The U.S.-China competition in the region has “only just begun,” said the Center for Strategic and International Studies in an analysis.

Not only do these trips provide a chance to boost your cardiovascular health, they are also a great way to immerse yourself in “rugged nature” and meet new people.

Did you know you could bet on more than just sports? Putting your money where your mouth is has never been easier, as it’s now possible to gamble on election outcomes. But many experts worry that this could compromise the political system’s integrity. Here's why.

America’s new goal is to “protect commerce and territory and resources that are core to national security,” Trump said – echoing the words of the recently revised US national security strategy to restore “American pre-eminence” in the Western hemisphere.

Strengthening our “willpower muscle” has been seen as “just as important as working out at the gym”, said The Observer. Kicking bad habits, and staving off cravings, are marketed as the “key to health and happiness”, but is it possible to “supercharge” willpower?

It has properties that are in “stark contrast to every known exoplanet orbiting a main-sequence star,” said a study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Debates about “sacrifice” and “what we actually ‘owe’ each other” have started to gain traction as many ponder over how often they should put other people’s needs first, said Maybelle Morgan in Dazed.

The chatbots are “doing what they do best”, luring youngsters “deeper into these dark, disturbing rabbit holes, essentially serving as Sherpas for the darkness that awaits them online”, said Vice.

The reality is, “if attackers have your email address and password for one site or app, they may have the keys to much of your life, especially if you’re using the same password for all of your accounts,” said PC Mag.

Strava dubbed the second Tuesday of January “Quitter’s Day”, said Tech Radar, following an analysis of its data that found a sharp drop in activity on that date.

While some countries, including the UK, continued to make positive steps towards net zero, the return of Donald Trump to the White House exacerbated an already fraying international climate consensus.

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From the battle for civil rights to setting fashion trends, the Kennedy dynasty has been at the forefront of American public life for more than 100 years.

Where most people think of a perfectly decorated Christmas tree, or an Instagrammable plate of sumptuous food, most of the time women are stuck “navigating illness with kids, plans changing” and “the ever-looming feeling that I still have so much to get ready for Christmas”, said GP Amir Khan.

At least 13 files, including a photo containing Trump, were removed by the Department of Justice from the latest release of documents, only to be republished after a review following concerns over victim identification.

Fuentes’s fanbase call themselves Groypers, or the “Groyper Army” after their logo: an unwholesome-looking cartoon toad named Groyper, a variant on the “Pepe the Frog” meme that became popular with far-right activists in 2015.

The “multibillion-dollar project” is likely to involve a “massive reshaping of the south coast of the island” where the development “is already displacing long-term residents by buying their land”, said the Financial Times.

The state has been trying everything to encourage Russian women to have more children, from awarding pregnancy payouts and increasing maternal support to restricting access to abortions and stigmatising childlessness.

Healthy snacks are in demand as meals are being “swapped for grazing” as the rise of weight-loss jabs encourages a “change in eating habits”, said The Independent.

The “biggest drop” came in the food and drink category, which saw sales plummet by a quarter. And while biographies and autobiographies enjoyed a 2% boost to sales year-on-year, there was a “large disparity” between the highest-selling titles in the category.

Europe has undoubtedly shown commitment to Ukraine, but the decision “hardly sends an unequivocal message”, said the Financial Times. A “failure to find the cash” at all would have been a “terrible indictment of European weakness” when it “desperately needed to show resolve”.

Even before the war, Ukraine had a high rate of antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis, which can spread even more easily in barracks, bomb shelters and refuge centres.

SiriusXM’s subscriber base has been shrinking over the past few years, but the satellite radio corporation thinks it’s found a solution: Howard Stern. Will the brand's new three-year deal with Stern be enough to keep new listeners tuning in? Here's what we know so far.

If you own a Roomba, you might want to hold on to it. The maker of the self-guiding vacuum cleaner, iRobot has filed for bankruptcy, and now the little robots are being displaced by newer, more affordable models from rival manufacturers.

“The decision to inject lowbrow humour into such weighty source material is baffling,” said World of Reel. This “Animal Farm” is all celebrity voices, mile-a-minute CGI energy and family-friendly jokes. But I suppose flatulence is “one way to sell Orwell to a seven-year-old”.

Zuckerberg has traded one expensive obsession for another, said Parmy Olson in Bloomberg. He’s dumping the metaverse for large language models, as he seems determined to clone ChatGPT.

