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The $1.1bn AI Bet That Quietly Validates Elon Musk’s Vision Igor Babuschkin, one of the original architects of Elon Musk’s xAI, has secured $1.1 billion for a new company attempting to overturn the way artificial intelligence is built and controlled. His startup, River AI, wants customers to train, customise and ultimately own models shaped around their own information. The scale of the investment...

She Said She Reached for a Knife to Stop an Assault—Now Iran Has Executed Her Iran has executed Marzieh Nieri, a young woman who maintained that a fatal confrontation began when she defended herself against an attempted sexual assault. Her death sentence was carried out at dawn on Saturday, 8 August, inside Qazvin Central Prison. Nieri was described as 23 in English-language accounts and 24 in Per...

Liverpool Could Gain Three Billionaire Owners in £1.35bn Deal A consortium containing Jeff Bezos is closing in on a deal to acquire roughly 30 per cent of Liverpool Football Club for about £1.35 billion. If completed on those terms, the transaction would value Liverpool at approximately £4.5 billion and introduce one of the world’s wealthiest men to Premier League ownership. The investment group i...

Trump’s Vaccine Revolution Triggers A Global Health Backlash The World Health Organization has publicly challenged the scientific case behind President Donald Trump’s sweeping overhaul of America’s childhood-vaccine recommendations. The confrontation places the White House’s parental-choice agenda against an international immunisation system built around independent expert committees and decades o...

Trump’s Iran Blockade Enters Dangerous New Phase in Gulf of Oman A US military helicopter reportedly fired at the rudder of a Panama-flagged container ship after it ignored repeated warnings and attempted to breach America’s naval blockade of Iranian ports. The reported strike triggered a fire aboard the Vela Nova in the Gulf of Oman, although all 17 crew members were accounted for and no casualti...

England Braces For 37°C Heat—How To Keep Your Home Cool Without Air Conditioning Every region of England has been placed under an amber heat-health alert as temperatures threaten to reach approximately 37°C in parts of the country. The alert covers the North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, East and West Midlands, East of England, London, South East and South West. The alerts were updat...

Congo’s Ebola Death Toll Blasts Past 2,000 As Outbreak Accelerates More than 2,000 people have now died in the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record. Congo’s latest public-health data lists 4,381 confirmed cases and 2,011 deaths across five provinces, giving the outbreak a crude fatality rate of almost 46 per cent. The milestone was reached less than three months after Congo officially declared...

Fighter-Jet Signals and US Weapons Data at Centre of South Korea Spy Arrests South Korea has arrested two Chinese military veterans in separate cases that allegedly reached deep into the daily operations of the US–South Korean alliance. One man is accused of intercepting fighter-jet communications from a hotel near a joint airfield; the other of obtaining military information through a South Korea...

Your Dog May Understand Your Face Better Than You Realise Dogs may understand far more from a human face than a wagging tail or comforting nudge suggests. Brain scans have now revealed that dogs respond differently to happiness, fear, anger and sadness, offering new evidence that they do not simply divide human expressions into “good” and “bad.” The University of Vienna-led research found that hap...

China’s Economic Heartland Is Being Swallowed By Typhoon Dolphin Typhoon Dolphin has driven a vast flood emergency deep into China, inundating parts of the country’s industrial heartland after already disrupting Shanghai and the eastern coast. The immediate threat is now spreading across Hubei and Henan while Beijing prepares for an extraordinary concentration of rain. The storm has weakened since...

Bashar al-Assad Sentenced to Death as Syria Confronts Its Bloody Past Bashar al-Assad has been sentenced to death in absentia by a Syrian court, delivering the first Syrian conviction against the former president since his family’s five-decade rule collapsed. The ruling is historic, but its immediate effect is limited: Assad remains beyond the court’s reach under Russian protection. The Fourth Cri...

Trump Media Is No Longer Just a Social-Media Company Trump Media and Technology Group has reported a $238.1 million net loss for the second quarter of 2026, compared with approximately $20 million one year earlier. Set against quarterly revenue of just $1.7 million, the figure looks devastating at first glance. Yet the headline conceals the most important detail: $190.4 million of the loss came fr...

The Strange Marine Threat Stalking Europe’s Nuclear Power Stations France strengthened Gravelines after last year’s complete outage—but another vast swarm has still knocked out most of its available generating capacity. A massive jellyfish swarm has forced three reactors at France’s Gravelines nuclear power plant to shut down, almost exactly one year after the same site suffered an even larger dis...

