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Why the US-China AI Race Just Became Far More Hostile The United States has dramatically escalated its technological confrontation with China by accusing six China-based artificial intelligence companies of conducting systematic, industrial-scale campaigns to extract capabilities from America's most advanced AI models. The extraordinary joint warning from the NSA, FBI and CISA names DeepSeek,...

Why the US-China AI Race Just Became Far More Hostile The United States has dramatically escalated its technological confrontation with China by accusing six China-based artificial intelligence companies of conducting systematic, industrial-scale campaigns to extract capabilities from America's most advanced AI models. The extraordinary joint warning from the NSA, FBI and CISA names DeepSeek,...

Xi Tells New UK PM Andy Burnham Britain and China Have More in Common as Beijing Pushes for Closer Ties Chinese President Xi Jinping has made an early push for a stronger relationship with Andy Burnham, telling Britain's new Prime Minister that China and the UK have more common interests than disagreements. The message came during the leaders' first publicly acknowledged telephone conversa...

North Atlantic Tensions Rise After Trump Map Iceland has summoned the United States ambassador after President Donald Trump shared an extraordinary map depicting Iceland and several other sovereign countries and territories beneath the American flag. Reykjavík formally objected after the unexplained image appeared on Trump’s Truth Social account, turning what might otherwise have been dismissed as...

Apple Finally Folds Apple appears ready to do something it has resisted for years: make an iPhone that folds. Its first book-style foldable is expected to become one of the centrepieces of Apple’s next generation of premium hardware, potentially pushing the price of an iPhone beyond $2,500 and putting it into territory previously occupied by specialist foldables, laptops and high-end tablets. Ther...

Apple’s Foldable Gamble Apple is preparing for one of the most consequential iPhone launches in years, with its long-awaited first foldable smartphone expected to take centre stage at the company’s September 9 event. Industry forecasts suggest the device could command an average selling price above $2,500, placing it in an extraordinary new category even by Apple’s premium standards. The timing ma...

Flights Grounded Across Britain A technical failure inside Britain’s air traffic control system has disrupted flights across some of the country's largest airports, hitting departures from Heathrow, Gatwick, Manchester and Stansted and triggering delays across a much wider aviation network. The problem emerged on Tuesday afternoon, September 8, with NATS confirming that engineers were investig...

Suffering, Attachment, Mindfulness and the Search for Inner Freedom More than 2,000 years before smartphones, social media, instant gratification and the relentless pressure to achieve more, Buddhism was examining a surprisingly familiar problem: why can human beings have so much and still feel dissatisfied? Why does getting what we want so often fail to produce lasting happiness, and why can losi...

The Grid Sabotage Manhunt Ends German police have arrested a 48-year-old man suspected of carrying out a remarkable series of attacks against electricity infrastructure across three German states, ending a days-long manhunt that had pushed the security of the country’s power network back into the national spotlight. The arrest became more alarming when police said the suspect was carrying further...

The Faiths That Changed History Judaism, Christianity and Islam together have shaped governments, laws, wars, peace movements, philosophy, family life, morality, art and ideas of life after death for billions of people. Yet their story did not begin with three established religions suddenly appearing in succession. It reaches into an older world of Mesopotamian temples, Canaanite gods, tribal soci...

The Bible’s Most Motivational Verses Explained for Modern Life The Bible was written in worlds without smartphones, corporate offices, social media, mortgages or modern careers, yet some of its most powerful ideas seem almost unnervingly suited to life today. Fear of failure, uncertainty about the future, exhaustion, ambition, betrayal, anxiety and the feeling that life has gone off course are har...

Europe’s New Digital Extremism Threat Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks transformed the global understanding of terrorism. European security officials are warning that a very different threat is emerging. Instead of structured organisations, distant training camps and clearly defined ideology, some of the people now causing greatest concern are young, heavily online and connected th...

What Jesus Really Said About Worry — and Why It Feels Written for Modern Life You lie in bed and replay a conversation from six hours ago. You wonder why someone has not replied to your message, imagine three explanations, check your phone again and then begin worrying about something completely unrelated that might happen next month. The technology is modern, but the mental pattern is ancient. Th...

