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A Judge Restored CNN, MS NOW and Politico's White House Access, Saying Trump's Press Ban Was Likely Unconstitutional

US District Judge Timothy Kelly granted a 14-day restraining order after finding the outlets' press passes were revoked without due process, though reporters from the three outlets said they were still turned away hours later.

Sep 26, 2026

The Gulf's Restaurant Scene Is Reinventing Itself in 2026

After two years of shocks, Gulf dining is rebuilding around homegrown brands and confident local concepts rather than imported franchise names.

May 19, 2026

Canva Restructures 1,271 Roles, 22 Percent of Its Staff, as Growth Slows for the First Time in a Decade

The Sydney design company is merging its product, growth and platform teams, cutting management layers and calling hybrid staff back to the office after trimming its growth forecast.

Nov 4, 2026

Design

A Beijing Studio Put a Restaurant Inside a Live Highway Underpass and Left Half of It to the Public

MARS Studio split the space beneath a working road bridge in Tongzhou with a wall of mirrored glass. One side is a 108 square metre dining room. The other stays an open corridor for anyone walking or cycling through.

Aug 29, 2026

PRIMA’s Retinal Implant Wins Approval to Restore Vision

A tiny implant paired with camera glasses can return useful central vision to some people with advanced macular degeneration, and Europe has cleared its sale.

Jul 23, 2026

Spain's Toledo Train Crash Kills at Least 68 After a Control Centre Restarted a Train Despite a Stop Signal

A Renfe express ran into the back of a stopped Iryo train south of Madrid, and the transport minister says the order to move came from the control centre, not the driver.

Oct 29, 2026

Why Fast Weight Loss Is Not Evidence That a Diet Is Right

Every restrictive plan produces results in the first month, including plans that contradict each other completely. That is a fact about restriction, not about the theory attached to it.

Jun 30, 2026

Beirut and Lebanon's Vegan and Plant-Forward Tables

Centuries of fasting cuisine gave Lebanon a plant-based head start. Here is where that history shows up on menus across Beirut today.

Mar 5, 2026

Sports

The Premier League Restarts 33 Days After a World Cup Final

Arsenal open against Coventry on Friday night. The interesting number is not the scoreline but the gap: a month and two days between the end of a 48-team World Cup and the start of a 380-game league season.

Aug 16, 2026

Where to Eat Plant-Based in Dubai and Abu Dhabi

A Michelin-starred vegetarian tasting menu, a food court burger stand, and the cafes in between: plant-based dining across Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

Aug 14, 2025

Intermittent Fasting Works About as Well as Eating Less, Because in the Trials That Is What It Turned Out to Be

Three randomised trials put time-restricted eating against ordinary calorie control or against nothing. The eating window on its own did little. Combined with eating less, it did what eating less does. What that means for anyone considering it.

Sep 6, 2026

Qatar's Plant-Based Dining Scene: Where to Eat Vegan in Doha

From a museum-attached vegan kitchen to a Pearl Qatar juice bar chain, Doha's plant-based restaurants are small in number but sharp in ambition.

Dec 18, 2025

Iran Says It Will Declare a Restricted Zone Beyond Hormuz, Names Oman as Corridor Partner, and Jizan Is Hit Again

Mohsen Rezaei says any ship entering a zone that starts at the American blockade line will be put on an Iranian sanctions list. The same day Aramco's Jizan refinery took a second strike in a month, Brent passed 97 dollars, and flydubai cut its schedule.

Sep 8, 2026

How Claude Fable 5 Got Pulled, Then Came Back Three Weeks Later

A jailbreak report and a same-day export order took Claude Fable 5 offline for weeks, testing how fast a frontier AI company can lose and regain access.

Jul 1, 2026

The Rest of the World Has Started Wearing Perfume the Way the Gulf Always Has

Higher concentrations, heavier notes, oud at the centre and fragrance treated as something you layer rather than spray. The global market has moved toward a regional habit, and Middle Eastern houses are no longer the niche option.

