Mon 17 August 2026: A one-of-a-kind version of Ferrari’s first fully electric car has sold for $40 million at a charity auction, setting a record for a new car sold at auction. The bespoke 2026 Ferrari Luce “Tailor Made” was sold by RM Sotheby’s during Monterey Car Week in California. Known as “Chassis 0,” the […]
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Mon 17 August 2026: Opening statements are set to begin Tuesday in a landmark US trial that could force Meta to make sweeping changes to Instagram and Facebook over allegations that it deliberately designed the platforms to encourage compulsive use among children and teenagers. An eight-member advisory jury has been selected for the trial in […]
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Mon 17 August 2026: Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, which began on October 7, 2023, has become the longest and most expensive war in Israel’s history, with costs reaching about 420 billion shekels ($142bn) and national debt rising by roughly 400 billion shekels ($135bn), Haaretz newspaper reports. The report said Israel entered its ground offensive […]
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Mon 17 August 2026: Paying for things digitally is so common, most of us think nothing of swiping or tapping our card, or using mobile payments. While doing so is second nature, we may be more reluctant to provide card details over the phone. Merchants are allowed to ask us for credit card details over […]
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Sun 16 August 2026: New Delhi: The top five family businesses have held more than 60% of income share in corporate India in the past two decades, even as markets have become more competitive since liberalisation, showed a study in the World Bank Economic Review. The study, titled ‘Business Groups, Concentration and Market Power in India’, published […]
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Sun 15 August 2026: Earlier this year, Neuralink implanted a chip inside the brain of 29-year-old US man Noland Arbaugh, who is paralysed from the shoulders down. The chip has enabled Arbaugh to move a mouse pointer on a screen just by imagining it moving. In May 2023, US researchers also announced a non-invasive way to “decode” the words […]
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Sun 16 August 2026: The Department of Defense is introducing a course centered on Western civilization and Christianity this fall in the schools it operates for military families, part of an effort by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to redirect the education system toward patriotic values and classical learning. The Department of Defense Education Activity operates about […]
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Sat 15 August 2026: The ABC has revealed a major cybersecurity flaw in Bluetooth-enabled police tasers and body-worn cameras that means officers can be tracked. The exposé shows how anyone can use simple software tools to detect the presence of a police officer carrying one of these pieces of equipment. Not only can you detect their presence, […]
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Sat 15 August 2026: Bitter factional infighting is tearing through Tehran as hardliners demand an endless war with the U.S. and reject any peace negotiations. The intensifying political warfare is being fueled by a dangerous power vacuum left by the unprecedented public absence of Mojtaba Khamenei. Fierce political infighting has engulfed Tehran as Iranian factions […]
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Fri 14 August 2026: Copper cable thefts have struck 650 electric vehicle charging stations throughout France so far this year, resulting in roughly €13 million (around $15 million) in damages, according to an industry official on Friday. Matthieu Dischamps, who serves as secretary-general of Charge France and managing director of the charging firm Powerdot, informed […]
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