Engineers carve mountain in half to make way for world’s tallest bridge
Engineers in China have sliced a mountain in half as they build the world’s highest bridge.
Day: August 4, 2025
Google, OpenAI, Meta, and VCs are increasingly embracing the US military industrial complex, a major Silicon Valley cultural shift supported by President Trump (Sheera Frenkel/New York Times)
Sheera Frenkel / New York Times:
Google, OpenAI, Meta, and VCs are increasingly embracing the US military industrial complex, a major Silicon Valley cultural shift supported by President Trump — In a major shift, Google, OpenAI, Met…
Swiss tensions run high as clock ticks on U.S. tariff deadline
U.S. President Donald Trump last week said he would impose 39% tariffs on Swiss goods starting later this week.
Trump’s quest for the Nobel Peace Prize
“It’s well past time that President Trump was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on July 31, prompting reactions of disbelief and sarcasm from the Republican leader’s opponents. For some foreign…
‘Enough is enough’: Thousands of Boeing defence workers strike over pay and conditions
More than 3,000 Boeing defence workers went on strike Monday after rejecting a revised contract offer, demanding better pay and work conditions. The walkout affects key facilities in Missouri and Illinois as Boeing grapples with financial woes and saf…
Putin is ‘ready’ to meet Zelensky, says Kremlin as Trump’s deadline for Ukraine peace deal is looming in just DAYS
VLADIMIR Putin is ready to meet Volodymyr Zelensky, the Kremlin has announced.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said his boss will meet the Ukrainian leader “after preparatory work is done at the expert level”.
ReutersAn ex…
Russia to start trial of suspects in Moscow concert hall attack
The trial opens in Moscow on Monday (August 3) of 19 people accused of involvement in an attack on a Moscow concert hall last year that killed 149 people.
News24 | Hamas no ‘threat to Israel’, ex-security chiefs ask Trump to pressure Netanyahu into Gaza truce
Hundreds of retired Israeli security officials including former heads of intelligence agencies have urged US President Donald Trump to pressure their own government to end the war in Gaza.
UK politics live: Farage announces defection of Leicestershire’s police and crime commissioner from Tories to Reform UK
Rupert Matthews, elected to post as Conservative in 2021, claims police are ‘fighting crime with one hand tied behind their back’George Finch, the Reform UK leader of Warwickshire county council, goes next. (Aged 19, he is the youngest council leader i…
China ‘floods UK universities with spies’ as lecturer told ‘we’re watching you’
The Chinese Embassy furiously responded to the claims, describing them as “completely groundless and absurd”.