With the value of cryptocurrency increasing “some 1,000 times” over the last decade, it was only a matter of time before governments and banks wanted in.

The inquiry is on course to become the most expensive in British legal history, according to documents seen by The Telegraph. The cost is set to pass £200 million before its conclusion.

President Donald Trump has a habit of "declaring victory before it's achieved," said The Atlantic Council’s Matthew Kroenig. Now, several of the conflicts he claims to have resolved appear ready to reignite, raising questions about his approach to life-and-death dealmaking.

For nearly a year, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has been President Donald Trump’s point person to carry out mass deportation efforts across the country. Although Trump "himself is happy with Noem," CNN said, her time in office may be soon coming to an end. Here's why.

Depending on how the next few days play out, “in the very best scenario there could eventually be peace in Ukraine”, said The Times. But in the worst-case scenario, “President Trump cuts Ukraine and Europe loose and sides with Moscow in his desire to bring the conflict to an end at any price”.

The country’s 1,500 remaining red postboxes have been “vanishing” since June, said The Times. A “handful” will be saved and end up on display in museums.

Honoured by the 2025 Turner Prize for what the judges called her “bold and compelling” work, Nnena Kalu becomes the “first learning-disabled artist to be nominated” for the prize, “let alone win it”, said art critic Mark Hudson in The Independent.

One in six people globally will be older than 60 by 2030. While humans have always looked for ways to live longer, recent health advancements mean an opportunity to invest in the “longevity economy.”

The West Belfast man, long suspected of being a British agent, was unmasked by the media in 2003, although he denied the allegations and went into hiding. He died in 2023.

While people have often been looking for ways to live longer, recent health advancements alongside shifting demographics mean people are investing in the longevity economy like never before. This market is already making trillions of dollars, and it doesn’t appear to be slowing down.

Japan stands torn between tradition and the future, as Princess Aiko finds herself at the center of a growing movement to change the country’s patriarchal rules of royal succession. But is Tokyo ready for change?

Alain Berset, secretary general of the Council of Europe, said Europe’s leaders had taken an “important first step forward together” to agree a political declaration on migration and the ECHR, and support a new recommendation to deter smuggling of migrants “with full respect for human rights”.

Over the past few months, said the Financial Times, the regime “has begun to emerge from diplomatic isolation”, as countries see a potential ally in trade, counterterrorism and the deportation of migrants.

Hanging coffins are “considered auspicious”, wrote a Yuan dynasty chronicler some time between 1279 and 1368. “The higher they are, the more propitious they are for the dead.” Curiously, “those whose coffins fell to the ground were considered more fortunate”.

Subclade K of H3N2 is now the predominant flu virus in the UK and Japan, and samples taken in the US and Canada seem to show a similar trend.

As international negotiators attempt to end Russia’s years-long invasion of Ukraine, European lawmakers have reached a milestone agreement to end liquefied natural gas imports to Russian fuel in the coming year, with long-term pipeline contracts closed by the end of 2027. Here's why.

As part of the takeover Netflix will acquire the studio’s catalogue and HBO, along with other properties like CNN and the Discovery+ streaming service, which will become part of Discovery Global, a separate company.

European leaders should “assume that the traditional trans-Atlantic relationship is dead,” Katja Bego from the Chatham House think tank told The Wall Street Journal. It’s “the mother of all wake-up calls for Europe”, historian Timothy Garton Ash added.

Copper's price has steadily risen since the pandemic and is now roughly 30% more expensive than it was five years ago. This makes it a “more attractive target for criminals looking for a quick profit”, said Goldsworthy.

“The Dutch funded their ‘golden age’ of empire and culture in the 16th and 17th centuries by shipping about 600,000 Africans as part of the slave trade,” said The Guardian, “mostly to South America and the Caribbean.”

Following an opening press conference, two things “stood out”, said the BBC: first, a “conspicuous display of mutual respect”; and second, an “absence of any blockbuster announcement”.

There's emerging evidence that a compound called choline could play an under-appreciated role in our health – and particularly in the functioning of our brain.

The next financial capital of the U.S. may not be Wall Street, but Y’all Street. Texas has been priming itself to become a major hub for finance, with investors working to usurp a share of the stock market from New York City. Here's why experts say the Lone Star State is making a play for the top.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been dogged for years by criminal corruption charges. Now he is asking President Isaac Herzog to give him a pardon before the court hands down a verdict. While his request did not "include an admission of guilt," here's what it included instead.