Gas Prices Begin to Climb, Trailing Surge in Crude Oil
A prolonged conflict in the Middle East could push prices even higher, as the busy driving season approaches.
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Dave Franco feels ‘fortunate’ to have spent time with Catherine O’Hara
3 March 2026 Dave Franco feels “fortunate” to have spent time with Catherine O’Hara when they worked together on The Studio. Dave Franco has remembered Catherine O’Hara as ‘sweet’ and ‘humble’ The actor plays a fictionalized version of himself in the Apple TV Plus series alongside Seth Rogen as the head of a movie studio…
In Myanmar, Junta Leader Eyes the Title of President
The military ruler of Myanmar, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, is expected to seek a civilian post to add a veneer of legitimacy after sham elections.
The real reasons birth rates are declining worldwide
Anthropologist Paula Sheppard argues we need a more nuanced view about falling birthrates Ryan Wills The fall is astonishing. At its height, the global fertility rate hit 5.3 births per woman in 1963, but it has been in near-constant decline ever since. Sixty years on, it is now only around 2.2. In many countries, it…
OpenAI’s AI data agent, built by two engineers, now serves 4,000 employees — and the company says anyone can replicate it
When an OpenAI finance analyst needed to compare revenue across geographies and customer cohorts last year, it took hours of work — hunting through 70,000 datasets, writing SQL queries, verifying table schemas. Today, the same analyst types a plain-English question into Slack and gets a finished chart in minutes. The tool behind that transformation was…
A Crisis in the Alps: Airbnb, Climate Change and Americans
The mountains’ resort towns have reached an inflection point, facing changes that threaten their cultures and even survival, as demand for short-term rentals reshapes the landscape.
LEAKED set pics reveal Ranbir Kapoor’s long-haired avatar for Ramayana
Photos of Ranbir Kapoor from the sets of Ramayana have surfaced online, drawing widespread attention and sparking discussion among fans. The images, which began circulating on Reddit on Tuesday morning, appear to show the actor in costume during a shoot, holding a bow and dressed in traditional attire while crew members stand nearby with umbrellas…
Germany Has Ratcheted Up Defense Spending. In Europe, That Worries Some People.
Soon the country’s armed forces budget could exceed those of Britain and France combined. In Paris, there are concerns that European “strategic autonomy” will have a German accent.
Jon Rahm accuses DP World Tour of ‘extorting players’ by issuing LIV fines | Golf
Jon Rahm’s dispute with the DP World Tour has escalated after the Spaniard accused the organisation of “extorting” golfers over fines for competing on the LIV circuit. Rahm’s Ryder Cup future remains in peril with no resolution to the matter in sight, with insiders at the DP World Tour and Europe’s Ryder Cup fans baffled…
FCC chair tells CNBC WBD-Paramount merger deal ‘cleaner’ than Netflix
Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has told CNBC that Paramount’s bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery is “cleaner” than Netflix’s, adding he expected it to be approved “pretty quickly.” “There’s a lot of concerns when Netflix was the potential buyer there,” Carr said on the sidelines of the Mobile World Congress in…