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APOD: 2026 August 26 – JWST Images The Lion’s Head Nebula

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 26 – JWST… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. JWST Images […]

science  Aug 26, 2026

Yahoo Finance

Amber Waves of Grain Are Up By 28%

business  Aug 26, 2026

Yahoo Finance

What’s the Deal with Long-Term Treasurys?

business  Aug 26, 2026

NY Times World

Confronting South Korea’s Violent Past and Its Echoes Today

The National Museum of Korean Democracy, which opened last year, documents an era of brutal suppression. But that dark history has resurfaced in troubling ways.

general  Aug 26, 2026

NY Times World

What to Know About Bank Melli, Singled Out in U.S. Call for Economic War

Bank Melli, Iran’s largest lender, already faces waves of sanctions that severely limit its ability to operate abroad. Every foreign branch must be shut down, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.

general  Aug 26, 2026

Variety

‘Heroes’ Stars Throw Reunion to ‘Celebrate the Life’ of Hayden Panettiere: ‘So Much Love, Gratitude and Warmth’

The cast of “Heroes” got together to celebrate the life of their co-star Hayden Panettiere, who died on Aug. 16 at 36 years old. “A ‘HEROES’ reunion to celebrate the life of HAYDEN was deeply emotional,” series star Jimmy Jean-Louis wrote on X, sharing photos of himself with his former castmates. “There was sadness in […]

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

Yahoo Finance

Bitcoin Rise Tests ETF Demand

business  Aug 26, 2026

NASA News

A Changing World for Emperor Penguins

Experts are analyzing decades of images from Landsat satellites for clues about how the iconic birds have responded to sea ice disruptions in the past.

science  Aug 26, 2026

The Guardian

Call to ban marmot hunting in France as campaigners say they are ‘killed for fun’

Protests and petitions planned amid growing concerns over impact of climate crisis on numbers of Alpine rodentAnimal rights campaigners are gearing up for protests and petitions aimed at persuading the French government to ban the hunting of Alpine marmots.Open season on the rodents, members of the squirrel and groundhog family, begins in September, a few weeks before they go into a long winter hibernation. Continue reading...

general  Aug 26, 2026

The Guardian

Man on trial for Daphne Caruana Galizia murder claims he was framed

Yorgen Fenech tells jury he had nothing to do with killing and alleges top adviser to Malta’s then PM was instigatorA businessman on trial for the murder of the journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has spoken about the charges for the first time in court since his arrest seven years ago, telling the jury he was framed by police and had nothing to do with the killing.During four days of questioning by defence and the prosecution lawyers, Yorgen Fenech, 44, accused the most senior adviser to Malta’s

general  Aug 26, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘We met Princess Margaret and she was paralytic!’ My wild life onboard the Adam and the Ants Antmania rollercoaster

With their twangy sound, madcap outfits, lusty yodelling and pirouetting pirate frontman, the band became global superstars almost overnight. But, as their guitarist Marco Pirroni recalls, the thrill ride soon hit the buffers‘The essence of pop is, one, brilliant fucking songs – and the rest is sex, subversion, style and humour. And that was us.” So Adam Ant told me in 1995, describing the reconstructed Adam and the Ants, which formed in early 1980 with the arrival of guitarist/songwriter Marco

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

The Guardian Health

Mood-boosting benefits of birdsong drowned out by traffic noise, study finds

Even low levels of traffic noise can negate the benefits of listening to natural sounds, researchers sayHearing the trill or whistle of a bird while going about daily life is well known to boost people’s mood. But a new study suggests the psychological benefits of hearing birdsong are being threatened by traffic noise.Researchers found that even low levels of traffic noise negatively affected the benefits to wellbeing that could otherwise be derived from listening to natural sounds. Continue rea

health  Aug 26, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Jess Fuchs: Feral review – a debut with tremendous oomph from a future comedy star

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThis motormouth Australian comic fires off tart remarks and home truths then explains why she over-identifies with the Titanic‘No hugging, no learning” was the writers’ rule on Seinfeld. Jess Fuchs decrees a similar stricture for Feral, in which she will learn nothing about herself whatsoever. “Really, I’m just here to talk shit.” That might get proceedings off to an underwhelming start, save that the Aussie’s cynical shtick is delivered with tremendous oomph: a bra

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

The Guardian

Iran faces strait of Hormuz paradox as strategic value of chokehold erodes

Internal calls to end war get louder as Gulf neighbours plan alternative pipelines to cut reliance on waterwayIs the strait of Hormuz, recently cited by the office of the Iranian supreme leader as “the pillar of Iran’s new security order”, and as transformative as possessing a nuclear weapon, in reality becoming a fast-diminishing asset, leaving Iran increasingly vulnerable to the new planned US wave of economic sanctions?It is the key debate that is raging inside Iran, with many different concl

general  Aug 26, 2026

Financial Times

Bessent’s bond intervention puts US Treasury on collision course with Fed

Increased purchases of debt threaten to undermine central bank chief Kevin Warsh’s bid to tame inflation

business  Aug 26, 2026

Financial Times

Why today’s markets are not as contradictory as they seem

What looks like a breakdown in historical correlations may simply reflect a different macroeconomic regime

business  Aug 26, 2026

Financial Times

The multiplying risks of financing data centres

Wall Street players extending themselves to underwrite this colossal new asset class are looking to limit exposure

business  Aug 26, 2026

Financial Times

Institutional investors back Blackstone and KKR funds for wealthy individuals

Shift by private equity’s traditional backers could threaten traditional 10-year fund model

business  Aug 26, 2026

Financial Times

How chicken conquered the world

A global surge in poultry numbers is transforming high streets, diets and landscapes. Is the chicken takeover unstoppable?

business  Aug 26, 2026

Financial Times

The bankers cashing in on Italy’s wealth boom

Private equity helped create a new generation of wealthy Italians. Private banks are in a bidding war to serve them

business  Aug 26, 2026