Moscow faces a huge decommissioning bill at home even as it expands its nuclear industry abroad.
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World
German chancellor tours city with president Zelenskyy after Moscow strikes city’s North Bridge this morning amid his arrivalZelenskyy thanked Merz for visiting the Ukrainian capital describing him as “A leader of a count…
Measures pushed by Spain's leftist government fail to pass parliament as the protests spread.
Conservative leader defends plan to extend free childcare to high earners, as Tory conference begins in Birmingham todayOn Friday the Times revealed that Katie Lam, the communities secretary, told a meeting in private ea…
Unverified video shows a drone hitting the Northern Bridge as vehicles move across it, creating a large fireball.
What did Netanyahu know about October 7 before it happened?
Bosnia and Herzegovina's legendary striker Edin Dzeko has bid farewell to international football after a final match.
Voting to begin in Brazil as Lula seeks a historic fourth term, facing strong opposition from Flavio Bolsonaro.
The family members of two Fox News journalists killed while covering the war in Ukraine are suing the network, saying it put getting the story ahead of its people.
A flight instructor recreates the Flydubai jet’s near-vertical 17,000 foot dive in a simulator.
Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro face off in battle between leftwing incumbent and far-right son of jailed ex-presidentBrazilians go to the polls on Sunday in the first round of a highly polarised and high-stakes presidential e…
State police and the country's security agency are looking into the co-pilot, who attempted to take control of a Flydubai plane travelling to Israel.
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Business
Money is needed now for a system that has left families including mine struggling their way unsupported and forgotten As one of many hundreds of thousands of people in the UK with a parent with Alzheimer’s, the passage i…
Cases of abuse, spitting, head-butting and sexual harassment, have spiked as transport police numbers have dwindledWhen a train was halted outside Exeter St Davids station on Monday, rail staff leapt to one conclusion: t…
Costa Limited reports operating profit of £20m in year to 31 December 2025 after losses of £13.5m in 2024Costa’s main coffee shop arm has returned to the black after revamping its high street outlets and broadening its m…
Unison refuses to ballot members on offer that would make thousands of council employees worse offThousands of Glasgow council workers face being sacked and reappointed under less favourable terms in one of the UK’s bigg…
Labour wants to make sure mayors and council chiefs in England can be held to account for extra revenues devolved to themMinisters are mulling over how to ensure that England’s regional leaders do not misuse their newfou…
Neighbours say crowds drawn by TikTok to Fabel Friet are clogging the picturesque canal street and attracting litter, gulls and ratsPeople living in one of Amsterdam’s most exclusive neighbourhoods have taken the city to…
David Robinson joins other insiders in urging industry to take more care over rapidly developing technologyA safety leader at OpenAI has quit the company, warning that its culture was broken and that AI firms were not “b…
In the NHS as in the private sector, the measure of success should be customer satisfaction and not just box-tickingAndy Burnham said he wanted to “rewire” the economy. Then he seemed to slam on the brakes, kicking most …
Shoppers are switching from traditional product despite little evidence alternative is saferBacon has long been a favourite of carnivores, but there is growing consumer concern about the health risks posed by nitrites, c…
Premier League’s actions would ‘have an influence on the bilateral state relationship’, Emirati officials saidThe United Arab Emirates has reportedly warned the government it could cancel big investments in the UK after …
As Hollywood's financing structures diversify, private capital is increasingly funding the big screen and changing the types of movies that are being made.
Investments in ADAS calibration equipment, computers and software subscriptions can drive up the cost of even a windshield replacement or an oil change.
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IT / AI
I heard from a friend of the family that Bob passed away in his sleep early Saturday. Very sad news. Bob, who's real name was Mark Stevens, was an early employee of Apple and was best known for his PBS documentaries, esp…
Here's a product feature which the world is going to need a whole lot more of over the coming months and years: default hard budget caps. I'm talking about the feature of pay-by-usage services and APIs that lets you say …
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I just sent the September edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter. If you are a sponsor (or start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. This month: More Fable class models A pricing war 3D graphics, Blender, …
"...we were making history."
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Capcom's Pragmata might be all about the horrors of AI, but in practice the studio doesn't seem so down on the tech. During the Capcom Open Conference RE: 2026 programmer Satoshi Ishida gave a presentation with the mouth…
It’s not even October yet and Amazon is already offering some Prime Big Deal Day discounts on its own hardware, along with plenty of other popular products. It’s all to hype up October Prime Day, which starts October 6th…
Kakul Srivastava is the CEO of Splice, the sample platform countless producers rely on for one-shots and melodic loops. Samples pulled from the service have found their way into massive hits like Lisa's "Money" and "Espr…
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Film
The 5 sci-fi movies on this list all underperformed or downright flopped at the box office, and yet their influence on the genre has been massive.
After cracks about Pete Hegseth, Kristi Noem and President Donald Trump’s vendetta against CNN, Michael Che on Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update touched on the ongoing controversy at Cornell University and Ryan Murphy…
In the Oct. 3 cold open on “Saturday Night Live,” Andrew Dismukes and Ashley Padilla play Republican strategists who have their work cut out for them building buzz for their party. Marcello Hernández comes in first as Ma…
Just a month away from the volatile midterms and a president way down in the polls, there was once again a plethora of political material ripe for this week’s SNL cold open, and the NBC late-nighter went full MAGA, with …
Taylor Swift gave Dakota Johnson some pretty sweet payback for appearing in her “Patient Zero” music video: the mega-star joined the Verity actress during her opening monologue tonight on Saturday Night Live. Perhaps it …
Predictions that Taylor Swift would make a cameo on “Saturday Night Live” with host Dakota Johnson came to fruition when the duo appeared together in the opening monologue. After Johnson joked about her failed relationsh…
Shane is one of the best Western movies of all time. It was also adapted into a short-lived TV series starring David Carradine.
On paper, "A Statement" sounds like an interesting movie, but it’s at once talky and flat, grabby and meandering, impassioned and neutral. It wants to be a "firebrand" docudrama, yet I can’t imagine who the audience is g…
New York Film Festival: The Oscar-winning writer/director turns his spotlight on a plushly appointed ensemble as the environmental stewards and scholars who tried to solve the climate crisis over one long-winded, futile …
On paper, director Tom McCarthy’s latest film, A Statement might appear to be a dense polemic, hardly the stuff of exciting moviemaking. It centers on a 1980 Florida conference dealing with the effects of Carbon Dioxide …
Lawrence Rothman has a lot of nerve, starting an album with a song called “The Meaning,” and then daring to ask some of the questions inherent in the big picture created by those two words — like, if not what is the mean…
There were times Jeremy Strong actually sent emails to Aaron Sorkin as if he were Mark Zuckerberg himself. So when Strong was asked by The New Yorker‘s David Remnick whether he cares how Zuckerberg will react to The Soci…
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