Global AI adoption is growing, and so is the digital divide
Global adoption of AI in the second half of 2025 rose by 1.2 percentage points compared to the first half of the year, a report
‘I didn’t set out to break records’: Pakistan’s first female MMA fighter
Anita Karim retraces her journey into combat sports ahead of the country’s first ever professional women’s MMA fight.
Iran internet cuts a “classic ploy” by leadership
Sina Azodi on Iran’s escalating protests and the use of internet shutdowns to silence dissent.
It’s not the oil. It’s Florida
Nicolas Maduro’s kidnapping is about the US state’s politics, not Venezuela’s oil.
Science history: Sophie Germain, first woman to win France’s prestigious ‘Grand Mathematics Prize’ is snubbed when tickets to award ceremony are ‘lost in the mail’ — Jan. 9, 1816
Sophie Germain was a brilliant, self-taught mathematician who won one of France’s most prestigious prizes, yet she declined to attend the award ceremony because the
NASA telescope combines 100 maps of the universe into one: ‘every astronomer is going to find something of value here’
NASA’s SPHEREx telescope unveiled its first full-sky map of the universe, combining more than 100 infrared observations into one dazzling mosaic.
9,500-year-old cremation pyre of a hunter-gatherer woman is the oldest of its kind in the world
Hunter-gatherers cremated the headless body of a woman in a pyre around 9,500 years ago in what is now Malawi.
One dead, dozens trapped after giant landfill collapses in Philippines
Rescuers have pulled 12 injured sanitation workers from debris at the private landfill in Cebu City.
Russia hits Ukraine with rarely-used Oreshnik missile in fresh strikes
It is only the second time Moscow has deployed the hypersonic ballistic missile, which was first used to hit Dnipro in November.
Colombia sees ‘real threat’ of US military action, president tells BBC
Gustavo Petro tells the BBC’s Ione Wells that the United States is treating other nations as part of a US “empire”, after Trump threatened Colombia
‘How do we look Indian?’: Student’s killing puts spotlight on racism in India
The murder of Anjel Chakma has triggered protests in India and revived demands for an anti-racism law.
A ‘medical situation’ is forcing NASA to end mission at the space station a month early
NASA says a crew member on the International Space Station is unwell. The agency canceled a planned spacewalk for Thursday and is taking the rare
These dogs can learn new words just by eavesdropping
Some dogs have an amazing ability to learn the names of dozens, even hundreds of toys. Now, a new study suggests these super learners can
Did FBI, DEA rescue 450 children in raid of Somali couple’s ‘luxury island’? Here’s the truth
According to the story, federal agents captured a Somali humanitarian couple and uncovered their plot to hold children captive.