Author: admin

Veteran actor Bushra Ansari has criticised what she described as manipulative men who remarry for personal or financial gain. Speaking on her YouTube channel, she referred to her daughter’s divorce and said her daughter had been deceived by a man who appeared polite, educated, and well-spoken. Bushra said such men often create a good impression with their manners and English-speaking skills, making it difficult for others to recognise their true intentions. According to her, they hide their past actions and easily gain the trust of new partners. She also claimed that some educated men have successful second marriages because of…

Ramallah’s Contemporary Arts Festival, one of the largest in the West Bank, started on Monday for the first time since the war in Gaza shut down most cultural activities in the territory. Art, theater and film festivals once held in Ramallah and elsewhere in the West Bank came to a halt after the October 2023 Hamas-Israel war. “Culture and art historically play an important and distinctive role in our struggle… because they reflect our identity and reinforce our role as a Palestinian society,” Khaled Aliyan, the festival’s director, tells AFP. Aliyan says the festival, previously limited to contemporary dance, was…

Actor Hajra Yamin says the support she has received from women means a great deal to her and is something she wants to protect. She shared that over the past few days, she has felt a strong connection with her female audience, who reached out to praise her work. According to Hajra, this encouragement has confirmed that she is on the right path and motivates her to keep creating meaningful projects. Instead of focusing on social media numbers or temporary online trends, Hajra said she wants to create work that leaves a lasting impact. Her goal is to build a…

Rare images taken by a Japanese space probe during a flyby of a near-Earth asteroid have revealed that the space rock resembled a snowman, scientists said on Monday. The fridge-sized Hayabusa2 skimmed asteroid Torifune on Sunday in a mission that demonstrated the ability to deflect a potentially dangerous space rock away from Earth. A new image released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on Monday could aid such efforts, as researchers say near-Earth asteroids vary in their size, shape and surface characteristics. “The moment I actually saw this image and the scientific data — it really gave me goosebumps,”…

Microsoft said Monday it was eliminating about 4,800 jobs — roughly 2% of its global workforce — in a cost-cutting move that will deliver a sweeping restructuring of its struggling Xbox gaming division. The cuts include the deepest overhaul in Xbox’s history, with approximately 3,200 gaming jobs to be shed over the coming fiscal year, four game studios being spun off or sold, and a fifth entering a review process that could lead to closure, the company said. The announcement is the latest in a string of mass layoffs by the technology giant as it spends massive amounts of money…

Using NASA’s Perseverance rover, scientists are getting a greater understanding of the nature of some of the organic carbon — the molecular backbone for all known living organisms — detected on Mars as they explore the question of whether Earth’s planetary neighbor ever harbored life. New research describes the structure of the organic carbon found last year by the rover in sedimentary rock that contained a potential biosignature — a possible sign of past microbial life. This mudstone formed perhaps between 3.2 and 3.8 billion years ago beneath a now-vanished body of water in Jezero Crater in the Martian northern…

Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) is likely to estimate that its operating profit jumped about 18-fold ​to another record high from a year earlier in the second quarter, as AI growth continues to strain memory supply and push chip prices ‌higher. On Tuesday, the world’s largest memory chipmaker by sales is likely to flag an operating profit of 86 trillion won ($56.35 billion) for the April to June quarter, according to an LSEG SmartEstimate based on forecasts from 30 analysts, weighted toward those with the best track records. Up from 4.7 trillion won a year earlier, this would mark a third consecutive…

 Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the US economy, helping entrepreneurs build businesses more quickly while fueling debate over its long-term impact on jobs, productivity and economic growth. One example is Here Now Health, a mental health platform serving children entering the foster care system. Founder Michelle Turner, who launched the company in January 2025, relied heavily on AI tools despite having no background in technology or business. Working from her home in Virginia Beach, Turner used AI to learn startup fundamentals, prepare a business plan and refine presentations for investors. The company has since grown to 16 employees and is…

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards fired at least two missiles at commercial ships transiting through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday night, Axios reported, citing two US officials. Two commercial ships suffered significant damage but had no casualties, the report said, citing a US official. Separately, Britain’s maritime security agency said a tanker caught fire after being hit by an unknown projectile east of Oman’s Limah early on Tuesday. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations agency (UKMTO) said early on Tuesday that the tanker was struck on its port side while ⁠travelling southbound about 8 nautical miles (15 km) east of Limah,…

A tanker traveling off the coast of Oman in the Strait of Hormuz caught on fire early Tuesday morning after being struck by a projectile, the British military said. The attack was the latest targeting a vessel moving through the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf, through which a fifth of all oil and natural gas traded once passed in peacetime. Iranian state television said the liquefied natural gas tanker came under attack after ignoring warnings but did not directly claim the assault. Tehran has repeatedly declared that only its approved route through the strait is safe and is suspected…