Aug 21, 2026

Starbucks Says It Is Not Buying Chipotle, Ending a Four-Day Takeover Story and Costing Chipotle About 4 Percent

A one-line denial from the coffee chain on Monday undid the premium that an FT report put on Chipotle shares, and it left both companies facing the same question about growth and traffic.

Oct 13, 2026

Where to Actually Eat Emirati Food in Dubai and Abu Dhabi

The cuisine of the country is the hardest one to find in it. A practical guide to the kinds of places that serve it properly, what to order first, and when the calendar does the work for you.

Aug 10, 2026

Meal Timing and Late-Night Eating: What Circadian Nutrition Research Actually Shows

Chrononutrition research links late eating to worse metabolic outcomes, but the field is younger and messier than headlines suggest.

Sep 25, 2025

Why Gulf Diners Are Eating Differently This Year

Boycotts, tighter budgets and a longer war are reshaping where GCC consumers eat, and Western fast food chains are the ones feeling it hardest.

Sep 10, 2024

Where to Eat Vegan in Saudi Arabia: Riyadh and Jeddah

Cold-pressed juice bars, Armenian-Lebanese plant plates, and a vegan bakery in Ar Rawdah: how Riyadh and Jeddah are building a real vegan dining map.

Oct 2, 2025

Divers Cement Storm-Torn Corals Back Onto Hawaii's Reefs While a 45-Day Clock Runs

After hurricanes Lala and Lowell, Hawaii's emergency reef network is reattaching broken coral with cement and steel frames, and a Kauai response targeted more than 2,000 colonies before they died.

Oct 25, 2026

Lifestyle

The City Fills Back Up, and Nobody Warns You It Will Be Loud

For ten weeks the Gulf empties. In the last fortnight of August it refills, all at once, and the version of the city you got used to disappears in about four days.

Aug 16, 2026

Intermittent Fasting: What the Trials Actually Show

A major Cochrane review of nearly 2,000 people found intermittent fasting barely beats ordinary dieting. Here is what the data really supports.

Mar 10, 2026

Plant-Based Dining Across the Smaller Gulf: Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman

A vegan bakery in Janabiyah, a Four Seasons tasting menu backed by a Saudi prince, and Muscat's coconut-bowl breakfast spot: the region's quieter vegan scene.

May 27, 2026

Claude Mythos 5: The Same Model, Minus the Guardrails

Claude Mythos 5 strips Fable 5's safety classifiers for vetted users only, forcing a fresh argument over who gets to use AI without a leash.

Jul 8, 2026

Bleached Corals Recovered After Touching a Healthy Clone, Stanford Lab Study Finds

Fragments of one coral species regained their algae within days or weeks of contact with a genetically identical healthy partner, though the trick is unlikely to work on whole reefs.

Oct 15, 2026

Riyadh Airport Lost 353 of 354 Departures on Sunday, and Airlines From Lufthansa to Cathay Are Cancelling Saudi Flights

The shutdown at King Khalid has no reopening date, 17 October is only the day the restriction expires, and the disruption has spread to Dammam, Jeddah and the carriers that serve them.

Oct 13, 2026

The Manakish Dough, and Why Yours Comes Out Like a Cracker

A soft, oil-enriched bread dough that stays tender under a hot oven. The hydration and the resting matter more than the recipe, and both are where home versions go wrong.

Aug 13, 2026

Lifestyle

The Siesta Was Right: What the Evidence Says About a Twenty-Minute Nap and a Ninety-Minute One

The early afternoon dip is built into the body clock, not caused by lunch. A short nap restores alertness without grogginess; a long one repays a bad night but costs you the evening. The times in between are the problem.

Jul 13, 2023

Crypto

Binance Reopens Withdrawals and $4.6 Billion Leaves in the First Nine and a Half Hours

The phased restart began at 06:00 UTC on Sunday and covered 15 networks by lunchtime. Net outflows of about $3.6 billion equal 2.1 percent of reserves, and bitcoin barely moved.

