"The natural question that comes up is: how many more space telescopes will be affected when all these constellations are launched?"

Satellite constellations could obscure most space telescope observations by late 2030s: 'That part of the image will be forever lost'

Hawaiian stargazers got a particularly special treat recently.

Comet Lemmon and Milky Way spotted over Hawaii | Space photo of the day for Dec. 12, 2025

Like a mood ring, clothing could let future space travelers know when they've been exposed to unsafe levels of radiation.

How color-changing, bacteria-infused spacesuits could help keep future astronauts safe from space radiation

A new machine learning model explores the boundary between biological and nonbiological chemistry.

Can scientists detect life without knowing what it looks like? Research using machine learning offers a new way

Mainstream medical organizations have criticized ‘restorative reproductive medicine,’ but some Catholics who follow church teachings consider it a welcome alternative.

How a niche Catholic approach to infertility treatment became a new talking point for MAHA conservatives

King Charles III says that his cancer treatment will be reduced in the new year because of early diagnosis, effective intervention and adherence to doctor's orders.

Early diagnosis leads King Charles to scale back cancer treatment in the new year

The Mont Blanc road tunnel linking France and Italy reopened to traffic on Friday following the completion of construction work. Webcam video on the tunnel's website showed vehicles passing through toll booths in the evening.

Mont Blanc road tunnel reopens to traffic after 15 weeks of repairs

Bavarian leader Markus Söder questioned on Friday whether Germany should participate in the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest. But unlike several other European countries, he's not critical of Israeli participation - but Europe's reaction to it.

Bavarian leader questions Germany's Eurovision participation

BEHIND THE LINES: Despite setbacks, Iraq’s Iranian-backed militias continue to thrive politically, posing a lasting threat to Israel’s security. This week, the government of Iraq announced a decision to freeze assets held by the Lebanese Hezbollah organization and the Yemeni Ansar Allah (Houthis) group.

Iran-backed militias reassert power in Iraq, proving the Islamic axis is still standing

Palestinian officials warn Israel’s new settlement plan accelerates annexation, deepens violence across occupied area.

Israel approves 19 new West Bank settlements in major annexation push

The treason trial of South Sudan’s suspended vice president is further eroding a 2018 peace agreement he signed with President Salva Kiir, U.N. experts warned in a new report.  As Riek Machar’s trial is taking place in the capital, Juba, the experts said forces from both sides are continuing to confront each other across much of the country and there is a threat of renewed major conflict.  U.N. peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix told the U.N. Security Council last month that the crisis in So

Treason trial of South Sudan's suspended VP is further eroding peace deal, UN experts say

Roman Oleksiv was seriously injured and his mother died when Russian missiles struck a hospital in central Ukraine in 2022

Interpreter Starts Sobbing as 11-Year-Old Testifies About Last Time He Saw His Mom Before She Was Killed in Missile Strike

Farmers have staged protests in several parts of France in recent days after vets culled a herd suffering from the disease.

Farmers call for French blockades over cow disease cull

PETIT GOÂVE, Haiti (AP) — Amizia Renotte sat on a broken piece of concrete and pointed to a large pile of dirt where her house once stood before the outer bands of Hurricane Melissa crumpled it as the storm lashed Haiti’s southern region.  The Atlantic hurricane season may be over, but thousands of people like Renotte in this Carribean country and beyond are still looking for food and struggling to rebuild their lives nearly two months after the Category 5 storm pummeled the northern Caribbean r

Hunger and makeshift shelters persist in north Caribbean nearly 2 months after Hurricane Melissa

Ukraine is insisting on a target strength of 800,000 troops for its military under a revised version of the US peace plan to end the almost four-year-long war with Russia. "That is the real strength of today's army, and it has been agreed with the military," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told journalists in Kiev on Thursday.

Ukraine demands army of 800,000 under peace plan

Legal expert Shlomit Ravitsky Tur-Paz warns that Israel’s draft bill for the Haredi community may entrench societal divisions and worsen long-term challenges for the economy and military. Regardless of what happens with the current draft bill to regulate conscription for the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) community, a situation in which an entire population group, which is projected to grow, remains apart and does not contribute enough to society and the economy, is unsustainable, attorney Shlomit Ravi

Israel faces tough choices over haredi draft exemptions, legal expert warns

EU member states agreed on Thursday to create a legal basis for the use of Russian state assets for Ukraine by majority vote, so as to permanently prevent the funds from being returned to Russia, the Danish EU presidency announced. This means countries such as Hungary will not be able to veto future EU sanctions decisions extending the current freeze on Russian assets held in the bloc.

EU states agree first step for Ukraine reparations fund

More than a million people were left without power Thursday and dozens of flights were cancelled, a day after a cyclone triggered gale-force winds in Brazil's economic capital Sao Paulo, authorities said.This left more than two million people without electricity, 1.2 million of whom had yet to see their power restored almost 24 hours later.

Cyclone causes blackout, flight chaos in Brazil's Sao Paulo

Nemo, last year's Eurovision winner, said Thursday he was returning the 2024 trophy in protest over Israel's continued participation, which has already prompted five countries to pull out."But Israel's continued participation, during what the UN's Independent International Commission of Inquiry has concluded to be a genocide, shows there's a clear conflict between those ideals and the decisions the EBU is making.

