UN nuclear sanctions on Iran reimposed.

The United Nations reimposed sanctions on Iran early Sunday over its nuclear program, further squeezing the Islamic Republic as its people increasingly find themselves priced out of the food they need to survive and worried about their futures. The sanctions will again freez…

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Trump calls climate change 'the greatest con job ever perpetrated' on the world.

US President Donald Trump has told the UN General Assembly that climate change was "the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world". Addressing the global body at its New York headquarters on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST), he scoffed at past predictions warning of …

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Meta is making its Llama AI models available to more governments in Europe and Asia.

Meta is allowing more governments to access its suite of Llama AI models. The group includes France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and South Korea and organizations associated with the European Union and NATO, the company said in an update. The move comes after the company took sim…

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Green Energy is a Scam and Climate Science is From ‘Stupid People’.

President Trump went on a rant against climate change at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, calling it the “greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world” and saying that the scientific consensus on global warming was created by “stupid people.” He also berate…

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Modi urges Indians to get rid of foreign products amid strained US ties.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a public address on Sunday asked citizens to stop using foreign-made products and instead use local ones, pushing for a self-reliant campaign when trade ties with the United States have soured. After U.S. President Donald Trump imposed …

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North Korean leader's sister warns against US joint drills.

Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, warned joint military exercises of U.S., South Korea and Japan could bring about "negative consequences" for themselves, state media reported on Sunday.. South Korea, Japan and the U.S. will …

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Google to pay $30 million to settle class-action suit over children's privacy.

Google has reached a settlement over a lawsuit that claimed it illegally collected data from child users without parental consent through its YouTube video platform and then sent them targeted ads. The tech giant will shell out $30 million to settle the proposed class-actio…

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Elon musk’s spacex most likely doesn’t pay taxes.

SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite internet company, has received billions of dollars in federal contracts over its more than two-decade existence. But SpaceX has most likely paid little to no federal income taxes since its founding in 2002 and has privately told inves…

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Jacklyn Gise Bezos, mother of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, dies.

Jeff Bezos’ mother, Jacklyn Gise Bezos, has died at 78 after a long battle with Lewy body dementia, the Amazon founder said Thursday. In an Instagram post, Bezos wrote that she died surrounded by family. Born December 29, 1946, in Washington, D.C., Jackie’s life was defined b…

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US alcohol consumption at record low as health concerns rise, survey finds.

Alcohol consumption among adults in the U.S. is at the lowest level on record, a survey by analytics firm Gallup showed on Wednesday, as most Americans, for the first time, view even moderate drinking as harmful. Gallup's latest Consumption Habits survey, conducted annua…

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Wrestling legend Hulk Hogan dies aged 71.

Wrestling legend Hulk Hogan dies aged 71, his representative confirms. First responders received a call from his Florida home at 10:00 local time over a report of "cardiac arrest", authorities say - he was pronounced dead at hospital later. Hogan, whose real name wa…

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Russia's lone aircraft carrier likely to be scrapped or sold.

Russia's only aircraft carrier, the 40-year-old Admiral Kuznetsov, is likely to be sold or scrapped, the chairman of Russia's state shipbuilding corporation told the Kommersant newspaper in comments published on Friday. Andrei Kostin's remarks follow a report in …

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King Charles shatters 100 year-old royal tradition to usher in modern monarchy.

After more than 100 years, King Charles is changing the rules at Buckingham Palace. For the first time, players on the royal family’s outdoor tennis court no longer have to follow the strict "almost entirely white" dress code, The Sunday Times reported. According t…

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Tsunami alerts for Alaska canceled after 7.3-magnitude earthquake off Aleutians.

A large stretch of the Alaska coast was on watch for a tsunami for several hours Wednesday afternoon after a 7.3-magnitude earthquake off the Aleutian Islands, officials said. The warning was later changed to an advisory, which was allowed to expire, with no immediate report…

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Trump announces novel plan to send weapons to Ukraine and gives Russia new deadline to make peace.

President Donald Trump on Monday laid out a pair of steps intended to pressure Russia to end its war in Ukraine, including funneling new weapons to Kyiv and threatening economic punishment on Moscow if peace isn’t reached in 50 days, as he grows increasingly disenchanted wi…

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Archaeologists keep finding gigantic shoes at this 2000-year-old Roman Site.

Archaeologists working at the Magna Roman Fort in northern England have made a series of huge discoveries, in the very literal sense. Recent excavations at the ancient Roman fortification have unearthed several examples of gigantic shoes, with one representing what could be …

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Ancient “pyramids” discovered in Poland, containing 5,500-year-old tombs.

Archaeologists in Poland have discovered a set of 5,500-year-old triangular structures that have been nicknamed “Polish pyramids”, and which contain megalithic tombs from one of the region’s oldest sedentary agricultural societies. The mounds were discovered in the Wielkopol…

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SpaceX to invest $2 billion in Musk's xAI startup.

SpaceX has committed $2 billion to xAI as part of a $5 billion equity round, deepening the ties between tech billionaire Elon Musk's ventures as his artificial intelligence startup races to compete with rival OpenAI. The investment follows xAI's merger with X and val…

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Archaeologists discover Roman Army Camp in the Netherlands—15 Miles Beyond the Empire’s Northern Border.

About 2,000 years ago, the powerful Roman Empire established a boundary at the northern edge of its territory in continental Europe: the Lower German Limes, which stretched across the Rhine River in present-day Germany and the Netherlands. But the Romans’ movements weren’t l…

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Louis Vuitton says customer data was leaked following cyberattack.

Cybercriminals broke into the Korean subsidiary of luxury brand Louis Vuitton and stole sensitive files, the company has confirmed. The company notified government authorities, and moved to secure its infrastructure and data, confirming some information was taken in the brea…

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