Sat 18 July 2026: A massive dark patch has been moving across the Martian surface for 50 years. This shadowy structure sits in Utopia Planitia, a giant basin in the northern hemisphere of the planet. It consists of volcanic rocks and ash from ancient eruptions that occurred millions of years ago. These materials contain minerals […]
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Sat 18 July 2026: History is not so much past as vigorously present, often a scab to be irritated in fitful anger, or a romantic affectation to be cherished. When it comes to controlling trade and establishing new routes, this is particularly apt. The Hejaz Railway project, seemingly long past, is now being dusted down. […]
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Sat 18 July 2026: Apple has overtaken chipmaker Nvidia to become the world’s most valuable company, as investor concerns grow due to market pressures driven by artificial intelligence. Apple is now worth $4.88 trillion compared with Nvidia’s $4.86 trillion, following a 3.5 percent decline in Nvidia’s market value. The milestone marks the first time the Cupertino, California-based iPhone […]
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Sat 18 July 2026: Indian activist Sonam Wangchuk was forcibly removed after a 21-day hunger strike, prompting organisers to call for nationwide protests and demand PM Narendra Modi’s resignation. This comes as a planned march from Jantar Mantar in central New Delhi to the Indian Parliament on July 20 gained traction on social media. On Friday, the official […]
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Fri 17 July 2026: The uranium extracted from the Shinkolobwe mine in Congo, was the core of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Africa’s wealth was turned into a weapon in someone else’s AI infrastructure, the electric vehicle boom, and a defence sector with no ceiling on its appetite all run on the […]
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Fri 17 July 2026: Elon Musk’s xAI has filed a lawsuit against a South Carolina man who was arrested earlier this year on charges of sexually exploiting minors, alleging that he misused the company’s AI tool to create sexually explicit content involving a child. The lawsuit, filed in a Texas federal court on Tuesday, alleges […]
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Fri 17 July 2026: Whether it’s a heart, a thumbs-up or the now ubiquitous crying-laughing face, emojis have become one of the world’s most widely understood forms of digital expression. Today, people around the globe are expected to mark World Emoji Day by filling social media feeds with their favorite symbols, voting for the year’s […]
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Fri 17 July 2026: Israel continues to kill children in Gaza as a “matter of routine,” with 274 children killed since the Oct. 10 ceasefire took effect, Israeli daily Haaretz reported Friday. The newspaper said the figure means an average of one child has been killed each day since the ceasefire began. It added that […]
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Thu 16 July 2026: Muslims need to have dialogue with each other, as the immigrant debate is creating divisions in the community, political analyst Thembisa Fakude said at the Kasi Muslim Dialogue in Soweto on Friday, 10 July. Fakude spoke on xenophobia, afrophobia and immigration, and said that the current climate in which tensions are high around the debate on immigration posed one […]
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Thu 16 July 2026: Syrian authorities have arrested a former officer they say was a chemical weapons specialist in charge of sarin gas depots and chemical weapons manufacturing in the regime of ousted former President Bashar al-Assad. The Interior Ministry named him on Wednesday as former colonel Ahmed Habib Ali, calling him “a chemical weapons […]
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