World
Xi Jinping seeks to strengthen ties with Putin during China visit
China’s Xi Jinping is hosting Russian President Vladimir Putin, just days after welcoming Donald Trump to Beijing.
All News
World
China-Russia relations are as strong as ever thanks to Trump
The US president failed to ‘un-unite’ the two powers because he has repeated the same mistakes his predecessors made.
AI
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pre-training team
Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic to work on pre-training. He previously co-founded and worked at OpenAI and led comp...
World
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu review – helmeted hero tangles with hateful Hutts in decent feature outing
The badass bounty hunter and his little green friend take on the Empire and Jabba the Hutt’s family in this solid enough...
AI
The minimalist Light Phone teams up with Andrew Yang’s Noble Mobile, which pays you to stop doomscrolling
"The Light Phone is designed to be used as little as possible," founder Joe Hollier told TechCrunch.
World
‘This is mine, I own it’: how Tracey Emin and Frida Kahlo inspired me to make meaning out of pain
Emin’s unsparing examination of her cancer and Kahlo’s intensely imagined response to traumatic injury moved our writer...
World
Gambling addicts are struggling as Kalshi and Polymarket explode in the US: ‘You could be betting your rent away’
Experts warn that although prediction markets are not regulated as gambling platforms, they are just as addictiveWhen Ke...
World
Ronaldo to lead Portugal at sixth World Cup as Martinez names squad
Diogo Jota named as an honorary 'plus-one' player in Portugal's squad for the FIFA World Cup 2026.
World
Sally Rooney on a new Hebrew translation of Intermezzo: ‘The Israeli culture sector is complicit in apartheid’
Four years after Rooney cited BDS in declining a different Israeli publisher, she speaks with activist Samir Eskanda abo...
World
Suspected car bomb explodes in Syrian capital Damascus
Plumes of smoke from a suspected car bomb explosion outside an armament management centre in Damascus.
World
Who was Amin Abdullah, the ‘hero’ guard killed in San Diego shooting?
Tributes have poured in for the guard, who was among the three people killed in the shooting at the San Diego mosque.
World
Andy Burnham confirmed as Labour candidate for Makerfield byelection
Party says nobody else has been shortlisted for contest in Greater Manchester, expected to take place on 18 JuneUK polit...