Russian President Vladimir Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban during their joint press conference at the Kremlin on July 5, 2024. Contributor | Getty Images News | Getty Images Russia’s allies in Eastern Europe say Brussels plans to end all Russian gas and energy imports in the coming years are tantamount to “economic suicide”…
The conclave to elect the next pope is now underway at the Vatican. The cardinals — the prelates who are just below the pope in the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy — will vote by secret ballot for a successor to Pope Francis until one candidate earns a two-thirds majority. While we may not know what’s…
President Donald Trump recently dubbed himself the “fertilization president” after signing an executive order that called for policy recommendations to expand access to in vitro fertilization (IVF). U.S. reproductive health debates have long focused on abortion, but Mary Ziegler, a leading historian of U.S. reproductive law, says policy moves like the IVF order are reviving—and…
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For the second straight game, the New York Knicks found themselves in a hole the Boston Celtics have rarely let teams out of this season. The Knicks again found a way – almost the same way, in fact – to pull off the improbable. And now they are two wins away from knocking the defending…
The romantic comedy Abir Gulaal, starring Pakistani actor Fawad Khan and Indian actress Vaani Kapoor, has found itself at the centre of a geopolitical storm. Originally slated for release on May 9, 2025, the film’s debut has been indefinitely postponed following the tragic Pahalgam terror attack in South Kashmir, which claimed the lives of 26…
Will the India-Pakistan conflict escalate further? A number of Indian aircraft went down in Pakistan after India conducted airstrikes on Pakistan and the Pakistani-held area of Kashmir — two or three, according to Indian officials, Western diplomats and local media, and five planes and at least one drone, according to Pakistan. The question now is…
Crewed deep-sea submersibles have been around for decades NOAA The first comprehensive analysis of deep-sea dives has revealed that humans have only directly observed a tiny fraction – less than 0.001 per cent – of the global deep seafloor, leaving the vast majority of our planet unexplored. Oceans make up 71 per cent of Earth’s…
Tech giants like to boast about trillion-parameter AI models that require massive and expensive GPU clusters. But Fastino is taking a different approach. The Palo Alto-based startup says it has invented a new kind of AI model architecture that’s intentionally small and task-specific. The models are so small they’re trained with low-end gaming GPUs worth…
San Diego Padres starting pitcher Dylan Cease was cruising on May 7, during an away game against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium. Cease was pitching a no-hitter heading into the seventh inning, before a Cody Bellinger home run got the Yankees on the board. Not long after, the Padres ace was pulled from…
