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

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

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

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

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

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

A Clear and Versatile Camera Experience Galaxy Z Fold8 is designed to help users capture and share the moments that catch their attention. Whether it’s a sweeping landscape, a group shot or a spontaneous moment on the move, Galaxy Z Fold8 makes everyday photography and video feel easier to capture, edit and share. Dual 50 MP cameras deliver consistent high-resolution detail across wide and ultra-wide perspectives, helping preserve image quality across different scenes and shooting conditions. Dual Recording lets users capture both sides of the moment while previewing themselves through the cover screen, making reactions and shared experiences easier…

Jack Dorsey’s Block wants to take on Slack. The twist is that the workforce it is building for is half machine. Its new app, Buzz, is an open-source workspace where humans and AI agents share the same channels, and every agent carries its own portable identity. Block, the Dorsey-led fintech behind Square and Cash App, has released Buzz, a free, open-source platform for humans and AI agents to work together. Reviewers have framed it as a direct challenge to Slack, one built for the age of agents. On the surface it looks familiar. Buzz has channels, threads, direct messages, voice, media sharing, code repositories, and automated workflows. Anyone who…

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…

The UK’s AI safety watchdog put five frontier models through a set of security tests to see whether they would cut corners. Every one of them cheated. Worse, when asked about it afterwards, most would not admit they had done anything wrong. The finding comes from the AI Security Institute (AISI), a research body inside the UK government. Across its cyber capability tests, leading models routinely took banned shortcuts to reach a goal, as The Register reported. Then they failed to flag what they had done. “Every model we have tested for this behaviour attempted to cheat,” AISI wrote. What the numbers show AISI defines cheating as any action outside a…

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,…

In order to use Ask Sage, the Army had access to 100,000,000 tokens as part of an annual subscription to an “enterprise pack.” Tokens represent a unit of output, either in text or image, from an LLM. For the Ask Sage tool, a single token equates to about 3.7 characters, according to documents viewed by WIRED. The Defense Department burned through some 20 billion tokens per day during the 38-day Operation Epic Fury in Iran, according to Breaking Defense. The Army and DOD didn’t reply to requests for comment; neither did Ask Sage. It’s unclear if the tokens used by regular DOD employees are drawn from the same pool as those who might be using AI tools…

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 newly announced Galaxy Z Fold 8, Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, and Galaxy Z Flip 8 are all available to pre-order, so we’ve broken down some of the best deals you can find right now. Spoiler: [Store] is offering [$] off for a limited time. Which one do you actually want? This year is a weird one. Samsung not only introduced a new book-style foldable, but it slid it into a spot that’s actually cheaper than last year’s release. But, for a little more money, you can get a phone Samsung has deemed worthy of the “Ultra” title. The Galaxy Z Flip 8 gets no such partner in crime this time, as Samsung seems to have rid itself of the FE option. So, which one is…

Apple to Overhaul Mac Lineup With 11 New Models Apple is preparing to refresh every Mac it sells over the next two years, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The plans come amid a Mac resurgence, with sales projected to climb for a third consecutive year, partly thanks to a growing following among users who lean on the machines for demanding, agent-based AI workloads. The wave of new Macs will begin this fall with a refreshed entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro and the first new iMacs in two years. Here's everything coming, according to the report: Refreshed 14-inch MacBook Pro (entry-level) (Fall 2026): Among the first Macs with the new M6 chip;…

The latest addition to Philips’ Sonicare line of smart electric toothbrushes could take the guesswork out of your brushing routine. The Next-Generation DiamondClean 9900 Prestige uses a third-generation AI model to provide real-time feedback on how you’re brushing through a glowing ring on its base, while a touchscreen highlights areas of your mouth that may need more attention when you think you’re done. The Sonicare Next-Generation DiamondClean 9900 Prestige is expected to launch in Europe and the US this fall, with a wider global rollout coming in 2027. Pricing hasn’t been announced, but previous versions sell for $430, and you can expect this new…

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…

China Mobile-Led and Invested SEA-H2X International Submarine Cable Project Launches Commercially, Paving the Way for Digital and Intelligent Interconnectivity in Asia-Pacific HONG KONG , July 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- On 22 July, the Southeast Asia-Hainan-Hong Kong (SEA-H2X) international submarine cable, led and invested in by China Mobile, completed the system acceptance test and launched commercially. As the project's largest investor, China Mobile holds key management responsibilities and continues to play a driving role in its execution. The SEA-H2X international submarine cable spans approximately 5,746 kilometers, featuring eight fiber pairs…

Drop and everyday protection for a Galaxy Z Fold 8 requires an extra level of case engineering because it’s such a unique form factor. Spigen already has you covered with its new Galaxy Z Fold 8 collection, now available. Foldable case design is nothing new for Spigen. They have been developing cases for the Galaxy Z Fold series since Samsung’s very first foldable launched in 2019. Since then, Spigen has continuously refined and innovated its foldable case designs with every generation, building years of engineering experience alongside the evolution of Samsung’s foldable lineup. Every Spigen case utilizes one of two approaches to hinge protection,…

OFFBEAT Latest Musk merch drop runs entirely on child labor A Tesla fan and their money are easily parted Tesla's latest vehicle has two wheels, no motor, and a target market still mastering walking: the $225 Balance Bike for Kids. The contraption, designed for children aged two to five, "features a lightweight magnesium frame, adjustable seat and futuristic design," and can handle up to 35 kg. The price tag puts it at the higher end of such devices. Cycling Weekly recommends the Hornit Airo at £139, although there are plenty of alternatives aimed at introducing children to two wheels. Although a manually powered bicycle might be a surprising choice…

