The Royals enter the Doctor Who universe: King Charles and Queen Camilla beam into Commonwealth Games in TARDIS

Woman used AI to tell court what happened the night her ex-boyfriend 'raped' her. It was a bad idea

'First dumb AI': Meta AI blocks Indian PM Modi's video in his own country, allows abuse ads and deletes livelihoods without explanation

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He predicted COVID-19 and 2008 economic crisis, was labeled fearmonger. Now he has another dire warning

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RSS backed Jantar Mantar student protest? Mohan Bhagwat's 'question authority' remark resurfaces

ChatGPT invoked God, told pastor not to worry about his symptoms. Then pulmonary embolism hit

Rahul Gandhi slams BJP for felicitating Dharmendra Pradhan in Parliament, accuses Modi government of 'celebrating ruined futures'

'Islamic Republic will never make a deal with the US': Iran deputy speaker echoes Araghchi’s remark

NEET Protests riddled with misinformation? Delhi Police blocks 480 Pakistan-based handles spreading 'fake news' since Operation Sindoor

'Spreading deepfakes, deleted PM Modi's video': Why Meta AI should be banned in India for interfering in Indian economy and democracy

You are a 'Naked Official' in China if you hold high posts and have children or spouse abroad. What about India?

'Very unimpactful': Trump downplays Russian support for Iran, promises to 'ask Putin' about Zelensky's claims

Delhi Police issues BIG statement on viral 'don't leave national capital without permission' notice | FACT CHECK

Earthquake of magnitude 7.1 strikes Japan's Kumamoto prefecture, tsunami warning issued

Trump says Iranian school bombing photos could be AI-generated - 'I don’t think...'

China deploying advanced fighter jets closer to India's northern frontier

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Giant iceberg flips violently near Greenland exposing its underside - 'I didn't know they could do that'

Why did Meta remove PM Modi's Facebook video on paper leaks? Tech company blames 'technical error'

Asim Munir eyes defence deal with Qatar & Turkiye after Kuwait as Pakistan seeks investments | Gravitas

'Worst quality AI in market': Meta AI's moderation fail hits PM Modi and Indian Democracy

‘Kill Melania, Barron’: Why is IRGC-linked media outlet urging ‘freedom fighters’ to assassinate Trump’s family? WATCH

'Broader struggle for democracy...': Greta Thunberg joins Indian students protest in London - What she said

Russia-Ukraine War: Russia drops 3-tonne Glide bombs on Ukraine 

NEET aspirant ends her life in Maharashtra after falling 11 marks short of cut-off

FAA orders fix for faulty seats on hundreds of Boeing 737 MAX jets, warns of passenger injury in emergency landings

3,000 years ago, humanity spoke thousands of languages — then fell silent. Where did they all go?

Pakistan-occupied Kashmir election turns violent: 19 killed, protests intensify as rigging allegations fly

Tom Cruise's daughter Suri drops his surname; adopts Katie Holmes' middle name Noelle

Jennifer Lopez's ex-husband Ojani Noa claims he confronted Sean 'Diddy' Combs over alleged affair

A temporary warning of Tsunami was raised when the earthquake struck but the threat subsided and Japans coastline was declared not to be in danger.

Several feared trapped inside shopping mall after 7.1 earthquake rattles Japan

The first phase of PoK polls was marred by widespread violence, with the JAAC claiming 14 activists were killed and more than two dozen injured as the PML-N won nine of 13 seats amid rigging allegations.

Pakistan PM's PML-N wins first phase of PoK polls amid widespread violence, rigging claims

A report has claimed that Russia is poisoning the internet with false narratives in a bid to manipulate AI tools so that it gives wrong information to people accessing them for news and other things.  

Information warfare: Russia poisoning AI tools to amplify false claims, think tank claims

Iran publicly executed two men in Isfahan over the January 2026 protests. The UN criticised the mass death sentences, citing fair trial concerns.

Iran publicly executes two protesters in Isfahan over January unrest

A powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck southwestern Japan, cracking roads, collapsing buildings, triggering fires and prompting tsunami warnings as authorities reported casualties and people trapped in a damaged shopping mall.

Watch: Several missing, roads crack open after powerful 7.1-magnitude quake hits Japan

According to World Health Organisation, white phosphorus ‌is ⁠a highly inflammable substance often used in weapons.

White phosphorus leak reported inside US airbase in South Korea, evacuation ordered

More than 1,141 pages of Anthony Fauci's pandemic-era diaries have been accessed by a key Congressional panel. Exceprts reveal his private views on Donald Trump, Covid origins, White House tensions. Fauci faces a Senate testimony. What do his alleged diary entries tell?



'Total s**t show': Fauci diaries reveal what Covid tsar thought about Trump and his own rising fame. What else is in the notes?

FAA stated that each 737 MAX aircraft could have up to 69 track-mounted passenger seat assemblies affected, with repairs estimated to take about one work-hour per assembly. 

China subjects so-called 'Naked Officials' who have their spouses or children abroad to greater scrutiny and disclosure. Could India adopt a similar transparency framework for ministers and senior public officials? Think about it



The ⁠Japanese government also issued emergency earthquake warnings for ​Kumamoto, ​Nagasaki, ⁠Kagoshima, Fukuoka, Saga, Oita, ​and Miyazaki ​prefectures, ⁠all on the southern Kyushu ⁠island of the country.

Sara Gilson was found dead alongside her 48-year-old estranged husband, Jeremiah Shawn Duffey, at their home in Collinsville, a suburb of Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the US, on Thursday night.

