Flying oranges: Italian town holds historic street battleA town in northern Italy has started celebrating carnival with its annual Battle of the Oranges where people hurl the fruit at each other for fun.The historic carnival in Ivrea, an old medieval town near Turin, celebrates the legend of Violetta, a miller's daughter who freed people from a tyrant starving the town.The colourful battle...

How to get into a16z’s super-competitive Speedrun startup accelerator program Without a doubt, one of the hottest new startup accelerators in tech right now is Andreessen Horowitz’s Speedrun program. Launched in 2023, the accelerator has an acceptance rate of less than 1%. In a January blog post, the program said that over 19,000 startups pitched and fewer than 0.4% were accepted into the...

Trump is threatening to block a new bridge between Detroit and Canada from opening FILE - The Saginaw passes construction on the Gordie Howe International Bridge connecting on the Detroit River connecting Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Oct. 25, 2023....

Arvind Kejriwal: Indian court closes corruption case against former Delhi chief ministerGetty ImagesKejriwal was arrested in a corruption case in March 2024A court in India has closed a corruption case against former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal almost two years after he was arrested and held in jailed for months.The Aam Admi Party (AAP) leader was arrested in March 2024, weeks before...

How the Iran war exposed cracks in Trump's Republican coalitionLucy Proctor and Mike WendlingBBC NewsWatch: "I don't know why we're doing it" - Americans on US strikes on Iran"This is Israel's war. This is not the United States' war."The video was posted to YouTube less than two days after the US and Israel began their most recent attacks on Iran. It's been viewed more than 2 million times. But...