North Korea’s nuclear tests have turned this mountain into an earthquake hot spot
Seismic activity has increased markedly at Mount Mantap, also known as Mantapsan, since the last test blast there in 2017
Body of missing hiker found in Grand Canyon, bringing flood death toll to 3
Tim Smith, 53, was one of several people overwhelmed by a monsoonal downpour that lashed the northern side of the tourist destination, sending torrents of water, rock and debris down a popular hiking trail.
One dead after torrential rain and flash floods hit Barcelona region
Flooding has caused widespread disruption across Valencia and Catalonia in north-east Spain.
Two Britons among three killed in plane crash at popular resort
Two Britons are among three people killed after a light aircraft crashed in a popular resort in the Swiss Alps.
Spain: Images of floods after torrential rain
At least one person was killed after torrential rain lashed eastern Spain overnight Wednesday, submerging streets and flooding buildings and metro stations.
Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said a Canada-EU alliance would create a "beacon for other democracies".
Man Suspected of Pushing Woman in Front of London Bus Is Found Dead, British News Media Say
The man, 44, had been arrested in connection with the 2017 shoving attack in London, the British news media reported. His family said there was “no credible evidence” linking him to the incident.
U.S. Strike on Iranian School May Have Been War Crime, U.N. Report Says
Mistakes that led to the deaths of more than a hundred children “went beyond negligence,” investigators said. They also cited a separate strike the same day that killed a reported 22 civilians.
Third person dies from malaria in cluster near Germany’s Frankfurt Airport
Frankfurt grapples with a rare malaria outbreak tied to air travel, marking three deaths in recent months.
Climate change had major role in triggering Nepal floods, scientists say
The combined toll from the deadly incident now stands at 1,446 people dead and at least 6,669 missing.
Siegfried Mureșan, declarații la ora 13 alături de liderii PNL, USR și UDMR
Premierul desemnat, Siegfried Mureșan, va susține vineri, la ora 13.00, declarații de presă alături de liderii PNL, USR și UDMR. G4Media va transmite LIVE declarațiile. Declarațiile vor avea loc la Palatul Parlamentului, potrivit unui anunța al…
Un român a evadat din închisoarea din Veneția / Polițiștii au găsit celula goală / Ar fi beneficiat de o operațiune de dezinsecție împotriva ploșnițelor / Sindicatul condamnă ”starea de colaps în care se află sistemul penitenciar”
Un român de 33 de ani, Florin Bairam, a evadat joi dimineața din închisoarea Santa Maria Maggiore din Veneția, relatează Curierul Italiei, care citează presa locală. Românul era închis în așteptarea procesului pentru jaf. Din primele informații, se…
Nicușor Dan: Voi semna mâine decretul pentru desemnarea lui Siegfried Mureșan și o să fie publicat luni / Întrebat despre anticipate: Haideți să ne uităm la prima etapă și după aceea să vedem
Președintele Nicușor Dan a declarat, vineri, în Ucraina, că va semna semna mâine decretul pentru desemnarea lui Siegfried Mureșan, iar luni va fi publicat în Monitorul Oficial. Din momentul publicării, începe termenul de zece zile în care premierul…
STUDIU: Groenlanda și Antarctica au pierdut peste 12 trilioane de tone de gheață din 1979, pe fondul creșterii temperaturilor aerului și oceanelor
Un nou studiu arată că pierderea gheții a început să se accelereze în anii 1990, iar Groenlanda și Antarctica au pierdut peste 12 trilioane de tone de gheață din 1979, transmite MEDIAFAX. Pierderea celor 12,5 trilioane de tone de gheață a crescut…
Crescătorii de ovine şi caprine ar putea primi până la 50.000 de euro pentru investiţii destinate prevenirii apariţiei şi răspândirii bolilor în ferme
Crescătorii de ovine şi caprine ar putea beneficia de finanţări de până la 50.000 de euro pentru investiţii destinate prevenirii apariţiei şi răspândirii bolilor în ferme, prin intervenţia DR-21, al cărei Ghid al solicitantului a fost publicat în…
EU warns Turkey to clean up waste treatment or face trade ban
BRUSSELS — The European Commission will consider banning the export of plastic waste to Turkey if the country fails to address pollution and environmental concerns, a Commission official told POLITICO. The warning comes after a Commission…
Bill Cassidy on vaccines, RFK Jr. and the fight for public trust
Bill Cassidy on vaccines, RFK Jr. and the fight for public trust lead image
Deutschlands Kampfjet-Dilemma
Listen on Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music Ein teures Symbol der Abhängigkeit: In Texas nimmt Verteidigungsminister Boris Pistorius den ersten F-35-Kampfjet für die Bundeswehr entgegen. Die Tarnkappenflieger sichern die nukleare Teilhabe…
Week Ender: Can Europe patch up the world in disorder?
