22+ hour, 2+ min ago   (1578+ words) BRICS leaders ended their two-day summit in New Delhi on Sunday, 13 September, with an unusually broad show of unity over the wars and economic pressures dividing the international system, adopting common positions on the Middle East, sanctions, trade barriers, terrorism…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1615+ words) The heads of four of the world’s leading artificial intelligence groups are now publicly arguing for greater restraint in the race to build more powerful AI, an unusual point of agreement among companies spending heavily to outrun one another. Google…...

5+ day, 13+ min ago   (1238+ words) Heathrow Airport was struggling to return to normal on Wednesday, 9 September, after a major failure in Britain’s air traffic control system forced it to halt arrivals overnight and contributed to the cancellation of more than 1,750 flights across the UK. Flights…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (894+ words) The Eiffel Tower reopened on Tuesday, 8 September, after being shut for a day when staff went on strike over the treatment of female workers during a visit by a delegation linked to the Hindu organization BAPS. Employees walked out on…...

6+ day, 3+ min ago   (937+ words) Eighteen of the world’s major maritime nations have warned that the international rules underpinning commercial shipping are beginning to break down, as wars, attacks on vessels and the growth of opaque shadow fleets change the environment in which more than…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1270+ words) The results of Germany’s Saxony-Anhalt state election on September 6 were far worse than feared for the country’s mainstream political parties. The far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) came close to winning a majority of votes, with 43.8%. This was about 4% higher than…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1123+ words) India has cleared about ₹1.10 trillion, or $11.6 billion, in planned military purchases for its Army, Navy and Air Force, with the government saying almost all of the equipment will come from Indian suppliers. The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), India’s top military…...

1+ week, 59+ min ago   (669+ words) Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany, or Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), has won a landslide election victory in Saxony-Anhalt, more than doubling its vote and delivering a humiliating defeat to Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservatives. Official preliminary results released on Monday, 7 September,…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (626+ words) The UN General Assembly on Friday, 4 September, adopted a resolution encouraging greater use of equal area map projections, which preserve the relative sizes of land masses more accurately than the widely used Mercator projection. The measure passed by 164 votes to…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago   (947+ words) Wong said on Sunday, 6 September, that an “uglier side” had emerged in recent online discussions, first after deadly floods in Nepal and then during renewed scrutiny of Singapore Airlines’ exposure to Air India. Racist comments had been directed at some…...