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Trump's peace plan faces toughest test in deweaponising Hamas in Gaza

Despite Trump's repeated, unqualified declarations that the war is over, backsliding on either side could threaten a renewal of fighting, analysts said

Splendid Liberators: How America replaced Spain as the world's great power

Joe Jackson's Splendid Liberators unpacks the brutal realities and far-reaching impact of the Spanish-American War, challenging the myth of a "splendid little war"

'Bluetoothing': Blood-sharing drug trend fuels alarming global HIV surge

The practice, in which users inject the blood of already intoxicated individuals, has fuelled one of the fastest-growing HIV epidemics in the Pacific and grown widespread in South Africa

Diamonds help cool computer chips, enabling faster AI, high-performance

The dirty secret in chips is that more than half of all energy is wasted as leakage current at the transistor level, said R Martin Roscheisen, an electrical engineer

Trump's $100,000 H-1B visa fee may hurt US universities and schools

Higher education leaders and public-school superintendents say they depend on skilled foreign workers to fill critical roles

UK businesses hit by cyberattacks, halting car production & grocery supply

Cyberattacks seem inevitable lately, and large-scale theft of customer data has begun to feel almost routine. Attacks that upend company operations are exposing troubling vulnerabilities

Strong-armed by Trump, Netanyahu embraces Gaza deal as personal win

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel took credit for an emerging agreement, but it was clear that President Trump was calling the shots

Can ginger really calm nausea, settle an upset stomach? Here's what to know

Ginger contains two pungent compounds - gingerol and shogaol - that are thought to ease nausea by blocking nausea-related pathways in the gut and brain

Why more young people are being diagnosed with cancer than ever before

In the last decade, more than a dozen types of cancer have risen among people under 50. Scientists don't have all of the answers, but research is starting to offer clues

OpenAI's Sora makes disinformation extremely easy, real with AI clips

The app, called Sora, requires just a text prompt to create almost any footage a user can dream up

Jane Goodall, renowned primatologist who studied chimps, passes away at 91

Her discoveries in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behaved in the wild broke new ground and represented what was called "one of the Western world's great scientific achievements"

Is it ok to use your phone on the toilet? Here's what you need to know

Compared with those who said they had never used a smartphone on the toilet, the researchers found that the smartphone users were much more likely to spend more than five minutes going to the bathroom

'Would you work 996?' Hustle culture trend gains ground in Silicon Valley

The number combination refers to a work schedule - 9 am to 9 pm, six days a week - that has its origins in China's hard-charging tech scene

High-skilled visas have problems, Trump's $100,000 fee won't fix them

Some are strategising how to work with the new rules. Others are making plans to litigate

McNamara at War: Rare later regret over Vietnam worthy of admiration

Robert McNamara's life was defined by a quest for control. A new biography shows how that same drive shaped his Vietnam errors - and his rare, late-in-life willingness to admit them

Trump's new tariffs shake Asian economies still reeling from trade war

On Thursday, Trump announced another round of tariffs, which would go into effect on Oct 1, applying import duties ranging from 25 percent to 100 percent on pharmaceuticals, heavy trucks, etc

Western oil sanctions fuel Russia's growing shadow fleet, illicit trade

The shadow fleet accounts for about 17 per cent of all in-service oil tankers sailing the ocean today, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence, a research firm

Trump's $100,000 H-1B visa fee sparks confusion among companies, workers

The memo said that Goldman was working with its lawyers 'to review the specifics of the order as more detail becomes available to communicate with you accordingly'

Promised 'taste of America', J-1 visa workers faced abuse, exploitation

Every year, tens of thousands of young people are sent on visas to toil as farmworkers, housekeepers and office interns, all in the name of cultural exchange

With calls for retribution over Kirk, some see rise of 'woke right' in US

Conservatives have pressed for consequences for those who make negative comments about Charlie Kirk. But a few on the right say they worry about limits on speech