Listen on Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music The old global order is breaking down. Ursula von der Leyen thinks Europe may have to start building something new around it. In her State of the European Union speech, she floated closer ties with Canada…
Germany and Spain go head-to-head in EU budget fight
DUBLIN ― Germany and Spain used separate POLITICO opinion pieces to clash over the total size of the EU’s next approximately €2 trillion seven-year budget, setting the scene for tough negotiations to strike a deal before an informal end-of-year…
Why Japanese stocks rose as government bond yields and the yen fell after rate hike
The yen weakened past 157 against the dollar, the yield on the 10-year Japanese Government Bond slipped, while the Nikkei 225 gained 1.5%.
ECB's Kazaks Says Restrictive Policy May Be Appropriate
European Central Bank Governing Council member and Bank of Latvia Governor Martins Kazaks discusses the second-round inflation effects of the energy price shock and the outlook for interest rates. "With the economy forecasted to close the output…
Casalux.ro - Descoperiți cea mai romantică grădină din lume, Giardino di Ninfa din Roma
O grădină romantică unică în lume se află la sud de Roma, pe ruinele unui vechi oraș medieval.
Putin a pus activele din Rusia ale Nestle, Auchan şi Leroy Merlin sub administrare specială
Potrivit documentului, acţiunile acestor companii din Rusia sunt transferate sub „administrare temporară” către compania rusă „L.E.V. Management”. Publicaţia de investigaţii Novada Gazeta Europa dezvăluie că această companie, înfiinţată la…
Cum arată acum primul tunel de autostradă din România, cel de pe autostrada A1 Sibiu-Pitești, care va fi dat curând în trafic. VIDEO cu traversararea integrală
După ce pasionații de infrastructură au postat imagini noi, din dronă și de la sol, cu secțiunea 4 Tigveni – Curtea de Argeș a A1 Sibiu – Pitești, ce urmează să fie dată în trafic în luna octombrie, potrivit celor mai recente estimări, acum au…
Spritpreise: Umweltbundesamt schlägt Hilfen zum Umstieg auf E-Mobilität vor
Während die Bundesregierung Entlastungen bei den Spritpreisen plant, schlägt das Umweltbundesamt Hilfen zu einem schnelleren Umstieg auf Elektromobilität vor.
„GTA 6“ kommt ohne Disc – aber das Soundtrack-Album gibt es auf Vinyl
Das offizielle Album zu „GTA 6“ erscheint am 19. November mit dem Spiel. Es bringt 34 eigene Tracks – sechs Singles sind bereits verfügbar.
heise+ | OpenTrafficMap: Live-Verkehrskarte im Eigenbau
Das Projekt OpenTrafficMap bringt den V2x-Verkehrsfunk ITS-G5 ins Internet. Das ist nicht nur spannend, sondern könnte auch bei der Verkehrsplanung helfen.
Gesperrte Straße von Hormus: Laut Prognose werden CO₂-Emissionen 2026 sinken
Seit den Angriffen der USA und Israels auf den Iran liegt der Handel durch die Straße von Hormus weitestgehend still. Das hat Konsequenzen für den Klimaschutz.
Google-Suche ja, Modelltraining nein: Neue Cloudflare-Regeln
KI-Crawler blockieren, aber in der Suche bleiben: Cloudflare entschärft den Konflikt bei Mehrzweck-Crawlern.
How Humans and LLMs Read Gender into "Gender-Neutral" Physical Descriptions
arXiv:2609.16366v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: When foundation models describe people, recent work in AI fairness, accessibility, and ethics recommends avoiding inferred identity labels (e.g., "she", "his") in favor of seemingly…
No-Box Vulnerability Analysis: Description-only Detection of Indirect Prompt Injection Vulnerabilities in MCP Servers
arXiv:2609.10854v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Conventional vulnerability analysis relies on either system access or dynamic interaction, all of which may be unavailable to third-party analysts auditing closed-source, remotely hosted…
Sparse Data Augmentation for Optimization with Provable Guarantees
arXiv:2609.08133v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In nonconvex optimization problems arising in geometric machine learning, data augmentation is commonly used to promote invariance by averaging empirical losses over transformations of the…
Evaluating Deep-Search Agents under Hierarchical Web Evidence Poisoning
arXiv:2609.06027v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Search-augmented LLM agents are increasingly used for consumer decisions, making them vulnerable to Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) poisoning. Existing benchmarks largely measure…
Verify Before You Distill: Prompt-Level Teacher Gating for On-Policy Distillation
arXiv:2609.02998v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) accelerates post-training by providing dense token-level supervision from a frozen teacher on the student's own rollouts. Vanilla OPD applies this supervision…
Burst pipe floods wildlife meadow for fourth time
Repeated flooding of a key conservation site in Oxfordshire leaves a charity frustrated.
Nebula image wins Royal Observatory competition
Ali Alobaidly is named Astronomy Photographer of the Year for his image of the Shark Nebula.
