From Phrygian kings to modern diplomacy: Ankara’s rise as a global cultural crossroads
Ankara is asserting its role as a vital cultural hub following its official designation as the 2026 Tourism Capital of the Turkic world.
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Dormant black hole revives in under three years, brightening 10-fold in nearby galaxy
Astronomers monitoring a nearby active galaxy for six years have watched its supermassive black hole dramatically wake up, brightening by a factor of 10 across ultraviolet and X-ray wavelengths. The paper outlining the study was posted to the preprint server arXiv on May 18.
How to direct unconventional games like Control Resonant
What's the best way to keep teammates on the same page when working in a strange genre with a new style of gameplay?
Trump Throws 1 A.M. Temper Tantrum Over How Innocent He Is
President Trump went on a long Truth Social rant at 1:00 a.m. Tuesday morning after Michael Cohen—Trump’s former lawyer who went to jail for his role in a hush-money payment to adult actress Stormy Daniels—said he was coerced into testifying against Trump on Michael
Protests against luxury resort in Albania linked to Jared Jushner now in second day
Environmental NGOs have long raised concerns that the project could threaten the area's biodiversity and disrupt bird migration routes.
Republican Rep. Caught Admitting Iran War Is Going to Screw Them Over
Republican Representative Ashley Hinson was caught on tape last week saying that President Trump’s Iran war will be a “political liability” if it continues any longer. Politico reports that Hinson, who will be the likely Republican nominee in Iowa’s Senate race after Tuesday’s
El Niño: Almost everywhere will face above average summer temperatures, WMO warns
El Niño is a naturally occurring weather phenomenon but its effects are worse because of climate change.
Africa: South Africa to Host Inaugural Eswatini, Mozambique Water Meeting
[SAnews.gov.za] Water and Sanitation Minister Pemmy Majodina will host and officially welcome her counterparts from Eswatini and Mozambique at the inaugural Council of Ministers Meeting of the Incomati and Maputo Watercourse Commission (INMACOM) on Friday, 5 June, in Boksburg,
Netanyahu's Mossad chief pick set to assume office after petitions dismissed
Maj. Gen. Roman Gofman was appointed by the PM to head the Mossad despite having no prior service in the agency, and his questionable role in an influence operation involving a minor. Outgoing Mossad chief Barnea, who opposed the move, told agency staff that he expects them 'to
Subnautica 2 Is Finally Getting On Top Of Its Violence Problem
Hotfix 3 finally introduces some balance to the game's most irritating predators
Gemini Spark is the most impressive and terrifying AI experience I’ve had yet
According to every product demo from the last four years, planning a trip is a killer use case for AI. Just tell it where you're going, they all promise, and your chatbot / agent / other buzzword will exhaustively search travel options, read up on all the fun things to do,
Iran war disruption threatening delivery of lifesaving supplies for children, UN says
GENEVA, June 2 (Reuters) - Surging global transport costs and supply chain disruptions linked to the Middle East crisis are threatening the delivery of lifesaving aid to children, the U.N. children's agency warned on Tuesday. Nearly 100 days after the outbreak of the Iran war,
UN warns funding cuts could worsen Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh
DHAKA, June 2 - The U.N. refugee agency warned on Tuesday that declining humanitarian funding could significantly worsen conditions for around 1.2 million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, nearly nine years after they fled Myanmar, as aid groups struggle to sustain essential
Africa: Solomon Owusu, Andrew Appiah Danquah File Petition for Removal of AfCFTA Secretary-General Over Xenophobia Attacks in South Africa
[Ghanaian Times] Solomon Owusu, Andrew Appiah Danquah file Petition for removal of AfCFTA Secretary-General over Xenophobia attacks in South Africa
Iran World Cup squad to head for Mexico via Spain
Iran's football team will leave for Spain this weekend en route to their World Cup base in Mexico despite still awaiting visas, the head of the country's football federation said. The 2026 World Cup is being hosted jointly by the United States, Mexico and Canada. Neither the
Trump's court losses could kill his slush fund and possibly the Kennedy Center
Donald Trump took a double-barreled shellacking last week.
While everyone seems to be ignoring the state of the economy at Computex, Arctic is keeping things real by giving us a new, affordable CPU cooler
Black or white, with or without RGB, all sensibly priced.
Polymarket closes its first block trade as prediction markets push for Wall Street adoption
Prediction market platforms have increasingly looked to institutional traders, not individual ones, as the next venue for growth.
Good vs bad mosquito: What is Google's plan to fight pest-borne deadly diseases?
Google plans to release millions of mosquitoes into the United States in a new project aimed at curbing mosquito-borne diseases by releasing more “good bugs” instead of fighting them.
Africa: Liberia Calls for New Global Framework On Poverty Reduction
[Liberian Observer] The Agriculture Minister Dr. J. Alexander Nuetah called Tuesday for a "fundamental shift" in global poverty reduction strategy, pressing governments, financial institutions, and the private sector to abandon short-term aid models in favor of long-term
Africa: YPLS Africa Marks Decade of Impact
[Liberian Observer] The Young Political Leadership School Africa (YPLS Africa), a flagship program of Naymote Partners for Democratic Development, is pleased to announce the convening of its 13th Cohort and 10th Anniversary Edition, scheduled to take place from June 8-13, 2026,
Astrobiology's looming statistical crisis
Multi-billion-dollar space telescope programs aren't only feats of aerospace engineering. They also feature "lies, damn lies, and statistics." Or at least statistics. They definitely feature those, as does all good observational astronomy. The problem with statistics is, in
New mantises planking their way to urban dominance
A team of scientists have discovered and named three new "leaf-planking" praying mantis species and recorded another mantis species turning up far from its assumed habitat. JCU Ph.D. candidate Matthew Connors recently discovered and named three new Snake Mantis species from the
Smuggling tunnel found connecting San Diego and Tijuana
Mexican authorities say it was used as a storage, logistics, and trafficking center for weapons, explosives and illegal drugs
Inside Ranveer Singh’s ‘Don 3’ Exit, Bollywood’s Biggest Industry Standoff in Years
When top actor Ranveer Singh walked away from “Don 3” in December 2025, he triggered what has become one of Bollywood’s most closely watched industry disputes in years – a conflict that has drawn in around 25 of the film business’s most senior figures, produced a Big Four
Jen-Hsun says RTX Spark 'is 100% awesome at everything everybody expects the PC to do, and it can do more'
That's a lot of awesome.
Africa: China Dispatches Medical Experts to DRC As International Support Grows in Fight Against Ebola
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- China has deployed a specialized medical expert team to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to support efforts to contain the ongoing Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo strain, as international partners intensify assistance to the Central
