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Emilia Clarke’s brain aneurysmEmilia Clarke, who filmed battle scenes for Game of Thrones, published an essay in The New Yorker in 2019 titled “A Battle for My Life.”After suffering a severe headache at the gym, the actress writes, “I made it to the bathroom and fell to my knees feeling very, very sick.” “During that time, the pain was getting worse with shooting, stabbing, squeezing pain. On some level, I knew what was happening: my brain was damaged.”She was taken to the hospital for a brain scan.”The diagnosis was swift and ominous: a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a life-threatening type…

Rights group Fair Square accused world soccer’s governing body of “blatantly flouting” its own rules on political neutrality.Published December 10, 2025December 10, 2025Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareFIFA president Gianni Infantino’s glowing praise of Donald Trump and the world soccer governing body’s decision to award the US president the Peace Prize have prompted formal charges of ethics violations and political neutrality.Human rights group Fair Square said on Tuesday it had filed a complaint with FIFA’s Ethics Committee, saying the group’s actions were contrary to the common interests of the global football community.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of…

U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pose for a photo with European leaders after a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on August 18, 2025 in Washington, DC. Win McNamee | Getty ImagesIt has long been clear to Europe that U.S. President Donald Trump is not the region’s biggest fan, but his latest blistering attacks on the continent’s leaders will sting, especially as European countries seek to project more decisiveness and authority.In an interview with Politico published Tuesday, President Trump once again drew the ire of allies in Europe, describing them as “weak” and…

Google plans to launch its first AI glasses in 2026, according to a company blog post. At Google’s I/O event in May, the company announced a partnership with Gentle Monster and Warby Parker to develop consumer wearable products based on Android XR, the operating system that powers Samsung’s Galaxy XR headset. But in the real world, we can’t wear bulky headsets, which makes smart glasses attractive as discreet smart wearables. “For AI and XR to be truly useful, the hardware needs to fit seamlessly into your life and match your personal style,” Google writes. “We want to give our customers…

An eagle sculpture stands on the facade of the Mariner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board building on Friday, November 18, 2016 in Washington, DC, USA. Andrew Haller Bloomberg | Getty Images The US Federal Reserve is widely expected to cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to a range of 3.5% to 3.75% on Wednesday.However, given that traders are almost certain that a rate cut will occur (87.6% chance to be exact, according to the CME FedWatch tool), this news has likely already been priced in by the market. That means any hint of restraint…

Amazon has long had to deal with the reality that owners of Echo smart speakers aren’t using Alexa, the voice-controlled assistant, to make purchases, as the company had hoped. The tech giant hasn’t given up on that dream yet. The company’s AI assistant Alexa+ is available in the U.S. and Canada starting today with new shopping-enabled features, including a shopping hub, tools to add items to recent orders, and personalized recommendations. The company is already working on features that would allow Alexa+ to act as a shopping assistant, with features such as automated transaction tracking and automated purchasing. The former…

sydney, australia — Australia’s world-first social media ban for under-16s is just the beginning for parents and campaigners who have long argued that constant scrolling is having a negative impact on young minds. Wayne Holdsworth, the father of Mac, who took his own life at the age of 17 after being the target of a social media sexual extortion scam, joined other parents who have lost children to suicide at a select meeting at Downing Street in Sydney on Wednesday. “It’s really sad. I shouldn’t have been here because he should have been protected,” Holdsworth told CNN at an event…

But while Camilla’s children won’t be with her this Christmas, Charles and Camilla will continue to be surrounded by family. The couple will spend time in Sandringham, Norfolk, where they will join the rest of the royal family, including eldest son Prince William, his wife Kate, and children Prince George (12), Princess Charlotte (10) and Prince Louis (7) on their annual Christmas walk to St Mary Magdalene Church. And for many families, the celebrations have already begun, with Prince William, Duchess Kate and their three children joining together for a Christmas carol service at London’s Westminster Abbey on December 5,…

An NVIDIA AI computing card photographed in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China on December 9, 2025.Photo | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesBEIJING – U.S. President Donald Trump’s move to allow Nvidia to ship more advanced artificial intelligence chips to China will significantly boost China’s technological capabilities, analysts say.This signals a shift in policy after the United States has tightened restrictions on China’s access to advanced semiconductors over the past few years. But the regulations haven’t stopped Chinese companies like DeepSeek from finding ways to build AI models that rival their U.S. peers, often at lower operating costs.”Computing is our main advantage,”…

As AI moves beyond chatbots to systems that can take action, the Linux Foundation is launching a new group dedicated to preventing AI agents from splintering into a mess of incompatible, locked-down products. The group, called the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), serves as a neutral hub for open source projects related to AI agents. AAIF’s launch is supported by donations from Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI. Anthropic is contributing MCP (Model Context Protocol), a standard way to connect models and agents to tools and data. Block is contributing to its open source agent framework, Goose. OpenAI is introducing AGENTS.md, a simple…