The Words Behind the Verses Some of the most famous sentences in the Bible have acquired a second life outside the Bible. They appear on mugs, tattoos, Instagram biographies, motivational posters, political speeches and inspirational videos. The words survive, but the sentences around them often disappear. That matters because biblical verses were not originally written as isolated quotations. Jer...

Ancient Wisdom, Modern Life The Bible was written in a world of shepherds, vineyards, Roman roads, kings, fishermen, temples, debtors and farmers. Modern life looks completely different on the surface, yet the problems underneath it are remarkably familiar: resentment, greed, anxiety, envy, pride, betrayal, loneliness, ambition, hypocrisy, revenge and the temptation to divide humanity into people...

China Rare Earth Dominance Europe’s ambitious attempt to loosen China’s grip over the raw materials powering electric cars, artificial intelligence, renewable energy and modern weapons is running into a potentially serious problem. The companies expected to make the plan work say they need money — urgently. Twenty-three of the 60 critical-mineral projects selected by the European Union as strategi...

The Letter That Changed the Mood Prince Harry and Meghan have reportedly been caught off guard by the way Buckingham Palace issued a formal letter restating their place outside the working Royal Family, just weeks after the couple returned to live in Britain. The contents themselves did not rewrite the royal settlement agreed six years ago, but the timing and unusually public nature of the interve...

The Threat Has Moved Twenty-five years ago, America watched an enemy from overseas turn passenger aircraft into weapons and kill almost 3,000 people on its own soil. The attacks of September 11, 2001 transformed American foreign policy, airport security, intelligence gathering and the way an entire generation understood terrorism. Now the fear has changed direction. As the United States approaches...

Big Tech Turns to Nuclear Artificial intelligence has created an unexpected winner far beyond semiconductors and software: nuclear power. As technology companies race to build enormous data centres capable of training and operating increasingly powerful AI systems, electricity is becoming one of the industry's most important constraints — and some of the world's largest companies are turni...

The Battle for Congress Donald Trump is preparing to put himself at the centre of one of the strangest midterm campaigns in modern American politics, with Republicans staging an extraordinary national convention in Dallas costing around $40 million just weeks before voters decide control of Congress. The September 9–10 gathering at the American Airlines Center is not simply another Trump rally. It...

The Inbetweeners Are Back Will, Jay, Simon and Neil are officially back. Netflix has confirmed that production has begun in the UK on The Inbetweeners 3, reuniting Simon Bird, James Buckley, Joe Thomas and Blake Harrison more than a decade after the four friends were last together in a feature film. It is not simply a spiritual reboot or a new cast using The Inbetweeners name. This is a direct con...

The Search Experience Europe Is Losing Google has begun one of the most dramatic regional redesigns of its search engine ever attempted, changing what millions of Europeans see when they search for hotels, flights, products and other commercial services. The company says the changes are being made to satisfy European Union competition rules — and claims the result represents the largest reduction...

The Fear Began Long Before Donald Trump Huawei was once on course to become the dominant telecommunications company of the 21st century. It sold smartphones by the hundreds of millions, built the equipment underneath mobile networks around the world and emerged as one of the early leaders in 5G — just as governments began treating communications infrastructure as a matter of national security. The...

Britain Tightens the Economic Noose Around Iran Britain has unveiled significantly tougher sanctions against Iran, expanding restrictions across trade, finance, aviation and shipping as Western economic pressure on Tehran intensifies. The measures matter not only because of what Britain is restricting, but because of where UK policy now appears to be heading. Donald Trump has not simply been watch...

The Attack That Could Reignite the Saudi-Houthi War Yemen’s Houthis have launched a major missile and drone offensive against Saudi Arabia, wounding at least 73 civilians and setting fires at energy facilities across the kingdom’s south. Saudi authorities say women and children are among the injured, while operations at some affected energy installations were temporarily halted as emergency teams...