How much of a challenge are wildfires to Europe?
Rapidly spreading blazes are scorching the continent., Europe is still burning. From Spain to France, and from Italy to Greece, wildfires are destroying everything in their path. Crews work around the clock to contain them, but the fight is far from over. Rising temperatures and prolonged droughts create ideal conditionsContinue Reading
Papirus icon set gets first update in over a year with 80+ new icons
Fans of the the Papirus icon theme will be pleased to hear there a new update – the first since May 2025. Papirus’s first update in 2026 (the tardiness of which its maintainer, Serhii Yeremenko, apologises) brings over 80 new or updated icons spanning apps, games and user-interface icons, plus newContinue Reading
‘Apple is one of the greatest companies of all time,’ says OpenAI
In an open letter, OpenAI this week turned to the court of public opinion in its existential war against Apple with a public notice in which the company refutes the iPhone maker’s claims concerning wholesale use of confidential information. You can detect the depth of enmity between both firms in OpenAI’s opening linesContinue Reading
AI agents get better at IT ops, but only with humans in the loop
AI agents are performing roughly 1 in 3 actions in enterprise IT workflows (but that share is rising quickly), while human analysts are rejecting about one-quarter of AI-proposed actions (but that rate is falling), according to a new study of tens of thousands of human-AI interactions. Operational data, rather thanContinue Reading
Legal limbo for 350,000 Haitians in US | DW News
Northwest of Miami, a community of Haitians granted temporary protected status finds itself in both a state of fear and flux now that US courts are determining the program’s legality. DW spoke to a Haitian American bakery owner in the city of Miramar to learn how people there are beingContinue Reading
UK prisons are full. How do other countries deal with overcrowing? | BBC News
The UK’s prison population today is about 86,500 and there are about 2,400 spare places. Overcrowding has caused chaos across prisons and the courts. Prime Minister Andy Burnham has now changed the incoming early release scheme for some prisoners in England and Wales, to exclude rapists and some other offenders.Continue Reading
WHO calls for more support to tackle Ebola outbreak
Despite being declared less than three months ago, the outbreak has already become the largest ever recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo.Continue Reading
Latest news bulletin | August 4th, 2026 – Evening
Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this August 4th, 2026 – latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel.Continue Reading
The People’s Historian
Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States, has found the perfect biographer in Dave Zirin., Read MoreContinue Reading
The Traitor’s Attacks on Transgender Youth Are Having a Ripple Effect in Canada
President Traitor 47’s Executive Order banning gender-affirming care for those under the age of nineteen has no bearing in other countries—but U.S. citizens living in Canada say they’re still facing obstacles., Read MoreContinue Reading
A New Threat to the Seas
Floating nukes may be the next big thing no one knows about until it’s too late to stop., Read MoreContinue Reading
Editor’s Note: Smoke and Mirrors
A note from Features Editor Alexandra Tempus on our national hypocrisy., Read MoreContinue Reading
“If Emmett Till Lived”: Cultural Historian Sarah Lewis on New Book/Exhibit, Visit to Mississippi
More than 70 years after the kidnapping, torture and lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi, a major new photography exhibit and companion book ask how the world would be different “If Emmett Till Lived.” The Black teenager’s brutal murder, as well as his open-casket funeral that displayed his mutilatedContinue Reading