout newsletter, and co-hosts STAT’s weekly biotech podcast, The Readout Loud. You can reach Elaine on Signal at elaineywchen.70. Daniel covers the intersection of the health industry and the federal government. He reports on corporate influence in government, the health consequences of federal policies, and the politics of health care. Confidential tips can be sent on Signal at danielp.100. Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving…

Hyderabad-based generic drugmaker Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories’ consolidated net profit slumped 69% year-on-year (YoY) to ₹.435.6 crore in the June quarter amid lower sales of cancer drug lenalidomide and nearly ₹240 crore provision necessitated by recent quality issue around weight loss drug Semaglutide. Total revenue from operations stood at ₹8,099.8 crore (₹8,572.1 crore), showed its results prepared in accordance with Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS). “Our Q1FY27 performance reflected the expected transition beyond lenalidomide revenues, along with an unexpected impact related to semaglutide active pharmaceutical ingredient (API). However, our…

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…

Nearly 1,000 people have died from Ebola in DR Congo According to WHO figures, 999 people have died in DRC and two in Uganda due to the Bundibugyo strain of the virus. Published On 22 Jul 202622 Jul 2026 Nearly 1,000 people have died from Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the country’s health ministry says. DRC’s National Institute of Public Health said on Wednesday that 999 deaths have been confirmed since the outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain of the virus began in May. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list According to the World Health Organization (WHO), two people have also died from the virus in neighbouring Uganda.…

A series of health challenges – hantavirus, screwworm, Ebola, cyclospora, measles, whooping cough, bird flu – are exposing the widening gaps in America’s ability to prevent, identify and halt infectious disease outbreaks. The rapid dismantling of the US public health system at all levels means the US is in worse shape than it was before the Covid pandemic, former top CDC officials say. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lost much of its funding for battling parasites, which are notable global killers, in the last year. Experts were tasked with monitoring potential outbreaks – such as a previously rare parasite called cyclospora –…

The food options here are something other airports should emulate Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA The airport Dusseldorf Airport (DUS) is the fourth-largest airport in Germany with 70 airlines flying to 177 destinations across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Dusseldorf Airport is Germany’s fourth busiest. The flight Qatar QR86 from Dusseldorf, Germany, to Doha, Qatar (DOH). The arrival Sign up for the Traveller newsletter The latest travel news, tips and inspiration delivered to your inbox. Sign up now. The airport is 7.2 kilometres from the centre of Dusseldorf and…

Exposure to a widely used herbicide during the middle months of pregnancy may increase the chance of giving birth too early, before 37 weeks, a new study shows. The investigation focused on glyphosate, the active chemical ingredient in professional-grade Roundup products, which are sprayed on commercial food crops, like grains and legumes, and on residential gardens. Residues of the chemical have been detected in cereals, snack foods, and fresh fruits and vegetables. Led by NYU Langone Health researchers, the new study, which included 1,450 women, revealed that those with higher levels of glyphosate in urine samples collected during midpregnancy were…

Students of St. Agnes Higher Primary School, Bendoor, at the ‘Odona, Beliyona: Indina Odu – Naalina Yashassu’ programme held at the school on Tuesday. \| Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT The Dakshina Kannada chapter of the Karnataka State Library Association (KALA), in association with the St. Agnes College (Autonomous) library, inaugurated its student-centric initiative ‘Odona, Beliyona: Indina Odu – Naalina Yashassu’ (Read today, win tomorrow: Today’s reading – Tomorrow’s success) at St. Agnes Higher Primary School, Bendoor, on Tuesday. Speaking on the occasion, Vishala B. K., president of the Dakshina Kannada chapter of KALA, said the initiative…

A new randomized clinical trial suggests that singing therapy may provide a more effective and engaging treatment option than standard breathing exercises for people with supragastric belching, a chronic gastrointestinal disorder that can significantly affect quality of life. The study, which will be published in the American Gastroenterological Association's journal Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, is the first randomized controlled trial to evaluate singing therapy for supragastric belching. This condition causes rapid, excessive belching - sometimes hundreds to thousands of times a day - as air repeatedly enters and exits the esophagus…

Lettuce is having a rough summer. Cases of cyclosporiasis, the foodborne illness caused by the cyclospora parasite and characterized by severe gastrointestinal symptoms like explosive diarrhea, have been on the rise since early July 2026. Health officials have determined that the illness is caused by infected feces found on produce, particularly on fruits like strawberries, vegetables and leafy greens, including lettuce. With this in mind, thoroughly hand-washing fresh produce is crucial to avoid getting infected. So it makes sense that folks will take any help they can get when it comes to better cleaning fruits and veggies. Right now, Farberware’s…

In a randomized clinical trial published in the Journal of Internal Medicine, ingesting capsules containing fecal microbes from healthy donors helped treat symptoms of insomnia. One month after treatment, participants receiving fecal microbiota capsules showed significantly higher sleep efficiency and reduced wake after sleep onset, as measured by overnight polysomnography. Patient questionnaires also showed that sleep quality scores improved from 2 to 6 months in the intervention group compared with the placebo group. Our findings provide clinical evidence that targeting the gut microbiota may offer a promising new therapeutic strategy for chronic…

Health Minister K.G. Arunraj on Wednesday said that a case has been filed against the three hospitals and doctors involved in a kidney racket before the Namakkal Judicial Magistrate Court. The Tamil Nadu Medical Council has been requested to take disciplinary action against the doctors involved. Last year, a kidney racket involving donors at Pallipalayam in Namakkal was unearthed and the kidney transplant licenses of two private hospitals were suspended. Giving an update on the case, the Minister stated that a transparent investigation was being conducted and action would be taken in accordance with the law, without any bias or political interference.…

Fox News senior correspondent Jonathan Serrie reports on doctors seeing results from Daraxonrasib, a new drug targeting pancreatic cancer, on ‘Special Report.’ NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A new vaccine for the prevention of pancreatic cancer has shown promise in an early study at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. A phase 1 trial published in Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, tested an experimental vaccine called mKRAS-VAX in 20 people, according to a press release. Participants had an inherited risk of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), the most common and…

(MedPage Today) -- Reproductive health should be addressed from the time of diagnosis of cystic fibrosis and annually thereafter, with a more prominent place in clinical care in the era of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR...

When Rachel Cooper decided to use weight loss jabs to help her shed the extra pounds she'd piled on during the Covid-19 lockdown, she never expected them to also stop her vicious cycle of alcohol and drug use. The mother, 35, from South Wales, ballooned from 13 stone to 19 stone amid the pandemic and would take up to three grams of cocaine a day at the peak of her addiction, spending up to £800 in one binge. Over the years, she estimated that she's spent over £200,000 on alcohol and drugs since the age of 17 – but in 2020, her reliance on the substances became even more out of control and, at her lowest, she was left feeling suicidal. Her darkest…

Cachexia-a syndrome characterized by progressive muscle wasting-affects both humans and dogs with chronic diseases such as cancer. A recent study in Molecular Oncology found that lower circulating levels of certain microRNAs-small non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression-often indicate the presence of cachexia in senior dogs. For the study, researchers analyzed blood levels of numerous microRNAs in 25 senior dogs. Decreased levels of miR-15a, miR-15b, miR-16, and miR-140 were indicators of cachexia associated with cancer, with miR-16 being the most robust individual marker. A sex-specific analysis revealed that miR-140, a microRNA with…

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday published an overview of new data documenting the rapid spread of the current Ebola outbreak in Congo. Democratic Republic of Congo Ministry of Health data documenting cases traced between May 15 and July 19 shows that 2,473 people in Congo and neighboring Uganda have been infected by the latest Bundibugyo strain of the virus, with 999 documented deaths. The spread — the fastest ever recorded for Ebola — has continued unabated as no vaccines or treatments exist for this new strain of the virus. Until now, the deadliest outbreak — which raged from 2013 to 2016 and infected 28,000 people, 11,000 of whom…

(MedPage Today) -- More than a quarter of physician-industry interactions for research funding also involved the doctor receiving general payments from that same sponsor, an analysis of CMS data showed. In an analysis of nearly 60,000 physician...

New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill faces a Justice Department investigation after admitting a software error improperly registered 6,600 non-citizens, with 400 casting votes in prior elections. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon condemns the 'unlawful dilution of American votes,' triggering a Civil Rights Division probe. This incident highlights concerns about voter integrity in the state. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The vendor Democratic New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill blamed for a "software error" leading to illegal voting in the Garden State denies wrongdoing, and is instead pointing its finger back at the state. IDEMIA is a…

Eclypsium has launched InfraTrust, a new infrastructure cybersecurity knowledge base and monthly InfraTrust Pulse report designed to help organizations prioritize vulnerabilities affecting infrastructure, firmware, networking, and edge devices. The monthly report aggregates security advisories from major infrastructure vendors and highlights the vulnerabilities administrators should prioritize based on a flaw's exploitability, exposure, and real-world risk rather than severity scores alone. The inaugural July 2026 InfraTrust Pulse by Paul Asadoorian, Principal Security Researcher at Eclypsium, tracked 61 infrastructure advisories from 14 vendors,…

Chick‑fil‑A confirmed a credential stuffing attack between June 17–19, breaching thousands of accounts Exposed data includes names, emails, membership numbers, payment details, birthdays, and addresses Company logged out users, removed payment methods, restored balances, and notified multiple US states Chick-fil-A is notifying its customers of a worrying cyber incident involving their sensitive information being leaked. In a data breach notification letter being sent to affected customers, the fast food giant said it recently identified “suspicious login activity”, which prompted it to investigate further. That investigation determined that…

France has become the first country in the European Union to ban social media for children under the age of 15, after its parliament overwhelmingly approved landmark legislation by 279 votes to 81. Under the new law, children under 15 will be prevented from creating new social media accounts on platforms such as TikTok and Snapchat from September, while existing accounts will be blocked from January 2027, according to the legislation. The law will also ban students from having phones in high schools from next year, and require social platforms to introduce age verification checks. Students were already prohibited from having phones in French…

