Pakistan ends 'luxury tax' on menstrual products, contraceptives. Will prices drop?
In Pakistan, taxes on menstrual products can add up. Activists have long worked to change this. Now a new budget wipes out the 18% sales tax. But questions remain about the impact on prices.
Taiwan says Chinese pressure over the island is the "new normal"
Taiwan's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday said the scholars' passports and mobile phones were confiscated, and they were detained in Mombasa for more than 20 hours before being allowed to leave the country.
President Trump calls to delay nomination of intel pick Jay Clayton
The Senate was set to begin the confirmation process for Jay Clayton as Director of National Intelligence Today. But President Trump is calling for a delay.
Trump to face questions at G7 press conference. And, Tuesday's primary results
Trump has touted his tentative agreement with Iran at the G7 summit. Today, he is expected to field questions at a press conference as the summit wraps up. And, a look at Tuesday's primary election results.
'Rejected': How federal prisons stonewall grievances and deny care for years
People who go to prison keep one important right — to file a grievance over their treatment: from abuse to denied medical care. But in the vast majority of cases, those efforts go nowhere, according to an analysis of federal data by The Marshall Project and NPR.
With Iran deal, Trump told ships to 'start your engines.' That's not happening yet
Iran's control of the Strait of Hormuz inflicted global pain during the months-long conflict with the U.S. and Israel. A tentative deal is in place, but questions remain about the key waterway.
Trump's Iran agreement dominates G7 but big questions remain
The U.S.-Israel-led war in Iran has rocked the global economy and decimated Trump's standing at home
On a flight home, a stranger helped her understand what came next
Rebecca Simonitsch had just learned she might be a candidate for brain surgery. The man seated beside her on the flight home pulled out a notebook to explain what lay ahead.
El Niño is here, so what does it mean?
An El Niño has formed amid the warmer-than-normal waters in the tropical Pacific. Now it's a question of how intense the phenomenon will be and where effects like heat and drought will strike.
3 things to know about the new Fed chief's first meeting
Kevin Warsh takes questions from reporters for the first time since taking over as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Warsh and his colleagues are expected to hold interest rates steady today.
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PM warns Burnham against immediate leadership challenge if he wins by-election
Keir Starmer says Labour should focus on a subsequent Manchester mayoral race if Andy Burnham wins in Makerfield.
Tracksuits and no ties - what England's off-pitch looks say about the team
What experts make of the men's team's official off-duty fashion as they prepare for their first World Cup match.
Israel launches fresh strikes on Lebanon despite Trump criticism
Speaking on Tuesday, Trump said Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu needed "to be more responsible with respect to Lebanon".
Jeremy Clarkson reveals prostate cancer diagnosis on farming show
The former Top Gear presenter did not clarify what type of cancer he had been diagnosed with.
Harry and Meghan to bring children to UK next month
It will be the first time the Duke of Sussex has brought his children to the UK in four years.
BBC announces 550 job cuts as first part of £500m savings plan
In an email to staff, the corporation laid out proposals for the initial 200 job losses in the news division.
British couple describe having warning shots fired near them by Russian warship
The retired couple tell BBC Newsnight they tried to show the warship they had changed course in the English Channel before the shots were fired.
TV personality Ashley Cain accused of using sexist and misogynistic language
The former footballer is known for presenting BBC Three's Ashley Cain: Into the Danger Zone.
Iran sends tankers loaded with oil past US military blockade
Three Iranian tankers loaded with crude oil have passed the US blockade line in the Gulf of Oman, ship-tracking data shows.
Abuse hurled at judge as first group of rioters sentenced for Ely disorder
The deaths of teenagers Kyrees Sullivan and Harvey Evans in 2023 sparked hours of violence and vandalism.
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Cisco adds another SD-WAN box to max-severity bug advisory
Updated at the time? No sweat. Check those logs, though
Homebrew 6.0 released with new security mechanism, Linux sandbox and more
Homebrew was "less vulnerable 10 years ago than npm is today," project lead tells us
Apple's WebKit performance tax leaves iOS browsers stuck in the slow lane, says Microsoft
Rival rendering engines could make pages load almost 30% faster on iPhones, Redmond claims
Intel starts cooking up enhanced 18A-P silicon for would-be foundry customers
Chipzilla claims 9% speed bump without extra power draw but is compatible with designs for 18A
Windows devs rerolled old code to save precious bytes
There really was a time when Microsoft cared about every KB
UK.gov links up with LinkedIn for jobs market intel from 40M accounts
What anonymized data taught me about B2B sales... and reliance on the private sector for statistical info
Brit competition cops order Google to make search rankings less mysterious
New rules cover organic rankings, AI Overviews, and user-approved search data sharing
Helpdesk scammers are making house calls to make their lies feel more real
15-year-old among six arrested after Dutch cops target suspected bank fraud call center
Windows update leaves third-party Office document launches in limbo
Microsoft won the OLE vs OpenDoc wars. Now it's saying OLE dependencies don't matter
System76 boss reckons he can liberate the entire PC stack... just give him another 15 years
Bootstrapped Linux box-botherer flogs new Thelio kit, talks up COSMIC, and politely declines to bolt AI onto everything
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Native NACS ports, infotainment upgrade for MY27 Porsche Taycan
The bigger battery is standard and there are now simulated "E-Shifts."
Windows and Linux users: The deadline to update Secure Boot keys is near
What you need to know about the expiration of keys securing your machine's boot sequence.
Trump admin tries to block Clean Air Act lawsuit over xAI's gas turbines
NAACP lawsuit says xAI uses gas turbines without permits for Grok data center.
Year of free HPE software a “step in the correct direction” in VMware rivalry
Partner tells Ars that HPE should be giving out more free VM Essentials licenses.
Cockroaches scurry around with thousands of pieces of bacterial genomes
Transferring genes across species doesn't just happen in microbes.
Among the large new rockets Amazon was counting on, only Europe has delivered
"As for Arianespace, they have definitely stepped up."
Anthropic "pauses" token-based billing for its Claude Agent SDK
Move originally planned for Monday would have heavily increased power users' costs.
US approval of Paramount/Warner Bros. deal surprised DOJ lawyers, report says
Trump admin green-lighting $111B deal "reeks of corruption," Sen. Warren says.
Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress
Pentagon also claims 1.5 million personnel are using generative AI tools.
Android 17 starts hitting Pixel phones and watches today
Pixels will get their OTA in the coming weeks, but don't expect monumental changes.