The Sands International Film Festival opened Friday evening, marking a new milestone for the Scottish event: its fifth year in operations. “What nobody tells you at the start of new things is just how fragile beginnings can be,” Festival Director Ania Trzebiatowska said in her opening speech on Friday. “Half of new ventures don’t make…
Everyone knows that new technologies can be really disruptive to the labor market, but eventually new jobs emerge and things come back into balance. And there is a sense in which many view AI with the same lens. Yes, there will be pain in some sectors, but then there will be productivity gains and new…
April 16, 2026 3 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm How far from humanity were the astronauts of Artemis II? The answer will surprise you Artemis II’s crew went farther from humanity than anyone has been before. Here’s how one scientist determined whom, specifically, they were farthest from By K. R. Callaway edited by…
As Ukraine enters the fifth year of full-scale war, its people have endured the highest number of attacks on their health care in 2025 – increasing by nearly 20% compared to 2024. Since the beginning of the full-scale war on 24 February 2022, WHO has documented at least 2881 attacks on health care in Ukraine,…
Painted Tree Boutiques, which gave indie businesses a brick-and-mortar platform in its dozens of shops, shut down with no warning on Tuesday. Painted Tree Boutiques, a nationwide retail chain that gave independent small business owners a brick-and-mortar platform to sell gifts, clothing, and home decor products, abruptly announced that it would cease all business operations…
I was “too old” to care about Girls and to this day, I’ve never seen more than a few minutes of the show, here and there. I remember the discourse, both good and bad, and Lena Dunham’s new memoir has a lot of gossip about that time in her life. The parts of the book…
Who: Manchester City vs ArsenalWhat: English Premier League (EPL)Where: Etihad Stadium, Manchester, United KingdomWhen: Sunday, April 19 at 4:30pm (15:30 GMT)How to follow: We’ll have all the build-up on Al Jazeera Sport from 12:30 GMT in advance of our live text commentary stream. The Premier League title race could be on course for a unique end…
COMMERCE CITY, Colo. — Kennedy Wesley scored her first international goal and had an assist after entering as a substitution after halftime, Naomi Girma and Rose Lavelle each added a goal and the United States beat Japan 3-0 in a friendly Friday night. Claudia Dickey had three saves for the United States. Wesley, who replaced…
Quotable Donald Heflin, a senior fellow of Diplomatic Practice at Tufts University, says Iran has shown it doesn’t need nuclear weapons as a deterrent. Published On 18 Apr 202618 Apr 2026 Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo
The Kremlin is grappling with the fallout from the viral spread of a celebrity blogger’s criticism of Russian authorities, as Vladimir Putin’s approval ratings register their sixth consecutive weekly decline. Victoria Bonya, a household name in Russia who rose to fame in 2006 on Dom-2, the country’s answer to the reality TV show Big Brother,…
