# Drie bemanningslede is dood in ‘n vermoedelike Houthi-aanval op ‘n vragskip in Jemen se Straat van Bab el-Mandeb. Die Jemenitiese kuswag en militêre bronne sê die skip onder ‘n Tanzaniese vlag is getref deur ‘n projektiel aan die kus van al-Mokha. Twee Pakistanse bemanningslede en een Indonesiër is volgens berigte dood. Britse maritieme owerhede […]
# ‘n Siriese hof het die ontsetelde voormalige president Bashar al-Assad in absentia ter dood veroordeel nadat hy skuldig bevind is aan oorlogsmisdade en misdade teen die mensdom tydens die land se burgeroorlog. Assad het saam met sy gesin na Moskou gevlug nadat sy regime in Desember 2024 omvergewerp is, wat meer as vyf dekades […]
# Nvidia has partnered with six major financial institutions to raise over 8.1-trillion-rand in third-party capital to fund AI infrastructure. The financiers who signed the memorandum of understanding with Nvidia are Goldman Sachs, Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, and KKR. The move highlights how surging demand for AI computing capacity is drawing institutional investors, as governments, […]
# Navorsers in Queensland het vyf Australiese eksters met GPS-opspoorders toegerus om hul bewegings dop te hou en te probeer uitvind hoe ouderdom, geslag en rangorde hul gedrag beïnvloed. Die voëls het mekaar egter binne enkele minute met hul snawels gehelp om dit los te maak en al die toestelle te verwyder. Die navorsers beskou […]
# Three crew members have been killed in a suspected Houthi attack on a cargo ship in Yemen’s Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Yemeni coast guard and military sources say the Tanzanian-flagged vessel was hit by a projectile off the coast of al-Mokha. Two Pakistani crew members and one Indonesian were reportedly killed. British maritime authorities confirmed […]
# A Syrian court has sentenced ousted former president Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia after finding him guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the country’s civil war. Assad fled to Moscow with his family after his regime was overthrown in December 2024, ending more than five decades of family rule. […]
# Die ikoniese Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Rosary in Manizales, Colombië, het gedeeltelik ingetuimel tydens gister se dodelike aardbewing van 7.4. Die kragtige skudding, met die middelpunt in die Chocó-distrik, het ‘n spits van die byna eeu-oue neo-Gotiese katedraal laat omval. ‘n Groot sy-toring het ook gekraak en teen die sentrale hoofstruktuur oorgehel. […]
# Researchers in Queensland fitted five Australian magpies with GPS trackers, hoping to map their movements and understand how age, sex or rank affected the way the flock behaved. However the birds had other plans. Within minutes after being fitted, the magpies started using their beaks to help each other get the trackers off, which […]
# Die verloofde van ‘n swanger Suid-Afrikaanse vrou, Nqobile Malangeni, bepleit haar vrylating nadat Amerikaanse immigrasie-owerhede haar op 30 Julie in Las Vegas aangekeer het. Die Amerikaanse Agentskap vir Immigrasie- en Doeane-afdwinging sê sy het haar visumvoorwaardes oortree deur langer aan te bly as wat toegelaat is en is onderhewig aan ‘n finale uitsettingsbevel. Haar […]