Nov 1, 2026

CO2 and O2 Tables: The Dry Training That Actually Moves Your Breath-Hold

Two tables, two different adaptations, and a hard rule about where you do them. One trains tolerance to discomfort, the other trains efficiency at low oxygen, and confusing them wastes weeks.

Aug 12, 2026

Chicken Shawarma: Oven-Roasted Spiced Chicken at Home

Without the rotating spit, home cooks still achieve restaurant-quality shawarma through high-heat roasting and a broil finish. Marinated, caramelized, and sliceable, it's worthy of your best pita.

Apr 20, 2025

What Nizam al-Tayyibat Gets Wrong, Item by Item

Banning fish and fruit while encouraging red meat and starch is not a cautious eating plan. Set against the evidence, each exclusion removes something with a measurable protective effect.

Jun 3, 2026

Travelling With Prescription Medicines: The Paperwork, the Packing and the Countries That Say No

A medicine that is routine at home can be controlled, restricted or banned elsewhere. Carry originals, a prescriber's letter and only what you need, and check the destination's rules before you pack.

Sep 20, 2026

Four Subscribers Have Sued Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and SpaceXAI, Arguing That Agreeing to Slow Down AI Is a Cartel

The complaint, filed in San Francisco, says the 12 September exchange between Amodei, Altman, Musk and Hassabis was an agreement among competitors to restrain output, and paying customers get less. The labs may slow alone, the plaintiffs say, not together.

Sep 22, 2026

How to Measure Your Blood Pressure at Home So the Number Means Something

A home reading is only as good as the way it was taken. Sit, rest, support the arm, use the right cuff, and take readings for a week. The thresholds at home are lower than in the clinic.

Sep 19, 2026

Two Days After the Nobel for Optogenetics, a Small NEJM Trial Shows It Helped Some Blind Patients Detect Objects

Ten people with advanced retinitis pigmentosa got a light-sensing gene and wore camera goggles. Light sensitivity improved in seven, but sight was not restored and the trial was built for safety.

Oct 9, 2026

Altitude: What Happens to the Body Above 2,500 Metres and How to Climb Without Getting Ill

Fitness does not protect you and youth does not either. The only reliable defences are a slow ascent, sleeping lower than you climbed, and turning round at the first sign that the headache is not going away.

Dec 9, 2025

Yoga Nidra Is Not Sleep, and the Research on It Is Better Than the Research on Most Things Sold Beside It

A guided practice of lying still while systematically moving attention around the body. It has accumulated a real randomised trial literature for sleep, stress and anxiety, and a rebranded version has attracted claims that literature does not support.

Sep 4, 2026

A Cold: What Shortens One, What Only Feels Like It Does, and Why Antibiotics Are Never the Answer

Two hundred viruses, seven to ten days, no cure. Zinc lozenges started early and honey for the cough have modest evidence. Vitamin C, echinacea and most of the pharmacy shelf have none. Rest is not a platitude; it is the treatment.

Dec 23, 2025

Chickpea Socca as a Pizza Base: Two Ingredients, No Flour Blend

Most gluten-free pizza bases are elaborate reconstructions of wheat. Socca is not pretending to be anything. Chickpea flour and water, rested and baked hot, gives you a crisp, sturdy base in half an hour.

Aug 11, 2026

Lebanese Hummus Proper Technique: Silky and Transformative

The secret to restaurant-quality hummus at home: skinned chickpeas, proper tahini blending, and understanding how warmth transforms texture into pure silk.

Nov 22, 2023

Kenya Confirms Its First Ebola Case, a Man Who Flew In From Uganda After Years in Congo and Died in Nairobi

Officials in Nairobi are tracing 28 close contacts and the passengers on his flight after the Congo outbreak reached a fourth country. The WHO says it is not a reason to restrict travel.

