Nepal sets March 5 vote, restrictions eased as interim gov’t takes charge
The Himalayan nation picks its first ever female prime minister to head the interim government after deadly unrest.
US condemns Beijing’s South China Sea ‘nature reserve’ plan
China’s plan to build a nature reserve in the Scarborough Shoal brings strong responses from the Philippines and US.
Ai Weiwei and the lost backpack: A Chinese exile’s brush with bureaucracy
Artist’s encounter with a railway ‘lost and found’ highlights the difficulties of those forced to leave their countries.
Middle-class families on Obamacare brace for higher health care premiums next year
Tax credits made Affordable Care Act plans accessible to middle-class families. Enhanced subsidies are set to expire at the end of 2025, which could result
What’s the deal with Jerry Seinfeld? Plus, Jeffrey Epstein’s birthday book and a royal reunion
Former Vice President Kamala Harris opens up about her campaign, conservative activist Charlie Kirk dies, and a royal reunion takes place in the U.K.
Pete Buttigieg says leftist “scolding” has alienated young men
Out former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg discussed why young men feel alienated by the political left and how he tries to foster conversations that may
Woman loses faith in hospital after miscarriage
Emma Simmonds says she will never return to the hospital, this week rated England’s worst.
Why did resident doctors strike and what are they paid?
Resident doctors in England went on strike over pay for five days at the end of July 2025.
Is the system letting down people who were harmed by Covid vaccines?
People affected by rare blood clots say they feel they have been airbrushed out of the pandemic.
Underground School
In 1959, plans were drawn up to build an underground elementary school near Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. It would have doubled as a
Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002’s Animal Crossing using memory hack
When software engineer Joshua Fonseca recently connected the GameCube simulation classic Animal Crossing to a modern AI language model like the kind that powers ChatGPT
Feds try to dodge lawsuit against their bogus climate report
While the Trump administration has continued to refer to efforts to avoid the worst impacts of climate change as a scam, it has done almost
‘We owe it to Charlie’: Students at university where Kirk was killed vow to continue his debates
The killing has thrown the school and its students into the centre of America’s political divide.