HAIKOU /China/, July 22. /TASS/. Authorities in the Chinese resort city of Sanya on Hainan Island have introduced a series of measures to improve business conditions. This has helped create new incentives for a dynamic development of tourism, Sanya Ribao reported. According to the newspaper, Sanya officials envisage a series of large-scale entertainment activities for the second half of 2026 which will make it possible to strengthen the city’s international image even more. New favorable conditions for business, designed to further open the potential of the local tourism industry, have formed an important basis for the successful organization of such…

AI AND ML Grok muscles into Excel with an AI add-in of its own xAI's sidebar agent promises analysis and financial models – for a price You've got an idea for an Excel spreadsheet, but building it is another matter. Microsoft's Copilot can help, and now SpaceXAI is offering an alternative: the Grok add-in for Excel. Available on the Microsoft Marketplace, the add-in places a sidebar in Excel that can "search the web, update spreadsheets, or build powerful financial models," according to the product description It isn't without cost. The add-in is currently available for SuperGrok, Heavy, Business, and Enterprise plans, although, as xAI states, the…

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…

You’ve gotta hand it to tech bros, they sure know how to try to take something terrifying and spin it in a way that makes their tech sound whimsical and exciting. Inevitably, they fail to shift the narrative, but they try anyway. OpenAI, the company behind AI-psychosis-inducing chatbot ChatGPT and the discontinued Sora AI app, has now confirmed that its AI program tried to hack into another AI company’s system all on its own. Once again, modern tech imitates the dystopian stories of speculative science fiction and we’re supposed to keep pretending there’s nothing to worry about. Hugging Face, another AI company that’s name unironically…

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has told an Abuja Federal High Court that the published data of Nollywood actor and Nigeria Democratic Congress, House of Representatives aspirant, Emeka Ike, was neither classified, sensitive nor confidential information. INEC made the submission in a counter affidavit deposed to by Anthonia Makwe, an Assistant Director/Data Protection Officer in its Legal Drafting and Clearance Department, in opposition to a suit numbered FHC/ABJ/CS/1272/2026, filed by Emeka Ike at the Abuja Federal High Court on June 15, 2026. The actor and politician, in the suit he filed against INEC and Lere Olayinka, media…

MOSCOW, July 22. /TASS/. More than 360 hostile foreign organizations have been expelled from Russia under amendments adopted by the State Duma (Russian lower house of parliament), including more than 60 based on materials gathered by the State Duma Commission investigating foreign interference in the country’s internal affairs, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption Vasily Piskaryov said. "More than 360 foreign organizations hostile to Russia have been expelled from the country under amendments we introduced, including more than 60 based on materials compiled by our commission," Piskaryov said in his report at a plenary…

Adobe is making PDF attachments much less annoying in WhatsApp. Its new Acrobat integration lets you open a PDF and mark it up without downloading the file or leaving the conversation. The feature is available today through WhatsApp Web and the Windows app. The headline comes with an important caveat, though. This isn’t full PDF editing. You can review and annotate a document, but you can’t rewrite its original text or rearrange the layout. What can you do with a PDF inside WhatsApp PDFs now open directly inside a WhatsApp conversation. You can scroll through each page and zoom in when the fine print starts looking suspiciously fine. Omar Ramírez…

Flock is abandoning plans for a 'human distress detection' feature It had previously been rolled out as a small trial Consumer groups say it's evidence of 'mission creep' from the company It's fair to say Flock isn't the most popular tech company at the moment, with major consumer concerns around surveillance and privacy in regards to its widespread license plate cameras — but it has at least now pulled one of its most contentious features. That feature is 'human distress detection', which was recently trialed on a small scale, and used Flock's network of urban acoustic detectors to listen out for sounds of human screaming and panic. If those sounds…

OpenAI has admitted that several of its AI models breached a "highly-isolated" test environment, gained access to the internet, and hacked Hugging Face's internal network—describing it as an "unprecedented cyber incident." Hugging Face, an open source platform for machine learning models and datasets, reported the security incident earlier this week, calling it "different from anything we had handled before" as it was driven by an autonomous AI agent system. And yes, I feel like we're crossing some kind of AI Rubicon here. Explaining the incident in a statement, OpenAI said: "After investigating, we now know that this particular incident was driven by…

Topline A model recruiter under investigation for allegedly connecting sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to several young women who later said they were abused by him was found dead in his home near Paris this week, prosecutors reported Wednesday. Jeffrey Epstein at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in 1995. Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Key Facts Daniel Siad, 69, was a French modelling scout who is said to have spent 10 years connecting Epstein with women and who continued associating with him and inviting him to fashion events after Epstein’s 2008 conviction of sex crimes. Siad's name appears more than 1,000 times in the declassified Epstein files…

The Adobe Acrobat extension for Chrome could be used to access conversations and data rendered in WhatsApp Web without any form of authentication. The attack exploits a chain of vulnerabilities, collectively tracked as CVE-2026-48294 and dubbed HermeticReader by researchers at cybersecurity firm Guardio. Exploiting them requires only that the target running the Adobe Acrobat extension be lured to a web page under the threat actor's control. Stealing WhatsApp communications The problem arises from the Adobe extension allowing any website to disguise attacker commands as internal extension messages, activate its WhatsApp integration, and redirect its…

The browser wars have entered a new phase this year: The fight isn’t just over search results anymore — it’s over which company’s AI gets to act on your behalf inside the browser. Google Chrome and Apple’s Safari still dominate the market overall, with Chrome’s edge coming largely from how aggressively it has woven generative AI into search. But 2026 has brought a wave of new entrants — from well-funded startups to Big Tech — all betting that the browser is about to become less like a window onto the web and more like an assistant that gets things done for you. Users looking for alternatives to Chrome and Safari can choose from a growing variety of…

Starting today, WhatsApp Web users can view, review, and annotate PDFs without leaving their chats. Here are the details. Adobe Acrobat now available in WhatsApp Web Up until now, receiving a PDF on WhatsApp meant having to download it just to open it, with no built-in tools for reviewing or annotating the document. Adobe today announced that its Acrobat PDF tools are now integrated directly into WhatsApp Web and the WhatsApp app for Windows, allowing users to open, review, and annotate documents without downloading them or leaving the conversation. The company says that, in addition to standard PDFs, the integration also supports password-protected…

Im größten AfD-Landesverband Nordrhein-Westfalen tobt ein offener Machtkampf, der der Bundesspitze zunehmend entgleitet. Pauline von Pezold und Frederik Schindler analysieren im Detail, wie das radikale Helferich-Lager die Listenwahl sabotieren wollte. Sie besprechen, warum Landeschef Martin Vincentz sich juristisch gegen Alice Weidel wehren wollte und wie das Tabu des Widerstands gebrochen ist. Zudem diskutieren die beiden die fehlenden Berührungsängste der AfD-Spitze zur rechtsextremen Szene. Schindler und von Pezold beleuchten, wie Spitzenpolitiker wie Ulrich Siegmund dem verurteilten Neonazi Sebastian Schmidtke freundschaftliche Interviews geben.…

Halimah Delaine Prado, Google General Counsel, reveals the rise of AI-powered phishing scams originating from China's 'outsider enterprise.' She explains how these criminals use artificial intelligence to create highly convincing fake websites, impersonating trusted brands like T-Mobile to defraud hundreds of thousands of Americans, causing millions in losses. Prado highlights Google's strategy to combat these evolving threats. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! You open your inbox and see a message about updated security policies. Nothing about it screams scam. The email looks polished, the wording sounds official and the button promises a…

Cybernews found Carla’s exposed AWS bucket with 48,000 PDFs containing customer rental data Files included names, emails, phone numbers, rental details, and travel patterns useful for phishing Carla secured the database after disclosure; no evidence of malicious access, but risk remains Car rental comparison and booking platform Carla kept a database with sensitive customer information unlocked on the open internet, freely available to anyone who knew where to look. Cybersecurity researchers fromCybernewsreported finding an exposed Amazon Web Services (AWS) bucket with approximately 48,000 PDF files. These files, which was later determined belonged to…

Count Binface, Britain’s most beloved and least corrupt politician, has been making waves in the media over the past month ever since it became astoundingly likely that the trashcan-headed candidate will win the upcoming 2026 Clacton by-election. However, the man/bin of the people is now making headlines for a far more noble goal, as the self-dubbed Leader of the Recyclons recently announced that he has “a little bone to pick with” Sega, whom he chastised for closing its SegaWorld London theme park and for leaving Shenmue fans “on another cliffhanger for years.” Finally, a reason to feel proud to be British. This news was spotted last night…

Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced's an idyllic pirate adventure, especially given it trains its eye firmly on Edward Kenway's quest for booty. Naturally, Kenway hangs out with a bunch of real pirates from history throughout his time on the high seas, including the most famous one, Blackbeard. There's now a mod that'll let you play as the bearded buccaneer in Black Flag Resynced. So, here I am to point out a grisly reason you might not fancy getting too into roleplaying as Mr Edward Teach (or Mr Edward Thatch, depending on which accounts you believe). On the face of it, living life in Blackbeard's boots thanks to modder Kamzik123's playable…

Super Eagles striker Tolu Arokodare has found himself at the centre of a fresh controversy at Wolverhampton Wanderers, following reports that he disrupted a training session after a disagreement with the club’s coaching staff. According to Wolves correspondent Nathan Judah, training at the club’s Compton Park base was cancelled after Arokodare allegedly refused to leave the pitch when instructed not to train with the first team. In a post on X on Tuesday, Judah stated: “EXCL🚨: Understand Wolves training was cancelled yesterday following Tolu Arokodare’s refusal to leave the pitch when asked not to train with the squad. Cesar Peixoto seemingly not…

Arcade Archives developer Hamster Corporation has announced the latest arcade oddity it is bringing to modern hardware: Armadillo Racing. Bandai Namco released the game in 1997, and it has never seen a home release until now. As the name suggests, the game is about racing armadillos. In a news release announcing the latest addition to the Arcade Archives series, Ryoichi Kaku, lead at Bandai Namco Research Institute, said the re-release is deeply meaningful to him, "as a member of the original arcade game's development team and as someone who has been involved in bringing it back." The original arcade version of Armadillo Racing used a trackball. The…

