By Can Sezer and Tuvan Gumrukcu ISTANBUL, June 5 (Reuters) - Two decades of state investment have transformed Turkey into a major exporter of drones and other military equipment, and the NATO member is now looking to build on that momentum as the West rearms and security
In the canals, wetlands and marshes of the Florida Everglades, the spectacled caiman has quietly expanded its foothold, threatening an already-vulnerable ecosystem. A new University of Florida study published in Frontiers in Amphibian and Reptile Science synthesizes more than
He follows the late great Papa Wemba in becoming a knight of the National Order of the Leopard.
A couple of months ago, frequent collaborators Earl Sweatshirt and MIKE released a sort of joint double album called Pompeii // Utility — one album apiece from both rappers, with the Surf Gang collective handling all the production. When Earl and MIKE announced the album , they
Florida Georgia Line, arguably the definitive act of the early 2010s "bro country" era, have been on hiatus since 2022, when the Florida half of the duo, Brian Kelley, decided to go solo. In 2024, Kelley said he believed Florida Georgia Line and his solo career could coexist,
The Scary Movie franchise takes on Netflix's popular children's film KPop Demon Hunters with terrible results.
Researchers from Imperial College London have conducted the U.K.'s largest-ever longitudinal study of indoor fungal air pollution, revealing that homes are active fungal ecosystems rather than passive recipients of outdoor air. The West London Healthy Home and Environment Study
By Ebrahim Hajjaj GAZA, June 5 (Reuters) - In a Gaza workshop, a group of men patch up pleasure dinghies with reclaimed fibreglass, wood and door frames pulled from the rubble, racing to get the boats ready for a tougher line of work. The small vessels, which were used by
By Lucy Papachristou YEREVAN, June 5 (Reuters) - Armenia holds a parliamentary election on Sunday that pits the governing Civil Contract party, which is pursuing closer ties with the West, against an array of opposition parties, many of which are pro-Russian. Opinion polls
'The actions here are...at odds with the kindness and support I experience daily'
There was once a time when “straight-to-VHS” was a slur, code for largely terrible bargain bucket movies made for next to nothing yet sporting wildly-overpromising covers. Today, it’s not even a thing. VHS tapes were replaced by DVDs and eventually streaming. The last VCR
MOBO Awards founder Kanya King championed Black musicians' contribution to British culture and funded the first Music Of Black Origin awards in 1996. Heartfelt tributes have been posted, remembering her as a "visionary" and "a pioneer" who "changed the face of culture and music.”
This might make an interesting option for a themed budget build.
Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. This week, I'm investigating where it might have been built - and why it definitely wasn't the US. Almost a year after its
Rapper Vanilla Ice on Thursday said Thursday that he hopes he's able to perform at President Trump’s upcoming rally in Washington, one of several events scheduled to mark America’s 250th birthday. The rally was announced after multiple artists withdrew from a planned concert at
A girl, named in the press only as Lyhanna, went missing on 29 May near the town of Fleurance after she was last seen getting into a man's car.
Four Indian sailors have been stranded for months on an abandoned container ship off Istanbul, unable to leave under maritime rules requiring the vessel to remain manned, inspectors said on Friday. In a message sent to AFP, the stranded crew members said they were losing hope
Masculinity once meant things like humility, fidelity, responsibility, sacrifice, and service. Somewhere along the line, we seem to have replaced those attributes with a model more suited to professional wrestling.
Directors Quinn Whitney Wilson and Viridiana Lieberman are behind the film, which will premiere at Tribeca.
YEREVAN, June 5 - Armenia holds a parliamentary election on Sunday that pits the governing Civil Contract party, which is pursuing closer ties with the West, against an array of opposition parties, many of which are pro-Russian.
Sure. Fine. Why not?
Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit has been placed on the waiting list for a lung transplant following a serious deterioration of her chronic lung disease. Euronews Health explains the background for such a procedure.
Almost 1 in 3 Australians experiences loneliness. For people with disability and care workers, that number can be even greater.
America's labor market delivered another surprise in May as employers added far more jobs than expected, giving the Federal Reserve another reason to hold off on cutting interest rates.