Samsung is bringing Galaxy AI beyond your phone and onto your face. At Galaxy Unpacked, the company introduced two new Gemini-powered Intelligent Eyewear models developed with Google and eyewear brands Gentle Monster and Warby Parker. These glasses are designed to blend into your everyday style while giving you hands-free access to AI for navigation, translations, messaging, note-taking, and more. What makes Samsung’s new AI glasses stand out? Samsung unveiled two distinct styles for its Intelligent Eyewear. The Gentle Monster version has a slim black frame with a refined, fashion-forward shape. The Warby Parker model leans into a warm brown finish…

Samsung has added a new feature to the cameras on its Galaxy Z Fold 8, Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, and Galaxy Z Flip 8 called My FanCam. At first glance, it’s a throwaway mode that only concert-goers will ever find a reason to use. However, there’s a rich history behind “fan cams” you may not know about, and it helps understand why this feature may be a far bigger deal than you think. Related What is a ‘fan cam’? K-pop roots Fan cams, or jik-kaem in Korean, are a key part of K-pop fandom. It's the name given to special videos which focus on a single member of a group, highlighting their performance during a live performance, such as at a concert or an…

A new report from Bloomberg today offers an in-depth look at Apple’s Mac pipeline. The report details updates coming to the MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac, and much more over the next several years. New MacBook Air, iMac, MacBook Pro, and more Before the end of this year, Bloomberg says Apple is aiming to launch the following new Macs: A new entry-level MacBook Pro powered by the M6 chip New iMacs New high-end 14-inch and 16-inch touchscreen MacBook lineup with OLED screens, powered by M5 Pro and M5 Max The new high-end MacBook models are “on track for release between the end of this year and early next year,” the report says. Apple is testing the…

A wide-ranging new story at The Hollywood Reporter covers the road to Ted Lasso season 4, including encouraging reports on how the new season measures up to what’s come before it. Ted Lasso season 4 is almost here, and ‘considerably stronger’ than season 3 We’re just two weeks away from Ted Lasso’s highly anticipated return. Ted Lasso season 4 premieres Wednesday, August 5 with one episode, followed by weekly releases through October 7. Today The Hollywood Reporter published an extensive behind-the-scenes look into how this new season came about. If you’re a fan of Ted Lasso, the story is well worth a read for its wealth of inside details. It covers…

Today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break is headlined by the the best pre-order deals now live on Galaxy Z Fold 8, Fold 8 Ultra, and Flip 8 – straight up $100 cash discounts, plus up to $200 in FREE credit, or as much as $1,230 off with trade-ins. You can literally land yourself a FREE pair of Galaxy buds, or as much as $300 off the new Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 when bundled with the new phones. Those offers also join up to $250 in instant trade-in discounts on Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 and Galaxy Watch 9 directly from Samsung, while Amazon is throwing in up to $350 in FREE gift cards with the new Galaxy gear pre-orders. All of that and more awaits below in detail. Best…

We’ve got your summer family days out covered with the latest Chessington discount codes and deals to help stretch your budget. The UK theme park is home to more than 40 rides and attractions, plus a zoo and Sea Life Centre with more than 1,000 animals. Our deals experts are constantly on the lookout for the latest offers and promotions so you can get the cheapest tickets and overnight stays possible. Keep scrolling to see the latest money-saving tips and extra Chessington offers for July. You can currently get 2-for-1 theme park tickets as part of the Merlin summer sale, meaning if you book your Chessington tickets now for any time before 25…

Image used for representational purposes. \| Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Net foreign direct investment inflows turned negative once again in May 2026, with outflows exceeding inflows by $74 million, according to the latest Reserve Bank of India data. This snapped a three-month streak of positive net inflows and was driven by a sharp drop in direct investment entering India. That is, even though outflows fell, inflows fell by a larger amount. According to the data released as part of the RBI’s monthly bulletin for June 2026, the total amount of direct investment entering the country, or gross inflows, stood at about $6.1 billion in May 2026.…

Raspberry Pi has launched a 10-inch version of its Touch Display 2 with a 1200×1920 resolution and 10-point captive touchscreen for $80/£77. 5-inch and 7-inch variants of the Touch Display 2 have been available for a while, but Raspberry Pi’s Gordon Hollingworth says the new version gives makers a larger, higher resolution screen to use in their projects. Like the smaller versions, the 10.1″ Touch Display 2 uses a portrait orientation by default, where the displays are often used for home automation dashboards, kiosks, digital signage, control panels, etc. It can be used in landscape by changing the orientation in […] You're reading Raspberry Pi…

New Sony FX5 is the successor to the FX3 compact cinema camera A raft of upgrades include a new sensor, processor, battery and open gate recording Pricing starts at £4,700 and availability is from August The industry's most popular compact cinema camera, the Sony FX3 from 2021, just got a huge upgrade. And having shot multiple productions with this very camera, I can tell you now that its successor, the new FX5, is going to be a big hit. Last year I drafted in a pro filmmaker who I've worked with on many shoots to share the 5 upgrades he most wanted to see in a FX3 mark II, a camera that we now know is actually called the FX5, and almost every one of…

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…

For those looking to banish bingo wings, TikTok and Instagram appear to have the ultimate solution. Search 'toned arms' and you'll be met with a plethora of videos featuring slim, shredded women offering a workout that lasts just 10 minutes, but is said to muscle you up in a matter of weeks. One popular example is the exercise series shared by social media influencer Hannah Townsend, who is best known for her celebrity interviews and film reviews, which she conducts alongside her fellow 'creator' husband Benedict. The former digital content manager - who has 80,000 TikTok followers - regularly posts clips of her seemingly easy weight-lifting routine…

