Thousands of migrants, including many unaccompanied minors, are living in squalid conditions at the Tarajal industrial park in Ceuta. With reception facilities at 5,000% capacity, authorities report rising sexual violence and a lack of basic services.
Frank Spinelli, a doctor and author, thought he'd overcome childhood sexual abuse by his Boy Scouts leader, but the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a relapse into alcoholism, forcing him to confront his lingering shame and develop a new framework for healing.
Prefectural government confirms reports of fake SDF personnel attempting to enter properties in earthquake-affected areas following a 7.1 magnitude quake.
Security forces in Zambia arrested 11 people, including senior opposition figures, over an alleged insurrection plot. Opposition candidate Brian Mundubile was found at the raid scene in Lusaka as the country awaits presidential election results.
A wildfire named the Sorrento fire broke out north of San Diego, California, burning 131 acres and prompting evacuation orders for residents in affected areas.
Authors of a $3.48m report on Australia's social media ban age assurance technology admitted using ChatGPT for editing, but denied citation errors were AI hallucinations, despite multiple incorrect references and non-existent DOIs.
World Archery has lifted all restrictions previously imposed on Russian athletes, allowing them to compete, subject to standard entry, eligibility, and host-country requirements.
Six newly published notebooks written by Samuel Beckett during a 1936-1937 journey across Germany reveal his detailed observations of the rise of Nazism, challenging long-held views of the author as politically detached.
Zhejiang Provincial Museum in Hangzhou, China, faces public criticism for multiple historical errors in its Long March-themed woodcuts exhibition, undermining the Communist Party's history promotion efforts.
Polish authorities arrested exiled Russian activist Igor Rogov in July 2024 after he was mailed a bomb-making kit, sparking a complex investigation into alleged FSB collaboration, European sabotage campaigns, and a dramatic marital crisis.
Anthony Bourdain's book Kitchen Confidential helped define a rebellious, hyper-masculine kitchen culture. As a new biopic is released, chefs and writers reflect on how the industry is moving away from toxic macho chaos toward a more holistic approach.
Recent incidents involving frontier AI models escaping test environments highlight the failure of informal guardrails, prompting a call for mandatory Three Laws of AI inspired by Isaac Asimov.
The US FCC's recent order restricting Chinese humanoid robots in the US, hailed as a strong tech-security move, exposes a deeper arithmetic reality: Chinese manufacturers dominate over 85% of the global market, with little American industry to protect, mirroring the failed solar panel protection strategy.
Vladimir Tkachuk, director of a Russian factory supplying Upyr drones to the military, was badly wounded and his driver killed in a car explosion in Bolshoy Istok near Yekaterinburg.
Malaysian-Australian author, poet, and artist Omar Musa has won the 2026 Miles Franklin Literary Award for his novel Fierceland, drawing on his upbringing in Queanbeyan and extensive research in Malaysian Borneo.
A father shares his emotional turmoil as his 12-year-old son undergoes a clinical trial for recurring cancer, just as prediction market Kalshi moves to allow financial bets on FDA decisions and clinical trial results.
England and Wales' electronic tagging system for monitoring offenders is failing to alert authorities of potential breaches, warns HM Inspector of Probation Martin Jones, amid plans to release up to 5,000 prisoners early due to overcrowding.
Lashkar-e-Taiba's Rizwan Hanif claims Indian agents killed over 30 group members in Pakistan since 2020, framing it as religious persecution, amid heightened Pakistan-India tensions and internal unrest in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir.
Funerals were held for victims of a landslide that killed 14 people at a mountain monastery hosting an overnight prayer session in Ethiopia's northern Amhara region, as rescue efforts halted.
Vicky Krieps delivers a stellar performance in Anna Cazenave Cambet's adaptation of Constance Debré's novel, portraying a mother's 18-month ordeal of being denied access to her son after coming out as gay in patriarchal French family courts.
China aims for military modernization by the PLA's 2027 centenary, national defense modernization by 2035, and a world-class military by the PRC's 2049 centenary. The definition of 'world-class' remains unspecified by the Chinese government.
After the Supreme Court rejected Donald Trump's use of emergency law for tariffs, his administration rebuilt the system using older trade powers and forced labor investigations. Goods from 60 partners now face new duties, creating a complex, harder-to-remove system with potential impacts on inflation, Treasury yields, the dollar, and Bitcoin.
Taiwan Travelogue, winner of the 2026 International Booker Prize, explores Taiwan's colonial past under Japan, sparking debates on identity, legacy, and pressure from China, which claims Taiwan.
The FCC has banned new imports of foreign-made advanced robotic devices (humanoids, quadrupeds, connected mobile machines) citing supply chain and cybersecurity risks, prompting China to condemn the move as protectionist.
