Yemen Saudi Arabia, UAE vow to back Yemen war effort amid cracksAssociated Press - By JON GAMBRELL, Associated PressDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates pledged Monday to keep their floundering coalition war against Yemen's Houthi rebels together after an Emirati troop pullout
News Israeli air strikes hit Palestinian military position in Lebanon: reports, security sourceReutersBEIRUT (Reuters) - Israeli air strikes hit a military position belonging to a Palestinian group in Lebanon, near the Syrian border, early on Monday, a security source and Lebanon’s An-Nahar news said.
Amazon Fires are devouring the Amazon. And Jair Bolsonaro is to blameThe Guardian - David MirandaAs the world watches in horror and terror as the Amazon burns, scientists have made clear that the cause, principally if not entirely, is human activity. Here in Brazil, that human activity has human and
Houthi Arab Coalition Destroys Houthi Drones Fired towards Saudi Arabiaaawsat.com The Saudi-led Arab coalition announced Monday the downing of two drones fired by the Iran-backed Houthi militias in Yemen towards Saudi …
Iran Drone war takes flight, raising stakes in Iran, US tensionsABC News - The Associated Press From the vast deserts of Saudi Arabia to the crowded neighborhoods of Beirut, a drone war has taken flight across the wider Middle East, raising the …
Fracking Cuadrilla records largest tremor at Lancashire fracking siteFinancial Times - Janina ConboyeShale gas company Cuadrilla has recorded the largest tremor to date at its Lancashire fracking site. With a magnitude of 2.1, it followed a 1.55 tremor on Thursday that forced the gas exploration site
Myanmar Magnitude 5.1 earthquake jolts India-Myanmar border region, tremors felt in entire Northeastoneindia.com - Madhuri Adnal Kohima, Aug 26: An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 struck struck India-Myanmar border region in Nagaland on Monday, the India Meteorological Department …
Joe Arpaio Joe Arpaio announces bid for sheriff reelection two years after Trump pardonCNN - By Paul LeBlanc, CNN(CNN) — Former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio on Sunday announced he would seek another term as sheriff of Maricopa County, two years after President Donald Trump pardoned him. He had been convicted on charges
World Leaders The G7 Is Meeting On A Vanishing Coastline, Scientists Warn LeadersForbes - Jeff McMahonBIARRITZ, France—Scientists from Southwest France warned world leaders this weekend at the G7 Summit that the picturesque shoreline where they are meeting could retreat 100 meters in this century because
Markets $30 billion wiped: Aussie shares plunge Monday morningyahoo.com - Tony Yoo The Australian share market has opened 1.66 per cent lower Monday morning, which equates to $30 billion of value lost. The ASX200, which is an index …
Play buttonAmazon Brazilian warplanes dump water on Amazon fires as outcry mountsThe Guardian - ReutersBrazilian warplanes have begun dumping water on burning forest in the Amazon state of Rondonia, responding to an outcry over the destruction of the world’s largest tropical rain forest. President Jair
Design Essential Design Thinking Videos and Methodsinteraction-design.org The following resources are recommended in order to assist you to better understand Design Thinking. These resources, videos, and tools should be …
Bolivia Bolivia president does about-face and will now accept aid to put out wildfiresReuters - Daniel RamosLA PAZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - Bolivian President Evo Morales did an about-face on Sunday and said he was now open to international aid to fight the blazes that have engulfed rural villages and doubled in
Magnetism On-chip structure-switching aptamer-modified magnetic nanobeads for thnature.com - Guozhen Liu, Chaomin Cao, Shengnan Ni, Shilun Feng, Hui Wei Sundberg, T. B., Xavier, R. J., Schreiber, S. L. & Shamji, A. F. Small-molecule control of cytokine function: new opportunities for treating immune …
European Union No-deal Brexit will ‘instantly disrupt’ UK’s role as £174bn global data hubThe Guardian - Toby Helm Political EditorA no-deal Brexit would seriously disrupt the free flow of commercially valuable data between Europe and the UK, leaving companies across the finance, hospitality, manufacturing and technology sectors “immense”
Hezbollah Hezbollah leader: Israeli drones over Lebanon will be downedAssociated Press - By ZEINA KARAM, Associated PressBEIRUT (AP) — The leader of Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah said Sunday that his group will confront and shoot down any Israeli drones that enter Lebanese airspace from now on, raising the potential for
