Hurricane Melissa begins lashing Jamaica as ‘catastrophic’ Category 5 storm
Palm trees sway in the wind as Hurricane Melissa approaches, in Port Royal, Jamaica, October 27, 2025. — Reuters Jamaicans, Cubans, brace for direct impact.Across Caribbean, hundreds of thousands evacuate.Four…
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia contains copied Wikipedia pages
xAI’s Grokipedia, its Wikipedia-like online encyclopedia, is now live. The similarities go deeper than expected. Grokipedia’s design is pretty basic right now; like Wikipedia, the homepage is mostly just a…
How to sign up for Amazon Prime
Can you believe that the holiday season is already creeping up on us? I can’t. But at least that means we can begin looking forward to all the deals we’re…
Flight delays soar past 4,300 as US govt shutdown hits Day 27
The air traffic control tower at Newark Liberty International Airport is seen in Newark, New Jersey, US, May 9, 2025. — Reuters WASHINGTON: Air travel turmoil deepened with more than…
ExxonMobil accuses California of violating its free speech
Darren Woods, chairman and chief executive officer of Exxon Mobil Corp, during the Summit on Methane and Other Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases on day three of the COP28 climate conference at…
Third day of Istanbul talks ends with Kabul resisting Pakistan’s core counterterror demands
Pakistan’s Defence Minister, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, shakes hands with Afghan Defence Minister, Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid, following the signing of a ceasefire agreement in Doha, Qatar, October 19, 2025. —…
Trump’s DHS is recruiting ICE officers with a Halo meme
After using the original Pokémon theme song in a montage of ICE raids, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is using another popular video game franchise to promote itself on…
AMD, Department of Energy announce $1 billion AI supercomputer partnership
AMD has sealed a $1 billion deal with the US Department of Energy to develop two supercomputers, Lux and Discovery, in collaboration with Oracle and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Both…
Alassane Ouattara wins landslide fourth term as Ivory Coast’s president
Barring any surprise from the Constitutional Council, the octogenarian, who has been in office since 2011, will lead until 2030. Photograph: Luc Gnago/Reuters View image in fullscreen Alassane Ouattara has…
EU enlargement: How to end the wait?
FILE: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen shakes hands with Albanian PM Edi Rama and others before a meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels, 19 July 2022 “Waiting for…