Outside a warehouse in southern Gaza one day this week, a small crowd of men and boys waited their turn for a bit of the humanitarian aid that Gaza — sick, starving, freezing Gaza — has desperately needed. They walked away with sacks of flour and cardboard boxes of food, many dragging their precious cargo […]

Circana has shared new video game data that shows how challenging 2024 was for video game hardware. Total spending on PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch devices in the US declined a gargantuan 25%, dropping to $4.9 billion (down from $6.45 billion in 2023). For December 2024 specifically, spending on new video game hardware fell 29%, declining […]

Hundreds of thousands of people were without power on Friday in Ireland, an extraordinarily high number for the small country, as a powerful storm moved its way across the island, bringing record-breaking winds and disrupting travel. The storm, named Eowyn, was expected to bring gales throughout Friday, according to the Irish Meteorological Service. Forecasters also […]

Ukraine fired a large volley of exploding drones at Russia on Friday, according to Ukrainian officials and the Russian military, in a barrage that set an oil refinery and pumping station on fire and briefly closed multiple airports, including several serving Moscow. The attack was the latest and one of the biggest in Ukraine’s campaign […]

Israelis and Palestinians on Friday anxiously awaited the next step in the 42-day Gaza cease-fire and hostages-for-prisoners swap — set to take place over the next day — as the truce between Israel and Hamas appeared to have held through its first week. Under the terms of the deal, Hamas was expected to send the […]

President Donald J. Trump said he would reach out to North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, raising the possibility of rekindling their bromance diplomacy five years after their first round of negotiations drew global attention but did little to reduce Mr. Kim’s growing nuclear threat. “He liked me and I got along with him,” Mr. Trump […]

One early evening in December, the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled his country as rebel forces advanced on Damascus. In France, three days later, one of the country’s most-watched TV news channels turned to a cartoonist for expert opinion on the news. “Did you think that this could have happened so rapidly?” a news anchor […]

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said on Thursday he had requested arrest warrants for the supreme leader of Afghanistan’s Taliban government and the country’s chief justice for their “unprecedented” persecution of Afghan women and girls. The prosecutor, Karim Khan, said in a statement that the Taliban’s leader, Sheikh Haibatullah Akhundzada, and the […]

Lego’s awesome Super Mario World building set is available for a discounted price at Amazon. Normally $130, the 1,215-piece pixelated model of Mario and Yoshi is available for $117.52. The caveat here is that the set ships from Amazon Japan, which means it’ll take longer to arrive. That said, it’s the exact same kit, you’ll […]

One year has passed since Moscow accused Kyiv of shooting down a Russian military plane carrying dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war. Ukraine opened an investigation, but has yet to release its findings, leaving questions about who was killed, and why. The crash of the IL-76 transport plane in Belgorod region of Russia, near the […]