Third Ukrainian strike hits Russian oil refinery and prompts evacuations
Residents near a burning refinery in Tuapse are told to leave, as efforts continue to contain an oil spill caused by earlier strikes.
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Apple introduces a cheaper option for App Store subscriptions
Apple is giving App Store developers a new way to attract subscribers with lower-priced plans tied to a yearlong commitment. The company announced on Monday it will introduce a new subscription option that lets customers pay for their auto-renewing subscriptions on a monthly basis, while committing to a 12-month plan. This model will allow developers…
Laura Dern Replacing Helena Bonham Carter
EXCLUSIVE: The White Lotus has filled its unexpected vacancy, and series creator Mike White did not look far to do it. Oscar winner Laura Dern, a longtime collaborator and friend of White’s, has joined Season 4 of his HBO series set in France. She replaces Helena Bonham Carter who left late last week. Dern will…
John Hinckley Jr calls Trump shooting at same hotel he shot Reagan ‘spooky’ | White House correspondents’ dinner shooting
The man who shot Ronald Reagan at the Washington Hilton in 1981 has said it was “spooky” for him to learn of Saturday’s shooting at the hotel during a prestigious media gala attended by Donald Trump and senior members of the president’s administration. In an interview with TMZ published on Monday, John Hinckley Jr also…
European airlines will fail if jet fuel prices don’t fall
European airlines will fail if the price of jet fuel remains elevated over the summer, the CEO of budget airline Ryanair warned. Speaking to CNBC on Thursday, CEO Michael O’Leary said that his airline was protected because it had hedged 80% of its fuel but predicted “real failures” for other airlines if the price of…
What is the Azawad Liberation Front, part of the Mali attacks? | Armed Groups News
Mali is reeling from attacks on army bases over the weekend that killed Defence Minister Sadio Camara, his wife, two children and an unclear number of other people. Intermittent explosions continued around Senou International Airport, south of the capital, Bamako, late on Monday, according to reports. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list At…
Uranus has weird rings. Astronomers now know the source of two of them
The rings around Uranus have mystified astronomers for almost half a century. Now, thanks to a combination of ground- and space-based telescopic observations, scientists think they’ve worked out where two of these rings came from. A blue-tinged ring, named Mu, seems to be made of icy shards knocked off a nearby moon by micrometeorite impacts,…
ASUS’ dual-screen ROG Zephyrus Duo is now on pre-order starting at $4,500
ASUS is often best when it’s weird, and this year at CES 2026 the company decided to resurrect one of its weirdest laptops ever: the ROG Zephyrus Duo. Unlike the last model from 2023 that had a smallish, tilting second screen, the 2026 model rocks massive dual 16-inch OLED displays that should make it an…
College basketball coaching carousel grades, four years later: The best and worst from the 2022 hiring cycle
In 2017, I went to my editors and made the pitch: Let’s resist vapid clickbait fodder and stop “grading” hirings before these coaches have even led one practice with their new teams, let alone been on the sideline for a single game. You can’t properly grade something if you have no results from which to…
Prince William made a surprise visit to an RAF base in Wales today
Prince William has been seething ever since he had a big-boy fast-cars-go-vroom event on the same day that Prince Harry arrived in Kyiv, Ukraine to speak at a security conference. While William cracked awkward jokes about AI to Jaguar’s F1 team, Harry was speaking about warfare, diplomacy and veterans. William was so mad, he had…