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…

Now Published in Two Editions Africa Intelligence Brief · Africa Intelligence Dossier You’re reading the Brief — today’s hemisphere at a glance, free, every weekday. The Dossier is the full working document: an editor’s leader, a long-form deep dive on the week’s anchor story, the proprietary Country Risk Dashboard, Trade \& Positioning views, data exhibits, and full sources. Built for analysts, PMs, and diplomats who need the analytical layer the news cycle skips. Rio Times · Africa Intelligence Brief July 22 —Sudan Massacre At least 85 civilians were killed in a paramilitary attack on a central Sudanese village today. —Mauritania Deaths The UNHCR…

The Indian Embassy has intensified efforts to repatriate the body of Akhil Joel, 26, a native of A.K.G. Nagar, Kasaragod, who was among the four Indians killed after a cargo ship was hit in an alleged Russian missile attack off the coast of Odesa, Ukraine. According to officials at NoRKA-Roots, the field agency of the Department of Non-Resident Keralites Affairs (NoRKA) under the Kerala government, the Embassy has asked the family to conduct a DNA test to identify the body. It is expected that the body will be repatriated within two weeks once the testing procedures are completed. The missile attack took place near the port of Odessa on the ship MV…

GENEVA, July 22. /TASS/. The death count from Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda has increased to 1,001, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The bulk of the casualties, or 999 people, died in the DRC. There were 2,473 laboratory-confirmed cases of Ebola in the DRC, and 20 cases in Uganda. There are also 322 suspected cases of Ebola in the DRC. 501 people in both countries recovered. The mortality rate stands at 40%. The DRC government announced an outbreak of the Ebola fever on May 15. On the same day, the Ugandan Health Ministry confirmed the first imported case of the disease. On May 17, the Director-General…

Representatives of the APSRTC Employees’ JAC submitting a memorandum to Finance Minister Payavula Keshav at the Secretariat on Wednesday. The Andhra Pradesh government on Wednesday assured employee unions that it would make every effort to address their long-pending service and financial issues. Addressing the media after nearly five hours of discussions between a ministerial panel and the representatives of 21 employee organisations at the State Secretariat, Finance Minister Payyavula Keshav said the government had received representations from all the participating organisations and would consolidate their demands before placing them before Chief…

TOI correspondant from Washington: The Trump White House is expected to unveil a landmark 30-year civilian nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia on Wednesday in a deal that may reverberate far beyond the middle east while triggering a fierce debate in Washington over nuclear proliferation, regional security, and America's long-term interests. The proposed agreement, similar to the one with India under Section 123 of the US Atomic Energy Act, would permit extensive US-Saudi civilian nuclear cooperation and eventually allow Riyadh to enrich uranium on its own soil under jointly agreed conditions. U.S firms led by Westinghouse are expected to…

WASHINGTON, July 22. /TASS/. Washington is investigating the circumstances of the deaths of US soldiers in Jordan during an Iranian July 18 attack, said US President Donald Trump during a press conference at the Andrews Air Force Base near Washington, D.C. "They're doing that," the American leader said, referring to the investigation. That'll be released," he added, referring to the results of the investigation. The US Central Command said last week that two US service members were killed and one went missing. His remains were later discovered and identified. The Wall Street Journal said that the deaths highlight Washington’s inability to guarantee…

Once backed by influential Muslim scholars, Burkina Faso’s military leader is now facing a growing rift over arrests, new legislation and his campaign against what he describes as religious extremism. Burkina Faso’s transitional leader, Captain Ibrahim Traore, has sharply escalated his confrontation with influential Muslim scholars, declaring that what he calls “radical Islam” has no place in the country and warning that “the battle has begun” against those he accuses of promoting religious extremism. Addressing scholars whom he accused of spreading extremist ideas, Traore declared: “If this is your Islam, we will fight it. Extremists must change. If…

BUNIA, Congo — At least 999 people have died from the Ebola outbreak in Congo, according to official data published overnight into Wednesday, a grim toll in what’s already been declared the fastest Ebola outbreak in history that is further complicated as some health workers have gone on strike. The latest update from Congo’s Ministry of Health shows that as of Monday, 2,473 cases have been recorded in the latest outbreak, and 999 people have died. At least 737 patients are currently in isolation and hospitals, it said. The outbreak declared on May 15 is unlike most previous Ebola outbreaks because the Bundibugyo virus responsible for it has no…

By Song Sang-ho WASHINGTON, July 22 (Yonhap) -- U.S. President Donald Trump warned Wednesday that the United States will bomb an Iranian bridge or power plant whenever the Islamic Republic fires at a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, amid growing concerns over a potential return to full-scale war between the two countries. Trump made the remarks in a social media post, after he threatened last week to "knock out" Iran's power plants and bridges unless Tehran returns to the negotiating table to negotiate an end to the Middle East conflict. "From this point forward, any time the Islamic Republic of Iran shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, whether it…

WASHINGTON, July 22. /TASS/. US President Donald Trump believes that Americans do not oppose Washington continuing its military campaign against Iran. "Americans aren’t against the war. A poll just came out: Americans don't want high gasoline prices, but they're not against the war. That just came out loud and clear in a poll," Trump told reporters during a brief exchange at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington. "Nobody wants Iran to have a nuclear weapon," he added. The US president also threatened to launch new strikes against Iran. "They're going to pay a big price," he said, without providing further details. Recent opinion polls conducted in…

