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Thailand has launched airstrikes into Cambodian territory along their disputed border, marking the sharpest escalation yet in a crisis that has simmered all year. Thai fighter jets and other aircraft have hit what Bangkok describes as Cambodian military facilities and rocket depots, after fresh clashes left at least one Thai soldier dead and several more wounded.

ChemLex has launched a self-driving drug discovery lab in Singapore after closing a $45 million funding round, betting that robots and artificial intelligence can compress years of lab work into weeks. The new global headquarters and fully automated facility sit in Singapore’s one-north innovation district and are designed to run around the clock with minimal human intervention. The move matters b...

The Federal Reserve is heading into its final policy meeting of 2025 with interest rates already lowered several times and its committee more openly split than at any point in recent years. The federal funds target range now sits at 3.75% to 4.00%, down from the 5%-plus levels that prevailed in 2023 and early 2024. Investors are heavily positioned for another quarter-point cut, which would take th...

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy is in London for high-stakes talks with European leaders, as the United States steps up pressure on Kyiv to accept a controversial peace plan with Russia. The meeting, hosted by British prime minister Keir Starmer, brings together French president Emmanuel Macron, German chancellor Friedrich Merz, top EU officials and NATO’s secretary general. At issue is wh...

If China ever decides to resolve the Taiwan question by force, the first 24 hours would be fast, violent, and confusing. A Chinese invasion of Taiwan would not begin with beach landings. It would start with screens going dark, runways cratered, and satellites under attack.

Jeffrey Epstein theories have surged back into the spotlight as a new federal law forces the U.S. government to unseal long-hidden files about his crimes and his death. In the same year, a detailed Justice Department and FBI review reaffirmed that Epstein died by suicide and found no evidence of a secret “client list” or a blackmail operation, directly challenging the most popular conspiracy narra...

Japan has accused Chinese fighter jets of locking fire-control radar on its military aircraft near Okinawa, in what Tokyo calls a “dangerous” and unprecedented airborne confrontation. The radar standoff near Okinawa, involving Chinese J-15 jets from the carrier Liaoning and Japanese F-15 fighters, has triggered formal protests, sharp denials from Beijing, and fresh worries about a miscalculation i...

In Benin, a group of soldiers has appeared on state television to announce that they have dissolved the government and removed President Patrice Talon from power. They introduced themselves as the “Military Committee for Refoundation” and named Lieutenant Colonel Pascal Tigri as their leader, declaring that the constitution and state institutions were suspended.

Sydney Sweeney has finally broken her silence on the American Eagle “great jeans” campaign that turned a denim spot into one of 2025’s strangest culture-war flashpoints. In a new interview, she says staying quiet on the controversy has “widened the divide” and stresses that she rejects the extremist views some people tied to the ad.

Artificial intelligence has moved from the sidelines of fusion research to the center of the lab. In the past few days, fusion scientists, nuclear regulators, and energy officials have gathered in Vienna to discuss how AI and nuclear technologies can be tied together, just as governments launch new AI-focused nuclear offices and fusion programs

In just a few days, three big AI announcements have sharpened the sense that the AI arms race is no longer a vague idea but a daily reality. OpenAI has triggered an internal “code red” to urgently upgrade ChatGPT as rivals close the gap. At the same time, French startup Mistral has released its Mistral 3 family of open-weight models,

The United Kingdom’s public sector is facing a new wave of cyber attacks, with the NHS and local councils again on the front line. In the past few days, one of the country’s largest hospital trusts has confirmed a fresh data breach, while London boroughs are still working under emergency conditions after shared council systems were hit.

Ceasefire talks over Gaza have entered what mediators describe as a critical moment. A fragile truce has sharply reduced large-scale bombardment, yet it remains only a pause. Israeli forces are still inside Gaza, movement is tightly restricted, and deadly incidents continue along front lines.

Netflix’s planned takeover of Warner Bros has gone from headline-grabbing mega-deal to political and cultural flashpoint in a matter of days. The roughly $80 billion Netflix–Warner Bros mega-merger has triggered a wave of anger from Hollywood unions, filmmakers, cinema chains, rival studios, and lawmakers in Washington. Supporters say the deal could tidy up a messy streaming landscape and give vie...

New experiments are showing that some microbes, lichens and even moss spores can endure space and Mars-like conditions far better than once thought. At the same time, new rover data keep hinting that Mars may once have hosted its own microbial life, and might still preserve traces of it below the surface. The debate over whether humanity should deliberately seed Mars with Earth microbes is no long...

Gerrymandering is no longer a niche political term. It sits at the centre of battles over who controls Congress in the United States and, increasingly, how fairly votes translate into seats in the United Kingdom. In late 2025, the issue surged again after a major court case in the US allowed Texas to use a new congressional map expected to shape the 2026 midterms. At the same time, new UK boundary...

Labour is in power and Keir Starmer is in Downing Street, but his biggest problems are increasingly on his own benches. Welfare reforms, rural tax changes, asylum policy and internal rule fights have triggered waves of dissent, suspensions and quiet plotting.

Humanity’s oldest hunch about life in the universe is being tested in the lab. Within days, scientists announced that samples from asteroid Bennu contain sugars vital to DNA and RNA, along with a mysterious “space gum” of organic material, while new analyses of Saturn’s moon Enceladus revealed fresh organic compounds erupting from its hidden ocean. At the same time, experiments on Earth and in orb...

Humanity’s first steps on the Moon in July 1969 are among the most replayed images in modern history. Yet more than fifty years later, a persistent minority still insists the Moon landing was a hoax staged on a soundstage rather than the Sea of Tranquility. The argument now lives on in YouTube rabbit holes, TikTok clips, and late-night forum threads. At the heart of the debate is a collision betwe...

The killing of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas in 1963 has been investigated, reinvestigated, and revisited for six decades, yet the public argument over what really happened has never gone away. Official inquiries point to a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, but millions of people remain unconvinced and keep returning to the same cluster of alternative explanations. At the heart of the debate i...

On November 11, a rare powerful solar flare slammed Earth with a burst of high-energy particles, driving radiation in the atmosphere to its highest levels in nearly 20 years. At typical cruising altitudes for long-haul jets, radiation briefly spiked to around ten times the usual background level, just as airlines and regulators were already grappling with a separate scare over space-weather risks...

All claims described reflect conspiracy theories circulated online and in public discourse; they are not supported by verified evidence. More than two decades after the September 11 attacks, 9/11 conspiracy theories still pull in millions of views, comments, and arguments across social media, message boards, and late-night conversations. They ebb and flow with each new documentary, anniversary, or...

The United Kingdom and Germany have put fresh money and political weight behind quantum technology, agreeing a £14 million package that ties together joint research, industrial scale-up, and technical standards. The announcement arrives during a high-profile state visit and lands at a moment when both countries are trying to turn national quantum strategies into working machines rather than abstra...

In a set of experiments in the UK, scientists have taken a human chromosome, rebuilt large stretches of it in the lab, and then moved that redesigned, lab-grown chromosome into a human cell where it can function. It is the first clear step in a new Synthetic Human Genome program, backed by multi-million-pound funding, that aims to learn how to “write” human DNA at the scale of whole chromosomes ra...

In late November, a cyber attack on shared IT systems brought three central London councils to a crawl. Online services failed, phone lines glitched, and residents trying to pay rent or contact housing teams found themselves locked out. What began as a cyber security incident has become a live test of how resilient UK local government really is. Westminster City Council, the Royal Borough of Kensi...