North Korea’s nuclear tests have turned this mountain into an earthquake hot spot
Seismic activity has increased markedly at Mount Mantap, also known as Mantapsan, since the last test blast there in 2017
At least one dead and multiple injured in Philippines school shooting
At least one person is believed to have died and several injured after the shooting in Banga in Mindanao province.
Spain: Images of floods after torrential rain
At least one person was killed after torrential rain lashed eastern Spain overnight Wednesday, submerging streets and flooding buildings and metro stations.
At least 16 killed in attack on mosque in Pakistan
A vehicle loaded with explosives rammed into a mosque building during Friday prayers, a senior police official told the BBC.
Three Dead in Another School Shooting in Southern Philippines
Three people died while eight were injured in a school shooting in southern Philippines on Friday.
Third person dies from malaria in cluster near Germany’s Frankfurt Airport
Frankfurt grapples with a rare malaria outbreak tied to air travel, marking three deaths in recent months.
Australia: Man killed in shark attack near Perth
A swimmer was mauled by a shark, with witnesses reporting a massive pool of blood in the water. There have been four confirmed fatal shark attacks in Australia this year.
Poland Says Russia Plans to Strike Ukraine’s NATO Allies
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Russia plans to launch “hybrid-style” drone and missile strikes against nations supporting Ukraine, including NATO-member Poland, as the war enters its most crucial phase.
Deadly blast hits mosque at Pakistan police complex
Several people have reportedly been killed in an explosion at a mosque near a police complex in northwest Pakistan.
Russia votes in wartime election set to secure the Kremlin's power
Voting got underway on Friday in a tightly controlled three-day parliamentary election in Russia which President Vladimir Putin has framed as a barometer of support for Russia's war in Ukraine. It is the first parliamentary election since Russia…
India: Are food safety rules too much to swallow?
Recent raids at India's luxury hotels and a wider crackdown on its food companies have renewed the debate about food safety standards and their enforcement in the country.
India heads for driest monsoon in 17 years as El Nino curbs rainfall
El Nino has put India on track for its driest monsoon since 2009. Meanwhile, the Election Commission has barred both Trinamool factions from using the party's name in by-elections. More with DW.
Deadly blast hits mosque at Pakistan police complex
Several people have reportedly been killed in an explosion at a mosque near a police complex in northwest Pakistan.
How will rise of AI impact Africa?
The threat of catastrophic danger as artificial intelligence develops at high speed has sparked a global debate on how it should be regulated. And Africa is no exception. As governments and businesses look to harness the technology, concerns are…
Who gets to decide how quickly AI moves?
The biggest AI companies want to slow development together. The real question is what power they gain in return.
Trump’s Risky Hack-Back Plan
The U.S. president wants tech companies to go on the cyber-offensive. Will it work?
By Nearly Every Metric, the U.S. Is Losing the Iran War
“It’s irrefutable that the U.S. failed in its main strategic goals,” one expert said.
Sweden’s Right-Wing Reckoning
What was expected to be an easy election win resulted in a narrow victory for the left.
The Lives Built on Colombia’s Peace Deal Are at Risk
The new president is unsettling the combatants who laid down their arms a decade ago.
How Do You Dismantle a Propaganda Machine?
Peter Magyar is on a mission to restore Hungarians’ faith in public media.
ECB Rates Don’t Move in Lockstep With Energy Price, Lagarde Says
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde told euro-area finance ministers that energy-price jumps don’t automatically translate into monetary tightening.
Bank of Japan’s Ueda Delivers Rate Hike for Scott ‘the House’ Bessent
The BOJ raised rates, but dissenting votes add “dovish signal” that runs counter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s house view on the yen
France Shouldn’t Throw Out 3% Budget Anchor, Lescure Says
France must stay focused on getting its budget deficit back to the the level permitted under European Union rules, according to Finance Minister Roland Lescure.
Eurogroup Chief Mulls Emergency Meeting on Surging Energy Costs
Euro-area finance ministers may hold an extraordinary meeting to discuss how to cope with increasing energy prices amid strained budgets and global bond-market turmoil.
