As the fall festival season winds down, the temperature will be heating up next month in Durban, South Africa, where the 17th Durban FilmMart takes place from Oct. 9 – 12. This year’s event arrives amid surging hopes but lingering anxieties for an African industry at a
Fortnite's Halloween special begins Oct. 1 with one of the most highly anticipated collaborations in the game's history: Five Nights at Freddy's.
Less than two months after his government hosted the NATO summit — which was framed as proof of Turkey’s pivotal role in transatlantic security — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has proposed full Turkish membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, an entity that has
The category-four storm is approaching the state of Baja California Sur, on Mexico's northern Pacific coast.
The UN cautioned that radio frequency interference could disrupt measurements and compromise the reliability of forecasts, affecting authorities' ability to prepare for and respond to environmental hazards.
Three stations on the continent made the list, including Rome’s Colosseo - Fori Imperiali Station.
Paying a steeper price for a subscription service can trigger a familiar impulse: You want to get your money's worth. For companies selling AI tools, cloud computing and other digital services, that can complicate a basic pricing strategy. Raising prices may keep some customers
[CAF] Morocco, Côte d'Ivoire, Algeria, Nigeria and Cameroon were among the continental heavyweights to make winning starts as the first matchday of the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations PAMOJA 2027 qualifiers produced goals, comebacks and several away successes across
Seven complexes holding more than 20,000 inmates are planned for 2035, including one in Russian-occupied Kherson, even as the prison population has dropped from 465,000 to 282,000 since 2021, largely because inmates have been recruited as contract soldiers for the war in Ukraine.
Washington has published lists of goods the US and China could tax at lower rates under their “30-for-30” framework, covering about $30bn (€26.3bn) in annual trade each way. No rates or start date have been set, but US pork, dairy and whiskey on Beijing’s list could squeeze
The platform is designed to control what an agent can access and isolate it within milliseconds if it crosses those limits, according to the US chipmaker.
Billy Strings dropped in as a surprise guest, the band paid tribute to Glen Hansard, and Eddie Vedder dedicated "Better Man" to Laboriel on the fest's last night
Nearly 30 people were killed in two separate mass shootings over the weekend in South Africa.
Tom Cruise gives his zaniest performance yet in dark comedy 'Digger', The Smiths' Johnny Marr returns with his 10th album, and new exhibitions spotlight Renoir and Monet. Here's what to look out for this week.
These are the most-searched-for Gen Alpha slang words for 2026 so far - and what they mean.
A Russian strike hit a nine-storey apartment block in Kharkiv early on Monday, injuring 25 people, including nine children. Emergency workers evacuated 32 residents from the damaged building, according to regional authorities.
A popular Turkish comedian went on trial on Monday for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other offences during a stand
It included villa-like residences, luxury cars, a gym and a golf simulator under construction.
At the Google Cloud Summit in Doha, AI agents were a major focus as Qatar expands AI training and testing, raising questions over oversight and jobs.
President Donald Trump rolled out the red carpet for Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Washington, greeting him in person at Joint Base Andrews, a rare gesture for an American president. Critics in both parties warned that the pageantry would reward a rival.
On a four-day trip to France, the Pope praised the European Union for “tearing down walls.”
[CAF] The Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF) will bring together leading decision-makers, coaches and football experts in Cape Verde in October for a landmark Strategy Conference aimed at shaping the next phase of African football development.
In May, a grassroots initiative in Krakow led to a referendum that ousted the then mayor, Aleksander Miszalski which set a nationwide precedent. On Sunday, Krakow voted again and it is now clear who will face off in the second round.
Brussels is pressing Beijing to accept quotas on Chinese exports as negotiations enter their final stretch, with the EU threatening trade measures unless tangible progress is made by next month.
In a last-minute schedule shift, French President Emmanuel Macron has decided to attend the concluding mass of Pope Leo XIV's four-day visit to France before officially escorting the pontiff at his departure ceremony.
The EU’s goal of ramping up data centre capacity is already driving more investment in nuclear energy projects as the bloc seeks to decarbonise and secure energy security at the same time, says the global investment firm.
