Dollar nears 100 as strong jobs data and Iran war fuel safe-haven demand
The U.S. dollar index hovered near the 100-point mark on Friday as an unexpectedly strong March jobs report combined with deepening fears over a prolonged military conflict in Iran reinforced the greenback's status as the world's primary safe-haven currency. Nonfarm payrolls rose by 178,000 in March, the largest gain since December......
Iran's supreme leader incapacitated by severe injuries, leaving regime without functioning head
More than a month after Israeli warplanes struck the supreme leader's compound in Tehran, Mojtaba Khamenei has not appeared in public, and a hospital source told The Media Line that he remains in a medical intensive care unit at an underground location with devastating injuries, including a non-functioning arm, a paralyzed leg, spinal......
Rabat honors exceptional Moroccan women at annual tribute ceremony
The Mohammed V National Theatre in Rabat will host the annual "Night of Loyalty to Exceptional Moroccan Women" on April 21, 2026, bringing together cultural, political, and civic figures to recognize women who have distinguished themselves across a range of fields. The event is organized by a coalition of media actors and backed......
Injections of dead‑body fat enter the cosmetic spotlight
A new type of cosmetic procedure, dubbed “zombie filler,” has begun to attract attention in aesthetic‑medicine circles and on social media. The method involves injecting fat harvested from human cadavers into the face, breasts, buttocks, hips and other body parts to add volume and reshape contours. While the technique is still......
Europe accelerates offshore wind as U.S. pays companies to abandon projects
A series of energy policy decisions on both sides of the Atlantic has exposed a widening divide between the United States and Europe over how to achieve energy security, with Europe pushing aggressively to expand renewable capacity while the Trump administration moves to dismantle it. On March 26, the first subsea export cable for the Hornsea......
Living brain cells trained to perform machine learning tasks in a breakthrough study
Researchers in Japan have shown that living neurons grown in a petri dish can be trained to carry out machine learning tasks previously thought to be the exclusive domain of artificial systems, an advance that could reshape the boundary between biology and computing. A team from Tohoku University and Future University Hakodate cultivated......
Artemis II surpasses the midpoint, now closer to the Moon than Earth
NASA released the first photographs taken by the Artemis II crew on Friday, offering striking views of Earth as four astronauts travel toward the Moon on the first crewed lunar mission in more than five decades. The images, captured by mission commander Reid Wiseman through a window of the Orion spacecraft, show Earth's blue oceans wrapped......
Gold and silver tumble as dollar surges on Iran war and inflation fears
Gold and silver fell sharply on Thursday as the U.S. dollar staged a strong recovery, driven by higher-than-expected inflation signals and the fallout from President Donald Trump's televised address promising to intensify military operations against Iran. The selloff ended a four-session winning streak for gold and erased recent gains......
Fuel price surge disrupts Easter and spring travel worldwide
Rising fuel costs driven by the ongoing conflict in the Middle East are reshaping Easter and spring holiday travel across multiple continents, forcing millions of consumers to cancel trips, shorten itineraries, or stay closer to home as the global tourism industry braces for a difficult season. In Australia, a Tourism & Transport Forum......
UBS holds $5,600 gold target and calls 17% pullback a buying opportunity
UBS is telling investors that gold's sharp retreat from its record high represents a buying opportunity rather than a trend reversal, maintaining a year-end price target of $5,600 per ounce even as the metal trades near the bank's own bear-case scenario. Gold has fallen more than 17% from its all-time high of nearly $5,595 reached......
Rescue operation underway as debris in Iran identified as U.S. F-15E
Open-source intelligence analysts have identified wreckage displayed by Iranian state media as belonging to a U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle, contradicting Iran's claim that its forces had downed a fifth-generation F-35 stealth fighter. Geolocated footage simultaneously showed American combat search-and-rescue aircraft operating deep......
Physicists control quantum entanglement at attosecond timescales
An international team of physicists has demonstrated for the first time how quantum entanglement between an electron and a molecular ion can be controlled at the attosecond scale, one billionth of a billionth of a second, opening new pathways for manipulating quantum coherence in molecules. The findings, published in Nature on March 31, mark......
AI-powered cyberattacks reach a "pivotal moment," experts warn
The cybersecurity world is confronting a new reality: artificial intelligence has crossed a threshold that fundamentally shifts the balance between attackers and defenders. That warning emerged with force over the past two weeks, driven by a leaked Anthropic document, new data from Microsoft, and alarm signals sounded at the RSA Conference......
Wedbush holds $600 Tesla target despite disappointing Q1 deliveries
Wedbush analyst Dan Ives reaffirmed his Outperform rating and $600 price target for Tesla on Thursday, looking past disappointing first-quarter deliveries to focus on the company's pivot toward autonomous driving, robotaxis, and robotics. "While the delivery numbers were quite disappointing, this was not a surprise to us given the......
China's Tianlong-3 rocket fails on maiden flight
China's most powerful privately developed rocket, the Tianlong-3, failed on its maiden flight Friday after suffering an in-flight anomaly, dealing a setback to the country's ambitions to rapidly deploy satellite megaconstellations capable of rivaling SpaceX's Starlink network. The Tianlong-3, built by Beijing-based startup Space......