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This view of the payload deck of the Vikram-1 rocket’s upper stage was captured moments after orbital insertion Saturday. The rocket deployed two small CubeSats and hosted several more payloads that remained attached to the upper stage. Credit: Skyroot Aerospace This view of the payload deck of the Vikram-1 rocket’s upper stage was captured moments after orbital insertion Saturday. The rocket deployed two small CubeSats and hosted several more payloads that remained attached to the upper stage. Credit: Skyroot Aerospace Skyroot’s breakthrough launch comes as India’s government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeks to supercharge the country’s space industry.…
By lunchtime today, the UK will have its fifth prime minister in four years.No other sentence can so pithily summarise the nature of British politics right now than that one.In the summer of 2022 Boris Johnson was on his way out, but still in office. Since then there has been Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer.Little wonder Andy Burnham will say later, we are told, that he is “acutely conscious” of this churn at the top. His critics, within the Labour Party and beyond it, may allow themselves a wry smile at that, given they would argue he…
Spain reclaimed football’s biggest prize on Sunday, defeating Argentina 1-0 after extra time in a tense World Cup final that delivered high drama both on and off the pitch. Ferran Torres’ decisive strike settled the contest, ending Argentina’s title defense and handing Spain its second World Cup crown.The defeat was especially poignant for Lionel Messi, who left the field in tears after collecting his runners-up medal in what is expected to be his final World Cup appearance.U.S. President Donald Trump joined FIFA President Gianni Infantino for the medal and trophy presentation, while the leaders of fellow co-hosts Canada and Mexico…
U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) and his wife Usha Chilukuri Vance look on as he is nominated for the office of Vice President on the first day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 15, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Anna Moneymaker | Getty ImagesU.S. Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha, welcomed their fourth child, a boy, on Sunday.Vance said the baby, Alec Neel Vance, was born on Sunday at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.”Usha and the baby are happy and healthy and our kids are overjoyed to meet their little brother,”…
By Wen-Yee Lee and Ben Blanchard TAIPEI, July 20 (Reuters) – is seeing strong, multi-year demand for its AI chips as it invests a further $100 billion to expand its Arizona facilities, but it needs to address several challenges, such as a shortage of construction workers there, a top executive said. Speaking after blockbuster second-quarter results on Thursday, Chief Financial Officer Wendell Huang said the company is “very happy” with progress in Arizona, which is why it decided to ramp up investment to $265 billion. “We will continue to invest,” he said in an interview, adding that the company was…
Wendell Huang, chief financial officer of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), during a news conference in Taipei, Taiwan, on Thursday, July 16, 2026. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesTSMC is racing to accelerate capacity at its Arizona factory as the company continues to see a “multi-year demand mega trend” from its customers, Chief Financial Officer Wendell Huang told CNBC.TSMC, or Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., is scaling up its mega investment in Arizona by committing an additional $100 billion to aggressively expand its U.S. chipmaking footprint amid a surging multi-year structural demand for AI. The fresh commitment raises TSMC’s total investment pipeline…
Spain’s Ferran Torres celebrates scoring their side’s first goal of the game during the FIFA World Cup 2026 final at the New York-New Jersey Stadium. Picture date: Sunday July 19, 2026. Nick Potts | Pa Images | Getty ImagesFerran Torres’ first goal of this year’s World Cup was the goal of his life, and it put Spain back atop the soccer world.Denying Lionel Messi a second straight title in what he has indicated would be his final World Cup match, Torres came off the bench and scored in the 106th minute, and Spain — in a match it simply dominated…
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Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks during a press conference hosted with U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin on unaccompanied minors and prosecuting their sponsors, at the Justice Department, in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 11, 2026. Evelyn Hockstein | ReutersThe Trump administration has filed a first-ever petition to a secretive and dormant court created 30 years ago to consider government requests to deport so-called “alien terrorists” from the United States.The Alien Terrorist Removal Court was established in 1996 but had never received a petition until this past Wednesday, when the Justice Department filed an application seeking the removal…
KYIV, UKRAINE – JULY 19: A firefighter looks at the damage from a large-scale attack overnight that left at least one person dead and thirteen injured on July 19, 2026 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Kyiv was hit with about 40 Iskander-M and hypersonic Zircon missiles. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)Paula Bronstein | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesRussia battered Ukraine’s capital Kyiv overnight with one of its biggest ballistic missile barrages of the war, killing at least one person and wounding 16 others, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday.A series of powerful explosions thundered across the darkened city in an attack…