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Kerala State Electricity Regulatory Commission publishes draft multi-year tariff regulations for next five-year period

The draft also features provisions aimed at ensuring that the benefits from operational efficiency and expenditure cuts are fully passed on to consumers

How Chennai city went from tiffin carriers to food apps

As Chennai turns 387, a look at how its food culture has evolved—from home-cooked meals and old Madras favourites to street food, global cuisines, cafés and app-based meal subscriptions

Security Council LIVE: Drone strikes and political impasse in Libya

As Libya faces a political impasse delaying long-planned elections alongside clashes and drone strikes that left a major oil refinery ablaze, the Security Council heard the latest updates, with an activist warning that the collision of extreme heat, water scarcity and environment

The entire city of San Francisco as a video game

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Mohammed bin Salman in the City of Light: Does West value economic interests over 'Western values'?

Jean-Emile Jammine is pleased to welcome Susanne Koelbl, Der Spiegel's award-winning foreign correspondent. According to Koelbl,, Emmanuel Macron’s decision to welcome Mohammed bin Salman at the Élysée reflects realpolitik in its purest form: 'Saudi Arabia had become too importan

Nevada wildfire forces tens of thousands to evacuate as blaze threatens city of Reno

Tens of thousands of people faced another night away from home on Monday as a wind-driven wildfire threatened Reno, Nevada, blanketing the city in smoke and closing schools. About 24,000 people remained under evacuation orders, down from more than 40,000 at the peak, while tens o

ZHA proposes interconnected forest neighbourhoods for Baku Expo City masterplan

Architecture studio ZHA has unveiled its masterplan for Baku Expo City in Azerbaijan, where overlapping stacked homes with green roofs will flank an extension to the city's exhibition centre. The 198-hectare-site in Baku will have residences ranging from one-bedroom flats to larg

The Anti-Flood City Is Finally Taking Shape

From concrete walls to hilly landscapes, New York is beginning to see its new defenses against future catastrophe.

3 ways to improve Canada’s wildfire advisory capacity

Producers often turn to online peer networks and experts when something goes wrong. However, online misinformation is drowning out the legitimate advice.

At These New York City Flea Markets, the Hunt Is the Thrill

From the decades-old bazaars to the small-yet-mighty ones, these are our favorite markets.

Inside Stylist Patricia Field's Souvenir-Filled New York City Apartment

After more than a half a century of working—and shopping—on the road, Sex and the City stylist Patricia Field shares her favorite finds.

Spurs in talks to sign Egypt's Marmoush from Man City

Spurs open talks with Manchester City to sign attacking duo Omar Marmoush and Savinho.

How new cooling technologies could cut AC electricity demand

America's answer to hotter summers has overwhelmingly been more air conditioning, and engineers are now looking for ways to keep people cool without driving up electricity demand. Why it matters: The need for cooling is surging. The issue isn't just how to generate more electrici

The Oklahoma City Family Playbook

Oklahoma City knows how to keep families moving. One minute you’re seeing rare pigeons up close and the next, you’re playing pickleball between bites of barbecue, or discovering stories that shaped the American West. Best of all, many of the city’s biggest attractions are interac

As elections near, South Sudan risks new atrocity crimes, warns rights probe

The under-reported humanitarian crisis in South Sudan risks deepening with the real possibility of further atrocity crimes unless renewed fighting stops, a UN-backed probe said on Thursday.

What Can New York City’s Crime Prevention Efforts Teach Us About Gun Violence?

There is a core tenet to the Cure Violence method: Gun violence behaves like a contagious disease, and its spread can be controlled using public health strategies. Officially started in 2000, Cure Violence has since been implemented in more than 50 American cities and 15 countrie

Stunning Antiquities and Frida Kahlo’s Home Are Just Some of the Offerings That Have Bolstered Mexico City’s Fantastic Array of Museums

The ancient capital has plenty of artwork and fossils, if that’s what you like. Or tour the writing rooms of a Nobel winner, the fortified home of an exiled Russian revolutionary and towers of skulls

This City Was Just Named America's Fittest—for the 9th Straight Year

Arlington, Virginia, again takes the top spot in the ranking of the country’s 100 largest cities.

‘Unacceptable’: US city without power for nearly 2 weeks as frustration grows - Syracuse.com

‘Unacceptable’: US city without power for nearly 2 weeks as frustration grows Syracuse.com Gary, Indiana power outage update: Gov. Mike Braun seeks investigation into NIPSCO as storm damage recovery approaches 2nd week ABC7 Chicago Influencer Keith Lee holds massive storm relief

U of Alabama Establishes Post-Tenure Review, Codifies Senates’ Advisory Capacity

U of Alabama Establishes Post-Tenure Review, Codifies Senates’ Advisory Capacity Emma Whitford Mon, 08/24/2026 - 03:00 AM Byline(s) Emma Whitford

Canada should be ready to cut electricity, critical minerals, Ontario's premier says

Ford said "everything is on the table" if the dispute worsens, including cutting off electricity and critical minerals from Ontario.

