Why are Elon Musk and Sam Altman engaged in a war of words over OpenAI?
By Erin Hale Published On 14 Feb 202514 Feb 2025
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events – day 1,086
Here is the situation on Friday, February 14: Fighting Russia’s Defence Ministry announced that its forces have captured Ukraine’s Vodyane Druhe settlement in the Donetsk region. Moscow claimed it launched a coordinated overnight attack on Ukraine’s military airfields, ports and workshops for drone production, as well as fuel and lubricant storage sites. Ukraine launched a…
Key takeaways from Donald Trump’s meeting with India’s Narendra Modi
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has returned to the White House for his first visit of Donald Trump’s second term as United States president. Trump and Modi’s relationship has been dubbed a “bromance” in some media outlets – and that affinity continued to simmer strongly during Thursday’s meeting. Recommended Stories list of 3 items list…
Trump eyes summit with Xi and Putin, says he wants military budgets halved
United States President Donald Trump has proposed talks with China and Russia to discuss reducing all three countries’ nuclear stockpiles and slashing their defence budgets in half. Speaking to reporters at the White House on Thursday, Trump said he hoped to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin “when things calm down”….
Trump launches reciprocal tariffs amid concerns of economic turmoil
United States President Donald Trump has signed a plan rolling out increased import duties for every trading partner that taxes US imports, stating that he was doing so to bring a sense of “fairness” to commerce. Sitting in the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump described the tariffs as reciprocal, meaning that the US would automatically…
US says 5,000 soldiers deployed along Mexico border, could increase further
A United States general has announced there are currently about 5,000 active-duty soldiers along the country’s southern border with Mexico, as part of President Donald Trump’s overall push to crack down on immigration. General Gregory Guillot, the head of US Northern Command, told lawmakers on Thursday he expects that number could increase further. Recommended Stories…
Zelenskyy wants plan to ‘stop Russia’ before US peace talks
Published On 13 Feb 202513 Feb 2025
Ronaldo heads the 100 top-paid athletes in 2024, but no women make the list
Cristiano Ronaldo again topped the list of the world’s highest paid athletes with a total income of $260m in 2024, according to sports industry news site Sportico, but there were no women in the top 100. The leading 100, dominated by players from football, the NBA, NFL, golf and boxing, earned an estimated $6.2bn in…
US Senate confirms Robert F Kennedy Jr as Health and Human Services leader
The United States Senate has approved former environmental lawyer Robert F Kennedy Jr to lead the federal government’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in the latest controversial vote over a cabinet nominee picked by President Donald Trump. But Thursday’s vote was narrow, given Kennedy’s history of embracing anti-vaccine views and health-related conspiracy theories….
Trump directs advisers to plan for reciprocal tariffs ahead of Modi talks
Trump directs advisers to plan for reciprocal tariffs ahead of Modi talks