•Rescuers work outside a damaged five-story residential building following a Russian drone attack in Kyiv, yesterday Russian attacks across Ukraine on Wednesday killed at least 28 people, including five children who died when a missile slammed into an apartment block in the north of the country as they slept. Windows shattered in the powerful...
Oil prices rose today, and stocks fell amid fresh concerns about Middle East supplies following a warning that Iran appeared to be stepping up attacks in the Strait of Hormuz. The retreat came as investors brushed off another record day on Wall Street, where the Nasdaq and S&P 500 were boosted by a rush back […]
•Site of a Russian aerial strike at a multi-floor residential building in Pryluky, Ukraine, today At least 15 people were killed in Russian strikes across Ukraine today, the authorities said, including nine when a missile destroyed an apartment block in the north of the country. Emergency services picked through the rubble of the destroyed fi...
France today fired for the first time its new M51.3 nuclear-capable ballistic missile from a nuclear-powered submarine, a successful test that President Emmanuel Macron argued showed the credibility of the French nuclear deterrent. The missile, a variant of France’s M51 missile and which was not carrying a warhead, was fired from the Le Vigila...
•Trump US President Donald Trump today blamed mass student protests in France on “mass migration” and Islam, pushing his global right-wing narrative ahead of tough midterm elections at home. “What’s happening in France is nothing less than out-of-control mass migration. This isn’t about schools, this is about Islam wanting to take over a once ...
•Karolinska Institute neuroscience professor Abdel El Manira speaks in front of a screen displaying an illustration of the human brain, yesterday Nobel Prize-winning American researcher Karl Deisseroth is a psychiatrist, neuroscientist and bioengineer who has spent more than two decades illuminating the workings of the brain to unlock its mys...
The A350F freighter (MSN 700), the first of two test aircraft, has completed its first flight. The aircraft, fitted with special flight test instrumentation, flew for 4 hours and 10 minutes reaching an altitude of 25,000 feet. The aircraft was flown by a dedicated Airbus Flight Test crew. “This maiden flight is a major milestone […]
Artificial intelligence may have been used in a string of cyberattacks targeting South Korea’s financial sector, the president said today, as police announced the launch of an investigation. More than seven financial institutions, including some of South Korea’s biggest banks, have reported customer data breaches in the past week, reports AFP....
•US President Donald Trump President Donald Trump has approved the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, a US Army psychiatrist who shot dead 13 people at a military base in 2009, the Pentagon said today. Hasan’s execution for the attack at Fort Hood in Texas — which also wounded more than two dozen people […]
•US President Donald Trump The United States yesterday warned foreign financial institutions that if they conducted any business with Iran or its banking sector they could be sanctioned by Washington. “Foreign financial institutions continuing to transact with sanctioned Iranian financial institutions could be targeted at any time without adva...