Transgender and intersex candidate Ashley Webb, vying to replace Graham Platner in Maine's Senate race, garners attention for her unusual debate answers. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Five House Democrats broke away from their party leaders on Tuesday night to vote with Republicans on a measure cracking down on transgender participation in school sports. The House voted on a slew of amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Tuesday, an annual bill setting military and national security policy each fiscal year. Among those that prevailed was an amendment led by Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., to block students born male from…

MOSCOW, July 22. /TASS/. Vladimir Zelensky was forced to dismiss Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Alexander Syrsky due to pressure from Europe, as he otherwise would not have removed him, Ukraine’s Strana news outlet reports. According to Strana, Zelensky had no plans to replace the military chief despite nationwide protests. However, he made the decision after facing increasing, though unspoken, pressure from the Europeans that finance the Ukrainian armed forces. The outlet points out that Europe is concerned about problems affecting the army, which is why Zelensky should "listen to progressive forces." Late on Tuesday, Zelensky announced…

SEVASTOPOL, July 22. /TASS/. Air defenses and mobile fire teams are repelling a Ukrainian attack on Sevastopol and have downed two drones, Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev said on Max. Preliminary reports indicate no casualties. "The military is repelling a Ukrainian attack on Sevastopol, with air defenses and mobile fire teams in action. Two drones have been shot down over the Balaklavsky and Leninsky districts. According to preliminary information, no one has been injured," he said. The governor earlier announced an air raid alert in the city.

BEIRUT, July 22 (Reuters) - Lebanon and Israel are scheduled to hold their next round of U.S.-brokered talks on August 4 in Italy, a Lebanese official told Reuters on Wednesday, as the two countries begin implementing a plan for Israeli withdrawals and Lebanese army deployments in southern Lebanon. The two longtime foes have held more than three months of face-to-face talks, billed as a way to put a permanent end to hostilities since a new war erupted on March 2between Israel and Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, triggered by the wider regional conflict. The ambassador-level direct meetings are unusual for countries that remain formally at war and have…

Africa · Western Key Facts —Base closure. France completed its withdrawal and ended over 60 years of permanent military presence in Senegal on 17 July 2025. —New framework. A letter of intent signed on 15 July 2025 establishes a temporary partnership without permanent facilities but with naval and airport access for French forces. —Maritime focus. Senegal has taken delivery of two French-built OPV 58 S offshore patrol vessels, and both nations are deepening cooperation on satellite surveillance of maritime zones. —Turkish competition. Senegal signed a €317 million ($345 million) arms contract with Turkey in March 2025, including maritime patrol…

The Houthis have said their embargo is in retaliation for a Saudi blockade of ports and airports in Houthi-controlled north-western Yemen. Saudi Arabia has condemned the allegation and has vowed to "take all necessary measures to protect its ships in accordance with international law". Yemen has been devastated by a civil war since 2014, when the Houthis captured the capital of Sana'a from the government. The conflict escalated in 2015, after a Saudi-led coalition of Arab states intervened to try and restore the official government. There has been an informal truce between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia since 2022. But last week, the Houthis launched…

US President Donald Trump threatened on Wednesday to destroy an Iranian bridge or power plant each time Tehran attacks a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, escalating Washington’s response as the conflict spread across the region and placed another major shipping route at risk. The warning came hours before Trump was due to attend the return of four US service members killed in Iranian attacks and related operations in Jordan and Iraq. “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…

To address the increasing traffic congestion at Nandi Hills, Minister for Energy and Tourism K.J. George said the government is preparing a comprehensive mobility plan. \| Photo Credit: File Photo The Government of Karnataka has decided to upgrade Mayura Hotels and other hospitality properties under the Department of Tourism by leveraging the expertise and best practices of the private hospitality sector, as part of its vision to elevate Karnataka’s tourism infrastructure to global standards, said Minister for Energy and Tourism K.J. George. He was speaking after inaugurating the newly constructed Mayura Sunrise Restaurant at Nandi Hills in…

Amid recurring tiger attacks on cattle in the tea plantation areas of Devikulam and Munnar, the Forest department plans to direct plantation managements to ensure that livestock are brought into sheds early in the afternoon. Tigers have been regularly preying on cattle across both forest ranges. According to Forest department officials, 34 cattle have been attacked under the Devikulam range in the past six months. However, plantation workers claim the real figure is close to 200 over the past year in both ranges. Preventing overnight grazing Officials noted that workers often leave cattle in the tea estates to graze, with many remaining there…

"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.

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

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

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

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…

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

A 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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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…

A fifth person has died in New York City in connection with the legionnaires’ disease outbreak on Manhattan’s Upper East Side neighborhood, according to the city’s health department. In an update issued Tuesday, the department said that 82 cases of legionnaires’ disease have now been identified and five people have died. Eight people remain hospitalized, while 56 have been discharged. Officials said that there have been no new cases diagnosed in six days, with no one reporting new symptoms in over 10 days. But they’ve cautioned that “these figures may change as new cases are investigated and confirmed”. The outbreak has been traced to cooling towers…

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…

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

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

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

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

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

LG monitors are reportedly installing bloatware on Windows 11 PCs The LG Monitor App Installer carries a McAfee pop-up and is automatically installed when connecting an LG monitor to a PC There's a fix for this, but it's a rather fiddly affair It's no secret that Windows 11 users have voiced frustrations regarding bloat on the operating system for years, and unfortunately, LG's monitors are reportedly making the situation worse. As reported by Windows Latest, LG monitors are installing McAfee bloatware on Windows 11 PCs without consent, and there's evidence of this in the changelog of LG's monitor app on the Microsoft Store. Even if you don't install…

