Australia’s former prime minister and a prominent China scholar, Kevin Rudd, will step down as ambassador to the United States a year ahead of schedule, a move some analysts say underscores a fundamen...
Canada and China appear ready to kick-start trade talks after years of strained relations, with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to Beijing this week coinciding with both countries question...
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...
French farmers steered some 350 tractors on January 11 toward French Parliament to protest low incomes and an EU trade deal with South America that they fear threatens their livelihoods. They say thei...
Bahram Salih, the new head of the UN's refugee agency says that he knows the pain of being ripped from all one knows. The former Iraqi president has just taken over the UNHCR and headed to Kakuma refu...
The 2026 Oscar nominations kick off today, January 22, with the likes of One Battle After Another and Sinners expected to dominate. Leonardo DiCaprio's thriller One Battle After Another is considered ...
The brand new Apple AirPods Pro 3 might be one of the best noise canceling earbuds , but $250 is a steep price to pay. You might be better off saving that money and getting these Baseus Bass BP1 Pro w...
A smart lock is an easy solution to some common problems. Locked yourself out? Need to let a friend in to water the plants? Your latchkey kid lost their key? Hands are full, and it’s raining cats and ...
Larry Ellison stands on stage to give a keynote during the company's 2025 conference. Robert Galbraith/Reuters Oracle and OpenAI's have plans to build $500 billion of data centers in a venture called ...
Google VP of global ads, Dan Taylor, said the company is focused on bringing ads to AI Overviews and AI Mode. Google Ads aren't coming to the Gemini AI app anytime soon, according to Google's VP of gl...
Companies of all sizes are looking to hire workers who know how to use AI. Sebastien Bozon/Getty Images Do you know what LLM even is? How about a GPU? A new vocabulary has emerged with the rise of AI....
Glacier National Park is beautiful in the offseason. Amy Grisak I've lived near Glacier National Park for 35 years and know it can get hectic in the summer months. However, I love snowshoeing, skiing,...
Singapore passport holders have the most flexibility for travel worldwide. inigolai-Photography/Shutterstock The Henley Passport Index ranks the world's most powerful passports for visa-free travel. S...
Adek Berry/Getty Images China's population declined for the fourth year in a row, reaching 1.405 billion. Falling birth rates and an aging population threaten China's economy and the global economy. G...
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has gone all in on private markets Ben Whitley/PA Images via Getty Images BlackRock hit $14 trillion in assets after bringing in close to $700 billion in net inflows in 2025. ...
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was questioned for the second day as part of her appeal trial regarding accusations of embezzlement of EU funds by her party for several years. The morning starte...
Indonesian police have dismantled an alleged baby trafficking ring that used social media to sell newborns in Medan after neighbours reported suspicious activity at a rented house. Medan police chief ...
An effort to prod Malaysian employers into hiring more locals for white-collar jobs by doubling the minimum salary for foreign staff has caught expatriates cold and stirred anxiety among some firms ov...
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday that US President Donald Trump’s threat of tariffs against allies over Greenland is “completely wrong” and a trade war is in no one’s interest. Trump sa...
Hey HN! localtunnel's server needs random ports per client. That doesn't work on Fly.io or behind strict firewalls. We rewrote it in TypeScript and added multiplexing over a single port. Open-source a...