MANILA, Philippines—No bettor won the jackpot prizes for the Grand Lotto 6/55 and Mega Lotto 6/45 draws on Wednesday, July 22, according to the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO). The Grand Lotto 6/55 winning combination was 15-24-36-10-48-55, with the jackpot climbing to about ₱89.21 million. No ticket matched all six numbers. The Mega Lotto 6/45 draw produced the winning combination 08-14-39-29-01-13 for a jackpot of about ₱17.8 million. PCSO said there were no jackpot winners. Article continues after this advertisement Minor games 4D Lotto: 0-4-8-4 – ₱65,123 prize; 14 winners 3D Lotto (2 p.m.): 1-8-6 – ₱4,500; 364 winners 3D Lotto (5…

Market analysis firm Circana has published the latest edition of its monthly report, which tracks spending across game hardware and software in the US. June's edition is another bleak one, with a near-universal decline. Video game industry spending across hardware, software, accessories and add-ons dropped by 21 percent in June, compared to the same period last year. The industry collectively brought in $4.5bn during the month, down from $5.7bn. The six-month pace is only one percent behind the same period last year, however. Seeing as we're only through the first half of the year, there is reason for optimism. With Grand Theft Auto 6 releasing in the…

After years in exile, Avatar fans can finally dust off their air gliders. The long-awaited Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender is making its way to streaming, marking the series’ film debut and first animated installment since The Legend of Korra wrapped in 2014. If that wasn’t enough, there’s another franchise first launching on the same day, one that fulfills a want that’s been around since Aang first stumbled out of a glacier: Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game is the first good Avatar video game. Through nuanced systems and an encyclopedic knowledge of the source material, developer Gameplay Group International largely does right by Team Avatar. The…

I’m not sure who Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game is for. The bones of an excellent fighter are here, with a roster of varied fighters, gorgeous hand drawn animation, and a ton of bespoke mechanics and systems that make each character a rewarding challenge to master. The problem is that Avatar Legends feels so unfriendly to newcomers that I don’t know how anyone other than the most FGC-pilled player is supposed to find their footing in it. I know this criticism will inevitably spark a bunch of “get good” tomato throwing, but I like to think I’m an above-average fighting game player who, when given the tools to learn a character, can hold…

Palworld's 1.0 release has been massive so far, with the game hitting its biggest concurrent player peaks since the 2024 early access launch for the past two weeks. Unsurprisingly, that has also translated into a boost to premium unit sales. Alinea Analytics' Rhys Elliott has shared an in-depth look at Palworld's post-launch performance and recapped the massive hit's journey so far. Estimated sales now sit at roughly 30.5m units as of 21st July, 2026, with around $700m in gross revenue coming from copies sold alone. Players also got access to Palworld starting in 2024 via Xbox and PC Game Pass, adding around 10m users to the total of people that have…

Frosthaven, and Gloomhaven before it, are complex turn-based tactical boardgames. Filled with cards, plastic figurines, a dense rulebook, and a denser tome filled with scenario descriptions and special conditions, Frosthaven's box comes to a weighty 36Ibs, or, in old money, 5Ibs heavier than the Lego Titanic. One of the perks of the digital adaptations is that you don't need to lug around the equivalent of a four-year-old child to go play at being an RPG adventurer in a frozen wasteland with your mates, you can just boot it up and all hop into a multiplayer server together. Turns, too, play out faster, as you don't need to calculate all the enemy…

Research suggests that more than half of children with autism spectrum disorder, a neurodevelopmental condition, experience motor impairments. An analysis in Developmental Medicine \& Child Neurology indicates that sports-based interventions may improve motor skills in children with autism spectrum disorder, with martial arts and aquatic training demonstrating the most consistent benefits. The analysis was based on data from 11 clinical trials of various sports. Martial arts demonstrated consistently large improvements in balance, total motor skills, and object control skills, with especially strong effects in Tai Chi Chuan and kata programs. Aquatic…

Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR A firmware leak has revealed the hardware specs of the now-canceled ASUS ROG Phone 10 and 10 Pro. ASUS intended to outfit the two phones with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip and a triple rear camera setup. The devices were in development but had to be shelved after the company’s decision to step away from the smartphone business. ASUS took the bold call of pausing its smartphone business earlier this year, pivoting to AI-based hardware, including commercial PCs and smart glasses. Among the victims of this decision was the ROG Phone 10 series, devices that were in development but never saw the light of…

June was a surprisingly good month for Xbox console sales, which have been in a pretty bad spot for a while now. Some of that was due to this time last year being exceptionally tough thanks to the launch of the Switch 2, but it also seems like folks are trying to get ahead of yet another major price hike coming up in August. According to the monthly report from Circana, video game content spending was down by 12 percent year-over-year, but year-to-date spending is flat. Subscriptions were the only segment to grow year-over-year, while all others declined, especially mobile and console. UFC 6 debuted at No.1 in June, and was also the best-selling game…

‘You look at the news and you’re like, ‘Another pointless war, another pointless bloodshed, another pointless genocide.’ And that can make you a bit hopeless.” Roy van der Schilden, narrative designer and business director at Wispfire, speaks of a very human feeling. But the protagonist of its upcoming game Red Kiss can relate – despite being a vampire. You play as an (initially human) inhabitant of cold war Berlin who has tried to no avail to endure the conflict outside the window: through partying, journalling, activism … Still, you feel empty. When offered a new life of power and purpose, you don’t need much convincing to offer up your exposed…

There is a saying — ‘dont judge a book by its cover’. But when the covers are elaborate stories in themselves, one can no longer separate them from the narrative within. When Sunandini Banerjee, senior editor and graphic designer, Seagull Books, designs a cover, it becomes more than an image wrapping a book. Through collage, abstraction, and illustration, her covers transform books by authors from different cultures and continents into symbolic visual narratives that often stay with a reader as much as the words within them. Sunandini Banerjee \| Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT In her ongoing exhibition Art of the Book, at DakshinaChitra, one can…

When Microsoft and Qualcomm launched the first Copilot+ PCs sporting Snapdragon X Elite processors, the CPU performance was beyond reproach, but whether due to immature software or underwhelming integrated hardware, the GPU horsepower left a lot to be desired. The easiest way to solve that is to hook up a discrete GPU, of course, but nobody's managed that yet. Instead, an enterprising hacker in China has become the first person to publicly get an Nvidia GeForce RTX GPU running on an Arm-based platform using Windows 11, but it's not Snapdragon, and it's not an Nvidia CPU, either, WindowsLatest reports. We knew that the Nvidia RTX Spark processors used…

That feeling when you get traded to a title contender. PPA The Major League Pickleball (MLP) season trade deadline has come and gone, and after weeks of speculation, both teams that pundits though had flaws in their pursuit of the league favorite St. Louis Shock made moves to try to shake up the playoffs. We’ll discuss those moves, as well as the 5th and final waiver deadline, and do some analysis as to whether they’ll change the outcome of the 2026 MLP playoffs. Here’s links at the official MLP site for the two transaction periods. This week at the trade deadline, the following transactions were announced: Major Move Number One: Los Angeles acquires…

Exhausted and frustrated, I pushed open the glass doors of the 7-Eleven and made a beeline for the chilled section to pick out dinner for my tired, hungry family. Cream and strawberry sandwiches, raw spicy tuna and rice, or something fried on a stick? There's no doubt the options were plentiful, but another packaged meal wasn't on my bingo card for our bucket list trip to Japan. When I booked our flights to Osaka with my husband Clint and our three children, Jonty and Hendry, eight, and six-year-old Stanley, I'd heard so many great things about travelling there with kids. Eating three meals a day from a convenience store was not one of them. Where was…

Global \| July 2026 — The wait is almost over. As the final countdown to the Healing Streams Live Healing Services with Pastor Chris Oyakhilome begins, an extraordinary atmosphere of faith, prayer, and expectation pervades the nations. Across continents, churches are opening their doors as Healing Centers, families are inviting neighbors and friends into their homes, and millions are taking the message of hope and divine health in Christ Jesus to cities, towns, villages, hospitals, schools, marketplaces, correctional facilities, and underserved communities. At the heart of this unprecedented global mobilization is the Road to Healing Streams Live…

Compulsion Games is one of five studios Microsoft moved to cut loose during its latest round of mass layoffs at Xbox and the first thing it did after going independent is win another award for 2025’s South of Midnight. The magic-infused action-adventure took home the top Game of the Year honor at this year’s Games for Change Festival in New York this week. “South of Midnight is about rising up in challenging times when it gets tough, about growth, about resilience, and the word change right now feels really timely for us because Compulsion Games is going back to being independent,” said producer and studio general manager Geneviève Forget in her…

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…

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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…

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 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…

The digital wall we built ourselves Why 95.9% of the world’s top million sites still fail the people who need them most. Press enter or click to view image in full size Photo by Ann H from Pexels I remember the first time I truly understood what it meant to be locked out of a website. A quiet Tuesday afternoon, watching a friend with a visual impairment try to book a train ticket. He tabbed through the page, screen reader rattling off incomprehensible strings of code, button after button labelled “click here”, images announcing themselves as “image.jpg”. After fifteen minutes of frustration, he closed the laptop and asked me to do it for him. “It’s…

A new GNOME extension called Simple-taskbar does a pretty good job of giving GNOME 50 a taskbar and start menu very much like the ones from Windows 11. It's so new that it's still not listed on the GNOME Extensions website – at the time of writing, it's still under review. We built it and installed it, and it works. This single extension merges GNOME's built-in panel (across the top of the primary screen) and what it calls the "dash" – the icon bar down the left side – into a single taskbar, styled like Windows 11: icons centered, a Start menu with columns, a search box, and so on. The handy feature here is to have all this in a single, integrated…

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…

OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack BBCOpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation OpenAIOpenAI says its AI technology acted on its own in an 'unprecedented' hack of another company WISNOpenAI says its AI models escaped control and hacked into AI company Hugging Face FortuneOpenAI Says Its A.I. Models Went Rogue and Attacked a Digital Library The New York Times

