As Ukrainian attacks continue to hammer away at Russia’s critical infrastructure, Vladimir Putin’s allies are pushing him to consider the unthinkable. The battlefield humiliations have grown so profound that Kremlin hardliners are lobbying their leader to deploy nuclear weapons, against both Ukrainian frontline positions and European nations lending their support to Volodymyr…
NASA tests advanced new Mars rover prototype in the California desert (video)
A new rover prototype is teaching NASA scientists how to design robots that can think for themselves and navigate terrain that would leave old rovers stuck in the lunar or Martian dust. The Exploration Rover for Navigating Extreme Sloped Terrain (ERNEST), developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, recently completed a…
How Atlassian breaks staff: Insiders reveal ‘Hunger Games’ ranking system to force workers out the door – and the moment an executive’s mask slipped at a town hall
Former and current employees of Australian software giant Atlassian have lifted the lid on its toxic company culture that is being compared internally to the Hunger Games film series where young people fight to the death. The cultural issues are being driven, multiple sources tell the Mail, by: aggressive management;…
Breakthrough in search for man who vanished in Queensland after his sister vowed to never stop looking
A desperate woman who’s spent almost every day searching the bush where her brother disappeared two years ago has found his wallet. Nicole Liedke has regularly searched the bushland around Piggabeen, west of Tweed Heads on the Queensland-NSW border, since April 2024. Her brother, Patrick Liedke, was last seen by a farmer walking…
Sue Barker returns to Centre Court at Wimbledon as she joins Geoff Hurst and Britain’s sporting heroes in the Royal Box
Sue Barker returned to Centre Court at Wimbledon today to join Sir Geoff Hurst and other major sporting names in the Royal Box. The former tennis player and TV presenter, 70, was dropped from her role as host of A Question of Sport in 2020 after 24 years on the show…
The scorching midterm election poll that shows a blue wave cresting over Republicans
By VICTORIA CHURCHILL, US POLITICAL REPORTER Published: 13:27 BST, 5 July 2026 | Updated: 13:42 BST, 5 July 2026 America’s midterm elections are four months away, and newly released polling shows a blaring warning sign for Republicans. Although Republicans currently control the White House, the US Senate, and the US…
He-Man and beyond: 20 sci-fi cartoons (some iconic, some weird) that transported ’80s and ’90s kids to strange new worlds
Kids who grew up in the ’80s and ’90s couldn’t enjoy the massive selection of live-action sci-fi TV available right now. With the biggest out-of-this-world adventures likely to be found in theaters, many of the most memorable — and undoubtedly the weirdest — concepts tended to be found in Saturday…
Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in—and they’re not good
As more professionals begin to rely on artificial-intelligence tools in their work, could their hard-earned skills atrophy? That possibility is a growing concern for medical specialists, computer scientists and other workers. Seventy per cent of nurses and 77% of physicians, for example, are worried about losing their skills because of…
Why Russian gangs are behind the bizarre adverts featuring AI images of Nigel Farage and Andrew Bailey that are taking over X feeds and promoting a get-rich-quick scam
It’s no secret that emotions can run high on BBC1’s Question Time as political opponents lock horns with each other and audience members over the topical issues of the day. However, nothing has come close to matching the violence that erupted in the Question Time studio between Reform UK leader…
Our village has been taken over by asylum seekers who have made our lives hell – we’re outnumbered. Now the government wants to move MORE in
Furious villagers are preparing to take the Home Office to court over plans to increase the number of asylum seekers living at a former airfield by more than 60 per cent. Families in the Essex village of Wethersfield say the proposal would lead to them being outnumbered by the camp’s residents.…