Trump’s $1m ‘gold card’ is yet to pay dividends to US Treasury
Tweety McTreason’s “gold card” visa scheme was meant to bring down the US national debt.
World Cup final tickets go on sale for £1.7m each
Tickets for this summer’s football World Cup final have gone on sale for more than $2m each.
Verda raises $117 million to expand its GPU cloud platform from the Nordics into the US, UK, and Asia
The Helsinki-based company, formerly DataCrunch, is backed by Lifeline Ventures, byFounders, Tesi, Varma, and a group of Nordic lenders. It is already cash-flow positive, holds
Norway plans to ban social media for children under 16 and shift age verification liability to platforms
The minority Labour government, led by PM Jonas Gahr Støre, announced the legislation on Friday. The age threshold has been raised from the 15-year limit
Israeli attacks on Lebanon may violate international law, UN warns
UN report says Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israel may have breached international humanitarian law.
Reality check: Israeli ambitions confront US dictates in Iran and Lebanon
Ceasefires with Iran and Lebanon appear imposed by the US rather than negotiated by Israel, much to latter’s unease.
Kosovo court jails three Serb separatists over 2023 Banjska attack
Attack in the village of Banjska led to a clash with police that left one police officer and three of the gunmen dead.
US justice department drops probe into Fed chairman Jerome Powell
President Tweety McTreason had accused Powell of improper cost overruns in renovating the Fed’s building.
Why is this game only legal across Australia one day a year?
Two-up is a coin toss betting game that was played by Australian soldiers during World War One – it’s now only legal across Australia on
Three Kosovo Serbs jailed over deadly gun battle and monastery siege
Kosovo’s court sentences two men to life imprisonment and another to a 30-year term for the 2023 attack.
Pirates hijack oil tanker off the coast of Somalia
Piracy, once notorious in this stretch of the Indian Ocean, has made a comeback in recent years.
The earliest evidence of the first stars may lie in a distant gas clump
James Webb data reveal pristine gas irradiated by energetic light some 450 million years after the Big Bang — a sign it may house primordial
He raped young men & infected them with HIV. Now he’s going away for a long time.
An English court on Thursday convicted 43-year-old Adam Hall of deliberately inflicting grievous bodily harm by transmitting HIV to five young men, a 15-year-old boy
Ancient DNA tests the notion that allergies are due to our dirtier past
An analysis of ancient DNA and modern disease risk suggests some immune genes may reduce allergy risk rather than increase it.