As dawn begins to color the horizon, the comings and goings of heavy trucks from the port of Mombasa are already nonstop at the gates of the Gikomba market in Nairobi. As soon as the trucks park, porters rush to unload them. They place huge bundles of secondhand clothing – mitumba in Swahili – each…
Two NASA astronauts, a Japanese flier and a Russian cosmonaut plunged back to Earth on Saturday, safely splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, west of San Diego, to wrap up a five-month mission to space. Strapped into SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endurance, commander Anne McClain, pilot Nichole Ayers, Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and cosmonaut Kirill Peskov…
I didn’t realize how much control my phone had over me until I checked its built-in Digital Wellbeing tool. I noticed that what started as a quick scroll between tasks turned into hours lost in a blur of videos, shopping carts, and notifications. Every app seemed designed to steal my attention. So, I did something…
WASHINGTON — An unkept promise of Donald Trump’s presidency is that he’d end the war between Russia and Ukraine in one swift diplomatic masterstroke. Trump made threats. He applied pressure. Still, the bombs keep falling, the casualties continue to pile up. Now, Trump is betting that a face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin will…
A week removed from a brutal payroll report that triggered worry over a tapped consumer and a trapped Federal Reserve, the broad stock indexes are back at the cusp of all-time highs, market volatility has returned to year-to-date lows and some investors are calling off the August hurricane watch. The S & P 500’s 2.4%…
Dutton We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. “Incomparable Grace: JFK in the Presidency” (Dutton), by presidential historian Mark K. Updegrove, traces John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s years in the White House, including his final days leading up to a political fundraising trip in Texas. Read an excerpt below, and don’t miss…
Vance is currently visiting the UK, spending a lot of time with the UK Foreign Secretary (Image: Pool, Getty Images) Despite making a series of controversial remarks about the UK in recent months, JD Vance is currently vacationing in the country this summer. The US Vice President was welcomed by Foreign Secretary David Lammy at…
Although the one-day visit by Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee and his officials to Macau on 5 August was a positive step in strengthening cooperation between the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) and the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR), there remains ample scope for further collaboration between the two cities, particularly in the…
Updated on: Aug 09, 2025 09:54 pm IST US President Donald Trump will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on August 15 in Alaska to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine. French President Emmanuel Macron said in a social media post on X that the future of Ukraine cannot be decided without the Ukrainians….
After starting in late June, Gemini Live on Android and iOS is now widely rolling out the ability to access Google apps like Keep and Tasks in real-time conversations. At I/O 2025 in May, Google announced how Gemini Live would be able to create Calendar events, Tasks reminders, and add notes to Keep, as well…