US influencer killed by estranged husband weeks after accusing him of 'pedophilia' on TikTok

India’s recent youth protests should therefore be viewed within this broader global context. They are not simply about one policy or one government. They are symptomatic of a larger transformation affecting democracies everywhere.

The democratic adaptation gap: Can democracies respond before the streets take over?

The first phase of elections to the so-called legislative assembly in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir turned violent, with 19 people killed, several others injured and rival parties accusing each other of poll rigging as anti-government protests continued across the region.

Over 70 per cent of these cases occurred in the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council), followed by Malaysia (131) and the United States (62), while Italy, Canada and the United Kingdom each recorded over 30 cases during the three years.

Over 70% of Indian suicides abroad occur in Gulf countries, MEA data shows

US President Donald Trump says any Russian assistance has been "very unimpactful" as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accuses Moscow of providing satellite intelligence to Tehran. All you need to know.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu will present US President Trump with intelligence revealing Iran moved nuclear centrifuges to its underground Pickaxe Mountain facility, amid escalating military tensions and potential action.

Netanyahu to present Trump with fresh intel on Iran's SECRET 'Pickaxe Mountain' nuclear site: Report

Iran's Deputy Parliament Speaker Hamidreza Haji Babaei declared Tehran will never make a deal with the US, stressing that Iran must resist American military aggression and regional control.

Grok's user base tripled from 35 million to 117 million between December 2025 and March 2026 — then growth stalled by July, even as xAI pushed Grok into Google Workspace and completed its Grok Imagine image/video feature.

Grok tripled its users in three months, then growth suddenly stalled

At one point in mid-July 2026, six of the world's top 10 AI models — and all of the top five — came from Chinese labs. Fortune reports they're now beating US rivals on cost, not just catching up on capability, with real companies like Airbnb, Cursor, and Coinbase already switching.

Six of the world's top 10 AI models are now Chinese and they're winning on price, not just rank

Global startup investment hit a record $510 billion in H1 2026, already beating the $440 billion raised in all of 2025, per Crunchbase. Nearly 40 AI startups hit unicorn status in six months, with capital spreading well beyond foundation models into infrastructure and robotics.

This AI startups just raised $510 billion, more than all of 2025, in half the time

August 2, 2026 is when the EU AI Act's core obligations take effect for the majority of AI systems in the European market — described as the most consequential date in AI regulation history. The Commission published transparency guidelines July 20; the Council approved amendments June 29.

Europe's AI law is going live and it applies to almost every system on the continent

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 releases its full weights at 00:00 UTC July 27 — a 2.8-trillion-parameter, 1.4-terabyte model, the largest open-weight AI release ever. It arrives days after the White House accused Moonshot of distilling Anthropic's Fable to build it.

Meet China's Kimi K3! The largest open-weight AI model in history drops tonight

Anthropic will pay xAI/SpaceX $1.25 billion a month through 2029 for full access to the Colossus 1 data centre — over $40 billion total. Multiple reports describe a clause letting SpaceX reclaim the compute if Claude is found to harm humanity, an unconfirmed but widely discussed condition.

Anthropic is paying Musk $40 billion to rent his computers and he can reportedly pull the plug if Claude 'harms humanity'

Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5 on July 24 at $5/$25 per million tokens standard, $10/$50 fast mode, with a 1M-token context window and new effort toggle. It scored 43.3% on FrontierBench v0.1, arriving amid the industry's sharpest AI pricing war yet.

Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5, half the input price of its own Fable 5

US President Donald Trump will hold separate White House meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss ongoing conflicts, coinciding with Senator Lindsey Graham's funeral. 

‘Now is the time to end the war’: Trump to host Zelensky, Netanyahu amid global conflicts

Iran is pursuing alleged US war crimes across a 10-15-year strategy using three main legal channels: domestic courts, international bodies like the UN and ICJ, and foreign courts via universal jurisdiction.

Iran says it is pursuing alleged US ‘war crimes’ through legal channels. What are these channels? WION Decodes

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Several feared trapped inside shopping mall after 7.1 earthquake rattles Japan

Pakistan PM's PML-N wins first phase of PoK polls amid violence, rigging claims

Information warfare: Russia poisoning AI tools to amplify false claims: Report

Iran publicly executes two protesters in Isfahan over January unrest

Watch: Several missing, roads crack open after 7.1-magnitude quake hits Japan

White phosphorus leak inside US airbase in South Korea, evacuation ordered

Fauci diaries on Trump: Fair warning - strong language ahead

FAA orders fix for faulty seats on hundreds of Boeing 737 MAX jets

China 'Naked Official' policy hits top brass with kin abroad. What about India?

Earthquake of magnitude 7.1 strikes Japan's Kumamoto, tsunami warning issued

US influencer killed by husband after accusing him of 'pedophilia' on TikTok

The democratic adaptation gap: Can democracies respond before streets take over?

19 killed, protests rage as Pak-occupied Kashmir election spirals into violence

Over 70% of Indian suicides abroad occur in Gulf countries, MEA data shows

Russia helped Iran target US bases in the Gulf? Trump says he'll ask Putin

Netanyahu to present Trump with fresh intel on Iran's secret nuclear site

'Islamic Republic will never make a deal with the US': Iran deputy speaker

Grok tripled its users in three months, then growth suddenly stalled

Six of the world's top 10 AI models are now Chinese and they're winning on price

This AI startups just raised $510 billion, more than all of 2025

Europe's AI law is going live and it applies to almost every system

Meet China's Kimi K3! The largest open-weight AI model in history drops tonight

Anthropic is paying Musk $40 billion to rent his computers

Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5, half the input price of its own Fable 5

Trump to host Zelensky, Netanyahu amid global conflicts

Iran says it is pursuing alleged US ‘war crimes’ through legal channels