Your iPhone Can Block Spam Calls for Good With This FeatureSpam calls are annoying. I have my phone ringer on in case there is an emergency but before iOS 26, spam would routinely call my iPhone at least a handful of times a week. Spam calls can be extremely stressful, especially when waiting for a call from somewhere like the doctor's office. But thanks to iOS 26's call...

Walmart-backed PhonePe shelves IPO as global tensions rattle markets PhonePe, India’s biggest digital payments platform, has put its IPO plans on hold, citing geopolitical tensions and a volatile stock market. On Monday, the Bengaluru-based company said it had paused its IPO plans, but remains committed to going public once market conditions improve. The move comes less than two months after...

Cutting Through Rocks: Iran women defying norms in Oscar-tipped filmIran's motorcycling midwife and rights campaigner is star of Oscar-tipped filmGandom FilmsSara Shahverdi is "doing something unusual" in Iran, filmmakers sayGrowing up in the Iranian capital Tehran, filmmaker Sara Khaki recalls seeing many examples of strong women in a male-dominated society.These were women "fighting for their...

‘Pokémon Pokopia’ is a game about rehabilitating a broken world — and I love it On Friday night, my boyfriend and I sat on the couch for a refreshing evening of doing nothing together. We tuned into a baseball game, he picked up my guitar, and I eagerly booted up “Pokémon Pokopia,” the 30-year-old franchise’s new cozy life simulator game, which is unlike anything we’ve seen from Pokémon...

Iran targets headquarters of Iranian Kurdish forces in IraqOrla Guerin,Senior international correspondent in northern IraqandJaroslav LukivMatthew Goddard / BBCIran's military has said it has targeted the headquarters of Iranian Kurdish forces in northern Iraq, stepping up strikes on Kurdish regions in both Iran and Iraq.In a statement quoted by Iran's state media, the military said it attacked...