PONG NAM RON, Thailand, July 22 - Thailand has completed the first section of a permanent border fence along parts of its frontier with Cambodia, the Thai military said on Wednesday, as tensions persist between the two Southeast Asian neighbours following two rounds of fighting
UK inflation dropped slightly in June 2026, but higher energy costs are expected to push it back up.
[IPS] Washington DC -- A farmer in Kenya gets weather and planting advice on a basic phone. A teacher in Nigeria uses a chatbot to help students catch up in math. South Africa's revenue authority uses data analytics to better target tax audits. These are not futuristic examples
The group will judge the feature film competition at the Bosnian film festival.
I really don't want to help a content creator become the Galactic Emperor.
MANILA, July 22 - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday he talked a lot during a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi about a planned trip to the United States by President Xi Jinping.
In the face of backlash to concerns the AI boom will increase consumer electricity bills, the largest utility companies and data center developers in the US are now promising to do something about it. The Wall Street Journal reports that nearly 200 organizations have signed
Guillermo del Toro, Kim Novak, and Ari Aster are among several star “witnesses” already lined up for Alexandre O. Philippe’s two-parter doc feature “The Fall,” which is set to be unveiled July 22 at Fantasia’s Frontières as part of its International Co-Production Market pitch
Despite his controversies and contradictions, Elon Musk may prove an unlikely force in moderating US-China rivalry and the AI risks it amplifies. In June, following SpaceX’s listing, Musk became the world’s first trillionaire — a remarkable milestone, but one that crystallized
Artists share tributes to the beloved raccoon, plus Sabri Sundos’s odes to Palestinian diaspora and memory.
The US president has been complaining about Canada’s ‘filthy, polluted and unhealthy air’. Maybe he should put all that energy into tackling the climate crisis Right, that’s it: we’ve got to do something about Canada. The country’s wildfires, which resulted in air quality
Hungarian filmmaker Lili Horvát’s first English-language feature, “My Notes on Mars,” starring Mackenzie Davis and Rupert Friend, will open the Venice Film Festival’s independently run Giornate Degli Autori. The section has unveiled a richly assorted lineup featuring works by
The Venice independent sidebar unveiled its 2026 lineup on Wednesday.
Thirty years ago, on a not very special episode of Friends (“ The One With Frank Jr. ,” for the record) Ross and Rachel swapped “Celebrity Freebie” lists: top fives of famous people with whom they would each choose—and be allowed by their partner—to have consequence-free sex.
In March 2025, as the Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic security service, was investigating links between Qatar and some of his aides, Benjamin Netanyahu posted a message in English. It was addressed less to the citizens he governed than to an American political audience fluent in
"With little fanfare, Ray Di Pietro has attracted tens of thousands of devotees. His images are artfully composed, spontaneous, honest, and, well, kind."
Fourteen years ago, the state of Alaska tried to seize a man’s $95,000 small airplane because one of his passengers tried to bring beer into a dry village. Now the Supreme Court will use his case to further clarify the scope of the excessive fines Clause. The justices announced
But for all of the outrage Musk has drummed up around 'The Odyssey' — particularly over the casting of Lupita Nyong'o and Elliot Page — the film has not notably suffered at the box office at all.
KABUL/ISLAMABAD, July 22 - Amnesty International on Wednesday called for an investigation into Pakistani airstrikes in Kabul four months ago, labeling them a \"possible war crime.\"
WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday will attend a ceremony for four U.S. service members killed in Iranian attacks in the Middle East, who will return to American soil in flag-draped caskets. The ceremony, known as a "dignified transfer" of
TLC in the U.K. has ordered a Top Trumps-themed panel show set to be hosted by comedian Katherine Ryan. Based on the card game and tentatively titled “Top Trumps: The Comedy Pack,” it will see Ryan in charge of proceedings as team captains Joel Dommett and Jon Richardson battle
Sanae Takaichi noted that she used the three-day weekend to catch up on household chores she had been putting off.
Magic's Universes Beyond will focus more on fantasy settings, according to top designers and Hasbro's CEO.
Priced at €88,000 per person, travellers will sail on a private yacht around islands featured in the Homeric epic and visit historic sites like the ancient city of Troy.
A video amassing millions of views on social media claims that the parents of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy are under investigation for illicit enrichment. Not only are the allegations false, but the clip fraudulently uses Euronews branding.
'We're incredibly excited to have the name we put so much effort and pride into building back in our hands.'
Elon Musk has — finally — broken his silence on “The Odyssey” (well, at least since Christopher Nolan’s epic was released and started breaking various box office records). The tech mogul and recently-crowned trillionaire — who spent some time before the film’s launch rallying
More than two-thirds of travellers have arrived at a destination for the first time only to find it feels familiar because of the amount of research they did before their trip.
After a $26m exit from Nigeria’s InfraCredit, Philippe Valahu plans to help build as many as 10 guarantee platforms by 2030 – drawing domestic savings into long-term, local-currency infrastructure.
Compared to what? 98% of the time, the state champ loses at nationals. Every billionaire but one isn’t the richest person in the world. Only one of the 300 people who direct a feature film each year will win an Academy Award. And only one public company has the greatest share
The company said the page gives viewers of its event contracts a central place to see speculators' outlook for the midterm elections.
Factors such as erosion, dehydration and soil compaction are jeopardizing food supplies for broad swaths of the world's population, according to a study by the University of Bonn, the University of Minnesota, the University of Basel and Hamburg University of Technology. If
