With heatwaves now recognised as disasters, personal testimonies are key to a new project that looks to protect those living in the most cramped districts of India’s capital Every summer evening, Gulshan follows the same routine. She washes the floor of her one-room home several times so it cools a ...
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‘His ache is real’: Bob Dylan and more on the wild genius of honky-tonk hellraiser Gary Stewart‘His ache is real’: Bob Dylan and more on the wild genius of honky-tonk hellraiser Gary Stewart
Worshipped by everyone from Willie Nelson to Joe Strummer, the country star with the amazing voice imploded in a blaze of guns, knives, drugs and infidelities. What’s behind his astonishing posthumous rediscovery? ‘He sings like a man arguing with destiny. It sounds like the ache is real, that the ruin ...
Trump envoy Kushner arrives in Israel after rare Hamas talks on Gaza peace planTrump envoy Kushner arrives in Israel after rare Hamas talks on Gaza peace plan
US President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is expected to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later on Monday. ...
Ukrainian strikes kill six in Russia, acting governor saysUkrainian strikes kill six in Russia, acting governor says
A 14-year-old child was among four others injured, the acting governor of Russia’s Belgorod region says. ...
New Chinese model adds to AI competitionNew Chinese model adds to AI competition
Chinese AI startup Zhipu said its new GLM-5.3 model outperformed Anthropic’s Mythos 5 in a key cybersecurity benchmark and closed the gap on coding capabilities, marking the latest Chinese open-weight model to claim parity with the Western AI frontier. Following its last release in June, Zhipu, also known as Z.ai, ...
NATO counters suspected Russian drone incursionsNATO counters suspected Russian drone incursions
A Spanish fighter jet shot down a suspected Russian drone over Romania on Sunday, two days after NATO downed a similar drone over Latvia. Such incursions have become a “near-weekly occurrence,” The Wall Street Journal noted, as Russia and Ukraine escalate their air campaigns: Ukraine launched one of its largest ...
Amodei addresses AI backlashAmodei addresses AI backlash
Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei pushed back Saturday against criticism that his messaging around AI — that it could centralize power and produce mass job displacement — has stoked the growing backlash against the technology. In rare social media remarks, Amodei acknowledged AI firms “haven’t yet delivered on our ...
Europe’s heat strains global food supplyEurope’s heat strains global food supply
Europe’s latest summer heat wave risks worsening already-fragile global food security. Though hunger worldwide has fallen in recent years, restrictions to trade through key global chokepoints as well as fears of an unusually intense El Niño threaten that progress. In Europe, higher-than-usual temperatures and a lack of rain have left ...
US to relieve USS Abraham Lincoln, leaving Pacific without carrierUS to relieve USS Abraham Lincoln, leaving Pacific without carrier
US President Donald Trump dismissed reports of poor living conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln, escalating a fight in Washington over the aircraft carrier’s record 260-plus-day stretch at sea. Multiple sailors have reportedly attempted to jump overboard during the deployment, which was extended to support the Iran war. The US’ ...
Jared Kushner meets with Hamas ahead of talks with Netanyahu on GazaJared Kushner meets with Hamas ahead of talks with Netanyahu on Gaza
Trump’s son-in-law and envoy held rare meeting with Hamas chief in Egypt in push for progress on ceasefire Donald Trump’s son-in-law and envoy, Jared Kushner, held a rare meeting with Hamas’s political chief on Sunday in Egypt, in a new diplomatic effort to make progress in the stalled Gaza ceasefire. ...