A Chinese player won the World Snooker Championship for the second year in a row, a win for Beijing as it looks to consolidate its soft power on the global stage. Wu Yize became the tournament’s second-youngest winner in a competition traditionally dominated by Europeans. The victory confirms China’s growing ...
Aramco’s archival footage shows first ever Saudi oil shipmentAramco’s archival footage shows first ever Saudi oil shipment
Four score and seven years ago, Saudi Arabia’s founding father King Abdulaziz crossed the Dahna Desert in a convoy of 400 cars to reach the Gulf port of Ras Tanura, where a tanker called the DG Scofield was waiting. Aramco’s archival footage shows the monarch turning the valve himself, enabling ...
Qatar backs sustainable jet fuel project in EgyptQatar backs sustainable jet fuel project in Egypt
The risk of a shortage of aviation fuel due to the Strait of Hormuz blockade has made the search for alternative sources a critical issue for airlines. High fuel prices and pending scarcity means some carriers have canceled flights and at least one, Spirit Airlines in the US, has closed ...
Body as masterpiece: nipples, skeletons and tattoos dominate at record-breaking Met GalaBody as masterpiece: nipples, skeletons and tattoos dominate at record-breaking Met Gala
Opening of ‘the dressed body’ show inspires Beyoncé, Kardashians and Skepta, as others pay tribute to fashion moments in art history Met Gala 2026 red carpet: the best looks in pictures Two assets the modern 1% love to show off are their designer wardrobes … and their expensive bodies. The ...
Harriet Clark spent a lifetime visiting her mother, an ex-Weather Underground member, in prison: ‘The US has always used family separation to destabilize’Harriet Clark spent a lifetime visiting her mother, an ex-Weather Underground member, in prison: ‘The US has always used family separation to destabilize’
Clark was an infant when her mother was arrested. Her debut novel asks what it’s like for children who have only ever known a parent in prison In Harriet Clark’s debut novel, The Hill, a nun explains what it’s like for babies born in prison. “They don’t know that they ...
New Orleans moves to brighten underserved neighborhoods: ‘Lights impact people’New Orleans moves to brighten underserved neighborhoods: ‘Lights impact people’
A new initiative aims to repair broken and inadequate street lighting to help prevent crime During the 19th century, American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson penned the expression “gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police” in his essay Worship. With regard to public lighting in American cities today, the ...
Sole searching: how a medical pedicure saved my feet from the point of no returnSole searching: how a medical pedicure saved my feet from the point of no return
After a harsh winter and suffering from corns, calluses and dry feet, a ‘medi pedi’ treatment came to my rescue My feet were screaming for mercy. Apologies for the following description, but after New York City’s deep-freeze winter, I had corns between my toes, thick callus pads beneath my big ...
UK iPhone and iPad Users Can Watch Porn AgainUK iPhone and iPad Users Can Watch Porn Again
Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub and other major porn sites, announced today that in the UK, iPhone and iPad users will be able to access its sites again, ending an over three month ban that Aylo initially enacted because of the region’s age verification law. As of Tuesday, following ...
The AI Hard Drive Shortage Is Making It More Expensive and Harder to Archive the InternetThe AI Hard Drive Shortage Is Making It More Expensive and Harder to Archive the Internet
Skyrocketing hard drive and storage costs caused by the AI data center boom are making it more expensive and more difficult for digital archivists, academics, Wikipedia, and hobby data hoarders to save data and archive the internet. Specific drives favored by some high profile organizations like the Internet Archive have ...
Hantavirus may have spread between passengers on cruise ship, WHO saysHantavirus may have spread between passengers on cruise ship, WHO says
Two cases of the virus, which rarely spreads between humans, have been confirmed on the ship, and three people have died. ...