Redland City Council reveals plans for 62ha precinct including lagoon

Wildfire burning near Nevada city forces evacuation of 90,000 residents

The Sinking City 2 Review

The Sinking City 2 feels inescapably like off-brand Resident Evil, but it's a praiseworthy imitation of its main inspirations wrapped in the Cthulhu mythos.

Walk through a 3D cyberpunk city built purely from ASCII characters — a text-based metropolis runs on a 283KB Rust WebAssembly engine feeding a WebGL renderer

Solo developer Grow Now! Games has put a playable browser build of its walkable ASCII cyberpunk city online, running on a 283KB Rust WebAssembly engine feeding a WebGL renderer. The build went live this week alongside a second YouTube video, ASCII City Update: Interiors, Elevatio

All of the pirates in Hooded Horse city builder Corsair Cove hate me because I can't make them eyepatches fast enough

Stories of pirates are full of swashbuckling, daring-do, and grog. But Limbic Entertainment's city builder Corsair Cove reveals those hijinx are only a sideshow: logistics is the star. As the proud owner of a tropical island surrounded by high seas dotted with patrolling Spanish

Rain lashes city on Sunday evening

City's drinking water diluted after elevated PFAS levels detected

38-year-old runs a mobile pizzeria out of his Smart car in New York City: It's 'like a circus or a magic act'

"Pizza Pod started with a pretty ridiculous idea: What if I could turn a tiny Smart car into a mobile pizzeria?" says founder Bradley Alvelo.

Bristol City striker's stunning backheel goal in England goes viral

Lone game dev builds an explorable cyberpunk city almost entirely out of ASCII characters

Typing something that looks a bit like a face using nothing but a semicolon, an underscore, and what I've just learned is called a caret will never not be charming to me. However, the odd kaomoji is the limit of my text-based artistic talent. I can do nought but bow down to the s

More free parking spots identified to ease Onam rush in Kozhikode city

Police have identified 25 locations offering free parking for over 2,495 cars and deployed special squads to remove illegally parked vehicles. The measures are expected to ease pressure on the city’s roads during the festival season

Indian national shot dead by unidentified man in New York City

Gurdeep Singh, a resident of Queens, was fatally shot around 10 p.m. (local time) on Friday (August 21, 2026) near Stanley Avenue in the East New York neighbourhood

Heavy rains affect normal life in Jammu, house collapses in city

Several parts of Jammu, including Tallab Tillo, Bagwati Nagar, Krishna Nagar and Canal Road, witnessed extensive waterlogging following the rainfall, with rainwater entering houses and shops

IEEE Course Teaches How to Use AI to Modernize Power Grids

Today’s U.S. electrical grid, among the largest, most complex systems ever built, is operating at its limit. The combination of rapid industrial growth, more frequent extreme weather, and a record surge in electricity use has pushed the grid to its breaking point , according to t

The 19 Best New Restaurants of 2026

The definitive list of the year's top US openings features a wine bar in NYC's Chinatown, a style-bending pizza spot in San Francisco, a thrilling izakaya in Kansas City, and more.

"The lines between redemption and revenge will blur", promises Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2's latest trailer as the series locks in a late October release

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, the second series of the anime CD Projekt Red and Netflix grafted onto the former's cyberverse following Cyberpunk 2077 's release, will premiere on October 20th. Having previously revealed the four new Night City dwellers its plot will be following, the

Weather tracker: Extreme rain deluges Japan and South Korea

Downpours break records and cause transport chaos, evacuations and deaths, as people get trapped inside vehicles South Korea and Japan were hit by extreme rain late last week and into this week. On 13 August in the city of Chiba near Tokyo there was a record-breaking 115mm of rai

Sydney Marathon admits ‘unfortunate error’ as finisher’s medal depicts Munich stadium as race highlight

‘Landmarks’ side of the medal features the Allianz Arena in German city rather than Allianz Stadium in Sydney Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast In a week’s time, the proud runners finishing the Sydn

Antwerp's 'human zoo': Belgium confronts shame of colonial past

In 1894, when the Belgian city of Antwerp was hosting a World's Fair, more than a hundred Congolese people were forcibly brought to the city to be exhibited in the Congo Pavilion. In this "human zoo", seven Congolese men ultimately died of disease. Today, this shocking episode st

NBA 2K27’s New App Lets You Build Your MyPLAYER Five Days Before The Game Drops - Athlon Sports