OpenAI said on Tuesday it lost control of two AI systems during a security test, which went rogue and hacked into the online start-up Hugging Face. The ChatGPT-maker said its agents - AI bots which can operate alone after some human instruction – were being tested in a controlled environment, but found vulnerabilities and managed to escape. They targeted Hugging Face, one of the world's largest hubs for sharing AI models, gaining access to some internal company systems. OpenAI said the incident was "unprecedented", external, and it was working with Hugging Face to investigate what happened and strengthen safeguards. Gina Neff, head of the Minderoo…

Increasingly convinced that they hadn’t defamed anyone, the Bark staffers weighed their options. After school, Mueller, Schneider, Bishop, and another Bark editor sat down on the blue couches in their newsroom for a grueling four-hour debate. Painstakingly, they double-checked every single word on Mueller’s slide, verifying it against the federal documents. They were on the verge of deciding to leave the Instagram post alone. But after Schneider headed out for the evening, the students kept second-guessing themselves. They ended up deciding to temporarily archive Mueller’s most controversial slide until they could meet with school officials in person.…

The heatwave that swept across Europe in June is estimated to have cost the continent’s grain farmers €2bn (£1.7bn) in lost revenue and destroyed 9m tonnes of crops, sparking concern about the impact on the price of food. The harvest of crops including wheat, barley, maize and oats is now predicted to be 9m tonnes smaller than forecast before the June heatwave, according to Coceral, the European association which represents trade of cereals and oilseeds. This figure would see the 27 EU member states and the UK record their smallest harvest since 2018, and represents lost crop production larger than the combined total forecast grain production of…

Virudhunagar Collector N. O. Sukhaputra interacting with farmers at the e-NAM facility opened at Seithur on Tuesday. \| Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Virudhunagar Collector N. O. Sukhaputra inaugurated the new facility and said it would hep the farmers get fair remuneration for their produce without any middlemen. e-NAM system would ensure transparent transaction through e-auction. “This will help the farmers get the maximum price for coconut as traders from various districts and also from other States would participate in the auction based on the market position,” he said. The e-market was set up at Seithur based on the demands from coconut…

Zelenskyy fires commander-in-chief after protests amid cabinet turmoil Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fired his commander-in-chief and named a replacement after days of protests. This came as Ukraine targeted an online retailer that it says facilitates Russian military logistics. CBS News' Aidan Stretch reports.

A vendor reached out to me last week for fund administration for SaaStr Fund. We are genuinely in the market for a vendor and it’s a $100k+ a year potential client. This should have been a real shot for them. It started on LinkedIn, where they reached out. I said I wasn’t sure we were... Continue Reading

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that American forces will destroy "one bridge or power plant" in Iran every time Tehran fires at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the targets would include locations next to or within the capital city of Tehran. "From this point forward, any time the Islamic Republic of Iran shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, whether it be by Missile, Rocket, Drone, or any other device or weapon, the United States will bomb and destroy one bridge or power plant, including those located next to, or in, the capital city of Tehran," Trump said. This comes after the US carried out…

Understanding your credit card hardship options can help you decide on a solution before your financial situation worsens. Adam Gault/Getty Images For many borrowers, keeping up with credit card payments is now a lot more difficult than it was just a year ago. Sticky inflation, elevated borrowing costs and years of accumulated debt have left many households juggling credit card balances with interest rates that can make even modest purchases far more expensive over time. And missing a payment can quickly trigger late fees, penalty rates and credit score damage, adding to the financial stress and creating a cycle that's difficult to break. That doesn't…

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It's the ultimate wedding guest gaffe - and even pop royalty isn't immune to making this sartorial mistake. Former Spice Girl Melanie Chisholm was surrounded by famous friends and family as she married Chris Dingwall last weekend. While all of her bandmates attended except Victoria Beckham, who was in the US for the World Cup final, it was Geri Halliwell's outfit that sparked debate online. Fans were quick to point out that Geri, who is known for almost exclusively wearing white, may have chosen the wrong colour for one of her oldest and closest friend's big day. She arrived in a romantic, flowing white dress - a shade that should be reserved for the…

Prime Minister Mark Carney will be in Prince Edward Island on Wednesday, where Canada’s premiers have gathered for an annual summit of the Council of the Federation as the threat of new 50 per cent tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump looms over the Canadian economy. The visit comes a day after Carney met virtually with the premiers, where they discussed the “unilateral United States trade actions.” On Wednesday evening, Carney is set to attend a gala hosted by the premiers. Trump signed three executive orders Monday to impose a 50 per cent tariff on many Canadian goods under Section 338 of the U.S. Tariff Act of 1930, which allows a president to…

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 AI industry is buying a bigger seat at the table. OpenAI and Anthropic set records for federal lobbying in the second quarter of 2026, CNBC reported. Together they spent $3.17 million, up 23% from the first quarter. Startups outspending giants The individual numbers are the striking part. Anthropic spent $1.97 million, up 26% in three months. That is more than Nvidia managed, and close to Oracle’s $2 million. OpenAI spent $1.2 million, up almost 18%. It came within $50,000 of Nvidia, which spent $1.25 million. Compared with a year ago, Anthropic’s spending has more than doubled and OpenAI’s has nearly doubled. The two firms told Congress they…

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…

Five U.S. tech giants heavily invested in AI and its related infrastructure reportedly have an estimated $1.65 trillion in hidden debt, with the figures annotated in their quarterly financial statements instead of being listed in their balance sheets. According to Nikkei Asia, this is higher than the $1.35 trillion officially listed, meaning investors could be caught unaware once the hidden figures come to light. Go deeper with TH Premium: AI and data centers (Image credit: Microsoft) The publication says that Meta has a high off-balance-sheet-to-recorded-debt ratio, with the company owing $420 billion in unlisted debts compared to the $140 billion…

President Donald Trump's proposed tariffs on imported generic medicines have raised fresh questions about whether low-cost drugmakers can shift production to the U.S. before duties of as much as 200% take effect. Trump said Tuesday that imported generic medicines would face no tariffs for two years before duties rise to 100% for one year and then 200%, giving manufacturers time to invest in U.S. production. The proposal targets a growing global industry, currently worth nearly $500 billion. While the administration says tariffs will help bring pharmaceutical manufacturing back to the U.S., the generic drug industry argues that longstanding structural…

DXL has reconsidered its own merger plan. (Photo by Jerritt Clark/Getty Images for DXL) getty Just seven months ago, Destination XL Group was pitching its merger with FullBeauty Brands as a transformational deal that would create a $1.2 billion leader in the fast-growing inclusive apparel market. Today, the retailer is urging its own shareholders to vote against the transaction that it negotiated. The reversal is unusual not simply because boards rarely disown their own strategic decisions, but because it shows how quickly the economics of retail acquisitions can change when consumer spending weakens, financing becomes more expensive and debt-heavy…

Thuisbezorgd hides costs and fakes discounts: consumer group July 22, 2026 Photo: Depositphotos.com See more DutchNews articles in your Google search results See more DutchNews articles in your Google search results Add as a favourite source on Google Add DutchNews as a favourite source on Google The food delivery platform Thuisbezorgd.nl hides compulsory charges and advertises fake discounts, the Dutch consumer association Consumentenbond said on Tuesday, calling on the company to stop and to compensate affected customers. Mandatory costs should be clearly shown before a customer starts ordering, the association said, but Thuisbezorgd’s app and…

Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, during a news conference at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, June 17, 2026. Daniel Heuer \| Bloomberg \| Getty Images Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., on Wednesday introduced a bill that would rein in President Donald Trump's broad tariff powers by eliminating some of his statutory tools to set import duties and giving Congress a greater say over the ones that remain. Wyden unveiled the new legislation a day after slamming Trump for announcing 50% retaliatory tariffs on a wide range of Canadian goods, citing a near-century-old trade law that has rarely, if ever, been invoked. "Donald Trump has…

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My top 10 things to watch Wednesday, July 22 1. The endless climb in oil can't be ignored today, as international benchmark Brent crude touched $95 a barrel for the first time in over a month. Now layer in premarket declines in SK Hynix , which has seemingly been in control of this market, and it's going to be hard for stocks to mount an advance. Nasdaq futures are leading the morning declines. 2. Club name GE Vernova is off 4% after reporting a noisy quarter. Earnings per share (EPS) looks like a big miss, but unclear if that's comparable to estimates. My focus is the excellent order growth of 88% in the quarter, the increase to the full-year revenue…

Impetus, a global leader in software-led AI services and solutions, today announced the appointment of Samir Gosavi as its Chief Revenue Officer. Samir joins Impetus as the company continues to expand its AI capabilities and offerings, deepen industry expertise, and accelerate global growth. With more than 25 years of global leadership experience, Samir brings a proven track record of building and scaling technology businesses. Prior to joining Impetus, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Business Officer at LTIMindtree, where he led global business growth and strategic customer relationships. Samir has held senior leadership positions at…

Chief congressional correspondent Chad Pergram joins 'America's Newsroom' to discuss President Donald Trump's push to add photo ID to the Save America Act. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Late Sen. John Warner, R-Va., said to me once that "we don’t do a lot in Congress. But when we do it, we do it all at once." That is kind of where we find the House of Representatives today. Today is the penultimate day in the House before the August recess. In fact, the House may not be here much at all until after the election. So that’s why the House is trying to cram EVERYTHING into today. HOUSE GOP VOTES TO PUNT GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN BATTLE TO AFTER…

A married Singapore minister’s sudden resignation amid revelations he had exchanged inappropriate messages with a woman had rocked the city state’s establishment circles, with a groundswell of sentiment calling for him to be retained. Amid online petitions and calls to keep former minister-in-charge of Muslim affairs Faishal Ibrahim following his resignation on Monday, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong shed further light on the controversy, suggesting the matter was more serious than previously believed. Faishal resigned from the cabinet, parliament and the People’s Action Party after accepting he had fallen short of standards expected of him in his online…

