Department stores, then and now. Bettmann/Getty Images ; Kamil Krzaczynski/Getty Images Department stores have changed dramatically over the last 100 years. Department stores once sold necessities. No...
Dr. Sue Hwang, a radiation oncologist, said her own experience with breast cancer helped her see vulnerability as a strength instead of a weakness. Tim Brown Oncologist Sue Hwang was diagnosed with br...
The EU's most senior prosecutor told Slovak MPs that a staggering one in three VAT fraud cases investigated by her office has links to Slovakia. How can such fraud flourish in Slovakia and is it a new...
The US president wrote to complain about not getting a Nobel Peace Prize, a decision that doesn't rest with Norway's PM. He said he would devote more thought to US interests, after having "stopped 8 W...
The president of the German Armed Forces' reservists says European troops should be sent to Greenland to block a US takeover of the territory. Meanwhile, heating bills are set to soar amid a harsh win...
"There's enormous issues for our economy and for our democracy that have got to be dealt with," Sanders said. "And I feel we're not ready to do that." Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty I...
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Two months before it changed its name to "Meta," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally introduced us to his metaverse for work : Horizon Workrooms, envisioned as a virtual space for workers to colla...
Anthropic wants to expand Claude's AI agent capabilities and take advantage of the growing hype around Claude Code - and it's doing it with a brand-new feature released Monday, dubbed "Claude Cowork."...
Simon Sung, the CEO of Samsung Electronics Europe. Samsung Electronics Samsung has a very different AI strategy from the likes of OpenAI. The company develops AI for consumer products like kitchen app...
The author moved from the US to Wales 15 years ago. Courtesy of the author Moving overseas meant living far from my mom for most of my adult life. Staying close across an ocean takes effort, grief, an...
The administration of US President Donald Trump is halting visa processing for people from more than 70 countries, the US State Department has confirmed to the Post. “The State Department is pausing i...
A jailed activist has lost a judicial review against a Hong Kong Correctional Services Department rule that prohibits female inmates from wearing shorts in summer, with the court ruling that the women...
Indonesia’s ambitious free nutritious meals programme has fed more than 55 million people in its first year, a scale-up President Prabowo Subianto has hailed as a major step in tackling childhood maln...
Any ebook reader will let you cram a Beauty and the Beast -sized library’s worth of books in your pocket, but so will your phone. An ebook reader offers a more book-like reading experience, with fewer...
Anthropic's Claude Cowork AI tool, which has launched as a research preview this week. Anthropic Anthropic employees used Claude to build Cowork, its new agentic tool launched this week. The AI startu...
Screens at the White House display AI-modified videos of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) that were shared on social media by President...
The author's grandmother lived to 99. Courtesy of Tracy Granzyk My grandmother lived to 99, and I got to know her better as an adult than I did as a child. I'm glad we spent that time together and tha...
Nature, Published online: 20 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00190-y The accuracy of eyewitness evidence is questioned, and a fossil collection examined when a geological society moves its London...
As AFCON 2025 heads towards a thrilling finale in Morocco, the host cities are buzzing with far more than football. In Casablanca and Rabat, art, culture and the passion of fans are turning the tourna...