Israel has officially agreed to ceasefires in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran. But that has not meant any de-escalation, as Israeli forces and settlers press further into Palestinian-administered areas of the occupied West Bank, deeper into civilian space in Gaza, and more aggressively into the heart of occupied East Jerusalem. The pattern, documented across multiple fronts this…
EXCLUSIVE: AITA Films, the production company behind the beleaguered Simon Pegg film Angels In The Asylum, is to fold amid an ongoing financing dispute. AITA Films has been in administration (a process equivalent to Chapter 11 bankruptcy in America) for more than a year since the film halted its shoot in February 2025, but the…
Investigators say the 31-year-old California man wanted to kill as many high-level officials as possible.
Mass layoffs will be due to AI, but companies won’t admit that. In October 2024, I wrote that the tech industry was entering an era of silent firing. Jobs were not being eliminated overnight, but subtly reshaped in ways that encouraged attrition, as companies quietly prepared for large-scale automation. At the time, this was largely…
Adelaide writers’ week was sacrificed to save the 2026 Adelaide festival, an event that ploughs more than $60m into South Australia’s economy each year, documents show. After the 8 January announcement by the Adelaide festival board that controversial Palestinian Australian academic Randa Abdel-Fattah had been dumped from the AWW program, it wasn’t just fellow Australian…
I judge royal portraits on a sliding scale, or maybe I just enjoy debating whether artists actually capture the essence of certain royals. Jonathan Yeo’s “bloody” portrait of King Charles is a masterpiece and possibly the peak of royal portraiture. Paul Emsley’s portrait of Princess Kate was also notable for making Kate look like a…
Dallas Mavericks’ Cooper Flagg edged former Duke teammate Kon Knueppel to win the NBA Rookie of the Year award Monday night. Flagg set a host of records for an NBA teenager in an also-ran season for the Mavs. He became the first rookie since Michael Jordan in 1984-85 to lead his team in points, rebounds,…
The White House confirms Trump met his national security advisers on Monday to discuss the plan. Published On 28 Apr 202628 Apr 2026 United States President Donald Trump’s national security team is reviewing an Iranian proposal aimed at halting its joint war with Israel, reopening the Strait of Hormuz and delaying negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear…
Meta announced in December that it was acquiring Singapore-based Manus, which has strong links to China. China on Monday blocked U.S. tech giant Meta’s acquisition of the artificial intelligence startup Manus, in an unexpected move to reverse a deal that apparently aroused Beijing’s concerns about the transfer of advanced technology.
Authorities say the militants raided a football pitch where people had been gathering and opened fire at random.
