Al Jazeera reports from Beirut after Israeli attack
Multiple explosions have hit Beirut’s southern suburbs as Israel launches new attacks, claiming to target Hezbollah.
People flood Madrid streets to see Pope Leo’s flower-carpeted procession
Pope Leo XIV hails Spain’s ‘school of faith’ at Madrid Mass, urges unity amid vast Corpus Domini crowds.
AI could consume up 3% of world’s electricity the UN warns
AI could soon use more water than we need to drink, UN report finds.
‘Crystals’ of space-time could be the origins of certain rare black holes, theoretical study hints
By taking general relativity into higher dimensions, a trio of physicists has proven that a mathematical pattern of ripples in space-time geometry could give rise
Kaleidoscopic meteorite could be a piece of a ‘lost world’ from the early solar system — Space photo of the week
A rare meteorite found in the Sahara Desert may be evidence of a long-lost “protoplanet” that formed in the early solar system before being destroyed
One dead, five injured after shooting in Israel
The suspect opened fire from a car in several locations before being shot dead.
Hundreds of captives freed from Boko Haram mountain hideout
The group includes many women and children who were abducted in March from an area close to Cameroon.
Iran’s World Cup team lands in Mexico amid US visa row
All of Iran’s group games are in the US, but players and support staff will have to fly in and out of the country on
Zelensky criticises ‘vile’ Chornobyl drone strike ahead of London talks
Ukrainian officials say a Russian drone hit a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel near the Chornobyl nuclear plant.
Remember when 2 men were hit with a cane 80 times each for hugging & kissing in private?
Islamic authorities in Indonesia’s Aceh province will hit a 20-year-old man and a 21-year-old man 80 times with a cane for kissing and hugging each
Image of girl washing Trump and Epstein’s feet is fake. Here’s how we know
The image was created by Alison Jackson, an artist who makes “convincingly realistic” images.
School shooting survivor sues AI gun detection firm after system failed to spot weapon
The injured teenage survivor of a January 2025 shooting at a Nashville, Tennessee high school recently sued the manufacturer of an “AI gun detection” system
Trump admin tries again to revive dying coal industry
On Thursday, President Tweety McTreason announced his administration’s latest attempt to prop up the US coal industry during an incoherent press event that randomly oscillated
China wants slimmer EVs after batteries and features made them too heavy for parking spaces
China wants its electric vehicles to go on a diet. The average passenger car in the country weighed 1,704 kg in 2024, roughly a third