From the Gods to That Ending: Every Major Odyssey Change Ranked Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey retains the Cyclops, Circe, Calypso, the Sirens, Penelope’s suitors and Odysseus’s desperate voyage home. Yet beneath that familiar adventure, the film makes sweeping changes to Homer’s ancient poem. Some episodes are shortened or removed to fit a feature film. Others fundamentally alter Odysseus, the g...

Luigi Mangione Trial Countdown Begins As Judge Confronts Explosive Access Row Luigi Mangione is returning to a Manhattan courtroom as the countdown begins to one of America’s most closely watched murder trials — with a fierce dispute over journalists, spectators and courtroom access threatening to become a major story before a jury is even selected. The 28-year-old is due before New York Supreme C...

Reported Houthi Missile Strike Kills Three Sailors in Red Sea Chokepoint Three crew members have reportedly been killed after a commercial cargo ship was struck in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, bringing a deadly new escalation to one of the world’s most exposed shipping routes. Yemeni coastguard and military sources attributed the attack to the Iran-aligned Houthi movement. Initial reports identify th...

Kim Jong Un’s Army Has Changed — And 18,000 Troops Are Preparing For What Comes Next The allies will mobilise around 18,000 South Korean troops for a major 11-day exercise—days after Pyongyang resumed ballistic missile launches and amid warnings that its soldiers are returning from Russia with real battlefield experience. The United States and South Korea are preparing for one of their largest ann...

Duane “Keffe D” Davis denies orchestrating the 1996 drive-by shooting—but his own interviews, memoir and alleged admissions could now decide one of hip-hop’s most infamous cases. For almost 30 years, the murder of Tupac Shakur has existed somewhere between a criminal cold case and an American legend. There were rivalries, allegations, documentaries, books and countless theories—but no trial. That...

Muse Glimmer puts a capable AI agent directly onto consumer hardware as Zuckerberg reopens America’s battle with China over open artificial intelligence Meta has launched an artificial intelligence model capable of running entirely on a sufficiently powerful personal computer, potentially reducing users’ dependence on the giant cloud platforms controlled by Silicon Valley’s most valuable companies...

A 47-year-old woman remains in custody after four men were wounded near one of London’s busiest tourist districts, triggering a major emergency response and fresh questions about violence, mental-health intervention and public safety in the capital. Four men have been taken to a major trauma centre after being stabbed in Covent Garden in broad daylight. Police were called to Endell Street at appro...

Iran Reveals Its Price for Reopening Hormuz: Control Iran has revealed the political price it wants for reopening the Strait of Hormuz: control over ships entering the Gulf and advance knowledge of those attempting to leave. The proposal could restore movement through the world’s most important energy chokepoint, but only under a system that grants Tehran far greater authority than it possessed be...

Democrats Launch Nationwide Legal War Against Trump’s Tariffs Exactly half of America’s states have joined a sweeping legal challenge against Donald Trump’s latest global tariffs, opening another front in the battle over who controls US trade policy. The coalition of 25 states wants the Court of International Trade to strike down duties of 10% or 12.5% covering imports from 60 economies. The lawsu...

Kemi Badenoch’s “Second Chance” Defence Sparks Tory Vetting Crisis Kemi Badenoch has defended the Conservatives’ decision to select Joshua Bonehill-Paine, a former neo-Nazi activist imprisoned for stirring up racial hatred and harassing a Jewish MP, as a candidate in the 2027 Somerset Council elections. Her defence is direct: he has served his sentence, rejected his former ideology and earned the...

Man Accused of Starting Spokane Wildfire Previously Killed His Father The man accused of deliberately starting the largest of the wildfires devastating Spokane has a previous manslaughter conviction for fatally shooting his father. Aaron F. Farinacci, 37, was arrested after investigators said they established probable cause linking him to the Old Trails Fire. The arrest has taken on greater signif...

Moderna Begins Human Trial of Ebola Vaccine as Outbreak Accelerates Moderna has administered its experimental Bundibugyo Ebola vaccine to its first human volunteers, opening a critical new front against an outbreak that has already killed more than 1,700 people. The vaccine, known as mRNA-1469, uses the mRNA platform that became globally recognised during the COVID-19 pandemic. The breakthrough is...