Brazil judge blocks Sugarloaf Mountain ziplineEmin Sansar/Anadolu via Getty ImagesA cable car has been linking Morro da Urca and Sugarloaf Mountain since 1912. The zipwire was planned to run parallel to it. A judge in Brazil has blocked a project to build a zipline connecting the famous Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro to a nearby hill, Morro da Urca.The attraction's developer said it would...

Lawsuit from families of men killed in boat strikes is the first to reach U.S. court Relatives of two Trinidadian men killed in a U.S. airstrike last year are suing over what they call extrajudicial killings. It's the first such case to land in an American courthouse.

New leaders, new fund: Sequoia has raised $7B to expand its AI bets In Brief Posted: 7:55 PM PDT · April 16, 2026 Image Credits:Dani Padgett/StrictlyVC Few venture firms have bet more aggressively on AI than Sequoia Capital, and it isn’t slowing down. The Silicon Valley stalwart has raised roughly $7 billion for a new fund, according to...

Israel says it has killed Hamas commander in Gaza air strike2 hours agoRushdi Abualouf,Gaza correspondent,andAleks PhillipsGetty ImagesIsrael says it has killed Hamas commander Izz ad-Din al-Haddad, who it described as "one of the architects of the October 7 massacre", in an air strike on Gaza City.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yisrael Katz said in a joint...

'I haven't slept for days': Iranians describe mounting desperation after one month of war6 hours agoFergal KeaneSpecial correspondentEPAWarning: this article contains details which some readers may find distressing.Until that moment the war was something happening in other parts of Tehran.It had not touched the lives of "Setareh" and her colleagues. Then she heard an ominous noise and...