NBA 2K27’s New App Lets You Build Your MyPLAYER Five Days Before The Game Drops Athlon Sports NBA® 2K27 Introduces NBA® 2K HQ: The Official Companion App for Players on the Go 2K Newsroom New NBA 2K27 gameplay details on The City, co-op, MyNBA eras, and more PlayStation.Blog NBA

Bengaluru’s parking overhaul: Who pays, where you can park and who enforces it | Explained

The new rules envision a structured way of implementing paid parking through the identification and expansion of parking spaces across the city, while also seeking to monetise free spaces and residential stretches for paid parking

Remembering Chennai’s Pilot Theatre, once Royapettah’s modern cinema

Opened in 1968, Pilot Theatre was a landmark of Madras’s modern cinema culture, drawing audiences from across the city for decades

The AI ‘new era’ illusion: why every boom looks different—but ends the same

The beginning of the 20th century, much like the beginning of the 21st, was an era of increasing optimism. The financial panics of 1873 and 1893 were in the past, new technologies like electricity and internal combustion were just gaining traction and Morganization was creating t

Sydney Marathon medal wrongly shows German landmark

A medal minted for finishers in the Sydney Marathon features a skyline of the city — with one landmark from rather far away. Organizers say the muddle only makes the medal "a little more unique."

Construction begins on world's tallest jail in Manhattan

A skyscraper-sized jail designed by architecture studio HOK is undergoing site preparation in New York City's Chinatown as one of the four new borough-based structures designed to replace the city's notorious Rikers Island jail complex. The Manhattan Detention Facility will be lo

Peaked volumes top Los Angeles house by Allprace

Local design-build studio Allprace aimed to create a feeling of "warmth and permanence" in a house called Hargis, which features gabled roof forms and earthy materials such as wood and stone. Set within a creative district in Culver City, which is part of Los Angeles County, the

Year-Round Curbside Dining Is Coming Back

City Council approves shivery pizza for all.

Casement-Window Obsession and a Droolworthy Studio on West 106th

This week’s worth-it New York City apartment listings.

More Than One Butter-Yellow Bathroom

This week’s worth-it New York City apartment listings.

Mamdani’s $4 Billion, 10-Year, Middle-of-the-Road BQE Fix

The mayor proposes building a temporary highway while the crumbling city-owned stretch is restored.

From nightlife to life at night: cities must stay open later to beat the rising heat

From floodlit beaches to late-night libraries, city life has to change to beat the heat.

Lindsey Stirling Announces 2026 “Snow Waltz Holiday Tour”

The 25-city US run stops in Philadelphia, St. Louis, Las Vegas, and more. Lindsey Stirling Announces 2026 “Snow Waltz Holiday Tour” Eddie Fu

BNB Chain activates Pasteur hard fork to strengthen bridge security

BNB Chain activates the Pasteur hard fork on BSC, closing bridge and validator security gaps while targeting greater transaction capacity.

The Best Restaurants in Tuscaloosa, Home to the University of Alabama

Tuscaloosa is known for the University of Alabama and Crimson Tide football, but the growing city — over 100,000 residents and 43,000 students each fall — also has a growing art scene, music and festivals, and excellent restaurants. Of course many of the best places to eat are bu

Three Days of Hot Dogs, Boutiques, and Football for an Ohio State Buckeyes Game Weekend

Columbus is always evolving. In the city, historical landmarks such as the Ohio Statehouse and tributes like the Columbus Museum of Art serve as a snapshot of the past, while the bustling streets of the University District and the Short North represent the future. No matter your

In shattered Cali, residents search for loved ones and signs of hope

Most deaths from the magnitude-7.4 quake were reported in Cali, Colombia’s third-most populous city, as crews search collapsed buildings for those still trapped.

Would Marmoush joining Tottenham be a masterstroke or risk?

Tottenham are working on a deal for Omar Marmoush, but what could the Man City forward bring to the north London team?

Fyllingsdalstunnelen in Fyllingsdalen, Norway

Opened in 2023, this tunnel is 2.9 km long (about 1.8 miles). Very useful for pedestrians, bicyclists, various exercising in a city where it rains almost all year. Now also easily binding together two parts of the city that previously was parted by a mountain and took a long time

Hidden Zillow listings created fake supply shock, raising NYC rents, lawsuit says

This week, two New York City renters filed a class action complaint alleging that a brokerage business called Compass—which has been boycotting posting listings on free digital platforms like Zillow —has now delisted so many rental units that it has created a fake supply shock th

Volcanoes that made history

The first telegram arrived in Singapore on a Monday, sent from the city of Batavia in the Dutch East Indies (now Jakarta, Indonesia). “Terrific detonations from Krakatau (volcanic island),” it reported. Soon afterward: “Stones falling. Village near Anjer washed away.” The wires c

Trump tried to curb clean energy. It’s booming anyway.

