3+ hour, 38+ min ago   (477+ words) The second act of the Middle East war is unfolding around the Bab al-Mandab Strait after Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis seized control of the strategic waterway, while Yemeni army rosters were found to be riddled with “ghost names,” leaving forces in…...

6+ hour, 25+ min ago   (310+ words) Xinhua 13 Sep 2026, 06:15 GMT+ YANGON, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- Brushes dipped in black ink moved across paper as around 200 people gathered at the China Cultural Center in Yangon on Saturday to celebrate the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival, which falls on September 25 this year. For…...

30+ min ago   (364+ words) A growing number of AI safety researchers are raising concerns over the rapid development of increasingly autonomous systems, with some moving to independent groups like METR and calling for stronger safeguards. Josh Engels, a Google DeepMind researcher, has left the…...

2+ hour, 54+ min ago   (193+ words) Indonesian rescuers deployed ships, a helicopter and personnel after a vessel carrying 243 people sank during bad weather. Surabaya, Indonesia. Indonesian rescuers searched on Sunday for 130 people missing after a passenger ship sank in the Java Sea during bad weather. Six…...

6+ hour, 36+ min ago   (578+ words) The events were a deadly reminder of the underlying challenge to global shipping even as attention turns to a new threat, with Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen now perched on the Bab el-Mandeb Strait in the Red Sea. State-run IRNA…...

25+ min ago   (465+ words) "What I Stand On," a two-volume Library of America edition, collects the best essays of Wendell Berry, the Kentucky author who died on Aug. 31 at 92. Writer Wendell Berry, who died on Aug. 31 at 92, was friends with fellow author and Louisiana…...

6+ hour, 49+ min ago   (219+ words) Published September 13, 2026 Indonesian rescuers were searching on Sunday for 130 people from a passenger ship that sank in the Java Sea after 113 others were evacuated, the country's search and rescue agency said, adding that six people had died. An Indonesian passenger…...

4+ hour, 56+ min ago   (144+ words) The Lufkin Daily News Relatives of passengers aboard the Virgo Transport 8 ship that, according to a search and rescue agency, sank while sailing from Surabaya in East Java to Banjarmasin in South Kalimantan, examine a manifest list as they look…...

2+ hour, 23+ min ago   (664+ words) Headline News Technology World News ASM, Philippine Canadian Inquirer September 13, 2026 A former Anthropic researcher has resigned over concerns that leading artificial intelligence companies are moving too quickly toward increasingly powerful systems without adequate safeguards. Jacob Coxon, who previously worked at…...

41+ min ago   (272+ words) Civilians were killed and injured as Russia and Ukraine continued to attack each other with waves of drones overnight into Sunday. Ukrainian drones killed two people in Russia’s Tatarstan, according to local officials, while Ukrainian authorities reported on Russian…...