China and the EU have renewed their joint research agreement, according to Chinese state-linked media, signalling a willingness to collaborate on climate and agriculture despite trade tensions. People’s Financial News, a publication affiliated with Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily, reported on the new two-year agreement on Wednesday. China’s Ministry of Science and Technology and the European Commission had signed joint research funding agreements to support scientific cooperation through to 2027, the report said. The cooperation focuses on areas such as food, agriculture and biosolutions, as well as climate change and biodiversity. The…

Two senior Congress leaders from Prakasam district joined the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) on Wednesday in the presence of former Chief Minister and YSRCP president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy at the party’s central office in Tadepalli. The leaders who switched allegiance were Ongole city Congress committee president T. Nagalakshmi and senior Congress SC Cell leader D. Satish Babu. Mr. Jagan welcomed them into the party and expressed confidence that they would work effectively to strengthen the YSRCP in the future. Speaking on the occasion, Ms. Nagalakshmi and Mr. Satish Babu said they were drawn to the YSRCP by Mr. Jagan’s leadership, ideology, objectives,…

TDP Politburo member Kalava Srinivasulu \| Photo Credit: File Photo TDP Politburo member Kalava Srinivasulu has said that the coalition government has successfully implemented the Thalliki Vandanam scheme for the second consecutive year, in stark contrast to the mere pressing of buttons during the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) regime. Addressing the media at the TDP central office on Wednesday, Mr. Srinivasulu said the government has credited ₹10,120 crore directly into the bank accounts of approximately 42,70,842 mothers under the scheme to benefit 67,47,190 students, without any scope for corruption. He noted that the possibility of children…

MOSCOW, July 22. /TASS/. Vladimir Zelensky may attempt to block initiatives of the newly appointed commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) Mikhail Drapaty, keeping real control in his own hands, the Strana news portal wrote citing sources in Ukraine’s political and military circles. The sources believe that the key issue at stake is the control over the Defense Ministry, and Zelensky has already made it clear that Mikhail Fedorov will not be allowed to return to the post. Zelensky may resort to the work-to-rule tactics, also known as "Italian strike", relying on a loyal defense minister and direct communication with the General Staff…

Sources revealed that Home Minister Amit Shah’s visit to Hubballi has been cancelled. \| Photo Credit: File photo The inauguration ceremonies of Karnatak Lingayat Education (KLE) Society’s Jagadguru Gangadhar Mahaswamigalu Moorusavirmath (JGMM) Medical College and KLE Hospital \& Medical Research Centre in Hubballi, scheduled to take place on July 25, has been postponed. According to a press release issued by KLE Society, the events have been postponed due to unavoidable circumstances. Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar and other dignitaries were expected to attend the event, organised to mark a significant milestone in the…

Senate and House Democrats launched a congressional inquiry on Wednesday into a new controversial Justice Department legal opinion that would make it easier for states to keep people with mental illness institutionalized, rather than paying for them to receive community-based care. In a letter to Acting Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, the lawmakers asked the Justice Department to rescind the June opinion by the Office of Legal Counsel, and asked who was involved in drafting it, in addition to its author, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Lanora Pettit. "For more than 50 years, federal civil rights laws have recognized that unnecessary…

A billboard for Kalshi showing 2024 US presidential election odds across from the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, US, on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024. Michael Nagle \| Bloomberg \| Getty Images Prediction market platform Kalshi will launch a new hub allowing political junkies to see how traders in many event contracts think the midterm elections will play out. Kalshi's "Midterms Hub" will let observers see what outcomes speculators expect in individual U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, based on the latest odds for each market and across a map of the entire country. The hub will also feature polling averages, so viewers can see how the prediction…

Newly elected Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya has delivered his first statement as the head of the political bureau of the movement. The Gaza-born leader named stopping the bloodshed in Gaza and restoring a dignified life for its people among Hamas's current top priorities. The West Bank was also addressed in Hayya's statement, described as "a responsibility and a trust". Hayya also stressed that achieving national unity is among the Islamic Resistance Movement's priorities, "which is why we extend our hands to everyone," he said.

Diya Binu, ousted chairperson of Pala, addressing the media at her house after the trust vote \| Photo Credit: VISHNU PRATHAP A day after helping unseat the United Democratic Front (UDF) chairperson through a no confidence motion, the rebel Congress councillors stepped up efforts on Wednesday to take control of the Pala municipality by forging a new ruling arrangement with the Left Democratic Front (LDF). Despite having engineered the fall of the UDF council, the Kerala Congress (M) appears reluctant to take over the administration directly. Instead, the party is weighing the option of extending outside support to a council led by the Congress rebels.…

Philippine Vice-President Sara Duterte-Carpio suffered a serious setback in her impeachment trial this week after the Senate allowed prosecutors to examine key financial records in an unexplained wealth case against her. Analysts said the Senate impeachment court’s ruling could give prosecutors a clearer route to show she amassed ill-gotten wealth and pull down her popularity ratings in time for the 2028 presidential election , thus raising the stakes for Duterte-Carpio as she fights not only to keep her office but also to avoid being barred from the race. Senate impeachment court presiding officer Francis “Chiz” Escudero ruled on Monday that the…

Senegal will support Macky Sall’s candidacy for the post of Secretary-General of the United Nations. The announcement was made in a press release on Monday, three days after he was granted an audience by the current president, Bassirou Diomaye Faye. Details by FRANCE 24 correspondent in Dakar, Aminatou Diallo.

(ATTN: CHANGES dateline; ADDS U.S. readout in paras 14-18) By Oh Seok-min MANILA/WASHINGTON, July 22 (Yonhap) -- The top diplomats of South Korea, the United States and Japan on Wednesday reaffirmed close coordination on North Korea policy, underscoring their commitment to deterrence against Pyongyang and the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, Seoul's foreign ministry said. Foreign Minister Cho Hyun, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi agreed to strengthen cooperation during their trilateral talks held on the sidelines of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-related ministerial meetings…

On July 17, six hours after we published our investigation into the state's no-bid Baby2Baby diaper contract, California posted the records we had been requesting for 66 days. That was at 5:34 p.m. Thirty minutes later, an email from the governor's office arrived, "reaching out to clarify misrepresentations and factual inaccuracies regarding the Golden State Start initiative." It requested corrections and called parts of our reporting "demonstrably false." The office's statements are quoted in full below. We take correction requests seriously. So we went back through every claim in the email and checked it against the record. That includes the…

Fox News contributor Kaylee McGhee White critiques the Supreme Court's decision to uphold birthright citizenshi[, arguing the ruling 'flies in the face of common sense,' on 'The Big Weekend Show.' NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: A new House GOP bill would create new barriers to birth tourism in the United States after the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship in a blow to President Donald Trump's agenda. Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., is introducing legislation proposing criminal penalties for people residing outside the U.S. who travel to the country solely for the birth of their children. It would also make it a crime to…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu in New Delhi on Wednesday. \| Photo Credit: PTI Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi and invited him to inaugurate the Alluri Sitarama Raju International Airport at Bhogapuram on August 1. Sharing details of the meeting on X, the Chief Minister said it was an honour to meet the Prime Minister and personally extend the invitation for the inauguration of the greenfield international airport that had been named after legendary freedom fighter Alluri Sitarama Raju. Mr. Naidu said the naming of the…

With each passing day, India's youth-led cockroach movement seems to swell. As the sit-in by anti-corruption campaigners grows in New Delhi, opposition lawmakers relay their call for the education minister to resign over the leaking of exam tests. The standoff grew with the Supreme Court refusing to hear a police brutality petition launched after Monday's crackdown on those trying to reach parliament. Details from the ground by FRANCE 24 correspondent in New Delhi, Sarah Jacob.

A 'bullying' family filmed themselves taking a chainsaw to their neighbours' trees and fence as part of an eight-year boundary dispute that ended in a High Court battle and £209,000 legal bill. Building boss Robert McCarthy, 59, and wife Amanda, 61, had lived in their quiet corner of Nazeing, Essex, for years before a row erupted that would culminate in their neighbours taking the handheld machine to the fence and hacking down dozens of Leylandii trees. The couple have now told the Daily Mail of their years of 'hell' after their rear-neighbours 'decided they actually had a secret garden - it was our garden'. When the Mail visited the picturesque…

The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has clarified that the ₦1 billion vote in the 2026 Appropriation Bill for church musical instruments in his constituency—Bende Federal Constituency, Abia State—is intended for a broader youth engagement initiative, not solely for instrument procurement. The clarification follows recent media reports suggesting the funds were earmarked exclusively for musical equipment, with some constituents alleging they did not receive the items and questioning the potential misappropriation of public funds. In a statement issued Wednesday by his Chief Press Secretary, Levinus Nwabughiogu, Mr Kalu…

An Oregon teenager admitted “I got very, very lucky” after a basketball legend’s jacket he picked up at a thrift store for pocket change sold at auction for almost $90,000. Quinn Brown said he was in a Goodwill store in Portland in January when he saw somebody throw the bright yellow jacket into a clothing bin. On the back was the name of Wilt Chamberlain, a legend of the sport and most valuable player of the 1972 National Basketball Association championship series in which his Los Angeles Lakers team was defeated by the New York Knicks. Brown, who sells used clothes online, bought the item for $3.07, according to the Associated Press, and set about…

When it kicks off in Morocco on July 26, the Women's African Cup of Nations (WAFCON) promises to provide great goals, games and memories as 16 teams compete for the continental title. While the focus will be on the stars on the pitch, there may also be some attention on the fact that very few of the head coaches are female. Cameroon's appointment of Valentine Nguel just weeks before the tournament, brought the number of WAFCON nations with female coaches to four – along with Zambia, Kenya, and South Africa. Still, the vast majority are men. Other teams have appointed female assistants in order to comply with a rule passed by FIFA earlier this year,…

