Elle Fanning has Elizabeth Banks’ stamp of approval for playing a young Effie Trinket in the upcoming “Hunger Games” prequel, “Sunrise on the Reaping.” “I was so excited,” Banks said Monday night at the premiere of her new Peacock series, “The Miniature Wife,” when I asked what
Morning temperatures in major cities remained below 10 deg C as at 8am on April 7.
[RFI] Since the outbreak of war in the Middle East, disrupted trade routes have caused delays to the delivery of medicines and other humanitarian aid to crisis zones such as Sudan and Mali.
[The Conversation Africa] Fences are among conservation's most controversial interventions.
Taiwan also faces ongoing Chinese military pressure.
“I felt that he did this bizarre public thing to kind of make up, like, ‘It’s all good cause I love Jonah,'" the actor said of the controversial rapper's past Instagram post.
The border conflict between Cambodia and Thailand was in fourth place at 40.5 per cent.
Iran has experienced meaningful attrition in a war it entered already weakened by international sanctions and a five-year drought. These operating constraints nevertheless leave Iran with a rare window of opportunity to realize a postwar reality that leaves it in a relatively
DUBAI/WASHINGTON, April 7 (Reuters) - Iran and Israel traded attacks on Tuesday as Tehran defiantly refused to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and accept a ceasefire deal on the eve of a deadline set by U.S. President Donald Trump to agree to his demands or get "taken out." Iran
This comes after Japan's Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi spoke by phone with his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi.
India has plans to expand nuclear power capacity from its current eight to 100 gigawatts by 2047.
A colossal ocean current encircling Antarctica—stronger than all the world’s rivers combined—played a far more complex role in shaping Earth’s climate than scientists once thought. New research shows it didn’t form just because ocean gateways opened, but required shifting
JD Vance's visit to Hungary is a show of support for Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in the final stretch before Sunday's elections.
Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland, agreed to accept up to 160 deportees in exchange for around $6.6 million.
Images have long played a powerful role in shaping public perceptions of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), often reinforcing emotional reactions more than scientific understanding. A new experimental study published in the Journal of Science Communication (JCOM) explores
The Iran war has forced governments to lean more on the dirtiest fossil fuel.
Pyongyang has in recent years labelled South Korea its “most hostile state”.
Country has scrambled to diversify its energy sources in recent weeks.
He said his government will restructure energy prices and divert some government budget to help the public.
A remarkable fossil discovery in southwest China is rewriting the story of how complex animal life began, showing that many key animal groups appeared millions of years earlier than scientists once believed. Dating back over 540 million years, the fossils reveal a surprisingly
Earth may have won a cosmic chemistry lottery. Researchers found that during the planet’s earliest formation, oxygen had to be in an extremely narrow “Goldilocks zone” for two life-essential elements, phosphorus and nitrogen, to stay where life could use them. Too much or too
NASA's mission control in Houston regained communication with the crew after an expected loss of contact for some 40 minutes, as their spacecraft passed behind Earth's natural satellite.
A strange “forbidden” planet spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope is turning planetary science on its head. TOI-5205 b, a Jupiter-sized world orbiting a small, cool star, has an atmosphere surprisingly poor in heavy elements—even less enriched than its own star, which
The 2026 Seoul International Buddhism Expo drew 250,000 visitors over four days.
Jonah Hill said during a recent appearance on “The Zane Lowe Show” that it was “bizarre” when Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, took to Instagram in 2023 and wrote that Hill’s performance in the 2012 comedy film “21 Jump Street” made him “like Jewish people again.”
On Monday night, the president of the United States called the crew aboard the Orion spacecraft to congratulate them on their moon mission
SYDNEY, April 7 - Australia's most decorated living soldier was arrested on Tuesday and will be charged with five counts of war crime murders relating to the killing of unarmed civilians while on deployment in Afghanistan.
Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith was once lauded as Australia’s most distinguished living war hero.
For the first time, more respondents have confidence in ASEAN upholding the rules-based order than the United States, according to an annual poll by Singapore think tank ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute.
Released by the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore on Tuesday (Apr 7), the survey findings place Beijing back in front after trailing Washington last year, reflecting shifting regional sentiment amid intensifying great power competition.
Vietnam’s lawmakers electedMr Lam as the country’s state president for the next five years.
Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.) on Monday said she will introduce articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for war crimes following President Trump’s planned strikes on Iran’s bridges, desalination plants and power plants. “Trump is escalating a
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai have developed a fast, new technique for analyzing cells, described in the journal Angewandte Chemie. The approach, called single-injection multi-omics analysis by direct infusion (SMAD), can detect more than 1,300 proteins and more than 9,000
The woman was killed in the port city of Haifa on April 5 alongside her Israeli husband and elderly parents-in-law.
Wawa pulled the affected products from store shelves.
Japan has communicated with the governments involved as it seeks a diplomatic off-ramp to the situation.
Ben Roberts-Smith, who denies all wrongdoing, previously lost a landmark defamation case over the alleged murders.
[ANGOP] Talatona -- The 75th Conference of the Airports Council International Africa (ACI-Africa) closes this Friday, in Luanda, after seven days of debates, workshops and masterclasses with an emphasis on strengthening the African airport sector.
[ANGOP] Luanda -- Around 1.2 billion dollars have already been secured for 13 priority projects in Africa, within the framework of Angola's leadership in the African Union Development Agency Heads of State Orientation Committee (AUDA-NEPAD).
Actor David Schwimmer took to social media Monday to thank several corporate sponsors who have pulled their support from the U.K.’s Wireless Festival, where Ye, formerly Kanye West, is set to headline for three nights in June. He is asking the remaining sponsors to do the same,
Police said that two people were detained and the investigation is ongoing
Alden Ehrenreich might be lucky “Solo: A Star Wars Story” was such a box office bomb. Because what was bad for his bank account was fantastic for his creative freedom, liberating Ehrenreich, who had been trapped on the anesthetizing career trajectory that’s a prerequisite for
Rapper Offset was shot in Hollywood, Florida on Monday, and is currently in stable condition. A spokesperson for Offset said in a statement to Variety that he’s being treated for the gunshot wound and is currently under observation. “We can confirm Offset was shot and is
The person was believed to be the Tehran bureau chief of broadcaster NHK.
TOKYO, April 7 - A Japanese national detained in Iran has been released on bail, Japan's top government spokesperson said on Tuesday.