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Microsoft Plans First Voluntary Employee Buyout: Report
The one-time retirement program will be open to U.S. workers at the senior director level and below, with a combined age and years of employment of 70 or more, per reports.
Prince Harry Says Will 'Always Be Part Of Royal Family'
Britain's Prince Harry on Friday insisted that he would "always be part of the royal family" despite a public rift, in an interview in...
Trump Spokeswoman Announces Maternity Leave, No Stand-In Named
Combative White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said Friday she will be going on maternity leave ahead of the birth of her second child but...
Anthropic Says Google To Pump $40 Billion Into AI Startup
The investment builds on a partnership in which Anthropic will use custom Google chips and cloud computing services to power its technology.
'Don't Leave Me': Lebanese Journalist Recounts Colleague's Words After Israeli Strike
The women journalists pulled over and got out of the car, hunkering down on the side of the road as a drone remained in the sky overhead.
Businesses Spend Up To $4 Million To Cross Panama Canal Amid Hormuz Chokehold
The average price to cross through the canal ranges between $300,000 and $400,000 depending on the vessel.
Apr 25, 2026
Palestinians To Vote In 1st Elections In 20 Years
Walking the dog and braving the paps: the art of the doorstep photo, from Keane to Mandelson
Former US ambassador and Labour peer joins a long line of people who have gone out to meet awaiting paparazzi head-onFor a man at the centre of a storm that has rocked the political establishment, Peter Mandelson has spent the week looking remarkably relaxed. Day after day, as MPs have grilled civil servants over who knew what when about the former US ambassador’s security vetting, and police continue to investigate serious allegations over his own conduct, Mandelson has stepped out of his Regent’s Park mansion and pottered across the road to take his dog for a walk.Smart-casually dressed in jeans and a jumper and holding in front of him a plastic ball-thrower, he has set off for the park like a weekending solicitor on his way to an egg and spoon race. There have been occasional small smiles for the photographers at his gate, but no comment. The message appears to be: I am insouciant, normal. Not in prison. Continue reading...
Inside Chornobyl: 40 years after disaster, nuclear site still at risk in Russia’s war
In February 2025, a cheap Russian drone tore through Chornobyl’s confinement shelter. Workers warn the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident is not safe yetThe dosimeter clipped to your chest ticks faster the moment you step off the designated path inside the Chornobyl nuclear power plant. Step back, and it slows again – an invisible line between clean ground and contamination.Above rises the “new safe confinement” (NSC) – the largest, movable steel structure ever built, taller than the Statue of Liberty, wider than the Colosseum, its arch curving overhead like an aircraft hangar built for giant planes. Continue reading...
Hanged under the cover of war: letters and videos tell stories of Iran’s death row victims
Testimony emerges from Babak Alipour, who spent three years on death row before being taken to gallows in March Writing from his cell in the Rajai Shahr prison in the northern Iranian city of Karaj, Babak Alipour wanted to tell his friends about those who had already gone to their execution.There was Behrouz Ehsani, 69, the elder statesman of the group, who was “never angry” about their predicament. Then there was Mehdi Hassani, a 48-year-old father of three who he saw a couple of times in the prison hospital and who would ask him to pass on to the children the message that he was “fine”. Continue reading...
Indigenous speakers booed at Anzac Day services while Ben Roberts-Smith attends separate Gold Coast event
Roberts-Smith, who has denied five charges of war crime murder, says he was always going to attend: ‘I never thought about not coming’Marcia Langton: The AFL bans disruptive racists. Surely police can do the same for morons who boo welcome to countryGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBooing has marred Anzac Day commemorations in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, while on the Gold Coast, the Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith attended the dawn service at Currumbin beach.One man was arrested at the Sydney dawn service at Martin Place, where there was a small but noisy interjection of booing during the Indigenous acknowledgment of country. Continue reading...
EU considers helping with Mideast energy infrastructure to bypass conflict zones
Top European Union officials say the bloc is looking into funding alternative energy infrastructure in the Middle East that would circumvent conflict hot spots like the Strait of Hormuz
Local elections in the West Bank and part of Gaza could test public trust
Palestinians will vote in local elections, the first in two decades in Gaza and the first in the occupied West Bank since the start of the Israel-Hamas war