Paris Saint-Germain midfielder, Fabian Ruiz, has expressed his desire to win the 2026 Ballon d’Or. The Spain international said it would be an honour for him if he were in the running to win the Ballon d’Or. Ruiz has had a wonderful season so far, having won both the World Cup and Champions League with Spain and PSG. The 30-year-old is increasingly being mentioned as a genuine contender for the Ballon d’Or following the conclusion of the World Cup. “Who wouldn’t want to win a Ballon d’Or? I’m happy with the season I have had, winning the Champions League and the World Cup,” Ruiz told reporters as per Marca. “If I’m in the running, it will be an…

Minister for Industries and Food Processing T.G. Bharath Gupta tried his hand at pickleball after inaugurating the new court in Kurnool on Wednesday. \| Photo Credit: BY ARRANGEMENT Minister for Industries and Food Processing T.G. Bharath Gupta on Wednesday said the State government was giving top priority to sports development by creating modern infrastructure for athletes across Andhra Pradesh. The Minister made these remarks after inaugurating a newly constructed pickleball court at the outdoor stadium in Kurnool. Speaking to the media, the Minister said that development works worth ₹2.5 crore had been launched in Kurnool. The projects include a…

All Black coach Dave Rennie will have one more headache to ponder in his preparations for the Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry (RGR) series against the Springboks next month, after it was confirmed that star flyhalf Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu has recovered from an ankle injury in time to be included. Feinberg-Mngomezulu is one 10 returning stalwarts who missed the recent Nations Championship matches through injury. But it seems that SFM has recovered faster than initially anticipated, which is a huge boost for the Boks. On 30 May, Feinberg-Mngomezulu was ankle-tapped by Ioan Lloyd in the act of scoring in the Stormers’ 44-21 URC quarterfinal win over…

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Believe it or not, Pokémon Go is 10 years old this month. The wildly successful smartphone game, which allows you to track down lovable creatures in the real world using GPS and augmented-reality technologies, has reportedly been downloaded 800m times across 150 countries and regions. A trillion Pokémon have been caught so far – and I have been responsible for a modest percentage of that figure. When the game was first released, my sons and I spent many happy hours wandering the streets and parks of Frome searching for Jigglypuffs and Charizards, and the game’s social element, which lets you take on gym battles with other players in your vicinity,…

Cubs Co-Owner joins Don't @ Me w/ Dan Dakich to talk about the restraint teams will have at the trade deadline, how streaming services are killing the market, and much more! NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! This week is proving to be one of those moments where I feel like there are too many ugly losses to justify following my picks. I still put my nose to the grind and find the winners, but yesterday I took an under that was obliterated pretty quickly. Monday, I had a loser on the Minnesota Twins almost instantly. Putting these out publicly can be difficult, but I remind myself that the next win is around the corner and I've been more…

The Miami Dolphins traded Jaylen Waddle to the Denver Broncos in exchange for a 1st, 3rd, and 4th round pick. Jason McIntyre says that this trade "isn’t a blockbuster", but asks if this deal helps the Broncos. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! We are at team number three in this journey of trying to cover every team from the NFL before this season kicks off. This is a good exercise for anyone who is into any sport. It helps with futures betting, obviously, but also gives you a good understanding of what each team did in the offseason, which hopefully helps you get out of the gate on the correct foot. The Denver Broncos are a team looking to…

Third time’s a charm: Kennedy and Hodge named as Australia’s flag and baton bearers Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA Commonwealth Games champions Nina Kennedy and Tim Hodge have been named the Australian flag and baton bearers for the opening ceremony in Glasgow. Kennedy and Hodge, both reigning champions from Birmingham 2022, will lead the Australian team out on Friday July 24 (AEST). Competing at their third Commonwealth Games, Kennedy and Hodge were announced as the flag and baton bearers by Australian Chef de Mission Petria Thomas at the Bridge Gardens in Glasgow, just up…

MANILA, Philippines— San Miguel Beer put an end to Converge’s hot start in the 2026 PBA Governors’ Cup with a 128-122 win at Ynares Sports Center in Antipolo on Wednesday night. The Beermen handed the FiberXers their first loss of the conference, dropping Converge to 3-1 while improving to 3-0 in Group A. “They came out with a sense of urgency in the second half because in the first half, we played frustrated,” assistant coach Peter Martin said. “In true San Miguel fashion, we had to correct our complacency… I think tonight it was all good, though.” Late in the […]...Keep on reading: PBA: San Miguel stays unbeaten at 3-0, shuts down Converge

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MOSCOW, July 22. /TASS/. Lyudmila Sekriy, a 39-year-old mother of four from the Moscow Region, is representing Russia at the Mrs. Earth international beauty pageant 2026 in Kuala Lumpur, a source from the Russian organizers told TASS. The competition started on July 21, and the final is scheduled for July 25. "I made my beauty pageant debut relatively recently: in April, I made my first appearance on stage as a model and started participating in shows and events. However, my goal and most important endeavour was Miss Russia World. Just a month after the national competition's finale, I packed my bags and flew to represent Russia in this international…

A New World Record in the Greased Pole Walk Brought Extra Excitement to This Year’s World Eskimo-Indian Olympics in Alaska A 45-year-old record fell at the annual sporting event, which celebrates Indigenous athleticism and culture with events including the knuckle hop and the Alaskan high kick Opening ceremonies at the 2014 World Eskimo-Indian Olympics included a blanket toss. Public Affairs Office Fort Wainwright via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-SA 2.0 A 45-year-old world record was shattered this month at the World Eskimo-Indian Olympics as college student Leif Richards walked 15 feet, 4.5 inches across a greased wood pole, eclipsing the old mark…

NEW DELHI: India captain Shreyas Iyer believes his team's disappointing white-ball tour of England and Ireland has laid the foundation for future success, insisting the difficult phase has brought the squad closer together ahead of the three-match T20I series against Zimbabwe. After enduring a winless campaign in England and Ireland in what was Iyer's first assignment as India's T20I captain, the visitors will now look to turn the page when they face Zimbabwe in the opening T20I on Thursday. Rather than dwelling on the setbacks, Iyer said the challenging tour offered valuable lessons about the team's mindset, adaptability and decision-making under…

Prince George climbed rocks, played cricket and frolicked around the beach in a new video shared by his family - as he celebrates becoming a teenager today. The 13-year-old, sporting stylish £157 sunglasses from Raen - the same ones he donned at Wimbledon - is seen alongside Prince Louis in fun-filled footage shared by the Prince and Princess of Wales to mark their eldest son's important milestone. It is thought the heartwarming clips were taken during a family holiday to Cornwall earlier this year, and also feature the birthday boy playing cricket, enjoying a boat ride and petting the family dog. Adventure-loving George waved at the camera and…

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Spain midfielder Gavi does not believe Argentina's Leandro Paredes should be suspended for his part in the confrontation following the World Cup final. Argentina players Paredes, Nahuel Molina, Thiago Almada and assistant coach Roberto Ayala all appeared to be involved in the fracas on the pitch as Spain celebrated their 1-0 win. Paredes seemed to push Spain's Eric Garcia by the throat and unused substitute Gavi tried to intervene but was forced to the ground by Almada. Paredes pushed the Barcelona midfielder to the turf by putting his hand in the Spaniard's face. Fifa has appointed a disciplinary and ethics prosecutor to assess what happened and any…

​Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans' animated sensation KPop Demon Hunters won hearts and minds back when it debuted in June 2025. It quickly soared to the top of Netflix's charts, beating Ryan Reynolds and Dwayne Johnson's Red Notice in becoming the most watched movie on the streaming platform. However, a year later, Netflix has a new animated film that recently knocked KPop Demon Hunters off its perch, though it's unclear whether this new competitor has the staying power of HUNTR/X. Starring Michael B. Jordan and Juno Temple as a tiny woodland pookoo named Ollie and a regal Javan bird named Ivy, respectively, director Nathan Greno's animated comedy…

After Peter Parker erased himself from everyone’s memory, he has to deal with solitude of being unbeknown to his loved ones, MJ and Ned, and is coming to terms with the full import of his superhero persona. In the final trailer of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” Tom Holland returns as Peter, who is now living entirely all by himself following the death of Aunt May, and subsequent turn of events that led him to ask to obliterate himself from the memory of his friends. To get a grip on his loneliness, Peter now finds himself working full-time as the crime-fighting […]...Keep on reading: WATCH: Peter Parker deals with solitude in new 'Spider-Man' trailer

Zendaya and Tom Holland have recreated a series of snaps a decade on from their first Spider-Man press tour. The actress, 29, and actor, 30, famously met on the set of Spider-Man: Homecoming in 2016. Fast forward 10 years, and the pair are now married and back on the promotional trail for their latest Spider-Man film. Taking to Instagram on Tuesday, Zendaya reshared a post from Sony Pictures featuring side-by-side photos of the couple recreating poses from their very first press tour together. In one snap, Zendaya looked effortlessly chic in a white skirt and black tank top, while Tom mirrored his original pose beside her. The post also included the…

Matt Damon underwent a six-month lifestyle overhaul in order to transform into the legendary Odysseus in Christopher Nolan's adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey. But the actor, 55, who slimmed down from 200lbs to 167lbs for the role, admitted that one scene depicting his muscles was actually done by female stunt double Devyn Dalton. 'When we did the forced perspective stuff of the Laestrygonians, there were these kind of stuntmen who were all seven feet,' Damon told Happy Sad Confused podcast host Josh Horowitz in a recent interview. The Laestrygonians are a tribe of man-eating giants encountered by Odysseus and his crew during their decade-long journey…

Malayalam actor Lenaa Kumar’s new book Women-O-Pause is creating ripples in Kerala among women. In this interview the actor, who has more than two decades of experience in the industry, talks about writing her second book and being an actor and a woman. Her first book, The Autobiography of God (2023), also published by Penguin, is a bestseller.