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…

First City Monument Bank (FCMB) will on July 28, 2026, convene healthcare operators, financiers, investors, policymakers, development partners and industry experts at the inaugural FCMB Healthcare Summit to explore financing and partnership opportunities for building a stronger and more sustainable healthcare sector in Nigeria. The summit, themed “Financing Growth: Unlocking Opportunity, Building the Future of Healthcare,” reflects FCMB’s commitment to supporting strategic sectors of the Nigerian economy through innovative financing, partnerships and capacity building that promote inclusive and sustainable growth. The Honourable Minister of State for…

I’ve never played a game that lets me take control of legendary Scottish historical warrior William Wallace as he fights back evil demonic invaders and hundreds of soldiers across various battlefields in an attempt to take back his homeland. Scottish Dynasty Warriors, but with a roguelike spin and comic book aesthetics. It’s the kind of game I didn’t realize I wanted. But after playing a few hours of Tears of Metal, out today on PC via early access, I’m very happy the world now has this game. And I want to play more. It is very easy to describe Tears of Metal as Scottish Dynasty Warriors, but also…It’s almost impossible not to see the similarities…

Microsoft is expanding its Xbox backward compatibility efforts today by bringing original Xbox games to PC. An early preview release will see four classic Xbox games available on PC today, as part of a bigger effort to bring more Xbox console games to PC in the future. The first four games are Blinx: The Time Sweeper, Conker: Live and Reloaded, Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge, and Fuzion Frenzy. You’ll be able to purchase and download each of these games on PC, and they’ll also be included with all Xbox Game Pass plans. If you already own a digital copy of these games, you can now play them on PC or handhelds like the Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X.…

The Halo: Campaign Evolved release date is imminent, at least if you're one of those players who's shelled out some extra cash to get access to the five day long early access period. Having played the whole thing, and seen the somewhat gaudy skins you get for the premium edition, I can't say I necessarily recommend it for the cost. Especially when the game is also coming to game pass day one, giving you an even cheaper way to play through the whole thing. You can also get some skins just for preordering. But if you're a diehard Halo fan and don't mind the extra expense, that early access option is available. Below, I'll explain the premium access…

There's not a lot of NBA news happening right now, so we must welcome any sort of chaos we can find, even of the accidental kind. On Tuesday night, the excruciating wait for LeBron James to make up his damn mind about where he is going to play next season wore down the faculties of at least one social media employee, as the Miami Heat accidentally published an unlisted video on its YouTube that signaled LeBron's introductory press conference for the team he won his first (and second) title with will happen on July 27. The video was up for at least nine hours before it was seemingly made private or deleted. A team spokesperson told ESPN's Shams…

Splatoon Raiders will attempt to make a splash tomorrow, 23rd July, and Nintendo is celebrating its launch on Switch 2 with a surprisingly in-depth chat with four key Nintendo EPD developers. 'Ask the Developer Vol. 22: Splatoon Raiders - Part 1' is a thoroughly good read, but some bits stand out. After a decently sized intro with comments on what Splatoon Raiders actually is and what players can expect from its looter shooter-inspired formula, producer Seita Inoue, director Yoshihiko Ito, art director Koji Sonoyama, and sound director Shu Tamura elaborated on its key innovations and how they first envisioned it. "We thought it might be interesting to…

We're less than two months out from the release of Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, and the series' official X account has been revealing a steady trickle of information about the ensemble cast of characters. This week, the team shared an in-depth look at Sirocco, a mysterious bard on a journey of revenge. And like many a past Fire Emblem hero, he seems to be a vain fellow with an eye for the ladies. Here's the logline on Sirocco, via machine translation: "A mysterious bard who appears before Leda, who continues his journey of revenge. He calls himself 'the Whimsical Wind,' and has a frivolous nature that always leads him to flirt with beautiful women,…

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…

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - JANUARY 15: Chicago Cubs general manager Jed Hoyer speaks to the media during a press conference o introduce Alex Bregman (not pictured) at Wrigley Field on January 15, 2026 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Geoff Stellfox/Getty Images) Getty Images With the trade deadline looming at the beginning of next month, the Chicago Cubs made a significant move that seems designed to protect their outfield depth for the stretch run. The Cubs entered the week firmly in the postseason picture and are expected to be active buyers before the deadline. While much of the attention has focused on potential impact additions for the pitching staff,…

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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…

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

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

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

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

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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…

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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

Rio Times · Analysis Key Facts —Oil Shock Brent crude fell 12% from its war peak on ceasefire hopes, but the Strait of Hormuz conflict keeps global energy markets on a knife-edge, directly impacting fuel costs across Latin America. —US Tariffs Hit The Trump administration imposed new tariffs on Brazil, Mexico, and Canada, triggering emergency meetings in Brasília and preparations for reciprocal measures against American goods. —Freight Delays Global shipping disruption from the Middle East conflict will reach South American ports in four to six weeks, with equipment imbalances and trade diversion already rippling through supply chains. —Food Inflation…

Shares of Reddit slid 9% on Wednesday after the Wall Street Journal reported the company has discussed shutting off Google's access to its content for artificial intelligence use. Reddit stock is down roughly 19% year-to-date. The two companies struck a deal in 2024 to allow the search giant to train its AI models on Reddit's content. But as Google's AI summaries reduced traffic to websites from the search results page, Reddit is reconsidering the benefits of the deal, according to the Journal, citing people familiar with the matter. The search traffic trend can be seen on other sites as well, with Politico's Google traffic falling 23%, CNN's falling…

