A passenger who smoked inside an aircraft lavatory on a Singapore Airlines flight from Singapore to Shanghai on August 21 was escorted off the aircraft by local authorities for…
Peter Cullen, the Canadian voice actor who voiced Optimus Prime across four decades of television and cinema, died Wednesday, August 26, 2026, at his home in Los Angeles at age 85.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates warned in an essay published this week that artificial intelligence will rapidly transform the U.S.
Kim Conaty, the Nancy and Steven Crown Family Chief Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, has been named the eighth director of the Hood Museum of Art at…
Nvidia reported second-quarter revenue of $96.2 billion on August 27, 2026, up 106% from a year ago.
Glasson Lakehouse, a four-star luxury hotel in Co Westmeath, has temporarily closed following an outbreak of the winter vomiting bug norovirus.
Indian-origin cricketer Anaya Bangar has received clearance from Cricket Australia to return to women’s competitive cricket.
Norway’s King Harald V is in a very serious health condition at Oslo University Hospital after being treated for a bacterial infection in his blood.
Ratko Mladić, the Bosnian Serb general convicted of genocide and war crimes during the 1990s Yugoslav conflicts, has died at age 84 while serving a life sentence in a United…
A new Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution study reveals that human-caused greenhouse gas emissions and global warming are driving an unprecedented breakdown in inter-basin…
State-owned agency Havanatur launched a digital payment option on August 21, 2026, enabling residents in Cuba to book domestic tourism services online and pay in U.S.
The Trump administration reached a $1.2 billion agreement with German energy giant RWE to cancel offshore wind leases in New York, California, and Louisiana.