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When Vasilis Rodovitis rips open his brown paper bag in a sunny persimmon orchard just outside Naousa, in Greece, I half expect groceries to spill out. Instead, a barely there gray cloud emerges. For half a week, the bag was home to some 4,000 Mediterranean fruit flies
To misquote a famous song, "Diamonds are industry's best friend." Cubic diamond is the hardest mineral on Earth and is used in everything from precision cutting tools to high-performance semiconductors as well as expensive jewelry. But there is a rare and potentially tougher
Web game: list as many animals as you can in 1 minute (but you get more time with correct guesses).
March 5 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump told Axios on Thursday that he needs to be personally involved in selecting Iran's next leader. "Khamenei's son is unacceptable to me. We want someone that will bring harmony and peace to Iran," Axios quoted Trump as saying in an
LONDON, March 5 (Reuters) - Seafarers have the right to refuse to sail on ships passing through the Middle East Gulf, including the Strait of Hormuz, after the threat level for the region was raised to its highest level, the leading labour union and shipping industry groups
By Andrew Gray BRUSSELS, March 5 (Reuters) - NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said on Thursday he was "not deaf" to criticism that he goes overboard in praising Donald Trump but argued the U.S. president deserved it. However, in an interview with Reuters, Rutte also offered
By Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON, March 5 (Reuters) - A man protesting the U.S. and Israel's strikes on Iran was injured in a struggle with U.S. Capitol Police and Republican Senator Tim Sheehy on Wednesday. The man, Brian McGinnis, a former Marine who is a Green Party candidate
Tehran's Azadi Sport Complex was the target of the strike, which according to Iran International, was being used as the headquarters of one of the Iranian regime's special units
I mean it's true, I guess, but you don't have to actually say it.
The Middle East war has forced the World Health Organization to suspend operations at its global emergency logistics hub in Dubai, the UN agency's chief said Thursday. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that the impact of the conflict, sparked by the US-Israeli attacks on Iran
Anyone familiar with the search for alien life will have heard of the "Goldilocks Zone" around a star. This is defined as the orbital band where the temperature is just right for liquid water to pool on a rocky planet's surface—a good approximation for what we thought of as the
Hulu’s The Testaments trailer shows Hannah — now Agnes — growing up inside Gilead and joining a rebellion.
From 3D-printed drones to Anthropic’s Claude, advanced technologies are making conflict more accessible and less accountable — leaving human oversight at risk.
The life sim may offer a glimpse of a new regional form in Winds and Waves
Brighton singer-songwriter Maximilian has announced a new EP Diurnals, out May 8, and shared a new single. “I Know You” is a cozy acoustic-guitar-driven track with piano and fiddle embellishments. It was recorded live with no click track and produced at Farm Road studios with
Glasgow-based musicians Megan Pollock and Desmond Johnston make up the band Cowboy Hunters. Their last single “Have A Pint” is an aggressive, circus-like romp inspired by the Lady Gaga interview clip-turned-meme. It’s absurd. It makes me laugh, but the music is so weirdly
A 60% gaming keyboard with magnetic switches and a hint of body horror.
The Adventure Game Aptitude Test is the first of its kind, and the initial results are incredible. Only two people beat a three hour game without help
Astronomers have analyzed the images collected by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to investigate a galactic open cluster known as NGC 2158. Results of the study, published Feb. 25 on the arXiv pre-print server, provide essential insights into the population of binary stars in
11 teams, 22 drivers, 22 cars, 24 circuits and a global fanbase of 827 million fans — including 52 million in the U.S. The sport is Formula 1, and its season kicks off on Saturday with the Australian Grand Prix on Apple TV. Bringing the live sport to audiences is no easy feat,
Nancy Guthrie has been missing since Jan. 31
The Studio City home, built in 1959, cannot be modified without approval
We’ve got a new dark horse contender in the hunt for the “worst band name I’ve ever seen in my life” championship. The London trio Ebbb came out of the Windmill scene, and they’re currently generating a whole lot of buzz with a series of singles on Ninja Tune records. The name
The claims are made by Chance Glasco, who stuck around after the Respawn split
The 2026 Women's Africa Cup of Nations is postponed just 12 days before the finals were due to kick off in Morocco.
Amodei circulated a 1,600-word memo to staff on Friday explaining why talks with the Department of War collapsed.
CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins defended herself following a spat with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday over media coverage of the deaths of six U.S. service members as part of President Trump's ongoing military operations in Iran. "Needless to say, our
The move from the state AGs — part of the successful effort to block Trump's original tariffs — adds to the ongoing uncertainty created by his tariff policies.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Thursday that their naval force struck a US oil tanker in the northern Gulf and that the vessel “is on fire,” raising fresh concerns about maritime security tied to the regional conflict and the safety of the Strait of Hormuz—one of the
Social media posts have showed French border guards stationed in airport arrivals with signs that appear to read, “to all the influencers and other people in tax havens such as Dubai, the tax authorities wish you a smooth return to France". But is this real?
Canadian and Australian prime ministers Mark Carney and Anthony Albanese on Thursday called for the U.S.-Israeli military operations in Iran to de-escalate while agreeing that Iran must not acquire a nuclear weapon. The two leaders met in the Australian capital of Canberra