Good morning—the mood in diplomacy is a touch more hopeful as UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets Xi Jinping in Beijing to push for stronger economic ties, while in the Middle East, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vows to cut Israel’s reliance on U.S. military aid, citing ammunition pauses and broader security tensions tied to the Gaza war.
This Day In History
On January 29, 1886, Karl Benz was granted the patent for the first practical automobile, the Benz Patent-Motorwagen.
The president and the top Senate Democrat were discussing an agreement to split off homeland security funding from a broader spending package and negotiate new limits on immigration agents.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed some soldiers’ deaths in the Gaza war on a lack of ammunition caused by a pause in American weapon deliveries during President Biden’s term.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain is seeking to promote economic ties for growth, offering China’s leader, Xi Jinping, a way to court one of America’s allies.
Oliver Burkeman, the author of several books about getting comfortable with imperfection, discusses some books that have shaped his thinking about how to live a less harried, more enchanted life.
Christopher Nolan’s mind-bending thriller “Inception,” Amy Heckerling’s coming-of-age comedy “Clueless” and Richard Linklater’s slice-of-life drama “Before Sunrise” are among the 25 films selected for preservation by the National Film Registry. Other titles deemed by the Librarian of Congress as “culturally, historically or aesthetically” that were made at least 10 years ago include 1989 war ep...
International Film Festival Rotterdam is known for its highbrow programming, but that’s not all it offers viewers, argues festival director Vanja Kaludjercic. “The perception of IFFR as an event with edgy and unconventional cinema isn’t wrong.
“Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle – Part 1:” anchored a banner year for Japan’s theatrical market in 2025, helping push total box office receipts to a record JPY274.45 billion ($1.79 billion), up 32% from 2024’s approximately JPY206 billion ($1.34 billion), according to figures released by the Motion Picture Producers Association […]
Get ready to return to Regency-era London. “Bridgerton” is back for Season 4, and this time it’s Benedict Bridgerton’s (Luke Thompson) turn to find love.
Later tonight, João Nicolau’s “Providence and the Guitar” will play concurrently in five screening rooms across Rotterdam as the opening film at this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam, an occasion the Portuguese filmmaker calls a “great responsibility.” Adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson’s eponymous short story, “Providence and the Guitar” trails travelling artists León (Pedro...
It requires copious pillows and duvets, and has gone viral on social media. Will this elaborate new sleeping set-up give you a cosy night’s rest – or just exacerbate your back pain?Name: The potato bed.Age: About two months.
Gestala is the latest company to emerge from China’s burgeoning brain-computer interface industry. It plans to access the brain with noninvasive ultrasound technology.
Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.
Last year, Deezer introduced an AI detection tool that automatically tags fully AI-generated music for listeners and removes it from algorithmic and editorial recommendations. The company announced on Thursday that it’s now making the tool available to other streaming platforms in an effort to help address the rise of AI and fraudulent streams, as well […]
French organizations say they have been told they are no longer eligible for the Pause program run by the Collège de France, and are urging the government to reverse what they call a 'discriminatory' decision.
After visiting Berlin on Tuesday, Danish Premier Mette Frederiksen was in Paris on Wednesday, where she had lunch with Emmanuel Macron at the Elysée Palace, together with Greenland's prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen.
The US president ordered Tehran to reach a nuclear agreement or face 'far worse' attacks than those of June 2025. Washington continues to concentrate military assets in the Gulf.
A study commissioned by the European Commission confirms the significant financial burden of forever chemicals for European societies, with costs varying depending on political decisions.
After Italy and Spain, France, which had long opposed the move in order to keep dialogue open with Tehran, has shifted its stance in response to the massive crackdown on the protest movement that has rocked Iran since late December.
Guatemala has opted out of renewing a lease agreement on a 7,000-acre oil field in order to use the land for better protection of the surrounding Laguna del Tigre Biosphere Reserve. An 830,000-acre component of the greater Mayan Biosphere Reserve which allows Mesoamerican wildlife to roam freely between the country and neighboring Belize and Mexico, […]
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Birdwatchers can’t believe what’s been appearing through their binoculars on a small landholding in West Sussex, England, where the nation’s premier rewilding project continues to compound on its already staggering achievements. The Knepp Estate has increased the number of breeding birds from just 55 individuals of 22 species in 2007, to 559 individuals of 51 […]
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As prices of recycled paper, plastic, and aluminum increase, waste management firms are seeing an unexpected return on investment from their installations of AI-powered robotic trash sorters. Certainly with any robotic system, the ROI is expected to come from labor saving, but due to a variety of factors such as tariffs on aluminum, pulp mill […]
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How do you hunt a whale when your boat is made of logs lashed with vines and your harpoon is carved from animal bone? That’s what Spanish researchers were left wondering when they discovered evidence from a museum in southern Brazil that indigenous people 5,000 years ago were hunting large baleen whales like the humpback […]
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Short-dated Treasury yields declined while those on maturities of 10 years or longer rose as markets continued to digest Wednesday’s Federal Reserve meeting.
The Academy has Glenda and Elphaba saying 'we're not in the Oscars anymore' after 'Wicked: For Good' was snubbed last week, with the box office hit sequel failing to secure a single nomination. Comcast (CMCSA), who own NBC/Universal and are responsible for 'Wicked: For Good,' might take this as a ...
The restaurant sector has faced declining sales and customer traffic in recent months, based on data from the National Restaurant Association, which has led operators to close locations and, in some cases, file for bankruptcy. Data showed that 44% of restaurant operators reported lower same-store ...
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