Tunisian communities are increasingly frustrated that access to drinking water is still not a given, particulalry for rural communities. Hundreds of thousands of people are thought not to be connected...
The original art director of Magic: The Gathering, Jesper Myrfors, has once again taken to social media to offer some interesting behind-the-scenes insight into the early days of the game, this time e...
The author had no idea how far behind her son was in reading. Courtesy of the author I'm a mom and an educator, and I didn't know how to teach him to read. My son's reading struggles were wrongly attr...
Videos verified by the Observers team show Iranian security forces attacking a hospital to arrest injured protesters in Ilam, western Iran, on the night of January 3-4. Earlier in the day, Iranian sec...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Prof Alice Sullivan's talk at the University of Bristol was disrupted by a protest. ✓ Sullivan described the protest ...
A UK employment tribunal rejected a request from fired Rockstar Games employees to receive interim pay while waiting for a full hearing about their dismissal, according to Bloomberg and IGN . After Ro...
First fatalities follow days of demonstrations over economic distress...
Generation Alpha’s ubiquitous watchword is beyond the reach of semantics...
Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI In 2026, quitting smoking and joining a gym are no longer enough for a new year's resolution. Young adults, addicted to their phones and exhausted with dating apps , are reso...
An Iranian police officer was killed in a stabbing during unrest near the capital, local media reported on Thursday as protests over the cost of living in the country entered a 12th day. Several Kurdi...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Eira Tansey announced her divorce on Instagram. ✓ An AI impersonated her following the announcement. ✓ ...
A Pinterest executive said Gen Zers use the platform to find their unique aesthetics. Edward Berthelot/Getty Images Gen Zers use Pinterest in a very different way from their parents or even older sibl...
Courtesy of the author I joined a mom group seeking support, but I found judgment instead. My parenting style, combined with having five kids, made me an outsider. Leaving the group helped me redefine...
Elon Musk's X has partially restricted access to Grok's image editing capabilities amid growing backlash to the flood of nonconsensual, sexualized deepfakes of adults and minors generated by the platf...
Grok began 2026 as it began 2025 : under fire for its AI-generated images. Elon Musk's chatbot has spent the last week flooding X with nonconsensual, sexualized deepfakes of adults and minors. Circula...
The author is raising her kids to speak German, Dutch, and English. Courtesy of the author I grew up fascinated by different cultures and languages. My husband and I raise our children in three langua...
Alabama police on Friday announced the death of a missing 4-year-old boy....
The UK is bringing a law into force that makes creating non-consensual intimate deepfake images, like the ones that have proliferated on X because of the Grok AI chatbot, a criminal offense, as report...
The first video I saw of the Minneapolis shooting was bad enough. Shortly after I saw it, I had the terrible realization that there were multiple people in the clip holding their phones up - another a...
Kazakhstan is promoting working professions among its youth to address a shortage of blue-collar workers....