From nuclear disarmament and the war in Ukraine to water security, Gaza and artificial intelligence, Kazakhstan has used the United Nations General Assembly to argue that international cooperation must once again produce tangible results. At a moment of deepening geopolitical
Gabrielius Landsbergis, former Foreign Affairs Minister of Lithuania, said his country expects hybrid attacks by Russia to be "mitigated by the Allies", as there is "so much Lithuania can do".
Turkish prosecutors have lifted asset restrictions on 45 companies and 19 funds amid an investment fund crisis affecting more than 450,000 investors. The decision comes after a deputy chair of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling party resigned amid allegations about her
The ruling averts the possibility of an election re-run.
North Korea, one of the world’s most closed-off countries, has been linked to some of this year’s largest cryptocurrency thefts. Proceeds from such attacks help fund its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes, according to the US government.
[Daily News] Arusha -- THE African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights (AfCHPR) has handled 29 legal matters from across the continent, delivering six rulings and conducting 14 compliance reviews during its 82nd Ordinary Session, reinforcing member states' accountability under
[Daily News] Dar es Salaam -- AFRICA cannot achieve sustainable development while millions of women and children continue to face preventable deaths and unequal access to essential healthcare.
A 10-year-old child and two 30-year-old women were on board the boat - which was carrying 105 people.
In the mid-1990s, thinkers pushed back against the idea we’re built by language, turning to feeling and the body instead - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this September 28th, 2026 - latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel.
In the Trump administration’s avalanche of immigration animosity, it can be hard to miss some of the more technical changes to immigration policy, buried as they are in the broader news of masked agents shooting people and mass medical negligence in detention . One such shift
About once a month, I go to Google News and type in the single word “recession” just to see what comes up. Most of the time, the headlines are reassuring: “Despite downturn, experts don’t see recession coming”—that sort of thing. Sunday, the headlines read a little differently.
Across the last half-century or so, Doonesbury has been one of those rare institutions that could always be counted on—even while the political world it described seemed to be run by people who couldn’t be counted on at all. Whether it was following the daily trials and
The return of football season is bringing a major boom in sports gambling activity across the country, and with it, new scrutiny over how online sportsbooks are doing business. Major online betting providers like FanDuel and DraftKings are spending more than ever this fall
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s pick to lead the Army is facing Democratic opposition and a hesitant reception from key Republicans, amid jockeying for the service branch’s top civilian post after Dan Driscoll resigned a month ago. Hegseth’s choice to lead the Army is Sean
The notion that fatherhood and creativity are at odds is plain wrong, as both poetry and neuroscience are showing us - by Daniel Swift Read on Aeon
President Trump and his family’s sprawling empire of cryptocurrency businesses cast a long shadow over efforts this year to negotiate a bill regulating the industry. They arguably weighed down bipartisan talks in the end, which ultimately disintegrated ahead of a Senate vote
Hispanic voters swung to the right in the last election, but Republicans appear to be losing ground with the key voting bloc, potentially complicating the party’s path to victory in the redistricted red strongholds of Texas, Florida and beyond. Recent polling has signaled that
A pair of House Republicans are urging the Trump administration to resume sanctions on a Russian-owned refinery in Serbia, according to a letter obtained exclusively by The Hill. The GOP criticism marks another instance of growing Republican pushback against the president’s
The little-noticed analysis, published on July 7 by Cameron Ellis of the University of Iowa and Lars Powell of the University of Alabama, could reignite long-running complaints by Republicans who have accused Google and other tech platforms of suppressing GOP fundraising
Is it better for the planet to save a tree or cut it down? Elementary school students fresh off an Earth Day lesson would probably suggest saving the tree. Reasonably well-informed adults would explain that living trees absorb carbon dioxide, growing atmospheric concentrations
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) is aiming to kill a bill sponsored by Republican Sen. Jon Husted (Ohio) to protect taxpayers from additional costs posed by AI-driven data centers, but his Democratic caucus isn’t fully on board after House Democrats overwhelmingly
Advocates are hopeful the upcoming midterms will see an uptick in youth voters as high schools and colleges work to help register and encourage students to go to the polls. Voter turnout is typically lower during midterms, especially among the young, but advocates argue