Pope Leo XIV's four-nation, 11-day trip to Africa is so dizzying in its complexity it recalls some of the globetrotting odysseys of St. John Paul II in his early years.

In a rare interview, a wounded Hezbollah commander tells NPR about his secretive Shia Muslim militia's new command structure and how it has managed to keep firing rockets into northern Israel.

After talks between the U.S. and Iran collapsed, President Trump claimed the U.S. will "blockade" the Strait of Hormuz.

The science fiction blockbuster wowed audiences with its depiction of space travel and more. Here's what NASA staff and other scientists say about the basis for the amazing events of the film.

The order comes as the Trump administration challenges a lower court ruling that the estimated $300-million project requires congressional approval.

The proposed 250-feet-tall, white-and-gilded monument would stand on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., by the Potomac River.

At a concert in Budapest, musicians and concertgoers express criticism of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's leadership.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has long been accused of corruption. Sightseers now flock to his hometown as groups aim to raise awareness of what they say are the leader's excesses.

In Hungary, voters head to the polls Sunday. At stake: the future for populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Europe's longest-serving leader - and an ally of Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

In the first weeks of the war, the Chicago-born Leo was initially reluctant to publicly condemn the violence and limited his comments to muted appeals for peace and dialogue. But Leo stepped up his criticism starting on Palm Sunday.

The conflict is now a test of wills - Iran’s capacity to absorb strikes versus Trump’s tolerance for the war's costs.

Police say the seized dog - a family pet - is believed to be a Lurcher cross.

Stage stars posed for pictures ahead of a night of celebration for UK theatre at the Royal Albert Hall.

ITN, which is also named as a respondent to Claudia-Liza Vanderpuije' case, said it is "denied in full".

The Nigerian Air Force has not addressed reports it struck a village market while targeting militants.

A property company owned by the Reform UK deputy leader failed to pay £91,000 in tax on dividends, according to the Sunday Times.

"We're taking it one step at a time," Declan Holmes also said, as his 66-year-old father recovers in hospital.

Campbell Scott's body was found in a pineapple sack about 60 miles from Nairobi where he was attending a conference in February last year.

The cast of the rebooted children's TV hit tell us the new series is a 'love letter to the original'.

Donald Trump says that the US is going to start blockading the Strait of Hormuz. What does this mean in practice?

AI-assisted software development is transforming the industry, but you already knew that

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Most customers don't need the biggest baddest models, just ones that work, are cheap, and won't pirate their proprietary data

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Lock-screen keyboard no longer accepts háček in student's alphanumeric passcode

A university student in the US is in data limbo after Apple removed a character from its Czech keyboard, preventing him from entering his iPhone passcode.…

Benioff banks on user engagement while McDermott wants to govern AI agents

FEATURE Salesforce CEO and chief “SaaSquatch” Mark Benioff boasted about the wins his company's ITSM product had last quarter in the terms a proud dad uses to talk about the art work his kids taped to the refrigerator.…

Time to start dropping SBOMs

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Nearly 800 state logins surfaced in breach data, including defense and NATO-linked accounts

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With access to great data comes great responsibility

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Crew went farther from Earth than any humans we know about, now they’re coming back!

In a world wracked by wars, beset by difficult economic conditions, and struggling with exploding RAM costs, there's one piece of good news. NASA's Artemis II mission has been an unqualified success, having carried four astronauts farther from Earth than any humans before them.…

Hundreds of layoffs, but this smells of geopolitics, not downsizing

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Firefox maker warns old web tactics are now shaping AI at the expense of user choice

Firefox-maker Mozilla is calling out Microsoft after Redmond said it would scale back some Copilot features in Windows, arguing the rollback shows the company pushed AI too far without enough regard for user choice.…

Record domestic oil and gas production hasn't saved US drivers from price spikes.

Systems from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI struggle with the Premier League.

"The work ahead is greater than the work behind us."

"I can't imagine a better crew that just completed a perfect mission right now."

Plaintiffs say transcription tool processed confidential chats offsite.

A now-vanished plate under North America may open the crust below Yellowstone.

Algorithms, not drivers, are deciding how hard to accelerate, and that's no good.

Trump admin reportedly gets grand jury involved in attempt to identify Redditor.

Windows Insider builds remain confusing, but they should be more predictable.

Dense drops of oobleck with high shear rates spread out like a liquid before stiffening into a solid.