Ukraine-Russia war latest: Strikes on Kyiv continue after top science institute set ablaze

US-Iran war: Trump rejects report that US will offer Tehran ‘sanctions relief’; Araghchi meets mediators | Top Updates

US President Donald Trump rejected reports that he was willing to offer Iran sanctions relief and release frozen funds in exchange for progress on its nuclear programme. Meanwhile, Iran said indirect talks with the US continued through Qatari mediators

Trump personally involved in taxpayer-funded ads ahead of midterms, source says

Trump personally involved in taxpayer-funded ads ahead of midterms, source saysUS President Donald Trump personally helped shape taxpayer-funded advertisements promoting himself and his administration’s policies, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.Trump was involved in selecting...

Zero Human Intervention For 34 Minutes: Chinese Team Sets World Record For 'Most Autonomous' Underwater Drones

The Guinness World Record for “most autonomous underwater vehicles operating simultaneously” was set by a team from Northwestern Polytechnical University

Games-Sri Lanka and Bangladesh advance as rain washes out cricket again

US prosecutors reopen case of alleged frat house gang rape at Cornell University

US prosecutors reopened an investigation Monday into an alleged gang rape at Cornell University following claims the elite college failed to properly punish the men involved. The alleged victim said in a civil lawsuit this month she was drugged with ketamine, assaulted and raped in 2024 by seven members of the Chi Phi fraternity, a social club for male students. Cornell closed the fraternity and temporarily suspended the students involved, several of whom were later expelled. The newly-released...

Trump offers Iran war naysayers an extreme endgame: ‘Let them hit us with a nuclear weapon’

Trump continues to insist America faced imminent nuclear threat, even as just half of Republicans say war was ‘worth it’, writes John Bowden

US Visa Wait For Indians Hits 346 Days: Why Tourist, Business Applicants Are Facing Longer Queues

India had 1.45 million non-immigrant visa applications in FY2025, handled by just 68 consular officers working on such visas.

‘Wasn’t Honest To Users’: OpenAI Scraps Release Of New ChatGPT Model After It Fails Safety Tests

GPT-6.1 Astra was designed to handle complex tasks with greater independence and required less human intervention than earlier systems.

Iran-US war latest: Trump says US will win conflict ‘very soon’ as officials begin talks with peace negotiators

Donald Trump has publicly rejected the seven-day plan and reportedly told staff he expects to resume hostilities after the November midterms

UK examines foreign state involvement in suspected airbase plot, releases suspects

Five men, all British nationals from London in their early 20s, were detained after a local farmer alerted police about white vans driving towards RAF Fairford, a British base housing US bombers that fly missions against Iran

Canadian MP gets caught out with AI speech

Canadian politician Bill Oliver went viral after reading out an AI editing prompt in a speech to parliament