UK
Labour Holds Starmer’s Old Seat as Green Leader Polanski Falls Short in Holborn and St Pancras By-Election
Labour's Sagal Abdi-Wali has won the Holborn and St Pancras by-election with a majority of 3,364 over Green…
Health
Kenya Rules Out Second Ebola Case as Suspected Wajir Infection Tests Negative; Minister Rejects Border Closure
Preliminary laboratory tests have come back negative for a suspected second Ebola case in Wajir County, Kenya, as…
USA
ICE Agent Shoots Man in Bronx With 5-Year-Old in Car; Mamdani Demands Halt After Two-Hour Call With Trump
A federal immigration agent fired seven rounds at a car in the Bronx on Thursday, wounding a 28-year-old…
Business
Nvidia-Backed Firmus Scraps Australia’s Biggest IPO in 30 Years as AI Market Jitters Bite
Nvidia-backed AI data-centre operator Firmus withdrew its ASX listing application on Friday, scrapping what would have been Australia's…
Sports
Guardians Stun White Sox 9-5 in Game 4 to Force Winner-Take-All ALDS Game 5
The Cleveland Guardians scored six runs in the sixth inning to beat the Chicago White Sox 9-5 on…
Education
The Lost Years: Why India Is Putting Its Five-Year-Olds in Class 1 Instead of Preschool
A five-year-old's fingers should be learning to hold a crayon, not bracing under the weight of a school…
Geo-politics
Malaysia Closes Schools Across Four States and Its Two Capitals as Indonesian Wildfire Haze Smothers Southeast Asia
Schools across Johor, Malacca, Negeri Sembilan and Selangor, plus Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya, were ordered shut on Friday…
Science & Technology
Nvidia-Backed Upscale AI Launches Token Fabric, the Networking Platform That Lets Data Centres Mix AI Chips From Rival Suppliers
Backed by Nvidia, Salesforce and Temasek and valued at $2 billion, startup Upscale AI has unveiled Token Fabric…
USA
Trump Rules Out New Iran Strikes Before Midterms as Oil Prices and Tanker Attacks Escalate
President Trump declared on Truth Social that the United States "will not be attacking Iran at any time…
Geo-politics
Witkoff and Kushner to Present New Ukraine Peace Plan in Miami as Kremlin Agrees War Is a “Stalemate”
Trump's envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will meet a Ukrainian delegation in Miami on Friday to discuss…