US partially evacuates embassy in Lebanon amid rising Iran tensionsEPANon-essential staff have been told to leave the US embassy in BeirutThe US government has ordered all non-essential staff to leave its embassy in the Lebanese capital of Beirut after a security review, a senior State Department official has told the BBC.Iran has previously vowed to retaliate if attacked by the US, with...

Jeff Bezos reportedly wants $100 billion to buy and transform old manufacturing firms with AI In Brief Posted: 3:09 PM PDT · March 19, 2026 Image Credits:David Ryder (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Jeff Bezos is reportedly seeking $100 billion for a new fund, the likes of which will be used to buy up companies in major industrial...

AI’s promise to indie filmmakers: faster, cheaper, lonelier A Filipino man walks through the backyard of his childhood home in rural Hawai’i, his footsteps swooshing through the grass. Birds chirp, contributing to the tropical din, as he approaches a shrine at the base of a starfruit tree. He bends to inspect a framed black-and-white photograph of a woman, her hair in a 1950s side part. ...

Mars Just Got Closer: How NASA's SR-1 Freedom Could Rewrite Space Travel The spacecraft will deliver NASA's Skyfall payload, which is a group of helicopters designed to find subsurface water on Mars. NASA is sending a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars. Alongside Tuesday's announcement of its new Ignition program, which features a planned Moon base and a successor to the...

Ukraine Unesco site damaged as Russia launches 400 drones in deadly daytime attackMoment Russian drone hits Lviv's historic centre in UkraineRussia has launched an unusual daytime attack on Ukraine, hitting cities across the west of the country with over 400 drones on Tuesday afternoon.Lviv regional head Maksym Kozytskyi said the Bernardine monastery, a 16th-Century Unesco site, was damaged. A...