More than 40 hours after a deadly ferry fire began, Philippine rescuers have boarded the MV June Aster in search of dozens of missing people. Five people have been killed while 43 people have been rescued, many of whom are receiving treatment in hospital. Eighty-four people remain missing. Photos shared by the coastguard on Friday…
Why refuse to have one honest conversation because you’re waiting for the other person to make the first move? Sometimes the person you love doesn’t need a grand gesture. They just need you to show up. A phone call. A sincere apology. A little patience. A willingness to listen. A simple “Let’s figure this out.”…
America has been at war with Iran for more than six months — but it was far from a top issue at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas this week. The war wasn’t entirely absent: Administration officials defended it. President Donald Trump talked about the war in his speeches Wednesday and Thursday nights. Defense Secretary…
Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court has overturned a presidential pardon granted to a hardline Buddhist monk and ordered him to serve the remainder of a six-year prison sentence for intimidating the wife of a missing political cartoonist. Galagodaatte Gnanasara was sentenced in 2018 for contempt of court and intimidating Sanya Eknaligoda, the wife of Prageeth Eknaligoda…
In the new study, published in Science Advances, the researchers reported the discovery of rare skeletal remains of two early human foragers from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. One dated to 25,000-16,000 years ago and the other to 7,600-6,300 years ago. Both of the hunter-gatherers showed an unusual dental wear pattern with deep, rounded tooth…
New Apple CEO John Ternus holds the new foldable iPhone Duo during Apple’s event at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California, U.S. Sept. 9, 2026. Carlos Barria | Reuters Apple‘s first folding phone is getting a tepid response Chinese consumers that are focused more on how much it costs versus existing foldables from domestic…
The internet may be busy asking ChatGPT to turn today’s pictures into glamorous ’80s portraits, but Shashi Tharoor and Renuka Chowdhury had a very different answer.Why recreate the decade with AI when you actually lived it?As the retro-photo trend took over Instagram and X, the two Congress leaders decided to skip the filters and share…
Three Hong Kong activists who organised annual vigils commemorating Beijing’s 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square protests have been handed prison sentences of up to seven years. Two of the defendants – Lee Cheuk-yan, 69, and Chow Hang-tung, 41 – were convicted last month of inciting others to subvert state power, under the city’s controversial national…
HONG KONG — Three pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong who organized annual vigils for victims of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown were sentenced to prison terms between five and over seven years Friday after being convicted under a national security law that critics say has stifled dissent in the Chinese territory. Lee Cheuk-yan was sentenced…
At a time when some Silicon Valley giants and national security experts are calling for action against Chinese companies engaged in model distillation, Garry Tan, chief executive of famed startup accelerator Y Combinator, is less concerned. “I would do nothing” about distillation, he told CNBC’s Kate Rooney at Y Combinator’s annual Demo Day. “We could…
