The jury of the Venice Biennale has quit just days before the prestigious art exhibition is due to begin, amid a row over the decision to allow Russia to participate. The resignation of the five-member international jury was announced late on Thursday in a brief statement by the Venice Biennale organisers, and came a day…
If you read George Orwell’s classic political satire Animal Farm in seventh grade, you probably remember the basic contours of the plot: fed up with human rule, a group of well-intentioned barnyard animals set up their own egalitarian society, with disastrous results. Published in 1945, Animal Farm has a timeless (and, certainly, contemporarily relevant) message:…
Major League Soccer commissioner Don Garber said his X account was “compromised” on Wednesday evening, a statement offered after a post on his account called British Columbia Premier David Eby a “liar” earlier in the day. MLS has been ensnared in a relocation controversy surrounding the Vancouver Whitecaps, who say they have faced serious financial…
Starz has greenlit an untitled drama set in the world of black rodeo in Texas as the network, led by CEO Jeffrey Hirsch, looks to own more of its content pipeline after splitting from Lionsgate. The family series, to be showrun by Kirk A. Moore (Demascus, American Crime), also comes as the premium cable and…
Physicians for Human Rights Israel accuses authorities of hindering the rehabilitation of Gaza’s healthcare system. Published On 30 Apr 202630 Apr 2026 An Israeli human rights organisation has petitioned the Supreme Court to demand the immediate release of 14 doctors from Gaza held without charge for more than a year. Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHRI)…
Teams move the core stage, or largest section, of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for NASA’s Artemis III mission into the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in this photo from April 27, 2026. The SLS core stage traveled 900 miles on the Pegasus barge from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans where the stage is manufactured, to complete…
The US justice department has rolled back several significant restrictions on guns, including reinstating the so-called “gun show loophole”, which allowed people at such events to buy firearms without a background check. The changes, announced by the acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, amount to a shift in firearm policy advocated by supporters of the second…
Presented by Nutanix As enterprises move from AI experimentation into production deployment, the primary cost driver has shifted away from foundation model training and toward the infrastructure required to run thousands of concurrent inference workloads at scale, with agentic AI as the accelerant. Where early enterprise AI projects involved a handful of large, scheduled training…
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The United States has fallen to a “historic low” in the Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF), or Reporters Without Borders, annual press freedom tracker, continuing a decade-long decline, the organisation has said. The report on Thursday recorded a global drop in press freedom indicators in 2025, with, for the first time, more than half of the world’s…