While it's one of the biggest games this year, new details on Star Wars Zero Company have been few and far between, even after the gameplay trailer at the start of June. That changed yesterday when developer Bit Reactor hosted a Discord Q\&A answering the community's questions on everything from the game's length to permadeath. The thing that stood out to me the most, as a fanatic for character customisation, is how Zero Company is handling its Clone Troopers. User 'WhiteFeather87' kicked things off by asking what we were all wondering: Can you have a full Clone team? The answer is yes, but for two reasons. Firstly, all operators actually have access…

"The city was question and answer in one," Colson Whitehead writes early on inCool Machine, the final novel of his Harlem Trilogy. "Cause and effect and everything else, too." You can forgive the lifelong New Yorker for being a little romantic about his hometown, which is both the setting and central metaphor across the tales of Harlem furniture salesman-cum-not-so-reluctant-crook Ray Carney, whose misadventures come to a conclusion with Machine. Carney's capers, inspired by heist movies, are presented as discrete novellas, with each book—Harlem Shuffle and Crook Manifesto are the first two—consisting of three parts. Collectively, they span both a…

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…

Michelle Keegan shared her delight at managing to keep her 'pits dry' during a busy day of meetings in the warm London weather on Tuesday. The actress, 39, attempted to keep her sweat patches at bay with tissue under her armpits as she sat in the makeup chair, before changing into a chic blue shirt. The mother-of-one has been busy promoting the upcoming release of ITV's new police drama The Blame with her co-star Douglas Booth, 34. The co-stars' brewing chemistry was on full display as they posed for a friendly selfie together. 'Fun day with @douglasbooth talking all things 'The Blame' @itv', Michelle wrote on the Instagram snap. She added: 'Today was…

Jonathan Sterling, the British businessman partner of former Miss Universe Philippines Celeste Cortesi, has answered months of breakup and cheating rumors the way he says he prefers — by letting people see for themselves. In an Instagram reel posted on Tuesday, July 21, Sterling showed screenshots of online criticism directed at the couple, followed by behind-the-scenes photos of him and a smiling Cortesi, who is expecting the couple’s first child. The criticism followed a viral video of the couple at the recent launch of Cortesi’s cosmetics brand Asul’s first retail corner, where the two were filmed standing quietly as the […]...Keep on reading:…

Oprah Winfrey has been criticised for failing to 'challenge' Meghan Markle's claim that she was 'silenced' by the Royal Family after the broadcaster revisited their infamous 2021 interview. Rewatching the sit-down in a video for Vanity Fair yesterday, Oprah seemingly defended how the conversation went, saying 'it was all for clarification.' Royal fans on X have hit back at the veteran broadcaster for 'backpedalling' and trying to 'distance' herself from the interview with Prince Harry and Meghan, and several people asked why she didn't question any of the Sussexes' allegations at the time. The sit-down sent shockwaves around the world when it 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…

Elon Musk says Grok Imagine will make ‘historically accurate’ AI adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey The GuardianElon Musk Says Grok Will Make an AI ‘Odyssey’ Film That Is ‘Historically Accurate’ by the End of the Year VarietyThe Odyssey AI filmmakers promise they're not "going against" Christopher Nolan, but have decided to wait u... YahooElon Musk Says He’d Give Mel Gibson $100 Million For An ‘Accurate’ Odyssey ForbesElon Musk: Grok Imagine Will Make "Historically Accurate" 'Odyssey' Deadline

A still from ‘Ride or Die’ \| Photo Credit: Prime Video The retired assassin seems to be a constant fixture in action movies, and, in Ride or Die we have a different kind of killer. The series opens with Judith (Hannah Waddingham), disregarding her handler Sam’s (Calam Lynch) instructions to very publicly kill a nasty Russian. When she meets Sam after the mission, he tells her the firm has decided to retire her as she is a WOACA (Woman of a certain age). Judith demands another chance, which Sam reluctantly arranges. Besides Judith’s mission that goes spectacularly wrong, we also see her best friend, Debbie (Octavia Spencer), the American wife of a…

The Odyssey is setting critical and box office records in various categories nearly every day, but there remains a loud subsection of social media users, mostly found on Twitter, who remain dead set against the film. One of those users is the site’s owner, Elon Musk, who has previously said that “Chris Nolan has lost his integrity” in response to comments about how Nolan made Helen of Troy a black actress, Lupita Nyong’o, among other sharp posts about the film. Now, Elon Musk is making claims and statements about the film, showing off a Grok-created Odyssey clip, and then claiming that “Before this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie…

American rapper Cardi B has reacted to growing speculation surrounding her friendship with Super Eagles goalkeeper Maduka Okoye, following recent public appearances that sparked dating rumours. The Grammy-winning artiste, who was recently spotted having dinner with Okoye and a group of friends at Gio’s Restaurant inside the St. Regis Hotel in Venice, expressed frustration over what she described as constant public scrutiny of her personal life. Speaking in a video circulating online, Cardi B said she believes her activities attract disproportionate attention compared to those of other celebrities. According to her, ordinary aspects of her life often…

Daniel Weyman’s Gandalf makes his debut in The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power.ÂA pair of MCU villains join Wyatt Russell’s Monarch spinoff. An escape room mishap serves as the catalyst for an unusual body-swap rom-com. Wunmi Mosaku voices a “radically different” take on Roxy Rocket in Batman: The Caped Crusader. The Rocke-who? I’ve been working all day… it’s Morning Spoilers! Goblin Deadline reports Will Forte has joined the cast of Goblin, David Mikalson’s “raunchy comedy” at A24 described as “Ted meets E.T.” He joins Skyler Gisondo and Kenneth Branagh as the voice of the “anatomically correct” goblin of the title. Switch Deadline also…

The San Francisco Giants are a rotten, poisoned, blighted organization. I offer to the jury, by way of evidence, the following exhibit: Monday evening a representative of the Giants saw a story from the San Francisco Chronicle about fans who still feel hurt and angry over the mess the organization made of its annual Pride Night celebration, and the front office's tepid, quarter-hearted, wildly inadequate response to public outcry. That team representative then logged onto social media so that they could blame the continuing controversy on online discourse and clickbait reporting. That representative, hilariously, was the team's chaplain, a man named…

The "Dutton Ranch" star reflects on his family’s deep ties to Montana as the Paramount+ series premieres May 15 with two episodes, followed by weekly releases. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Ed Harris says he came close to walking away from Taylor Sheridan's "Dutton Ranch." The veteran actor revealed he felt "underused and inconsequential" while filming the show's first season, prompting him to tell his team to "get me the f--- out of here" before production wrapped. "Prior to signing on for it, I was talked to quite a bit about what the season was, and what my character was going to do — and that I was one of the four main characters,"…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Sharon Adeleke, businesswoman and sister of singer Davido, has urged Nigerian celebrities and public figures to normalise repeating their outfits. Speaking in a recent vlog, Sharon advised celebrities not to let society or anyone pressure them into avoiding repetition of clothes. She said her team often questioned her decision to repeat clothes but she doesn’t let it change her position on repeating outfits. She said, “Last Sunday, I have an event and I did not have anything made for it. So, I decided to wear something that I have wore before and my team objected that people have seen it before and they will see it again. But I wore it anyway. “Don’t…

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Mexico · Culture Key Facts —Municipal reduction. Querétaro cut its Hay Festival contribution from 11.18 million pesos (about US$643,000) (US$604,000) to 4 million pesos (about US$230,000) (US$216,000). —Percentage drop. The 7.18-million-peso cut represents a 64.22% reduction in municipal support. —Total public funds lost. Combined public support fell from 13 million pesos (US$702,000) to 4.6 million pesos (US$248,000). —Federal offset. The festival obtained 600,000 pesos (about US$34,500) (US$32,400) from the Profest 2026 federal program. —2026 dates. The Querétaro edition runs from 4 to 6 September 2026. The Hay Festival in Querétaro, the Mexican…

A new chapter is about to unfold as the Global Hallyu star BYEON WOOSEOK is set to return to the Philippines as he brings his undeniable charm back to Manila for the 2026 ByeonWooSeok Asia Fanmeeting Tour in Manila—a highly anticipated fan meeting happening on October 10, 2026 at the SM Mall of Asia Arena, presented by PULP Live World. Following the overwhelming success of his previous visit, the upcoming fan meeting promises an even bigger and more unforgettable experience for Filipino fans, featuring a larger stage, special segments, and more intimate moments that highlight his genuine connection with his ever-supportive Filipino fanbase. Rising…

The tide has crossed the halfway mark. Deezer said this week that AI songs made up more than 50% of its June uploads. It is a first for the French streamer. From a trickle to a flood The climb has been steep. Deezer started counting in January 2025, when AI made up roughly 10% of daily uploads. It hit 18% by that April, then 34% by November and 44% in April 2026. Now it is above half, at about 90,000 tracks a day. Deezer can measure this because it built detection tools for machine-made music. They flag tracks from AI generators like Suno and Udio. It tags the songs and keeps them out of recommendations and playlists. The point is fraud The volume is…

Mysuru railway jrailway unction station. The special trains will halt at Mandya, KSR Bengaluru, Krishnarajapuram, Bangarapet Jn, Salem Jn, Erode Jn, Tiruppur, Podanur Jn, Palakkad Jn, Shoranur Jn, Tirur, Kozhikode, Vadakara, and Thalassery. \| Photo Credit: SRIRAM MA In order to facilitate passenger travel during the forthcoming Onam festival, South Western Railway (SWR) has announced the operation of special express trains from Mysuru and Bengaluru Cantonment to Kannur in Kerala. The SWR will operate two trips in each direction. Train No. 06227 Mysuru–Kannur Special Express will depart Mysuru at 10:30 PM on Tuesday (25.08.2026) and reach Kannur at 2…

Mexico · Culture Key Facts —Date and time. August 29, 2026 at 8:30 p.m., single performance. —Venue. Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City, a 10,000-seat arena. —Tickets. From MX$800 (US$46) to MX$4,600 (US$265) on Ticketmaster. —Creator. Mexican dancer Isaac Hernández, a principal at English National Ballet. —Notable guests. Roberto Bolle, Maria Khoreva, and Kristián Mensa debut. Despertares, the ambitious dance gala that transforms a massive Mexico City arena into an intimate celebration of movement, returns for its twelfth edition on August 29, 2026. Creator Isaac Hernández has again assembled a cast of international stars for a single night at the…