Refinancing your student loans can be a smart move if today's rates undercut what you're currently paying. John Lamb/Getty Images Student loan borrowers have spent the last year navigating a rapidly changing borrowing and repayment landscape. Between new federal student loan rules going into effect, shifting repayment options and persistent interest rate uncertainty, many borrowers are now taking a closer look at the options they have to reduce their monthly student loan costs without waiting for another policy change to roll out. At the same time, private student loan lenders continue competing for borrowers, particularly those with strong credit and…

Private sector lender IndusInd Bank Ltd’s standalone net profit increased 46.5% year-on-year (YoY) to ₹1,002.5 crore in the first quarter (Q1) of FY27 on lower provisions and costs . The bank’s net interest income grew 7.2% YoY to ₹4,684.72 crore in Q1FY27 . Net interest margin was marginally higher at 3.52% in the review period against 3.46% the year-ago period. The bank’s provisions for bad loans dipped 23% to ₹1,339.2 crore , which substantially improved the net earnings. Asset ​quality improved, as its gross non-profitable assets, as a share of gross advances, shrank to 3.25% in Q1FY27 compared to 3.64% the year-ago period. Net NPA share in net…

Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Canada's premiers are insisting they form a united Team Canada in the face of U.S. Donald Trump's escalated trade war — despite disagreement on how to get him to drop the impending tariffs. "Nothing unites like a common opponent and there's no more popular opponent in Canada right now than Donald Trump," said Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew as he arrived at the premiers' summer meeting in Prince Edward Island on Wednesday. The annual…

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…

Topline Billionaire Elon Musk suggested in posts on X he would either fund an alternative “Odyssey” movie with a more “historically accurate” take on ancient Greece or make his own with Grok, the latest in his ongoing crusade against the box office hit. Musk has railed against Nolan's "Odyssey" for months. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Key Facts Musk, who has posted dozens of times criticizing director Christopher Nolan and “The Odyssey,” suggested overnight he would make his own alternative adaptation of Homer’s epic poem using his Grok AI technology. “Before this year ends, Grok Imagine will…

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…

APSRTC Employees JAC leaders submitting a memorandum to Finance Minister Payavula Keshav at the Secretariat on Wednesday. \| Photo Credit: BY ARRANGEMENT The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the A.P. Public Transport Department (APPTD)-APSRTC Employees’ Unions on Wednesday submitted a comprehensive memorandum to the Ministers’ Committee at the State Secretariat, seeking resolution of long-pending demands of APSRTC employees and measures to strengthen the public transport corporation. In a statement issued later, APPTD (APSRTC) Employees’ JAC State conveners Y. Srinivasa Rao and P. Damodara Rao said the memorandum sought the government’s intervention to…

The leaders of Germany's governing conservatives wasted no time: Just a few days after Jens Spahn resigned as parliamentary group leader following a scandal over surrogacy, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) named its candidate to succeed him: Thorsten Frei. The 52-year-old, currently serving as head of the chancellery and considered a close confidant of Chancellor Friedrich Merz, is now set take over one of the most important positions in German politics, leading the Bundestag members of both the CDU and its Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU). Frei can only officially take office once he has been elected by the parliamentarians.…

Many members and supporters of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) from across Adamawa State gathered in Yola on Wednesday and staged a street protest over growing rumours of plans to substitute the party’s governorship candidate, Omar Suleiman. The candidate and his supporters have, for the past couple of weeks, faced speculation that he would be replaced, first by a former governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdulrahman Haske, and more recently by another politician, Modibbo Tukur. In reaction to the continued tension over the alleged substitution plan, party members mobilised by a group, Frontier Movement 774, marched…

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

A BJP worker climbs up the police barricade as the party takes out a march to the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee headquarters in Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday condemning the protest by Congress leaders outside Prime Minister Narendra Modi's residence in Delhi on Tuesday. \| Photo Credit: NIRMAL HARINDRAN A protest march taken out by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) headquarters, Indira Bhavan, turned tense in Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday, with the police using water cannons to disperse the demonstrators. The march was organised in protest against the Congress demonstration held outside Prime…

MOSCOW, July 22. /TASS/. Former commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army and now Ukraine's ambassador to the United Kingdom Valery Zaluzhny and former Defense Minister Mikhail Fyodorov are the most trusted politicians in Ukraine, according to a new poll by the Rating Sociological Group. According to the survey, Zaluzhny enjoyed the highest level of public trust, with 70% of respondents expressing confidence in him, followed by Fyodorov at 65%. Trust in the former defense minister almost doubled over the past week, rising from 35% to 65%. Head of Vladimir Zelensky's office Kirill Budanov (designated as a terrorist and extremist by Russia) also enjoyed…

Mixed reactions are trailing the announcement by Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, that he has joined the Rainbow Coalition, a political movement founded by Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, ahead of the 2027 general elections. DAILY POST reported that the governor announced the development on Wednesday during the foundation-laying ceremony of the RIVEN Medical Industries Project in Rumuosi, Port Harcourt. The governor, who appealed to his supporters to vote all candidates affiliated with the coalition, confirmed that he has returned to Wike’s political family. “I am supporting President Tinubu for the Presidency and OK…

Scores of students gathered at Freedom Park in Central Bengaluru condemning the police lathi charge on students who were marching to Parliament protesting against NEET irregularities and seeking Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation in New Delhi. Video \& Editing: Ravichandran N Published - July 22, 2026 08:24 pm IST

M.B. Patil, Minister of Large and Medium Industries. \| Photo Credit: File photo Large and Medium Industries Minister M.B. Patil on Wednesday (July 22) launched a scathing attack on the BJP-led Union government, accusing it of failing to deliver on its promises, mishandling the NEET examination and the alleged police action against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during a protest in New Delhi. Speaking to the press at Kalaburagi Airport, Mr. Patil termed the reported police action against Mr. Gandhi during the protest as “undemocratic” and alleged that such incidents had become a pattern since 2014. He said the Congress leader was treated “inhumanely” by…

