Updated: Feb 9th, 2026 Image: X A newly discovered comet, C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos), is travelling through the inner solar system, offering astronomers and skywatchers a fresh opportunity to observe a visitor from its distant edges. According to Space.com, the comet will not be easily visible right now, but observers in the Northern Hemisphere will get...
Updated: Feb 9th, 2026 More than one billion Android smartphones across the globe are now facing elevated cybersecurity threats after Google confirmed that devices running Android 12 or earlier will no longer receive security updates. The figures are based on Android platform distribution data referenced by Moneycontrol. According to the data, around 42.1% of active ...
Updated: Feb 9th, 2026 The total number of measles cases in Mongolia has increased to 14,123, the country’s National Centre for Communicable Diseases (NCCD) said on Monday. The majority of new measles infections were among school-age children who had had only one shot of the measles vaccine, the NCCD said in a statement. In view...
Norway’s foreign ministry on Sunday announced that senior diplomat Mona Juul will step down from her post following what it described as a “serious failure of judgement” linked to her ties with late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, deepening a growing scandal in Norway and across parts of Europe. Juul, who was serving as ambassador to...
Updated: Feb 9th, 2026 An Iranian court has sentenced Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to six years in prison, according to reports Her legal counsel, Mostafa Nili, reportedly said Mohammadi was convicted on charges of “assembly and collusion with the intent to commit crimes.” Along with the prison term, the court also imposed a...
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is set to win a comfortable majority on its own, and may even clinch a two-thirds majority with allies, in the snap elections held on Sunday, as per exit polls in the Japanese media. An exit poll by public broadcaster NHK showed that the LDP is...