Hundreds of worshippers gathered in Bavaria on 4 June for Seehausen's traditional Corpus Christi lake procession. The event, held annually since 1935, combines religious devotion with local heritage on the waters of Staffelsee.
The Trump administration is angry that President Trump was caught sleeping on camera again. The administration’s official Rapid Response account on X took aim at a video clip from Kamala Harris’s news account @Headquarters showing the president clearly slumping back in his
Yesterday, Primavera Sound kicked off in Barcelona at Parc del Fòrum, and it was not a great start. Bad weather was to blame for canceled performances. “Please remain calm and follow the instructions of the festival’s security and staff teams,” screens read on the main stages.
If you want something done right, do it yourself. Or in some cases, if you want something done at all, especially when everyone backs out last minute, do it yourself. The Trump-aligned Freedom 250 organization has been trying to put together a concert series called the Great
It has been billed as the most drastic reforms to the country's national intelligence apparatus since WWII
Portugal’s lifeguards' federation warns of too few lifeguards patrolling beaches, blaming low pay, poor job security and lack of strategy.
Released last week in the US and UK, this year’s breakout horror hit finally heads to European cinemas. It was worth the wait.
Steve Lacy's new single "The Feeling" sounds like a stagnant wound. Like he was getting open heart surgery and they just left him on the operating table. The latest preview of his third album Oh Yeah? , which he announced last August via a Rolling Stone interview and the lead
The new 'AI personal assistant' Scout has apparently already hooked its own employees
President Trump’s “Great American State Fair” has grown even bleaker, as supporters will be getting a rally and listening to “Ave Maria” rather than Martina McBride—or any of the other artists who pulled out of the festival. “On Wednesday, June 24th, at 7 P.M., in magnificent
Our reporter travelled to the Valencia region in Spain to meet the Úrculo brothers, founders of CrowdFarming, Europe’s leading direct-to-consumer organic food platform.
Mouse controls were a major selling point of the Nintendo Switch 2, but one year after release, they've yet to impress or be necessary.
The ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system has been rapidly expanding since its launch in 2021. Now, researchers at University of Washington affiliated Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN) have finished all planned installations, bringing the two-state total to 569
We don’t have bipartisan agreement on much these days, but we should all agree that nobody — not Elon Musk, not anyone — should be using the court system to muzzle ordinary citizens.
The deep-sea octopus is fully mature despite fitting in a palm, a trait researchers think may help it reproduce faster than larger relatives.
"How did the college football town spawn the B-52s, R.E.M., and Widespread Panic, to name just a few? The maestros and misfits who led Athens’s rise to one of the world's most influential and improbable music towns tell all."
India’s elite tech talent is starting to see big tech jobs in a new light.
Pete Buttigieg is everywhere. Buttigieg, the former Transportation secretary in the Biden administration, has emerged as one of the Democratic Party’s most visible messengers ahead of the midterms, traveling to battleground districts, venturing into red states and making a
The proposed $111 billion merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery is approaching completion, but concerns around debt, execution risk, and long-term industry volatility loom large. On the latest episode of the Variety podcast “Strictly Business,” Naveen Sarma,
Kit Harington and Peter Dinklage haven’t seen each other for seven years — not since the 2019 conclusion of “Game of Thrones,” the megahit HBO fantasy series that launched Harington’s career and cemented Dinklage’s, earning him three Emmys. But they spent the better part of a
In Côte d’Ivoire’s north, informal miners risk police raids and collapsing pits to tap a trade worth far more than farming – and far beyond state control.
The medieval masterpiece will be on display at the London museum from September 2026 to July 2027 to mark the 1000th anniversary of William the Conqueror.
The medieval work will be exhibited at the London museum from September 2026 to July 2027 to mark the 1,000th anniversary of William the Conqueror.
Brussels has promised to take action after a group of 11 European countries, led by Sweden, decried the "fragmentation" of visa issuance for Russian nationals. France, Italy and Spain are under scrutiny.
It is the third month in a row US jobs figures have beaten expectations.