From “annoying” to “embarrassing, frustrating and sad”, here’s how British nationals with a close connection to Italy feel about the UK’s decision to leave the EU, ten years on. June 3rd, 2026 marked 10 years since the UK voted to leave the European Union by the narrowest of margins, severing their economic ties and ending freedom of movement. For many Brits living in Italy, as well as frequent visitors, second-home owners and hopeful future residents, the ramifications of Brexit were significant. We wanted to know how our UK readers’ lives in – or relationships to – Italy have been affected by the vote a decade on, so we asked for you to share your…

The Kerala Cabinet on Wednesday gave its nod for framing an ant-ragging law and launching an app in memory of veterinary sciences student J.S. Sidharthan, whose death in February 2024, allegedly following brutal ragging, had triggered a public outcry. Briefing journalists about the Cabinet decisions, Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan said the app could be used to tip off authorities about ragging incidents. Both proposals were part of the Revised Budget for 2026-27 presented by the UDF government on June 19. In his Budget speech, Mr. Satheesan had announced that the ‘Sidharthan Student Distress App’ would be introduced, and the ‘Sidharthan Anti-Ragging…

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…

MELITOPOL, July 22. /TASS/. Ukraine has no outstanding military commanders who can defeat Russia, and Mikhail Drapaty’s appointment to the post of the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) will have no effect on Russia’s special military operation, Deputy Regional Security Minister of the Zaporozhye Region Oleg Murachev said. "Kiev has no minds who can stand against the Russian armed forces, and our military has already proven this. However, we still need not to underestimate the enemy. One of Drapaty’s possible options to prove his mettle after the appointment is to rely on drones and strikes on civilians and civilian…

Kano State Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf has launched a multi-agency task force on drug abuse and signed an executive order to tackle thuggery and other criminal activities in the state. According to a statement by the governor’s spokesperson, Sunusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, Yusuf said drug abuse remained one of the biggest challenges facing young people in Kano. He warned that it fuels violent crime, destroys families, hurts the economy and threatens peace. He said the new task force would lead the state’s response through intelligence gathering, enforcement, public awareness, rehabilitation and cooperation with security agencies and other stakeholders. “The…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office is discussing with the White House a potential meeting with President Trump in the Oval Office during Netanyahu's trip to the US next week, but no meeting has been set yet, according to Axios. Officially, Netanyahu's trip to the US last week was cancelled due to the postponement of Senator Lindsey Graham's funeral. White House sources denied the existence of any set meetings between Netanyahu and Trump just one day before the announcement of the cancellation last week.

NEW YORK, July 22. /TASS/. Russia will not abandon its position in the confrontation with the West in the Ukrainian conflict, which is facilitated by the failure of attempts to isolate it and its large-scale support for non-Western nations, Hanna Notte, director of the Eurasia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in California, said in a column she contributed to The New York Times. "Many expected Russia to turn into a bete noire. But it soon dawned on Russia’s adversaries that the country wasn’t going anywhere," she said, adding that since the beginning of the Ukrainian crisis, Moscow has gained support…

Germany's Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul is currently visiting Nigeria as part of a multi-country trip across Africa, with a preceding major stopover in Mauritania, and an upcoming call on South Africa. The trip follows up on prior journeys by Germany's top diplomat to Africa, with Wadephul having visited Ethiopia and Kenya in January, and Morocco in April. Wadephul says these repeated travels to the continent are a strategic necessity for Europe as part of Berlin's expanding engagement with Africa. "This is my third trip to Africa now. Why? Africa is a continent of both destiny and opportunity for Europe," he told reporters, highlighting the…

The Civil Rights Division of the DOJ filed two lawsuits against California and Virginia over the state’s gun law restrictions. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A convicted heroin trafficker's appeal could upend one of the federal government's most-used gun laws after a federal appeals court agreed to reconsider its constitutional foundation, weeks after Justice Clarence Thomas urged lower courts to take a fresh look at whether Congress had the authority to enact it. The full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals voted Monday to rehear United States v. Squire, a case that could determine whether Congress exceeded its constitutional authority when…

Africa · Northern Key Facts —The Victim. Abderrahim Fakir, a 42-year-old Moroccan entrepreneur with a regular residence permit, died on 19 July 2026 during a police restraint in Bologna’s Pilastro district. —The Investigation. Bologna prosecutors have opened a manslaughter inquiry involving two police officers and four emergency medical responders, with body-camera footage under review. —Diplomatic Pressure. Morocco’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has formally demanded that Italian authorities “fully clarify” the circumstances and establish responsibility through appropriate legal measures. —Bilateral Trade. Italy-Morocco trade approached €5 billion…

Police detain a protester during an anti-NEET demonstration near BSNL office on State Bank Road in Coimbatore on Wednesday. \| Photo Credit: S. SIVA SARAVANAN Members of the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) and the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) staged a protest in Coimbatore on Wednesday (July 22) demanding the abolition of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, and the release of students detained during protests in New Delhi. Nearly 40 protesters marched from the Coimbatore Railway Station to the BSNL office near the Collectorate, where they launched a…

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

Kozhikode Corporation and KILA officials sign an agreement in Kozhikode on Wednesday. \| Photo Credit: K. Ragesh The Kerala Institute of Local Administration (KILA) has joined hands with the Kozhikode Corporation to launch activities related to the Unesco ‘City of Literature’ here. The UN body included Kozhikode, the first Indian city to get the honour, in its list on October 31, 2023. According to sources, though Kozhikode has been associated with some of the other ‘Cities of Literature’ across the world, it could organise very few unique events on its own in the past three years. Unesco reviews the tag every four years. If enough activities are not…