Donald Trump is presiding over an unexpected clean energy boom, as rising electricity demand spurs investment in new capacity despite the US administration’s efforts to thwart a solar and wind rollout. Clean energy additions will rise by a record 45 gigawatts this year, according

Data centers become "killer application" for new power transformer tech

Data centers have become the largest driver of surging electricity demand that is straining US power grids. But the AI data center boom has also accelerated investment in a technology that could provide a silver lining for everyone—solid-state power transformers that replace indu

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Concéntrico returned to Logroño for its 12th edition in June 2026, transforming the city into a working site for architecture . Since its founding in 2015, the festival has built an identity on resisting a distant, controlled exhibition of design by constructing full-scale instal

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The House of Memories is born from the desire to move ahead with the times and satisfy dynamic requirements, while enshrining familial memories and celebrating its roots. It is located on a 165' x 55' plot in Valsad , a city filled with beautiful farmland and lotus ponds that mak

Robotaxis are real now — so is the pushback

Robotaxis are expanding. So is the fight over the rules governing them. In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul withdrew a proposal earlier this year that would have opened the door to driverless robotaxis outside New York City after taxi drivers, unions, and state lawmakers opposed it. S

Raising alarm over new illegal Israeli outposts, UN condemns attacks, incitement against Palestinians

Reports of new illegal Israeli outposts in the occupied West Bank raised alarms at UN Headquarters on Wednesday while the UN rights office called on Israel to condemn its national security minister’s words that incite “violence amounting to atrocity crimes” against Palestinians.

Mamdani voices support for Jeffries amid Kushner meeting blowback

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) on Monday voiced his support for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) after the congressman received blowback for meeting with Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law. A reporter asked Mamdani if he supported Jeffries were he t

A tiny “rainbow on a chip” could help supercharge 6G networks

Researchers have created a tiny chip that produces a stable “rainbow” of light capable of generating multiple high-frequency signals at once, potentially boosting the speed and capacity of future 6G networks. Its extreme precision could also make it valuable for quantum timing, n

Book Review: ‘The Late Americans,’ by Brandon Taylor

Brandon Taylor’s novel circulates among Iowa City residents, some privileged, some not, but all aware that their possibilities are contracting.

The Unlikely Place at the Center of China’s AI Boom

Cheap energy, abundant land, and proximity to Beijing have turned a city in Inner Mongolia into a crucial hub for data centers.

Forget Meta Ray-Bans. These Dorky-Looking Virtual Display Glasses Are Way More Useful

Tethered display glasses are truly practical face computers. They trade bulky spatial computing for simplicity: Plug in, recline, and get a massive screen right in front of your nose.

Mapping Air Pollution With MAIA Sensors in Addis Ababa

Description This map of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, shows the locations of 10 air sensors that NASA’s Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA) mission is using to provide one of the most detailed looks ever at the city’s air pollution. Over the course of three years, thes

MAIA Air Sensor at Work in Addis Ababa

Description This roof-mounted air sensor in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, is one of 10 used by NASA’s Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA) to study the city’s air quality. MAIA’s air sensors provide a detailed look at particulate matter that is 2.5 micrometers or less i

Prabowo surveys Indonesian fires causing world’s worst air

The Indonesian president said authorities will revoke the permits of companies found to be responsible for forest fires that have left a Malaysian city with the world's worst air.

Corners in focus: Metasurface enables motion tracking without digital image processing

A research team at City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) has developed a new optical corner-detection imaging method that uses azimuthal Hilbert transform metasurfaces and is designed to work as a universal framework. The study marks an important advance in high-speed, low-power

The Batman: Part 2 Set Videos Show Batmobile Clashing With Gotham Police

Set videos from The Batman: Part 2 reveal the Batmobile in high-speed clashes with Gotham City Police and SWAT units on the Glasgow set.

Strangers in their own land: Mexicans deported from Trump’s America find refuge in ‘Little LA’

With plentiful jobs and community support, one Mexico City neighbourhood has become a haven for those who have lived much of their lives in the US With its wide avenues lined with tall palm trees, its quaint cafes and old-school cantinas, as well as the mix of English and Spanish

'Scared to death': Over 40,000 people evacuated as Nevada's Hawk fire spreads

An additional 45,000 people have been placed under evacuation warnings in the northwestern US state of Nevada. This comes as the fast moving Hawk fire threatens the city of Reno. According to officials the fire was "human caused", but they have not detailed if it was set intentio

Just as the world appears to be losing its appetite for books, William T. Vollmann pens a 3,000-page novel

His latest – and possibly last – book tackles America’s foreign policy before and after 9/11. Could it also serve as an antidote to the fragmented attention and political duplicity of our current moment?