China’s Northwestern Polytechnical University last week flew a hypersonic craft and claimed the test achieved some world-first feats. The University named the craft “Feitian-2” and according to Chinese media the test flight saw it reach Mach 12 (14,800 km/h or 9,200 mph) – handily faster than the Mach 5 speeds considered to represent hypersonic flight….
Hikers at Gyeyangsan mountain in South Korea found an unexpected surprise at the summit – a huge swarm of ‘lovebugs’. In a video shared to social media, a hiker who visited the mountain is seen covered in the small insects and swatting them away with an electric bug zapper. The mountain was “covered with bugs”…
British luxury carmaker Jaguar is facing its steepest sales decline in decades, following a radical rebrand that has drawn sharp criticism from industry experts, dealers, and long-time customers. Only 49 Jaguar vehicles were registered in Europe in April 2025, a 97.5 percent drop compared to 1,961 units in the same month last year. Year-to-date sales…
President Xi Jinping has called for a “clear, transparent and traceable” mechanism to regulate the exercise of power in China’s anti-corruption drive and boost supervision by the people and the media to better rein in disciplinary and legal violations. Xi made the remarks while presiding over a group study session of the 24-seat decision-making Politburo…
Sunderland have recently been linked with a former player and Liverpool legend, and an analyst has already given their verdict on the matter. There is nothing more romantic in football than the return of a player developed in your academy, and this is a possibility for the Black Cats, or at least that is what…
Prosecutors say they have evidence that the man charged in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students bought a knife and knife sheath online in the months before the killings, newly released court documents show. Prosecutors in Bryan Kohberger’s trial filed a motion asking a judge to allow them to present his Amazon…
From free museum visits and tram rides to discounted meals and fun runs, residents and tourists took full advantage of offers by thousands of businesses, braving the frequent showers to revel in the celebrations of the city’s 28th anniversary of its handover to Beijing. Rows of bright red national and Hong Kong flags adorned the…
The fashion industry is responsible for up to 8 per cent of the world’s planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions, according to UN figures, which many of its companies have promised to tackle with targets to reach net zero by 2050 or sooner. Yet researchers, companies and industry insiders say that little has been done to push this…
Photo by Christian Lue The latest Sino-American “handshake”—a 90-day pause on tariffs, semiconductor export bans, and rare-earth chokeholds agreed in Geneva and revived in London this month—was never meant as a love-in. It is a grudging ceasefire, a chance for each superpower to breathe, re-stock, and, above all, rewrite the operating manual of twenty-first-century techno-commerce….
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia has taken full control of Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk region, more than three years after President Vladimir Putin ordered thousands of troops into Ukraine in February 2022, the Russian-backed head of the region told Russian state television. Luhansk, which has an area of … Source link