Oct 6, 2026

Trump Barred CNN, MS NOW and Politico From the White House. Reporters Were Turned Away; a Judge Hears It Wednesday

The announcement came on Truth Social on Friday, citing fake news; on Saturday three correspondents had their hard passes taken at the gate. The outlets sued on First Amendment and due process grounds. Fox News journalists objected. The judge is Trump's.

Sep 22, 2026

Iran's Pezeshkian Told the UN 'We Have Been the Victims of Terrorism', Rebutting Trump's Threat to 'Annihilate' Iran

Opening with photographs of children killed in the war's first strikes, Iran's president became the first leader in UN history to address the General Assembly in person while his country remained at active war with the United States.

Sep 25, 2026

Focaccia at Home: A High-Hydration Dough That Needs Almost No Kneading

A wet dough, a few folds, a night in the fridge and a generous pour of olive oil. The dimpled, golden slab with an open crumb is within reach of anyone with a bowl and a baking tin.

Sep 16, 2026

Authentic Lebanese Tabbouleh: Parsley Salad Proper

The real Lebanese tabbouleh is parsley, not bulgur. Learn the hand-chopping technique and why resting time makes this salad sing.

Jan 10, 2024

CDC and FDA Link Salmonella Illnesses in 12 States to Raw Oysters From Virginia's Little Wicomico River

Twenty-seven people are sick and five were hospitalised, and the recalled shellfish went to restaurants and retailers in 15 states and Washington, DC. Here is what to check.

Oct 20, 2026

Crypto

The Exchange Has Built a Crypto Index That Deliberately Leaves Out Bitcoin and Ether

CME and CF Benchmarks switched on two indices on Monday. One is a broad market benchmark built around bitcoin and ether. The other excludes both of them and tracks ten other assets, which is a statement about what the rest of the market is for.

Sep 1, 2026

G7 Leaders Agreed to Release 100 Million Barrels From Reserves, With Diesel Front-Loaded Into the First 20 Days

The G7 pledged to release 100 million barrels of diesel and crude over four months and not to ban fuel exports, as diesel hits record prices during the Iran war.

Oct 2, 2026

Kimi K3 Is Free to Download. The Chips Are Not.

Moonshot AI published the weights of a 2.8 trillion parameter model at no cost. The barrier that decides who can actually run it sits in a fab, not a licence agreement.

Aug 3, 2026

Hegseth Calls the Hormuz Blockade 'Ironclad' While Iran Says There Is No Military Solution

After a Camp David meeting, the Pentagon chief said Iran has 'literally gotten nothing through' the strait. Shipping data tell a messier story, and Tehran says talks should rest on lifting sanctions, not new pressure.

Oct 5, 2026

Italy Honours the Finnish Divers Who Finished the Maldives Recovery

Sami Paakkarinen, Jenni Westerlund and Patrik Grönqvist received Italian state honours for a recovery mission defined by preparation, restraint and humanity.

Jul 25, 2026

Zelenskyy Confirms Trilateral Peace Talks With Russia and the US Will Take Place in November

Kyiv says a three-way meeting is coming, but no date or venue has been named, Moscow is attaching conditions, and the three rounds held earlier this year produced little beyond prisoner swaps.

Oct 26, 2026

McKesson and CD&R Agree to Take Option Care Health Private in a $5.8 Billion Home Infusion Deal

The drug distributor will own 49 per cent and the buyout firm 51 per cent of the biggest independent home infusion provider, with a route for McKesson to take the rest later. Shares jumped a third.

Oct 7, 2026

The EU AI Act's New Rules Just Hit Every Major AI Model Maker

New obligations for general-purpose AI providers took effect this month, and the rest of the world is still deciding how, or whether, to follow.

Aug 6, 2025

What Short Sleep Actually Does to Metabolic Health, According to Research

Trials now show insufficient sleep impairs insulin sensitivity directly, independent of weight gain, reshaping how doctors talk about diabetes risk.

Nov 2, 2024