What Is Agentic A.I., and Would You Trust It to Book a Flight?
Companies are racing to develop artificial intelligence tools that can make reservations for flights, hotels and more on your behalf. Here’s what to know.
Month: November 2025
Mapping the Brain’s Sense of What Goes On Inside the Body
Scientists are learning how the brain knows what’s happening throughout the body, and how that process might go awry in some psychiatric disorders.
Trump Administration Is Taking Billions in Stakes in Firms Like Intel
[The Trump administration is trading billions of dollars of taxpayer money for ownership stakes in companies. The unusual practice shows no sign of slowing.
Grisly Killings of a Married Couple Spark New Sectarian Unrest in Syria
The government acted quickly to tamp down reprisals in the central city of Homs as it tries to manage repeated waves of bloodshed involving minority groups.
Pakistan launches overnight strikes in Afghanistan, says Taliban spokesperson
Claim comes a day after three FC personnel martyred in suicide attack in Peshawar, Islamabad yet to respond The Afghan Taliban regime accused Pakistan on Tuesday of launching air strikes in Afghan territory overnight. In a post on X, Afghan Taliban Spokesperson wrote Pakistan had “bombed” Afghanistan’s Khost province and carried out air strikes in Kunar … Read more
Boeing Tackles Quality With a ‘War on Defects’
Two years after a panel flew off a 737 Max, Boeing is doing more inspections, completing work in its intended order and making other changes. Can the company keep it up?
Financial inclusion demands digital shift
[ Legacy infrastructure collapsing under weight of rapid entry of millions into formal financial system KARACHI: Pakistan’s banking landscape is undergoing a seismic transition as the country’s traditionally branch-centric system struggles to cope with a massive influx of new customers entering the formal financial network. With tens of millions of unbanked Pakistanis now seeking digital … Read more
Russia Bombards Kyiv After Peace Talks End in Geneva
A missile-and-drone barrage killed at least six people in Ukraine’s capital, officials said, hours after officials said they had made some headway on a peace proposal.
Kazakh collector preserves recorders that powered Soviet bootlegs
Almaty museum keeps alive the story of how banned Western music travelled through Soviet homes ALMATY: For two decades, Andrei Klimenko has been amassing a collection of Soviet-era reel-to-reel tape recorders for a small museum he runs in Almaty, Kazakhstan’s largest city. Western music was officially banned in the Soviet Union but enjoyed widespread popularity, … Read more
Women face widespread online abuse
The UK’s Research Centre (Uks) on Monday released a report documenting misogynistic and harmful content targeting women on social media, alongside a compendium of slurs used online. The findings form part of Uks’ 2023–2024 initiative, Safe Word, Safer Word, conducted in collaboration with the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC). Uks, a media monitoring and … Read more