Bond Income Is Easing Some of the Pain in Treasury Selloff
Yields haven’t been much above 5% since 2007.
KPMG tech cuts come with a severance sum some staff call insulting
KPMG UK is laying off staff from the Tech and Data areas of its Advisory division and offering severance terms that one affected employee described as "insulting and disgraceful." The job cuts, affecting about 4 percent of the Advisory staff, were…
The Leftist Split Over AI Doom
The left wants AI regulation. They just can't agree on what it should look like or how concerned they should be.
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It Still Feels Like Summer in Parts of the US. Blame El Niño
Heat records are being shattered thanks to a boost from the natural climate pattern—and burning fossil fuels, of course.
Mophie’s Extendable MagSafe 3-in-1 Charging Stand Is 50 Percent Off
Charge your trio of Apple gadgets–iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods–with one of my favorite telescopic stands.
British Army spends £16M on 1,000 pocket-sized eyes in the sky
The British Army is buying more than 1,000 small drones for battlefield surveillance and training under contracts worth £16 million ($21 million). The Ministry of Defence (MoD) says the new portfolio of "spy" drones will give soldiers better…
How Humans and LLMs Read Gender into "Gender-Neutral" Physical Descriptions
arXiv:2609.16366v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: When foundation models describe people, recent work in AI fairness, accessibility, and ethics recommends avoiding inferred identity labels (e.g., "she", "his") in favor of seemingly…
No-Box Vulnerability Analysis: Description-only Detection of Indirect Prompt Injection Vulnerabilities in MCP Servers
arXiv:2609.10854v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Conventional vulnerability analysis relies on either system access or dynamic interaction, all of which may be unavailable to third-party analysts auditing closed-source, remotely hosted…
Sparse Data Augmentation for Optimization with Provable Guarantees
arXiv:2609.08133v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In nonconvex optimization problems arising in geometric machine learning, data augmentation is commonly used to promote invariance by averaging empirical losses over transformations of the…
Evaluating Deep-Search Agents under Hierarchical Web Evidence Poisoning
arXiv:2609.06027v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Search-augmented LLM agents are increasingly used for consumer decisions, making them vulnerable to Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) poisoning. Existing benchmarks largely measure…
Verify Before You Distill: Prompt-Level Teacher Gating for On-Policy Distillation
arXiv:2609.02998v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) accelerates post-training by providing dense token-level supervision from a frozen teacher on the student's own rollouts. Vanilla OPD applies this supervision…
Experts offer advice in an era shaped by artificial intelligence, social media, misinformation
Brian Druker, M.D., has pretty much done it all as a pioneer in precision medicine. He developed a drug that turned chronic myeloid leukemia from a death sentence into a manageable condition; his discovery spurred the development of numerous…
This dolphin terrifies fish until they puke—and then it eats their upchuck
Don’t have the energy to catch your own meal? This dolphin has a gross solution
How much longer will the sun shine?
Our sun is on a long, strange trip to its eventual demise. Here are the key stops along the way
How heat makes it harder for students to learn
As temperatures rise, the evidence is clear that heat is eroding students’ ability to learn
Why Bangladesh’s measles outbreak is a cautionary tale for the U.S.
