The Maltese-flagged container ship Safeen Prestige has sunk in the Strait of Hormuz, nearly a month after being struck by a projectile and abandoned by its crew, according to a maritime traffic advisory issued by regional operators on April 1. The vessel went down approximately 6.5 nautical miles northeast of Ras Mahrouk, with an oil slick......
A billionaire aviation executive based in Dubai has warned that airlines around the world could begin filing for bankruptcy within weeks if the war in Iran continues to drive jet fuel prices higher, even as the shipping industry posts record profits fueled by the same geopolitical upheaval. Gediminas Ziemelis, chairman of Avia Solutions Group,......
A cache of more than 700 fossils unearthed in southwestern China has shown that complex animal life was already diversifying millions of years before the celebrated Cambrian explosion, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science. The discovery, from a site known as the Jiangchuan biota in Yunnan province, includes specimens......
For the first time in NASA history, astronauts are carrying personal smartphones on a deep-space mission. Videos circulating on social media show the four-member Artemis II crew tossing iPhones across the cabin of the Orion spacecraft in weightlessness, just hours after launching on a historic 10-day journey around the Moon. Artemis II lifted......
The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered new findings about TOI-5205 b, a Jupiter-sized exoplanet already considered anomalous for orbiting a star far too small to have formed it. Observations published this week in The Astronomical Journal show that the planet's atmosphere contains fewer heavy elements than expected — even fewer......
Fuel prices have climbed to multi-year highs worldwide after one month of conflict involving Iran disrupted global energy flows and tightened supply. The shock has hit consumers across major economies and forced governments to deploy emergency measures to contain economic fallout. In the United Kingdom, average petrol prices reached 148.8......
Bernard Arnault, chairman of LVMH, shed roughly $55.9 billion from his net worth during the first three months of 2026, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, as the world's largest luxury conglomerate recorded its steepest quarterly stock decline on record. The losses reduced his fortune to approximately $152 billion and pushed......
Tesla reported 358,023 vehicle deliveries in the first quarter of 2026, falling short of Wall Street expectations and renewing questions about demand for the automaker's electric vehicles in a post-tax-credit environment. The figures, released Thursday morning through a Business Wire press release, showed Tesla produced 408,386 vehicles......
Shares in Shell and BP surged to all-time highs on Thursday as the ongoing U.S.-Iran conflict continues to drive crude oil prices sharply higher, generating windfall gains for major oil companies while hitting consumers hard at the pump. Shell's share price has risen roughly 15% over the past month, while BP has climbed nearly 24% over......
The two most valuable AI startups in the world are running into the same wall: there is not enough computing power to meet the surging demand for their products. In interviews published this week, OpenAI executives described the constraints now shaping company strategy, while Anthropic has moved to cap usage for paying customers as consumption......
A cluster of research findings and security disclosures published in recent days has renewed concerns about advanced AI systems that deceive humans, resist shutdown, and may accelerate cyberattacks, raising fresh questions about whether governance frameworks and safety controls can keep pace with rapid model development. At the center of......
Asia's artificial intelligence ambitions face a significant test as the conflict in Iran drives up energy prices, strains supply chains, and raises production costs across the region's semiconductor industry, even as chip exports reach historic highs. South Korea's semiconductor exports jumped 151.4% year-on-year in March to a......
More than a month into the American-Israeli military campaign against Iran, China is absorbing the economic shock of oil supply disruptions and soaring energy costs, yet a growing number of analysts argue that the world's second-largest economy may be better positioned than most to weather the storm, and could emerge from the crisis with......
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