Mon 12 January 2026: Every few years, a familiar anxiety resurfaces in British public discourse: that sharia law is establishing a parallel legal system and threatening the sovereignty of English law. Those fears were reignited following Donald Trump’s recent speech to the UN, where he claimed that London wants “to go to sharia law”. Such claims ignore two […]
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Sun 11 January 2026: A new state law mandates warnings for young users on platforms with features that ‘encourage excessive use’. The state of New York will require social media platforms with infinite scrolling, autoplay and algorithmic feeds to display labels about their potential harm to young users’ mental health, Governor Kathy Hochul has announced. […]
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Sun 11 January 2026: Personal data from at least 17.5 million Instagram users has reportedly been leaked and shared on the dark web, raising serious concerns about user privacy and platform security, media reports said on Saturday. The cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes said that the leaked dataset includes user names, full names, email addresses, phone numbers, […]
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Sun 11 January 2026: The Norwegian Nobel Institute said the Peace Prize cannot be transferred, following remarks by Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who suggested she might give her 2025 award to US President Donald Trump. “The facts are clear and well established. Once a Nobel Prize is announced, it cannot be revoked, shared, […]
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Sun 11 January 2026: Indonesia has become the first country in the world to block Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot over the risk of fake, AI-generated pornographic content. The country’s communication and digital affairs minister said on Saturday that “the practice of non-consensual sexual deepfakes” is a “serious violation of human rights, dignity, and the security […]
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Sat 10 January 2026: Nearly 44 per cent Indian cities face chronic air pollution, indicating a structural problem driven by persistent emission sources rather than short-term episodes, an analysis by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) has found. However, only 4 per cent of these cities are covered under the National […]
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Sat 10 January 2026: Some 1.6 million adults in the UK used weight loss drugs over the past year, while more than 3.3 million more would be interested in using the drugs over the next year, according to a study published on Thursday. Researchers from University College London (UCL) found that an estimated 1.6 million adults in England, Wales […]
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Image is for illustration purpose. Sat 10 January 2026: The two-week-long Pakistan-US joint military counter-terrorism exercises began in the northeastern Punjab province of Pakistan, the military said on Saturday. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistan army, the 13th edition of their bilateral joint exercise, “Inspired Gambit-2026,” commenced in the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) in the […]
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Sat 10 January 2026: US social media company X updated the design of the Iran flag emoji shown on its web platform, replacing the emblem of the Islamic Republic with the older Lion and Sun symbol amid a continued wave of protests, users reported on Friday. The previous emoji reflected Iran’s official flag, featuring a […]
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Fri 09 January 2026: Humans may have made fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought, scientists say. Scientists have uncovered the oldest-known evidence of deliberate fire-making by prehistoric humans in Suffolk, Britain – revealing it happened some 350,000 years earlier than experts previously believed. The site, a former clay pit near the village of Barnham, contains a […]
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