China’s Tsinghua University has emerged as the world’s top institution in computer science across multiple major global rankings, marking a symbolic shift in a field once dominated by American universities. For the first time, Tsinghua now leads lists ranging from the widely recognised US News Best Global Universities to CSRankings, a system seen as rigorously…
Nobody expected President Donald Trump to save a country from financial crisis. Yet on October 14th he will meet Javier Milei, Argentina’s president and an ideological ally, to discuss the details of a rescue package. America has already promised Argentina a swap line worth $20bn—an amount representing half the South American country’s foreign reserves—in order…
Cover image via Douyin Follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp for the latest stories and breaking news. A new fashion trend is taking over social media in China, where young people are getting ‘tooth tattoos’ — designs engraved onto dental caps that are later fitted onto their teeth Messages like “get rich” and “ensure success”, along with lovers’…
The soldiers who were arrested had asked to make the journey a few hours earlier, while it was still dark. Four soldiers in the IDF’s Nahal Brigade were imprisoned for 10 days after they had refused to drive an unprotected Hummer through an area in Gaza City that the military had not completely taken over,…
India and China will restart direct flights between the countries this month, India’s foreign ministry has said, in another step towards ties being gradually normalised. There have been no direct flights between the two countries since 2020, following deadly troop clashes on their shared Himalayan border. But over the past year or so, Delhi and…
SYDNEY (AP) — The only Australian soldier to be charged with a war crime in Afghanistan pleaded not guilty Friday, but a prosecutor said he is unlikely to stand trial before 2027. Oliver Schulz, 44, is accused of shooting Afghan man Dad Mohammad three times in the head in Uruzgan province wheat field in May…
MANILA (Reuters) -The Philippines is closely watching China’s actions after Beijing said it would establish a nature reserve at the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, Philippines’ Armed Forces Chief General Romeo Brawner said on Friday. Manila has called China’s plans for a reserve … Source link
Honduran influencer Jennifer Nicole Rivas was found dead in her home in capital Tegucigalpa on Wednesday, October 1, according to reports. She was just 21 years old, and was best known as a TikTok star and television presenter. According to local outlet HCH Television Digital, Rivas was on permanent medication for epilepsy. As a result,…
Power-hungry data centres run hot, so one Chinese company is planning to submerge a pod of servers in the sea off Shanghai with hopes of solving computing’s energy woes. On a wharf near the city, workers were finishing off the large yellow capsule – a foray into alternative tech infrastructure that faces questions over its…
THE GREY-ZONE conflict between the West and Russia is escalating at sea as well as in the air. On September 19th, as Russian MiG-31 jets violated Estonian airspace, your correspondent was with Estonia’s navy at its base in Tallinn, the NATO member’s capital. Its naval force is on the front lines of a push to…