News
China officials warned over 'provocative' missile test
9+ hour, 37+ min ago (447+ words) Australia has raised concerns about Beijing's missile launch into the Pacific with multiple levels of Chinese officials as one minister declares the test the act of a poor neighbour. The fallout of China's long-range missile test has continued almost a…...
China conducts long-range ballistic missile test in South Pacific
6+ day, 9+ hour ago (303+ words) China said it test-launched a long-range ballistic missile in the South Pacific on Monday, after countries in the region reported having been warned of an imminent test. China’s military test-launched a long-range ballistic missile Monday from one of its nuclear-powered…...
China test-launches a ballistic missile in the South Pacific and raises regional concerns
6+ day, 8+ hour ago (521+ words) China’s navy test-launched a long-range ballistic missile Monday from one of its nuclear-powered submarines in the South Pacific in a rare move that drew protest and concerns from countries in the region. The missile was launched at 12:01 p.m. and carried…...
Disposing of world war's deadly remnants 80 years on
1+ week, 1+ day ago (834+ words) It's been more than 80 years since the guns of World War II fell silent, yet the deadly remnants of conflict continue to pose danger in the South Pacific. Millions of tonnes of unexploded munitions still litter the globe, many of…...
Why Poland’s president is invoking wartime history in a dispute with Volodymyr Zelensky
1+ week, 4+ day ago (670+ words) There have long been tensions, political, economic and cultural, between Poland and Ukraine. But that hasn’t prevented Poland from being the biggest supporter of its neighbour, taking in millions of Ukrainians fleeing the war, about 1 million of whom have remained....
'Horrors of holocaust...': New Jersey middle school recalls yearbooks after Adolf Hitler’s baby photo appears among students’ childhood pictures, sparking investigation
1+ week, 4+ day ago (185+ words) ALSO READ: Family leaves New York, buys $13,000 home in Italy and later purchases a second property ALSO READ: Meet the $500,000 ChatGPT-powered humanoid robots acting as teachers, counsellors and translators in a San Diego school School administrators quickly collected the yearbooks…...
Quote of the day by Friedrich Nietzsche on fighting…
2+ week, 1+ day ago (769+ words) Nietzsche watched this happen everywhere. In universities. In churches. In the people he loved. And in 1881, somewhere in a notebook that wouldn't be widely read until after his death, he wrote the sentence that may be his most practically urgent:…...
US spends billions on war, and can't win
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (926+ words) inkl US spends billions on war, and can't win Historically speaking, consider it strange beyond compare. There may, in fact, be nothing like it in the imperial history of this planet. The United States, the greatest power on Earth from…...
In 1943, he was trying to solve a World War II crisis, but a failed experiment accidentally created one of the most famous toys ever made
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (742+ words) Some of the world's most famous inventions were never meant to exist. One of the best examples is Silly Putty, the stretchy, bouncy toy that entertained generations of children and adults alike. What began as a serious wartime scientific project…...
Rome Pride Bans Italy's Only Jewish LGBTQ Group From Its Float Over Refusal to Label Gaza War a Genocide
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (663+ words) Rome Pride has barred Italy's only Jewish LGBTQ organisation from participating with a float in next month's parade after the group refused to publicly describe Israel's war in Gaza as a 'genocide', deepening tensions over the conflict inside Europe's activist…...