AP-Genco Managing Director S. Nagalakshmi and other senior officials felicitating Indian international cricketer Sree Charani at Vidyut Soudha in Vijayawada on Wednesday. \| Photo Credit: BY ARRANGEMENT Andhra Pradesh Power Generation Corporation (AP-Genco) Managing Director S. Nagalakshmi and other officials felicitated Indian international cricketer Nallapureddy Sree Charani, the daughter of Chandrasekhar Reddy, an employee of Rayalaseema Thermal Power Plant, at Vidyut Soudha here on Wednesday. On the occasion, Ms. Nagalakshmi said that it was a matter of pride that outstanding sportspersons representing India in international cricket have emerged…

Nina Kennedy will carry the Australian flag in the Glasgow 2026 opening ceremony before she tries to defend her Commonwealth Games pole vault title. Kennedy is the first of the Australian athletics team to touch down in Glasgow, with the track and field program not starting until Monday. "I am so proud to follow in the footsteps of so many great Australians who have carried the flag before me. The Commonwealth Games have always meant so much to me; it's where I won my first medal back in 2018," Kennedy said. "This is my third Games, and I'm lucky enough to be defending my title. My final isn't until later in the week, so I'll get a bit of a sleep-in…

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,…

Former India opener Wasim Jaffer has made a bold comparison between KL Rahul and Virat Kohli , saying the Indian wicketkeeper-batter possesses the same level of talent and technical ability as the batting great. However, Jaffer believes it is Kohli's unmatched mentality and relentless consistency that have helped him scale unprecedented heights in international cricket. Rahul and Kohli have shared the Indian dressing room for over a decade, with the duo making their international careers around the same era. While Kohli has gone on to become one of the greatest batters of the modern era, Rahul has often been praised for his elegant strokeplay and…

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…

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…

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…

ATLANTA, GA - JANUARY 09: American sports analyst Pat McAfee before the Indiana Hoosiers versus Oregon Ducks College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl on January 9, 2026, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, GA. (Photo by David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Just 24 hours can change everything in sports media. One day, a broadcaster is calling one of baseball’s marquee matchups between the Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers. The next, he's among the biggest names swept up in one of the largest rounds of layoffs that ESPN has seen in years. And that sudden change…

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

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

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

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

With San Diego Comic-Con fast approaching with a bevy of announcements, first looks, and exclusive swag for those lucky enough to attend to salivate over, DC Comics came dressed for the occasion with a swanky box set to add to Absolute Batman fans’ collections. Made in collaboration with Shoe Palace and Upper Deck, DC Comics’ San Diego Comic-Con exclusive Absolute Batman box set, which costs $100, includes a foil variation of Absolute Batman #1—a comic in such high demand it’s gotten ten reprints since its debut in 2024. Also included is a limited-edition, serial-numbered Upper Deck trading card, a t-shirt taking up all the real estate for Bruce’s…

Olivia Attwood showed off her sculpted abs in a barely-there bikini as she shared stunning Instagram snaps from her Ibiza getaway on Wednesday. The TV personality, 35, recently confirmed her romance with Pete Wicks, 37, following months of speculation. On her recent holiday with pals, Olivia shared multiple smooches with her new boyfriend after hard launching their relationship. Olivia posted fun-filled snaps of them partying until late at beach clubs together after a relaxing day of sunbathing. She looked incredible in a leopard print two-piece as she sipped on cocktails and posed for selfies. Olivia recently thanked her close pals for 'keeping her…

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…

​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…

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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

France recorded 5,764 more deaths than the normal rate between June 17 and July 2, health authorities said Wednesday. While authorities said the excess mortality rate was due to "all causes", the period coincided with a stretch of extreme heatwaves in several French regions.

Africa · Western Key Facts —The Credit Line. Portugal is finalising a €100 million ($109 million) credit line for Portuguese companies to invest in Cape Verde, managed by state-owned bank Caixa Geral de Depósitos. —Strategic Sectors. The facility targets renewable energy, the blue economy, digitalisation, and tourism infrastructure projects. —Debt-for-Climate Swap. The credit line is paired with an expanded €42.5 million debt-for-climate swap, converting Cape Verde’s bilateral debt into investments for water-linked renewable energy projects. —EU Global Gateway Context. The Portuguese initiative sits within a broader EU investment package of…

SPMVV Vice-Chancellor V. Uma releasing the ogo of DST-STI Hub at the campus in Tirupati on Wednesday. Registrar R. Usha, Dean (Sciences) T. Sudha and ANGRAU Principal Scientist A.R.K. Rao are also seen. \| Photo Credit: K.V. POORNACHANDRA KUMAR The DST-STI Hub on ‘Technology-Based Innovative Practices in Sericulture, Agriculture and Livelihoods’, sponsored by the Union Department of Science and Technology (DST), was inaugurated at Sri Padmavati Mahila Visva Vidyalayam (SPMVV) in Tirupati on Wednesday. The three-year project aims to empower Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) women and students through science, technology, innovation, skill…

Extreme weather hits across the country as Gulf states prepare for Tropical Storm Bertha impact Tornadoes swept across parts of the Midwest to the Northeast on Tuesday, leaving behind major damage. Meanwhile, on the Gulf Coast, Tropical Storm Bertha's winds reached 59 mph and rough surf pounded Panama City Beach, Florida. Lana Zak has the latest.

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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,…