Updated: Jan 19th, 2026 At least 12 students were killed on Monday when a minibus carrying students collided with a truck south of Johannesburg, police said, in the latest deadly road accident in South Africa, according to reports. The crash reportedly took place near the industrial city of Vanderbijlpark, about 60 km south of Johannesburg....
Updated: Jan 19th, 2026 The Nobel Foundation on Sunday clarified that a Nobel Peace Prize cannot be passed on or symbolically transferred, following Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel laureate María Corina Machado’s claim that she presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to US President Donald Trump during a meeting at the White House. In a...
Updated: Jan 19th, 2026 US President Donald Trump has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi inviting him to be part of a proposed international body called the “Board of Peace”, aimed at working towards lasting peace in the Middle East, particularly Gaza. The letter, dated January 16, 2026, was shared publicly by the US Ambassador...
Updated: Jan 19th, 2026 At least 21 people were confirmed dead and more than 70 others injured after two high-speed trains collided near the city of Cordoba in southern Spain, authorities said. Thirty of the injured were in serious condition and hospitalised, Spain’s Transport Minister Oscar Puente said on Monday. Earlier media reports put the...
Updated: Jan 15th, 2026 Elon Musk’s Grok AI will stop editing photos of real people to depict them in revealing or undressed clothing, following widespread backlash after such AI-generated images went viral online. The controversy erupted after edited images of women, created using the AI, circulated on social media, drawing sharp criticism over privacy and...
Updated: Jan 14th, 2026 Aviation and aerospace component manufacturer UARX Space on LinkedIn has confirmed that its SAU&RON separation system performed as designed during ISRO’s PSLV-C62 mission, despite the launch ending in failure following a third-stage anomaly. In a detailed statement, UARX Space said the PSLV-C62 mission encountered a critical issue during the third-stage burn,...
Updated: Jan 13th, 2026 Apple is reportedly preparing to power a revamped version of its Siri voice assistant using Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence model, as part of a newly announced multi-year agreement between the two technology giants. As per reports, the partnership will allow Apple to leverage Google’s Gemini AI model along with its cloud...
Updated: Jan 12th, 2026 IG (illustratingbotanist) Indonesian conservationist Septian Andriki, known as Deki, after more than a decade of relentless searching, finally rediscovered Rafflesia hasseltii, one of the world’s rarest flowers, hidden deep within the rainforests of Western Sumatra, as per reports. Often described as even rarer to spot than a tiger, the flower had...
Cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes has claimed that cybercriminals have stolen sensitive information linked to 17.5 million Instagram accounts, raising serious concerns over user privacy and data security. In a post shared on X, Malwarebytes said the compromised data includes usernames, physical addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and other personal details. The revelation has sparked alarm among...
Updated: Jan 18th, 2026 At least six people were killed and several others injured after a massive fire broke out at a shopping mall in Karachi late on Saturday, officials said. The fire broke out at Gul Plaza, a multi-storey shopping complex in a densely populated business district. Rescue services said they received the first...