2024 Eurovision winner Nemo returns trophy over Israel's participation

The people were under constant observation while inside Gaza, the IDF assured. The suspects were then handed over to the Israel Police for processing.

Several Israelis attempt to cross into Gaza, escorted back to Israel by IDF

A genetic mutation that carries a 90% cancer risk has been passed on by an unwitting sperm donor to dozens of children, a Europe-wide investigation has revealed.

Investigation reveals sperm donor passed on cancer risk to dozens of children across Europe

Sheikh Tarif, the spiritual leader of Israel’s Druze community, also drew the diplomats’ attention to the crimes committed against Druze women in the attacks on Sweida and the nearby Druze villages. The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) was presented with evidence that Syrian Druze women were sexually assaulted during the recent waves of attacks committed by Damascus-backed militia groups in southern Syria.

Israel's Druze use AI to present to UN testimonies of 'sexual terrorism' against Syrian Druze women

Germany's Cabinet has approved draft legislation aimed at further reducing greenhouse gas emissions from transport fuels, Environment Minister Carsten Schneider said on Wednesday. The bill updates the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Quota, or GHG, and is intended to implement EU requirements.

German Cabinet advances bill to cut greenhouse emissions from fuels

A source in the Security Service of Ukraine told Business Insider that Kyiv has attacked three tankers since late November.

Ukraine's naval drones are gunning for Russia's 'shadow fleet.' A security source says a tanker just suffered a critical hit.

The mission reportedly failed to identify Mengistu, and also did not detect Hamas' preparations for an attack, sources familiar with the matter told KAN. The IDF carried out a special mission to locate Ethiopian Israeli Avera Mengistu on October 6, 2023, a day before the October 7 massacre, according to a report by Israeli public broadcaster KAN News on Wednesday.

IDF carried out mission to locate former hostage Avera Mengistu a day before Oct. 7

“I couldn’t just sit there and continue to argue and see they’re not changing their minds,” Haskel told the Post about the marathon discussions on the bill taking place in the Knesset. After three days on the road and over 80 kilometers on foot, Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel (New Hope) spoke to The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday about her march this week in protest of the government’s haredi (ultra-Orthodox) draft bill, which she said endangers Israel’s future.

80 km. on foot: Sharren Haskel’s three-day march in protest of haredi draft bill

Bali’s reign as the ultimate tropical paradise is facing serious competition as savvy travelers discover equally stunning destinations without the crowds, inflated prices, and overtourism that now plague Indonesia’s famous island. American Express Travel’s latest ... Read more

The Secret Destinations Amex Says Will Be More Popular Than Bali by 2026

France’s lower house of parliament narrowly approved on Tuesday a key health care budget bill, offering the minority government some relief from political turmoil at the cost of suspending President Emmanuel Macron's flagship pension reform.  With no majority at the National Assembly, centrist Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu offered to put the reform on hold as a concession to the Socialists, who voted for the bill.  The move aims to prevent his fragile minority government from being toppled.

French lawmakers narrowly approve health care budget, suspending Macron's flagship pension reform

The United Nations chief called on Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Tuesday not to prosecute detained U.N. personnel and to work “in good faith” to immediately release all detained staff from the U.N. and foreign agencies and missions.  Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the referrals of the U.N. personnel to the Houthis' special criminal court and called the detentions of U.N. staff a violation of international law, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.

UN chief calls on Yemen's Houthi rebels to free all UN detainees

The complaint further criticized Israel Police, noting that officers were present at the scene, but did not intervene when the display was presented. Likud filed an official police complaint on Tuesday, alleging “incitement to murder the prime minister” after a display resembling a severed head of Benjamin Netanyahu was placed outside the Tel Aviv District Court during his testimony on Tuesday.

Display of Netanyahu's severed head 'incites public to murder PM', Likud says in official complaint

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed into effect a law that reinforces protective measures for women who are victims of gender-based violence, a move welcomed by feminist activists although they also demand more funds for prevention.  The introduction of the law comes at a time of anger in Brazil over record cases of violence against women and a series of high-profile incidents that shocked the country and sparked widespread demonstrations on Sunday.  The law, published in Brazil

Brazil approves law strengthening protective measures for female victims of gender-based violence

Plotters misjudged the national mood and Benin's neighbours learnt from past errors, says analyst Paul Melly.

A coup too far: Why Benin's rebel soldiers failed where others in the region succeeded

FADC Chairman Boaz Bismuth said he pushed to approve the extension after Defense Minister Israel Katz said it was necessary for the country's national security. The Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday extended the emergency draft order for 280,000 IDF reservists until January 1.

Knesset FADC extends emergency draft for 280,000 IDF reservists until January 1

Speaking in Rome at a conference for PM Giorgia Meloni's party, former hostage Rom Braslavski described the “horror” he witnessed on October 7 and the torture he endured in Gaza captivity. Former hostage Rom Braslavski recounted the "horrors" of seeing murdered Israelis during the October 7 massacre at a speech to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy party's conference on Sunday.

'Women on the floor, riddled with bullets': Ex-hostage Rom Braslavski recounts 'horrors' of Oct. 7

Underwater archaeologists announced they had discovered the ancient wreck of an ancient Egyptian pleasure boat off the coast of Alexandria.

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