Why video game music is the future of orchestral concerts Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA Leonard Weiss would like people to consider the theme to Super Mario Bros, that slinky eight-bit bop composed in 1985 by Japanese sound designer and Nintendo executive Koji Kondo. “This was composed essentially for two electronic sounds at once. Going back 40 years in video game history, you can’t write a chord,” Weiss says. “So one voice goes bom bom bom bom and plays the chord but spread out, while another voice plays the tune. And then a percussion track goes underneath. Leonard…

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…

Chile · Culture Key Facts —Dates. October 14, 16, and 17, 2026, at Estadio Nacional in Santiago. —Venue. Estadio Nacional is Chile’s largest sports and events stadium, located in the Ñuñoa district of the capital. —Attendance. All three shows sold out, with roughly 48,000 fans expected per night, totaling about 150,000 attendees. —Stage weight. The 360-degree stage design exerts roughly 600 tons of load on the central field. —Economic lift. The concerts are expected to drive a major short-term boost in travel, lodging, and hospitality across Santiago. BTS will play three sold-out nights at Santiago’s Estadio Nacional this October after a tense permit…

Tyson and Paris Fury's daughter Valencia has become the latest nepo child to land a brand deal at the age of eight. The boxer, 37, and his wife, 36, announced on Monday that Valencia has released an exciting new collaboration with Superdrug, full of beauty and hair accessories. The aspiring influencer told viewers she's 'so obsessed with makeup' in the Instagram video while urging followers to 'get down to their local Superdrug stores'. Beauty and hair products from Valencia's Fantasy Cosmetics collection range between £1 and £3. Tyson proudly wrote: 'Congratulations to my baby girl Valencia on her collaboration with @superdrug she is made for it. my…

Detailed guidelines have been issued to district animal husbandry officers to ensure continuous monitoring of fodder availability from the village level up to the district level. \| Photo Credit: Representative photo The Andhra Pradesh Animal Husbandry Department has readied a comprehensive action plan to tackle the possible shortage of livestock fodder expected by November due to the below-normal rainfall caused by El Nino conditions, Animal Husbandry Director Dr. T. Damodara Naidu said on Wednesday. In a release, Dr. Naidu said deficient rainfall across the State could lead to a severe fodder shortage in the coming months, necessitating early…

The Coimbatore Corporation has been urged not to permit advertisements under the guise of sponsorships in its proposed ‘Junction Improvement Programme’, under which 30 critical traffic intersections have been identified for redevelopment and maintenance through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives. Coimbatore Consumer Cause secretary and member of District Road Safety Committee K. Kathirmathiyon opposed the proposal to allow sponsors to install advertisement boards at roundabouts, medians and traffic islands. He said commercial advertisements at junctions would distract motorists and defeat the purpose of improving road safety and urban…

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The world’s most vulnerable people will be put at risk by Andy Burnham’s decision to use the aid budget to pay for cheaper bus fares in England, charities have said. The prime minister announced on Wednesday that he would reduce the fare cap from £3 per journey to £2 for next year, funded mainly by changing international climate donations into repayable loans. The switch allows the government to borrow more against those loans without violating its borrowing rules. But experts say it will also leave people in the poorest parts of the world more vulnerable to the effects of the climate crisis. It comes after the government indicated the new aid…

Ivory and a rhino skull among 5,800 items handed to RVO July 22, 2026 Photo: RVO See more DutchNews articles in your Google search results See more DutchNews articles in your Google search results Add as a favourite source on Google Add DutchNews as a favourite source on Google Some 5,800 prohibited objects including elephant ivory have been anonymously handed in to the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) over the past year, a more than fivefold increase on the previous year. “Never before has so much been handed in,” says The Hague-based RVO, including “moving boxes with a thousand [pieces of] ivory jewellery, a rhino skull with a gunshot wound,…

You can smell the fire dozens of kilometres away, and its smoke has partly blocked out the sun: the huge wildfire north of Madrid has unnerved officials and evacuees alike. For seven days now, hundreds of firefighters backed by dozens of aircraft have been battling the blaze in Guadalajara province, 100 kilometres north of the capital. It has forced local officials to evacuate 1,200 people from 34 villages in the sparsely populated area. Among them was Lorenza Benítez, who said she had never before been confronted with a fire. Now, however she has seen the region she loves reduced to ashes. She was among the villagers in Bustares who had to evacuate…

Andy Burnham, who has replaced Keir Starmer to become the United Kingdom’s seventh prime minister in a decade, has pledged to end the political instability that has plagued the country, stating that he was “fed up” with the country’s ⁠⁠revolving door of leadership. Burnham moved fast after taking office on Monday. He sacked several Starmer loyalists, including Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy, and promoted allies who had left the previous cabinet before he convened his first cabinet meeting on Tuesday. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list Those allies included Ed Miliband, hired as foreign secretary, and Wes…

The Census 2027 data collection process has gained significant momentum in the district, with 75.21% of the work completed, according to Principal Census Officer and District Collector Annie Jula Thomas. The district-wide exercise is being overseen by 12 charge officers, comprising six rural and six urban charges. The urban sector includes four municipalities and two Corporation charges. Field operations are being carried out by 4,157 enumerators and 717 supervisors, who are covering 4,659 House Listing Blocks (HLBs) across the district. Reviewing the progress during an online evaluation meeting, the Collector directed charge officers and supervisors…

Climate experts have warned that Africa remains ill-prepared for increasingly frequent and devastating climate disasters, calling for urgent investment in resilient infrastructure, stronger regional cooperation and dedicated funding to protect vulnerable communities. Speaking at the 6th School of Environmental Technology International Conference, SETIC 2026, at the Federal University of Technology, FUT, Minna, a professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Prof. Hangwelani Hope Magidimisha-Chipungu, said governments across the continent had failed to move beyond climate plans and predictions to concrete action. “If you are only ready to…

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Collector Nishant Kumar inspecting a feeder channel as part of ‘Jaladhara’ water conservation works near Madanapalle in Annamayya district on Wednesday. \| Photo Credit: BY ARRANGEMENT Annamayya District Collector Nishant Kumar on Wednesday said that the district administration was ready with an extensive climate-resilience action plan to mitigate the projected El Niño conditions such as prolonged dry spells, high temperatures, air and soil moisture stress and rainfall deficiency. Speaking to The Hindu, the Collector said the strategy would comprise water conservation modules, climate-resilient agriculture methods, micro-irrigation, drinking water…

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's environment minister, Monique Barbut, will remain in her post, given the "urgency" to act on climate change, after submitting her resignation to President Emmanuel Macron over a bill to reintroduce bee-harming pesticides, her team said Wednesday. Issued on: 22/07/2026 - 15:18 2 min Reading time Barbut submitted her resignation to Macron on Wednesday morning after parliament backed the restricted reintroduction of two insecticides banned in France since 2018 but allowed in the European Union. Resignation refused "Contrary to the commitments that had been made to me, the government prevented any debate on the removal of this measure," Barbut,…

HANGZHOU, China , July 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- In a village agricultural livestream studio in Tonglu, Klara Tania Tandika, an Indonesian YouTuber with over 23 million followers, held up a live chicken and hawked it to online shoppers with infectious enthusiasm. Commenters exclaimed: "The livestream is getting international!" "Using e-commerce to help people earn more, that's really interesting," Klara said. A few weeks later, in a Hangzhou tech company, Esmira Gasimova, a senior editor at Azerbaijan's Public Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, strapped on an exoskeleton and took her first assisted steps. The machinery was light; the support…

Women complain of 'leg hair harassment' after men in Tokyo encouraged to wear shorts during heatwave By KRISTINA WEMYSS, GENERAL NEWS REPORTER Published: 08:56 EDT, 22 July 2026 \| Updated: 08:56 EDT, 22 July 2026 Office workers have complained of ‘leg hair harassment’ - with women appalled at the sight of men wearing shorts. Employees in Tokyo, Japan, have been told to ditch their usual suit and tie in favour of casual clothes including T-shirts and trainers amid heatstroke alerts. But while men are encouraged to wear shorts to the office, etiquette dictates that women are still expected to wear tights. And some have complained of ‘sunehara’ - or leg…

Global hunger declined for a third consecutive year in 2025, demonstrating that progress is possible. However, the improvements remain fragile, unevenly distributed and insufficient to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, according to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2026 (SOFI 2026) report, released on Tuesday by five United Nations specialized agencies. The report estimates that 7.8 percent of the global population faced hunger in 2025, down from 8.1 percent in 2024 and 8.6 percent in 2022, confirming a sustained, albeit slow, improvement. This means that around 645 million people were affected by hunger in 2025,…

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Lake Van, the world's largest soda lake, plays a crucial role in moderating the climate of eastern Türkiye by limiting extreme summer temperatures and preventing excessive winter cooling, according to a researcher at Van Yüzüncü Yıl University. Assoc. Prof. Mustafa Akkuş of the university's Faculty of Fisheries said the lake's high heat capacity enables it to act as a massive natural heat reservoir, stabilizing temperatures across the surrounding region and providing significant environmental benefits. Speaking about data collected by the European Space Agency's Sentinel-3 satellite, Akkuş said imagery from July 21 showed land surface temperatures…

After wild turkeys attacked an 83-year-old woman in May 2026, sending her to the emergency room for stitches, police warned residents of Alameda, California, to avoid interacting with the animals. Wild turkeys can be particularly aggressive during mating season. They can also damage property: digging up gardens, staining decks with their droppings and occasionally attacking cars and windows when they mistake their own reflections for rival turkeys. Turkeys may be a nuisance to Alameda’s human residents, but they have also been highly valued by multiple cultures throughout the history of North America. Given these threats to human safety and property,…

We feel your pain: PM sets election battle lines with One Nation, pledges cost of living relief Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will set up his bid for a third term with a promise of further expensive cost of living measures to address financial stress fuelling One Nation’s ascension as he expands a program to pay health workers as they study. However, Labor ministers are downplaying the prospect of a tax on gas exports before a fight at its national conference on the popular proposal, signifying tension in Labor ranks over how aggressively…