Technology Australia to block internet domains hosting extremist content during terror attacksReuters - By Alison BevegeSYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will block access to internet domains hosting terrorist material during crisis events and will consider legislation to force digital platforms to improve the safety of their
Hong Kong A gun shot, petrol bombs and water cannons mark violent escalation in Hong Kong protestsCNN - By Jessie Yeung, Sandi Sidhu, Rebecca WrightHong Kong (CNN) — A Hong Kong police officer fired a live shot into the air as protesters squared off against police armed with water cannons Sunday, in one of the most violent nights seen since mass protests
Paris Paris celebrates its liberation from Nazis, 75 years onAssociated Press - By ANGELA CHARLTON and ELAINE GANLEY, Associated PressPARIS (AP) — Paris celebrated the American soldiers, French Resistance fighters and others who liberated the City of Light from Nazi occupation exactly 75 years ago on Sunday, unleashing an eruption of
Media Industry Boris Johnson pulled interview after criticism by head of news, says Channel 4The Guardian - Ben QuinnChannel 4 News has said that Downing Street froze it out of a planned interview at the G7 summit because of criticism of Boris Johnson by the channel’s head of news, who had described him as a “known and
Artists Berthe Morisot: Searching in Paris for the Woman Who Bewitched Édouard Manet and Launched ImpressionismThe Daily Beast - Christopher Dickey PARIS—From the time that Édouard Manet first met Berthe Morisot in 1868, when he was 36 and she was 27, he had trouble coming to terms with her eyes. …
AT&T AT&T reaches settlement with FTC over throttling of ‘unlimited’ data customers9to5Mac - Chance MillerThe long-running battle between the FTC and AT&T over data throttling practices has finally reached the end. The two parties have reached a settlement in the case that originally began in 2014, according
News British citizens born in US risk having UK bank accounts frozenThe Guardian - Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondentTens of thousands of British citizens born in the US but who left when only a few months or years old risk having their bank accounts in Britain frozen because of intense pressure by US tax authorities
Behavior The most effective way to implement a behavior changeFast Company - Anisa Purbasari HortonIs it better to make our goals public, or keep them to ourselves? We all have goals we want to achieve, behaviors we want to change, and habits we want to build (or break). Finding things we want to accomplish
News (Hong Kong) Chinese Agencies 'Crack Telegram': A Timely Warning For End-To-End EncryptionForbes - Zak DoffmanTelegram, the secure messaging platform, is used by pro-democracy campaigners in Hong Kong as a means of keeping communications away from the prying eyes of the Chinese authorities. Telegram has been in
News LAPD is investigating after video shows security forcefully removing transgender patrons from a barCNN - By Harmeet Kaur, Artemis Moshtaghian(CNN) — The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating an incident recorded on video and widely shared on social media that shows security staff forcefully removing transgender patrons from a downtown
G7 Summit G7 summit: French police use tear gas and water cannon on protestersAxios - Rebecca Falconer Authorities detained 68 people Saturday night after a mostly peaceful protest involving about 400 people in Bayonne, France, near the G7 summit, AP …
News Expanded South Korean military drills around disputed island draw Japanese protestReuters - By Josh SmithSEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean forces began two days of expanded drills on Sunday around an island also claimed by Japan, prompting a protest from Tokyo only days after Seoul said it would scrap an intelligence-sharing
Startups Graphcore founder Nigel Toon to talk about AI chips at Disrupt BerlinTechCrunch - Romain DilletIt’s easy to forget that Silicon Valley starts with ‘silicon’, and that there would be no technology innovation without innovation at the silicon level. And Graphcore is well aware of that as the Bristol-based
Japan Airlines Why clever people make more stupid mistakes than mostBBC News - BBC WorldTwo universities found “smart people were more likely to blurt out the wrong answer because they actually make more mental mistakes when problem-solving,” Bradberry wrote. “Smart people are more prone
