Money often talks louder than words in high-stakes politics. The United States is now looking at Iran’s frozen assets—around $24 billion—as a potential bargaining chip. The idea is simple: instead of letting those funds sit idle, Washington might use them to help rebuild Gulf allies hit hard by rece
Research shows people react differently to visual cues based on their habits. A study compared smokers and non-smokers by tracking how they moved a computer mouse toward images on a screen. The images were unrelated to smoking, pleasant, unpleasant, or cigarette-related. The goal was to see if smoke
The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo keeps getting worse, partly because health workers are underpaid and overworked. Dr. Lokudu, who runs Mongbwalu Hospital, says he hasn’t received his full salary for months. Neither have many of his colleagues. Without steady income, their motivation drops even as
China’s President Xi Jinping is heading to North Korea this week for talks with Kim Jong Un, marking his first visit in seven years. According to North Korea’s official newspaper, Xi plans to strengthen ties between the two countries and push back against what he calls "hegemony" and military threat
Michael Jackson spent years trying to outsmart sleepless nights. Toward the end, even extreme doses of cough syrup couldn’t deliver the rest he craved. Reports from someone who saw him firsthand describe a night where Jackson downed enough syrup to knock out most people—but not him. He chugged two f
New AI tools that once only helped people write code are now spotting serious security holes in software. The latest generation of models, such as Anthropic’s Claude Mythos and OpenAI’s GPT‑5. 5, can read code faster than most humans and point out weaknesses that could be exploited by attackers. Cr
Pakistan has introduced a new law called the Virtual Assets Act 2026, which creates a federal body named PVARA to oversee all virtual asset activities. The legislation was signed into law on March 4, 2026 and became effective the next day. It applies to every part of the country and is meant to brin
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, which lies under Russian control in Ukraine, has announced that its main power line from Ferrosplavnaya‑1 is back online. The plant’s administrators posted the update on their Telegram channel, saying all equipment is now functioning normally. A brief pause in fig
The world today is moving away from a single global leader toward several strong players, and this change will shape how money works by 2036. In the past, before global communication was fast, powers like Rome, China and Persia co‑existed with limited contact. After World War II the United Sta
Caleb Downs joined the Dallas Cowboys with a number that fans already loved: 2. The team gave him 13 instead, and his mom isn’t thrilled. She told the player that she’d never seen a good athlete wear 13. Caleb replied that he would keep it because that’s what he chose. The Cowboys also own the
