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Europe, the fastest-warming continent, faces record heat and wildfires, with France and Spain worst hit A man cools himself with water from the Fontana della Barcaccia during a heatwave in Rome, Italy, August 6, 2026. REUTERS/Claudia Chieppa Italy placed all major cities under the highest heat alert on Thursday as a severe heatwave gripped large … Read more
Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses.
Launch comes ahead of joint South Korean-US military drills expected this month North Korea has repeatedly declared itself an ‘irreversible’ nuclear state. Photo: AFP/file North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile on Thursday towards the sea off the peninsula’s eastern coast, South Korea’s military said, the first such launch in more than 40 days after … Read more
The indictment was a rare case in which the Israeli authorities pressed charges against an Israeli in the killing of a Palestinian.
He was among the first to perform microscopic surgery in the 1970s and revolutionized techniques to treat traumatic injuries.
Fernando Eimbcke’s film, set in Las Cruces, finds tenderness and turmoil in a 1970s Mexican American household.
The squad will undergo intensive training under renowned Egyptian coach Omar Abdel Aziz A group of Pakistan’s emerging squash players and a senior coach left for Egypt on Wednesday to compete in the Egyptian Junior Open 2026 . PESHAWAR: A group of Pakistan’s emerging squash players and a senior coach left for Egypt on Wednesday … Read more
Natalie Baker says American innovation can help modernise Pakistan’s farm sector while boosting trade and investment A photo of farmers working on their crop in Pakistan. Photo: APP/file The United States on Thursday highlighted opportunities to strengthen cooperation with Pakistan in agricultural technology, saying greater adoption of American innovation could help modernise the country’s farm … Read more
[It was the fifth such deal struck by the administration to get companies to drop offshore wind projects.
The Iran-backed militia said they had targeted the armed forces in two resource-rich provinces, as escalating violence in Yemen imperils a fragile truce.