Category: world

The Starship engine failure that nearly foiled the orbital debut of SpaceX’s next-generation spacecraft on its 14th uncrewed test flight may complicate NASA’s ability to meet its time frame for astronaut missions to the moon. Starship, designed in part to carry large payloads to space, is one of two vehicles vying to become the first […]

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has told the Islamabad High Court (IHC) that it does not have the legal authority to prevent children under 16 from using social media platforms. The PTA submitted its detailed reply in a case concerning a proposed ban on social media use by children under 16. The Ministry of […]

An Anthropic AI model submitted a false homicide tip to a Philadelphia police website, one of several incidents the company disclosed on Friday involving Claude models’ unauthorised manipulation of government websites. It is the first known instance in which a rogue AI appears to have tried to communicate a bogus tip to authorities, despite instructions […]

DUBAI/RIYADH: Yemen’s Houthis warned airlines, travellers and airport workers on Sunday to stay away from Saudi airports, a day after an attack on Riyadh’s international airport killed 12 people and wounded more than 300 others. It was the deadliest such attack in the kingdom in more than a decade and comes amid an escalation of […]

US President Donald Trump on Saturday called for Ukraine to replace its leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy and railed against Ukraine’s attacks on Russian oil infrastructure, a day after announcing a diesel supply deal with Russia that had drawn a sharp rebuke from Zelenskiy. In some of his harshest criticism yet of the White House, Zelenskiy linked […]

ANKARA: Turkiye, Pakistan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia condemned attacks by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants on Riyadh’s international airport, saying they were a “dangerous escalation that cannot be justified or accepted under any pretext”. One person was killed and nearly a dozen were hurt in a new attack on Riyadh’s international airport on Sunday, Saudi authorities […]