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Why blocking sunlight to cool Earth is becoming a global policy concern

Solar radiation modification could temporarily cool the planet by reflecting sunlight, but uncertain effects on rainfall, ecosystems and geopolitics are raising governance concerns

Nobel Prize 2026 in chemistry awarded to Henri B Kagan and Kenso Soai

Henri B Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discoveries that helped explain how chemical reactions can produce molecules with the same handedness

Paramount-Warner merger: How the year-long Hollywood bidding war unfolded

What began as Warner Bros Discovery's plan to split its studios from its declining television networks turned into a bidding war involving Paramount, Netflix and other buyers

October 7 attack to Gaza ceasefire: Three years of Israel-Hamas conflict

From the October 7 attack and 251 hostages to the war in Gaza, regional escalation, ceasefires and plans for Gaza's future, here is a timeline of the key developments over three years

World faces risk cocktail from AI, oil and debt: IMF's Kristalina Georgieva

The rush to develop artificial intelligence is delivering a growth spurt that's so far confined to a handful of countries, Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said

23 Indians rescued after oil tanker attacked off Russia's Black Sea coast

The Black Sea is a critical global trade choke point facing severe disruption due to escalating attacks on commercial shipping and port infrastructure from the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict

HSBC plans job cuts across UK wealth management business in AI push

The bank plans to cut about half of management and specialist roles ‌in the business, while reductions ​among financial advisers could reach around ​70%

Israelis mourn Oct 7 attack as Palestinians grapple with war it sparked

In southern Israel, families will mourn at intersections, bomb shelters, and the site of a music festival that Hamas-led militants overran three years ago in the deadliest attack against Israel

AI a 'classic bubble' that is nearing bursting point, warns Ray Dalio

His comments come as technology giants spend hundreds of billions of dollars on AI, increasingly financed with debt, and as market gains concentrate in a handful of stocks

McDonald's hit with class action alleging AI-powered menu price-fixing

The lawsuit, filed on Friday, said ‌McDonald's violated US antitrust law by ​conspiring with independent franchisees ​to fix prices using algorithms trained on nonpublic data

SpaceX in talks with investors to borrow $40 billion to buy Nvidia chips

SpaceX is in early talks with banks and investors to raise $40 billion to fund purchases of Nvidia chips, potentially marking one of the largest AI-related debt financings

Jaguar unveils $172,000 electric car as British brand begins major reboot

Orders for Type 01 will open in early 2027, more than two yrs after Jaguar stopped selling new cars in the UK as part of a decision to overhaul the marque with new branding and limit it to luxury EVs

FlyDubai co-pilot accused of murder-suicide mission trained to fly in UK

Hamam al-Hammami, 29, trained with L3 Airline Academy, a company that's now part of Acron Aviation, between 2018 and 2019 and received lessons at one or more centers in England

How Houthi rebels triumphed on Red Sea and sparked a new war in Yemen

In a single night, an Iran-allied militia trounced Saudi-backed forces to take control of Yemen's Red Sea coast. No one was able, or willing, to stop them

A spy's guide to fighting AI-driven propaganda and disinformation

A Russia-backed network called Portal Kombat is spreading disinformation across hundreds of websites to influence AI models such as ChatGPT, Grok and Gemini, according to a former CIA officer

Nobody knows who is running Iran, says Trump as war enters eighth month

Iran's foreign ​ministry spokesman said on Sunday Washington knows very well who their counterpart is in Iran and how the decision-making system in Iran works

Taiwan dethrones South Korea atop world markets as AI trade widens

The Taiex Index beat the Kospi by about 23 percentage points last quarter, the widest margin since the turn of the century

Iran must cut enrichment to end war, says US Vice President JD Vance

Vance, a longtime skeptic of US involvement in foreign wars, has taken a leading role in negotiating a settlement to the conflict and brokered a provisional peace deal in June that quickly fell apart

Donald Trump Jr repaid costs of wedding celebrations, says Russian oligarch

ProPublica reported that Kremlev, who has close ties to Russian Prez Vladimir Putin, 'footed the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars of wedding expenses' when Trump Jr married Bettina Anderson

CNN now has new owner. What lies ahead for the network under Skydance?

Skydance-owned Paramount's $81 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery puts CNN and CBS News under the same corporate umbrella