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JIZAN, SAUDI ARABIA – 26 JULY 2026: A satellite view of smoke plumes rising from Saudi Aramco’s refinery complex and oil terminals in Jazan/Jizan, Saudi Arabia, after coordinated Houthi strikes launched from Yemen. Imaged 26 July 2026. (Photo by Gallo Images/Orbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel Data 2026)Gallo Images | Gallo Images | Getty ImagesFirefighters extinguished a blaze at a refinery belonging to Saudi Arabian oil giant Aramco early Sunday, the country’s government said. Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen reportedly claimed responsibility for attacking the facility. “The competent authorities are completing the necessary procedures to deal with the incident” at the Saudi Aramco…

The health and social care sector employs 4,500 people in the Clacton constituency. While the NHS, and access to GPs and dentists has been mentioned by many of the 34 candidates, social care has rarely featured.”Social care is the biggest economy in the area. It’s the most important economy in the area,” says Rahul Jagota, who runs The Corner House care home in Clacton and is a former chair of the Essex Care Association. “We need our leaders to speak about it, speak about the issues, speak about what great work we do, be very positive about it and look…

A folder of social media applications, including TikTok, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), Snapchat, YouTube, Facebook, Threads, Discord, and Messenger. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesMillennials may feel a pang of nostalgia at the news of Myspace’s planned revival, but analysts caution that the once-dominant social media platform faces long odds in an overcrowded market dominated by algorithm-driven feeds and short attention spans. Its owners, Tim and Chris Vanderhook, co-founders of Viant Technology, recently appeared in a documentary, “Myspace,” directed by Tommy Avalone, where they teased another “relaunch” after a previous failed attempt in 2013. “We still own Myspace. We are…

A pedestrian walks by a Verizon store on Nov. 13, 2025 in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesService was down late Saturday afternoon for several thousand Verizon customers in the U.S.The outages began around 3:30 p.m. ET, with Verizon receiving the highest number of complaints at more than 13,000 at its peak, according to data tracking site Downdetector. The largest number of affected customers were located in major metropolitan areas, including New York, Los Angeles and Boston.”Verizon is making progress on an issue impacting voice services for some wireless customers,” the company told CNBC in a statement.Verizon recommended…

President Joe Biden stands with his son Hunter Biden after the president arrived at the Delaware Air National Guard Base in New Castle, Delaware, June 11, 2024.Anna Rose Layden | ReutersFormer President Joe Biden’s prostate cancer has spread further, his son Hunter Biden said in a BBC interview, offering a stark update on the 83-year-old’s health.”It’s really, really hard, and it’s really sad to watch… I wish he would complain more, because it’s not good,” Hunter Biden said in the interview. “The cancer has spread, is metastasized into his bones and further. It’s very painful. It’s very debilitating in many…

On Thursday, a US District Court in Oregon ordered the US government to restart the process of approving wind projects. All new wind development in the US has been on hold since August 2025, when the Department of Defense (DoD) stopped participating in a process that allows it to compel developers to alter projects in order to limit their interference with radar equipment. The court ruled, however, that the DoD’s national security claims did not allow it to opt out of a process that is legally mandated. The Trump administration has made many attempts to block wind development, both offshore…

For the observer hovering above one of these boundaries, Kuridze says, the view would depend on the time of arrival. The instability runs through two phases. “The first is the linear phase, when things are more relaxed, very well organized, regular and beautiful,” he said. “If you see them from close range, you will see something like cloud-type things, which are rolling.” But when the peaceful phase is over, it’s chaos. “At some point everything turns into a non-linear regime and then things get messy,” Kuridze said. “You are basically getting turbulence—very chaotic turbulence.” Why do the curls form at…

The AI model must be picking up on something in the lower-resolution data that allows it to make predictions about storm intensity, but the researchers don’t know what. “It’s a black box at the end of the day, but that gives physicists a signal that something is happening that was not previously understood,” Alet says. The model doesn’t just spit out one prediction; it produces a range of potential scenarios for a developing storm. This helps to capture any potential “butterfly effect,” says Alet, where a small deviation from a trend could lead to much bigger changes down the line.…

AI stocks came roaring back this week as investors worked through another wave of corporate earnings and a surprisingly weak July jobs report . The major averages notched a second straight week of gains, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S & P 500 both touching record highs. The blue-chip index closed at a record Wednesday and finished the week up 3%, while the S & P 500 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite gained 3.6% and 5.2%, respectively. The S & P closed at a record Friday. The Nasdaq is 1.5% below its June 2 all-time closing high. Friday’s…

This picture shows ships sailing near the Strait of Hormuz off the eastern coast of the United Arab Emirates at Khor Fakkan on July 13, 2026. AFP | Getty ImagesAbu Dhabi’s National Oil Company (ADNOC) said one of its vessels was targeted by a missile while transiting the Strait of Hormuz in the early hours of Saturday, as Iran’s military stressed that the crucial waterway would only be reopened when the U.S. accepts Iran’s conditions.”The incident resulted in no injuries, and the situation has been brought under control,” ADNOC said in a statement.The United Arab Emirates, of which Abu Dhabi…