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Sunday, 8 November 2026
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Farmers face big drop in production from extreme weather during this year’s super El Niño event Banana producers in Latin America are calling for better pay to help cope with the impact of the climate crisis, as they face big drops in production resulting from
WASHINGTON — The Biotechnology Innovation Organization is joining the legal fight against the Trump administration’s pilot program aimed at aligning drug prices in Medicare with prices charged in peer countries.
The Indianapolis Star ran a two-page spread on my free High-Power Rocket Bootcamp in last Sunday's paper!
Dubai, UAE photographed from the ISS in 2025.
Egypt’s foreign minister Badr Abdelatty was in Tripoli on Saturday to reopen his country’s embassy.
Read the first story, about the Maui Wildfire Exposure Study, here.
A wildfire exposure study on Maui created a new blueprint for public health research and support after disasters—but funding was drying up.
Everest Group agreed to sell its insurance operation in Chile to the American International Group (AIG) insurer in an operation representing the last planned divestment of the group’s insurance activities in Latin America.
A Everest Group chegou a acordo para vender a sua operação de seguros no Chile à seguradora American International Group (AIG), numa operação que representa a última alienação prevista das atividades seguradoras do grupo na América Latina.
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Automatic translation by Bittrees-hosted AI. The source link opens the original publication.— the longest dry period in the last 1,200 years — is taking a serious toll on the flow of the Colorado River.
When you think of the Dominican Republic, the first thing that might come to mind is paradise where sun, sand, and sea combine to offer unforgettable experiences to Dominican families and global travellers alike — but the country’s deep sea is also of critical importance.
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Activists fear Bangkok will give in to pressure from Beijing despite reports of torture and human rights abuses against the mostly muslim ethnic minority The deportation of two more Uyghurs to China from Thailand would put their lives in grave danger, activists have said, with
In fact, the dramatic increase in biodiversity from the poles to the tropics—known as the latitudinal diversity gradient—is pervasive across branches of the tree of life, and fossil evidence suggests it has existed for millennia.
Diwali celebrations began on Sunday, with people across India and the global diaspora gathering to mark one of the most important festivals in the Hindu tradition.
Celebrations feature fireworks, prayers, reunions, rangoli designs, feasting, and the sharing of sweets and gifts.
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians were left without electricity on Sunday following Russian airstrikes targeting the country's energy infrastructure.
Credit: NASA/Helen Arase Vargas NASA is looking for the explorers who will help write the next chapter of human spaceflight.
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Next spring, Apple will take the stage to unveil the second-generation iPhone Air to the world, after taking a bit more time to go back to the drawing board and incorporate a second camera into the design.
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Election results appear to have turbo-charged an already growing social, political and financial market rethink about AI ‘AI clog’: UK battles onslaught of chatbot-generated complaints Editorial: the AI backlash – Silicon Valley’s political power is cracking Last week’s midterms may not have cowed Donald Trump,
France will participate in the upcoming Abu Dhabi peace talks on ending the Ukraine war, Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said Sunday, adding that Europeans will be represented at the summit.
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of astronomers identified 104 magnified stellar events in a galaxy known as the Dragon, located around 6.5 billion light-years away.
Nathan Labenz and Prakash Narayanan examine mounting evidence of rapid AI acceleration alongside guests Brian Zhou of Thoughtful, Mike San Miguel of Luxor Technology, and Bryan Bischof of Theory Ventures. The discussions unpack how frontier agents fared when trading real money on midterm election forecasts, the intense physical constraints and compliance rules shaping secondary GPU transactions, and how venture firms use thousands of agent runs to identify alpha. Anchored by METR's assessment and Anthropic's amended regulatory filings, the hosts explore whether frontier labs are on the brink o
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