As Bangladesh faces a deadly measles outbreak, experts assess what it would take for the U.S. to reach similar levels
These blood thinners may have an unexpected benefit for Alzheimer’s patients
Newer blood thinners may do more than prevent strokes in people with Alzheimer’s disease and atrial fibrillation. Researchers found that patients taking NOACs experienced a slower decline in cognitive function than those using warfarin or no blood…
STAT+: A geriatrician explains why AI for older adults deserves careful scrutiny
Across medicine, doctors are increasingly using artificial intelligence models to predict patient risk, from sepsis to falls to death. Often embedded directly into electronic health records, these predictions can be easy to incorporate into care…
In Sudan, attacks on hospitals force patients to make dangerous journeys
HEIBAN DISTRICT, Sudan — For more than a decade, medical missionary Tom Catena has run the largest hospital in the Nuba Mountains, a rugged territory the size of Austria, most recently in the midst of a brutal civil war. There is no oncologist on…
Opinion: More young men are coming to me for plastic surgery. The way I think about them has changed
There are more men sitting in my plastic surgery waiting room now than ever before. If I had to choose one word to describe the men I see today, it would be “influenced.” Procedures on men in the U.S. have grown by 4%, a rate that makes men the…
Opinion: Doctors should educate patients about ‘Asian glow’ and drinking risks
I was 8 years old, sitting at dinner with my grandparents, watching Gong Gong’s face turn bright red after a few sips of yellow wine. He loved making me laugh, and though he enjoyed his drinks, I think he liked my reaction even more. Over a decade…
California Adopts New Limits to Rein in Dairy Manure Pollution and Its ‘Outsized’ Groundwater Impacts
Central Valley dairies are long overdue to face stricter regulations over their nitrate pollution, families and clean water advocates argue. Industry stakeholders and business owners worry about added costs and new requirements. By Steven Rodas The…
Week in wildlife: swimming pigs, circling sharks and a fox on the cricket pitch
This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world Continue reading...
Improved air quality linked to better mental development in toddlers, study finds
Long-term research in New York shows efforts to reduce air pollution associated with higher cognitive test scores Improvements in air pollution are leading to brighter, smarter toddlers, according to a new study from Columbia University in New…
‘Forcing a reckoning’: How Asia is preparing for a ‘supersized’ El Niño
From Sri Lanka to South Korea, governments are preparing for droughts, wildfires, typhoons and floods – with climate plans facing their biggest challenge to date Asian governments are rushing preparations for the most severe El Niño weather event…
The Guardian view on the Nepal-Tibet floods: a spur to action on climate | Editorial
New research links last month’s disaster to fossil fuel pollution. Supporting disaster-hit countries must be at the centre of climate politics Following a familiar pattern, coverage of the glacier collapse on the Nepal-Tibet border three weeks ago…
European Commission set to push social media restrictions, safety requirements into law
The proposal, known as the EU KIDS Act, would block social media platforms from offering accounts to children younger than 13 and establish a bloc-wide minimum age of 15 for account creation.
China’s FamousSparrow hackers target Latin America with new backdoor
Alleged Chinese hackers are breaking into government agencies across Latin America using a new backdoor that researchers are calling “SparroWocky.”
Hackers claim breach of Russian election systems days before parliamentary vote
An anonymous hacking group claimed to have broken into computer systems connected to Russia’s election infrastructure just days before the country begins voting for a new parliament.
Congress eyes new support for Cyber Command after recent suicide deaths
Congressional sources say they view the deaths of U.S. Cyber Command personnel as an inflection point, especially as the Pentagon’s appetite for cyber capabilities grows following successful contributions to high-profile missions against Iran and…
Israeli contractor BlackCore trained Angolan officials in online influence operations
An Israeli influence-for-hire company trained Angolan government officials to run online influence operations, including by creating fake social media personas and media outlets, researchers found.
Canada captain still loses sleep over England's World Cup final triumph
Canada captain Sophie de Goede says she still loses sleep over their World Cup final loss to England last year.
Saints cancel memorial wall for fans' ashes
The club says there has not been enough demand for the project.
Dreams of Old Trafford - Brown targets British title and famous nights
While British boxing fans' focus has been on world titles in recent weeks, with failed tilts by Conor Benn and Moses Itauma, Pat Brown has been preparing for a domestic bout where victory will enhance his own fast-growing reputation.
Criticism 'normal' after poor start - Man Utd's Olid
Manchester United manager Eva Olid says it is "normal" to expect "constructive criticism" following their poor start to the WSL campaign.
Transfer rumors, news: Real Madrid, Barcelona track Man City-bound USMNT star Sullivan
Real Madrid and Barcelona could make a future move for USMNT youngster Cavan Sullivan. Transfer Talk has the latest.