At least 13 children killed in school bus crash in South Africa, police say
2026-01-19
Preliminary reports indicate 11 schoolchildren died at the scene, with two others succumbing to their injuries later in hospital.Continue Reading
Iranian foreign minister will not attend Davos, WEF confirms
2026-01-19
Iran’s foreign minister will not be attending the Davos summit in Switzerland this week, the World Economic Forum said on Monday. Araghchi was supposed to appear on Davos stage on Tuesday.Continue Reading
How the frog meat trade helped spread a deadly fungus worldwide
2026-01-19
A deadly fungus that has wiped out hundreds of amphibian species worldwide may have started its global journey in Brazil. Genetic evidence and trade data suggest the fungus hitchhiked across the world via international frog meat markets. The findings raise urgent concerns about how wildlife trade can spread hidden biologicalContinue Reading
UK prime minister stares down barrel of ban on social media for kids
2026-01-19
Labour’s latest U-turn? 61 backbenchers pile pressure for Starmer to back Tory peer’s amendment The British government may impose a ban on under-16s using social media, despite Labour prime minister Keir Starmer having previously expressed skepticism over the measure.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
Price, battery life, performance – that’s how you sell PCs
2026-01-19
Traditional considerations back in vogue. On-device AI? Not so much The majority of PCs that commercial resellers shipped to enterprise customers in Q4 were AI-capable, however, it was the traditional levers of price, battery life and performance these biz buyers were mostly sold on.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
After U.S. strike and Maduro’s fall, is Venezuelan ‘Chavismo’ facing its end?
2026-01-19
After the U.S. toppled Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s new leader bows to Washington, raising doubts about whether the once-defiant Chavista revolution can survive., Read MoreContinue Reading
Foreign influence & Somalia’s fight for unity
2026-01-19
On Centre Stage, Al Jazeera’s Mohamed Hassan speaks with Ali Omar, Somalia’s minister of state for foreign affairs., Centre Stage In this episode of Centre Stage, Al Jazeera’s Mohamed Hassan speaks with Ali Omar, Somalia’s minister of state for foreign affairs, about Somaliland’s secession bid backed by Israel, the fightContinue Reading
India is profiling Kashmir mosques, raising new surveillance fears
2026-01-19
Residents say police exercise feels less like routine survey and more like an attempt to control religious institutions., Mohammad Nawaz Khan regrets the day his father, Sanaullah Khan, a retired government employee, agreed to head the managing committee of the neighbourhood mosque in Indian-administered Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar. Khan’sContinue Reading
Cancer patients ‘warned for years’ about hospital water infections
2026-01-19
Paul O’Hare, BBC Scotland and Lisa Summers, Scotland health and social care correspondent John Cuddihy says the bacterial infection had a ‘devastating’ impact on daughter Molly The father of a woman whose death is being investigated by prosecutors said a health board was “warned for years” about issues with aContinue Reading
‘Utterly Shameless’: Tory Energy Chief Backs ‘Nonsense’ Anti-Net Zero Reports
2026-01-19
Conservative shadow energy secretary Claire Coutinho has endorsed two new anti-climate reports that have been rejected by experts and government bodies. On 12 January, Coutinho launched a report by energy consultancy Watt-Logic which claimed that increasing renewable energy capacity in the UK will heighten the risk of blackouts – aContinue Reading
A Fox News Venezuela Expert Is Backed by MAGA Oil Billionaire Paul Singer
2026-01-19
In the chaotic lead-up to and aftermath of the United States’ January 3 military raid on Venezuela, a national security expert named Rebeccah Heinrichs appeared multiple times on Fox News to describe American aggression as a victory for both ordinary Venezuelans and the world — sometimes more than once aContinue Reading
Viruses that evolved on the space station and were sent back to Earth were more effective at killing bacteria
2026-01-19
Scientists brought bacteria and phages, meaning viruses that infect bacteria, aboard the ISS to study their evolution. (Image credit: International space station (dima_zel/Getty Images); E.coli (Shutterstock)) Bacteria and the viruses that infect them, called phages, are locked in an evolutionary arms race. But that evolution follows a different trajectory when the battle takes place inContinue Reading
JWST’s ‘Little Red Dots’ May Be ‘Black Hole Stars’
2026-01-19
January 14, 2026 4 min read Add Us On Google Add SciAm ‘Little Red Dots’ Spied by JWST May Be Baby Black Holes in Disguise Puzzling red spots in images from the James Webb Space Telescope are probably young supermassive black holes obscured by dense cocoons of gas By Lee Billings edited by Clara MoskowitzContinue Reading