Month: October 2026

From the beheading in The Omen to the attic scene in The Birds, here’s a countdown of the genre’s most iconic moments – in glorious, old-school pre-CGI style Towards the end of the 20th century, when film-makers’ overreliance on CGI was increasingly making special effects less special, it took the ...

Archive of Our Own (AO3), a massive repository for fanfiction and creative writing, might be down for as long as a month after going down for “maintenance” on Thursday. The Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), the non-profit organization that runs AO3, posted on its status page early Thursday morning that ...

The PM’s Likud party has alleged foreign interference and said Arab-led parties “stole” the election after his coalition lost its majority. ...

In a career that spanned seven decades, Sir Patrick won multiple Emmys and Golden Globes, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II. ...

US vice-president writes to top Iranian security official in sign Washington has not abandoned diplomacy Hopes of averting a major new conflagration between Iran and the US soon after Tuesday’s midterm elections could rest on Iran’s response to a personal letter from the US vice-president, JD Vance, offering to restart ...

Michigan US Senate candidate signaled support for Egypt’s pro-democracy movement in 2012, not Islamist group The Republican campaign to defeat Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan Senate race by casting him as an Islamic extremist is based on a false claim first made by the conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer eight ...

by Julie Orringer. The New Yorker named this novel — about a man who discovers a manuscript secretly written by his wife, who has early-onset Alzheimer’s — one of the best books of 2026. The “kaleidoscopic” work, its reviewer writes, “examines justice, truth, fate, and freedom.” Buy Luna, Phoenix, Queen ...

Health officials from 45 African countries met Wednesday to coordinate a continent-wide response to an Ebola outbreak that has killed nearly 5,000 people in DR Congo and spread to Kenya and Nigeria, as an assessment presented at the meeting showed only three of 31 countries evaluated were adequately prepared to ...

Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power and Washington DC-based investment firm EIG will commit $4 billion to launch Plenum Power to invest in US power projects, aiming to capitalize on demand from data centers and electrification. The move marks ACWA’s first expansion into the US, having already built projects across 16 countries ...

Qatar Investment Authority is sticking to its commitment to invest $500 billion in the US over the next decade, a target it should achieve even if the fund needs to draw on its reserves to support Qatar’s economy. Mohammed Saif Al-Sowaidi’s mandate, when he was appointed as CEO, included preparing ...