APOD: 2026 September 18 – Messier 33: The Triangulum Galaxy
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 18 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating…
Grass and clover can provide more than animal feed
Growing leys—grass and clover—is nothing new in Swedish agriculture. But in the arable farming regions dominated by cereal production, leys are less common. One reason is that there needs to be a market for what is harvested.
In hottest summer on record, 2 in 3 Americans say climate change is increasing heat-related illnesses
Nearly two-thirds of the American public say climate change is increasing the risk of respiratory diseases and heat- and insect-related illnesses, according to a new survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of…
Kennedy announces new effort to speed up autism diagnoses
Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Thursday a new effort to improve autism diagnoses, arguing that the current model is outdated, too time-intensive, and overreliant on professionals with limited availability. “We are not satisfied…
Kennedy Assures Vaccine Skeptics That They Have a ‘Friend at the White House’
The health secretary spoke at a conference featuring misinformation about vaccines, including a claim that the success of the polio vaccines was a “fraud.”
Kennedy renews attacks on vaccines at Children’s Health Defense conference
WASHINGTON — Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. returned to his roots on Thursday during a keynote address at a conference hosted by the Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine nonprofit he helped start. The CHD speech served as a victory…
The Next Gene-Editing Technology May Also Be the Oldest
Scientists have discovered a powerful gene-targeting system in viruses. Billions of years old, VIPR seems to predate CRISPR and may be even more effective.
Toxic Fracking Waste Becoming a Political Issue in Ohio
The Democratic candidate for governor backed restrictions on disposal of fracking wastewater around a hard-hit town, and called for a “thorough investigation” of the dangers.
Improved air quality linked to better mental development in toddlers, study finds
Long-term research in New York shows efforts to reduce air pollution associated with higher cognitive test scores Improvements in air pollution are leading to brighter, smarter toddlers, according to a new study from Columbia University in New…
‘Forcing a reckoning’: How Asia is preparing for a ‘supersized’ El Niño
From Sri Lanka to South Korea, governments are preparing for droughts, wildfires, typhoons and floods – with climate plans facing their biggest challenge to date Asian governments are rushing preparations for the most severe El Niño weather event…
The Guardian view on the Nepal-Tibet floods: a spur to action on climate | Editorial
New research links last month’s disaster to fossil fuel pollution. Supporting disaster-hit countries must be at the centre of climate politics Following a familiar pattern, coverage of the glacier collapse on the Nepal-Tibet border three weeks ago…
Scientists are fighting a longer mosquito season with ... more mosquitoes
Nearly half a million more of the insects are being released in California – they’re all male and carry a bacterium The box arrived in the San Gabriel Valley, just east of Los Angeles, filled with more than two dozen paper tubes about the size of…
Fire, ice and family: Australia’s 2026 Bowness photography prize – in pictures
Here are 26 images by the shortlisted artists who submitted works for the 21st William and Winifred Bowness photography prize. Tamara Dean has been named the winner. The judges says her photograph is ‘operatic and poetic: an opus that is the…
European Commission set to push social media restrictions, safety requirements into law
The proposal, known as the EU KIDS Act, would block social media platforms from offering accounts to children younger than 13 and establish a bloc-wide minimum age of 15 for account creation.
China’s FamousSparrow hackers target Latin America with new backdoor
Alleged Chinese hackers are breaking into government agencies across Latin America using a new backdoor that researchers are calling “SparroWocky.”
Hackers claim breach of Russian election systems days before parliamentary vote
An anonymous hacking group claimed to have broken into computer systems connected to Russia’s election infrastructure just days before the country begins voting for a new parliament.
Congress eyes new support for Cyber Command after recent suicide deaths
Congressional sources say they view the deaths of U.S. Cyber Command personnel as an inflection point, especially as the Pentagon’s appetite for cyber capabilities grows following successful contributions to high-profile missions against Iran and…
Israeli contractor BlackCore trained Angolan officials in online influence operations
An Israeli influence-for-hire company trained Angolan government officials to run online influence operations, including by creating fake social media personas and media outlets, researchers found.
Emotional All-Pro LB Campbell shoulders blame after Lions fail to contain Bills
Jack Campbell fought back tears while reflecting on Detroit's poor defensive effort in Thursday night's loss in Buffalo.
'That place was electric': Bills marvel at new stadium after 41-point night
The Bills threw a heck of a housewarming party for their new Highmark Stadium on Thursday, launching fireworks to open the night and then piling up points in a 41-31 victory over the Detroit Lions that felt more dominant than the final score…
How does De Zerbi fix Spurs' scoring troubles?
Roberto De Zerbi's Tottenham are yet to score a Premier League goal this season, how do they fix that?
I feel like I'm in a good place - Isak
Alexander Isak explains how his relationships with Andoni Iraola and Cody Gakpo have helped him this season.
Moving from Newcastle to Liverpool easy decision - Isak
Striker Alexander Isak says Liverpool's ambition and determination to sign him was a big part of why he joined the club.