New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani. New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani arrived at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum at Ground Zero on Friday to attend the 25th anniversary commemoration of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, despite calls from some victims’ families and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani to stay away from the ceremony.Mamdani was … Read more
Bycatch, the accidental capture of animals in fishing gear is considered the world’s greatest direct human-caused threat to dolphins and porpoises. Off the coast of Cornwall, a set of underwater sensors was listening to the ocean when it detected something researchers rarely get to see. According to an online report by Phys Org, two harbor … Read more
President Donald Trump’s recent habit of sharing AI-generated images on Truth Social has drawn fresh attention after another unusual series of posts on September 6, 2026. Trump’s latest AI-heavy Truth Social posts renewed debate over his online style, with social media sharply divided over them.. REUTERS/Eric Lee (REUTERS) The posts showed Trump with George Washington, … Read more
US envoy to Syria Tom Barrack on Saturday urged restraint in the south’s Druze-majority Sweida province after a prominent figure quit the region following tensions with supporters of a pro-Israeli Druze leader. US Syria envoy calls for restraint in Druze-majority Sweida province Sweida city and other parts of the province are under the control of … Read more
The research focused on nine extinct insect species related to modern crickets and katydids. For 165 million years, the sounds made by insects living alongside dinosaurs were lost to time. Scientists have now recreated some of those calls using fossilised wings, studies of living insects, computer modelling and artificial intelligence.According to Smithsonian Magazine, the research … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin with China’s President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Russian President Vladimir Putin met his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Monday on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, with the two leaders discussing bilateral ties and international … Read more
Iran’s supreme leader called on Muslim countries to stand together against Israel and the United States, imploring them to “know your real enemy.” A monitor says a tanker vessel was struck in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday. Iran’s supreme leader calls for Muslim unity against US and Israel, and other Mideast news Israel’s Shin … Read more
President Donald Trump on Friday announced the creation of a “Space Academy” to train future civilian and military recruits for an arena where the United States faces rivalry with China. US President Donald Trump signs an executive order to create a US Space Academy at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, US. (Bloomberg) … Read more
Zack Polanski demands freeze on English data centres. Green Party leader Zack Polanski has called for a freeze on approvals for new data centres in England, arguing that the rapidly expanding industry is putting pressure on water and energy supplies.Polanski said the government should introduce tougher environmental requirements for data centres and give local communities … Read more
President Donald Trump listens as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks at a cabinet meeting. (AP Photo) A US federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration acted unlawfully in targeting AI firm Anthropic after it resisted certain military uses of its models, saying national security cannot be used to justify retaliation against government critics.US District … Read more