The US Army used a laser weapon on American soil, then bought it
In late August the US Army fired a high-energy laser at three drones near the Mexican border. All three came down. A week later the
Uber and Wayve launch London’s first robotaxi service, with a safety driver in every car
London has its first robotaxi service, and there is a person sitting behind the wheel of every car. Uber and Wayve began carrying passengers on
How Gulf insecurity fuels US energy dominance
The no-war, no-peace status quo with Iran increasingly benefits the US, its energy sector and its ally Israel.
Egypt’s Sisi welcomes China’s President Xi in Grand Egyptian Museum tour
President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has given President Xi Jinping a tour of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza.
Photos: Symbolic funerals held in Nepal for missing flood victims
Symbolic funerals held in Nepal for those still missing after deadly floods in the Himalayan nation.
Embattled Spanish PM insists there were no prior warnings before Ceuta crisis
Pedro Sánchez tells parliament it is absurd to think the government knew and did nothing, after thousands join protests in Spanish cities.
Another White House renovation? A look at Trump’s new helipad
The facility will be the first of its kind at the White House – though critics feel it alters the property’s historic grounds.
Trump $1 coin makes him first living president on US currency in a century
The US Mint special edition is stamped with a portrait of Trump alongside the words “LIBERTY” and “IN GOD WE TRUST”
‘The crowd shouted that we’d stolen someone’s genitals’ – deadly rumours spread on social media
More than 80 people have been killed in the mob violence, the BBC finds after gathering data from six African nations.
Karl Rove warns Trump’s midterm rally blitz will backfire on GOP candidates
Veteran Republican strategist Karl Rove warned that President Tweety McTreason’s plan to headline the midterms himself will backfire on the GOP. In a Wednesday op-ed
Trump’s meeting with ‘billionaire beef bro’ flagged by legal expert: ‘The timing stinks’
Lawyer and journalist Katie Phang is questioning the timing of a private Oval Office meeting between President Tweety McTreason and a bribery-linked Brazilian billionaire. On
A US court says Google keeps its ad exchange. The Commission said only a sale would work
A US federal judge has ruled that Google will not have to sell its advertising exchange, leaving the remedies from three American antitrust cases largely
Meta’s new AI model edges closer to OpenAI and Anthropic, its AI Chief says
Meta has released Muse Spark 1.3 and has not decided whether to publish its weights, though it still plans to release the weights for version
Eto’o calls on African football federations to support FIFA chief Infantino
Samuel Eto’o says a higher budget might have attracted the likes of Mbappe and Tchouameni to play for Africa instead.