A U.S.-Indian Earth satellite's ability to see through clouds, revealing insights and characteristics of our planet's surface, is on display in a colorful, newly released image showing the Mississippi River Delta region in southeastern Louisiana.
Mass layoffs at the MFA Boston, the Newark Museum of Art gets a new director, and why we can never get enough of Caravaggio.
Iran's foreign minister was in Turkey on Friday as Ankara led a diplomatic push to mediate between Tehran and Washington, after US President Donald Trump cooled threats of an imminent strike on the Islamic republic. Tehran and Washington have been trading warnings since Trump
Babies and very young sauropods—the long-necked, long-tailed plant-eaters that in adulthood were the largest animals to have ever walked on land—were a key food sustaining predators in the Late Jurassic, according to a new study led by a UCL (University College London)
At an all-staff meeting on Tuesday, CBS News’s editor in chief Bari Weiss—perhaps the record-holder for the fastest the word embattled has ever been appended in front of a new job title—laid out her vision for the network she had taken the reins of only a few weeks earlier .
Have you heard about the proposed First National Bank of Trump? I get paid to know such things, but this kleptocratic scheme tiptoed past me earlier this month while I was distracted by our invasion of Venezuela ; the phony criminal investigation of Jerome Powell ; the
It claims that its students learn twice as fast and score in the top 1% to 2% on MAP testing, a nationwide measure of growth in reading and math for K-8 students.
It was hardly a surprise to anyone when, in December, Bloomberg broke the news that Warner Bros. president and CEO David Zaslav had agreed to sell the historic studio. Ever since Zaslav took over the company in 2021, the former cable television lawyer showed seemingly no
In 2022, Charlotte Gainsbourg brought her mother, Jane Birkin, to her deceased father’s apartment in Paris’s 7th arrondissement and recorded the visit in her documentary, Jane by Charlotte . She was preparing to transform the residence into a museum—which is now open to the
UN truce resolutions typically pass with broad majorities and received all 193 votes for the London Games in 2012. Yet signatories have repeatedly broken their own promises.
The award comes nearly 30 years after Fela Kuti's death, and two years after the Grammys introduced the Best African Performance category.
The multiparty system had been "promoting division among citizens", the country's interior minister said.
"Death is coming."
The Sierra Nevada snowpack, the source of nearly one-third of California's water supply, is looking a little like a New Year's resolution: full of hope and promise at the beginning of January, but now struggling with a bothersome reality check. Starting on Christmas Eve, big
By Alexander Cornwell JERUSALEM, Jan 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. military and civilian leaders of Washington's flagship mission for Gaza are stepping aside and their replacements have yet to be made public, diplomats said, as European countries rethink their presence in the
By Reade Levinson Jan 30 (Reuters) - Paramilitary fighters kidnapped children during their takeover of the Sudanese city of al-Fashir in October and in other attacks in the Darfur region over the course of Sudan's civil war, in some cases killing their parents first, witnesses
MOSCOW, Jan 30 (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had received a personal request from his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump to halt strikes on Kyiv until February 1 in order to create a favourable environment for peace negotiations. Asked
US First Lady Melania Trump and her husband President Donald Trump have walked the black carpet at the premier of her new documentary.
More and more airports have been raising the current limit to 2L, but rollout across security lanes is uneven. Here's the current picture across Europe.
The court’s ruling followed an audit by Panama’s comptroller, which alleged irregularities in the 25-year extension of the concession granted in 2021.
Conservationists have been left baffled by the bird's odd movements, with fears that they could be triggered by environmental factors.
Serbian police seized nearly five tonnes of marijuana in a raid near Kruševac, arresting two people and uncovering weapons, suggesting a large criminal network.
Iran seized the oil tanker with 18 crew members, including 16 Indians, in December alleging it had illegal diesel.
The move follows Donald Trump's previous claim the US was taking the crucial Panama canal "back" from China.
The audience inside Beverly Hills’ Fine Arts Theatre included Chappell Roan, Joachim Trier, Sean Baker, Simon Rex, Meg Stalter, Troye Sivan, Demi Lovato, Gabbriette, Eli Roth and rocker Matt Healy.
Paris‑based sales company Charades (“Urchin”) has boarded “Bloodsuckers,” a family thriller that marks the sophomore feature of Elin Grönblom (“Ella and Friends”). Currently in post-production, the film is being showcased today at Göteborg Film Festival’s Works in Progress and
On 27 January, the US's controversial ICE agency said that its investigative arm would be involved in security-related support for the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics. The announcement sparked political protests, but what's the truth behind the outrage?
Neither AI nor ads. The problem started with search, and was weaponized by Amazon. Display ads go back at least 100 years. A century ago, the idea was simple: Show up in a place where people are offering up attention and tell a story. The advertiser pays the media for the
In the beachside state of Goa, officials and oil executives envisioned new energy pacts and multilateral relationships as a counterbalance to Trump’s America.
The Trump administration sent a private letter opposing the choice of Nouri al-Maliki, the leading candidate for prime minister, considered close to Iran.
New research looks at carbon dioxide removal—where carbon is absorbed from the atmosphere and stored—and finds that large-scale reliance on land-based methods, such as planting forests or bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), can protect biodiversity by avoiding
The creative duo of Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine reconstructs memories of Australian floods in 2022 for their immersive virtual reality documentary project, currently part of the Rotterdam film fest.
President Trump and the GOP are in a growing panic over ICE. Trump’s advisers are sinking into recriminations. Republican officials are publicly admitting that his immigration agenda “seems to be not working” and that the GOP is “losing” the political battle over it. Others are
In this edition: inside a cyberscam compound, behind bars but ahead of the times, up into the beyond, away from home, and under the night sky.
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of “Cyrano de Bergerac” is heading to London’s West End, with Adrian Lester returning in the title role for a limited summer engagement. The show will play the Noël Coward Theatre from June 13 through Sept. 5. The transfer follows the
The president says he plans to talk with Tehran as the Pentagon continues dispatching warships and destroyers to the Middle East. The move comes as The New York Times reports that Trump has received an expanded list of military targets, which includes the possibility of ground
It is unclear what tangible long-term benefits such overture will yield, experts say.
HONG KONG/BEIJING, Jan 30 - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's visit to China is the latest win Beijing can tout in its rivalry with Washington, but the deals he brings back to London also show the limits of the balancing act that middle powers may try to play.
[WHO] Marking World Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) warns that millions of people living with NTDs continue to face profound and often unseen suffering due to discrimination, social stigma and untreated mental health conditions. Under
Data from the newly-published 2026 State of the Game Industry survey offers insights into the wave of job cuts that has engulfed the video game industry.
With insect farming projected to produce millions of tons of insects in the coming years, Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station researchers offer evidence that the insect farming byproduct called "frass" can improve soil health and reduce insect damage in soybean crops.
Syria's new leaders, since toppling former President Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, have struggled to assert full authority over a country devastated by nearly 14 years of civil war.
Mohamed Fauzi Kamis is the third high-ranking military officer to be charged in just over a week, following the former armed forces chief and former army chief.
