Sunday, 2 August 2026
Around 300,000 people took to the streets of Hamburg on Saturday for the city's Christopher Street Day parade, marking a record turnout just one week after a deadly Islamist attack on a similar event…
An explosion at an outdoor summer cafe in central Moscow on Saturday killed at least three people and wounded 15 others, Moscow police confirmed to the state-run Ria Novosti news agency. The blast occ…
Israeli airstrikes killed at least three Palestinians and damaged hospital medical warehouses in Gaza on Saturday, despite a newly announced agreement to end the war. U.S. President Donald Trump and H…
U.S. embassies across the Middle East have warned American citizens to prepare for possible travel disruptions and consider leaving the region, with security alerts issued simultaneously by missions i…
Several people were killed and others wounded on Saturday afternoon when a gunman opened fire at an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in Twin Falls, Idaho, before the suspect was also killed, police said. Po…
Vincent Pastore, best known for playing Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero in The Sopranos, has died aged 80. He was found dead in his Bronx apartment by a neighbour and longtime friend, Stephen Villan…
The United States and China are accelerating efforts to lead rival international coalitions shaping the global artificial intelligence supply chain. The U.S.-led "Pax Silica" initiative, established i…
Amazon and Apple both delivered stronger-than-expected quarterly results, driven by surging cloud demand and robust iPhone sales as the tech giants pour billions into artificial intelligence. Amazon p…
At least 57 people have died and up to 60,000 migrants entered the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco in a sudden mass border breach triggered by social media rumours of an open crossing. Ceuta's r…
Warsaw came to a standstill on Friday at 5 p.m. — the so-called "W" hour — to mark the 82nd anniversary of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, with air-raid sirens and church bells sounding across the capital.…
The Venezuelan government and a faction of the opposition began a new round of US-backed dialogue on Saturday, the ninth attempt at negotiations between the two sides, aimed at paving the way for even…
Federal prosecutors have moved to dismiss vandalism charges against a former Olympic canoeist accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, acknowledging the deterioration was caused by de…
Major technology companies are confronting deteriorating cash flows as artificial intelligence investments escalate sharply. Amazon has posted negative cash flow of $7.6 billion over the past 12 month…
A discarded SpaceX rocket upper stage is on course to collide with the moon on Wednesday, becoming only the second known unintentional human-made impact on the lunar surface. The 4,500-kilogram booste…
The United States has added 43 Chinese companies to its Xinjiang forced-labor import ban, the largest single expansion of the blacklist since the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act was signed in Decem…
Google has withdrawn its Nano Banana 2 AI image-generation feature from Google Earth less than 48 hours after its 30 July launch, following concerns that it could be exploited to produce disinformatio…
Australia will introduce national rules requiring new data centres to return as much energy to the grid as they consume, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced, as the country grapples with surging…
Denmark assumed the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council on Friday, taking over from the Democratic Republic of Congo for the month of August. The presidency rotates monthly among the counci…
Trump Media & Technology Group launched a paid data service on Saturday that gives Wall Street trading firms early access to posts by Donald Trump and other prominent users on Truth Social, charging u…
The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index slipped into bear-market territory on Tuesday before extending losses beyond 5 percent on Wednesday, as a global chip rout that erased over $1 trillion from sector…
Authorities in Arizona released two ransom letters on Friday allegedly written by the abductors of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of NBC "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie, six months after she v…
U.S. President Donald Trump has called the mass crossing of some 60,000 migrants from Morocco into Spain's enclave of Ceuta "terrible" and warned Americans they could face a similar situation within t…
The United States is considering a new wave of military strikes against Iran that could begin as early as this weekend, potentially targeting Iranian energy infrastructure in one of the largest operat…
Exxon Mobil and Chevron posted dramatic second-quarter profit surges as the ongoing U.S.–Iran conflict choked a vital global shipping lane and drove energy prices higher. Exxon Mobil more than doubled…
The United States and Israel are preparing a large-scale bombing campaign targeting Iran's energy infrastructure, including power plants and oil refineries, with strikes possible as soon as this weeke…
An F-35B stealth fighter crashed Friday morning near Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, California. The pilot ejected before impact and was taken to a local medical facility in stable cond…
Chinese President Xi Jinping has demanded absolute loyalty from the nation's armed forces, declaring that "the gun barrel must always obey the party's command" during a Politburo session ahead of the…
Eurozone inflation accelerated to 2.9% in July from 2.8% the previous month, driven by a sharp jump in energy costs that complicates the European Central Bank's next policy move. Energy prices rose 10…
Situational Awareness, a hedge fund founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, has sold the majority of its public stock portfolio to Ken Griffin's Citadel at a discount exceeding 10 p…
IBM and its research partners have announced three demonstrations of quantum advantage, marking what the company describes as a milestone in error-mitigated computation that classical systems cannot f…