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Published on 27/03/2026 – 15:36 GMT+1 NASA astronaut Don Pettit, recently shared a picture of an odd, purple, egg-shaped object with “tentacles” from the International Space Station (ISS) on the social media platform X. While you could be forgiven for thinking that this was some kind of alien creature, it is in fact only a potato that Pettit grew in space. Although the colour is not commonly seen, potatoes can be purple , mainly due to high levels of anthocyanins. In a post on X, Pettit shared more about his space food-growing hobby. “Spudnik-1, an orbiting potato on the International…

Published on 27/03/2026 – 15:32 GMT+1 The X Files revival is starting to take shape… Oscar-winning filmmaker Ryan Coogler (Black Panther, Sinners) will both write and direct the pilot episode of the 90s cult classic series reboot, which has been officially greenlit for Hulu-lulululuuuuuu… The new series is moving away from original series creator Chris Carter’s iconic characters Mulder and Scully, played by David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, with the announcement of two new leads. Last month, we learned that American actress Danielle Deadwyler (The Harder They Fall, Till) had been cast as an FBI agent who gets assigned to…

The Kremlin on Friday denied reports that President Vladimir Putin had asked Russia’s richest men to bankroll the war in Ukraine, pushing back on claims that Moscow is scrambling for cash as military spending surges. “It’s not true that Putin made such a request,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, according to Reuters. Peskov explained that one individual had independently offered to donate a “very large sum” to the state during a recent meeting with business leaders, describing it as a personal initiative. “This was absolutely his initiative, and not President Putin’s. Although, of course, the head of state welcomed such…

Published on 27/03/2026 – 16:02 GMT+1 Nepal’s youngest prime minister took the oath of office Friday after his party won a landslide victory in elections earlier this month and following a youth-led uprising that toppled the previous government in September. Balendra Shah was appointed prime minister by President Ram Chandra Paudel after his Rastriya Swatantra Party won nearly two-thirds of the seats in the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of parliament, in the 5 March polls. Shah, the 35-year-old political outsider widely known as Balen, will lead a government tasked with navigating deep public frustration with Nepal’s established parties,…

1) ‘Very disappointed’ The U.S. president gave off the demeanor of a frustrated parent when he told the Telegraph he was “very disappointed” Britain hadn’t let the U.S. use the joint Diego Garcia airbase to strike Iran. Though Britain later allowed its use for limited purposes, Trump said Starmer took “took far too long” and “that’s probably never happened between our countries before.” Scholars of the Vietnam war may beg to differ. 2) ‘Not like it used to be’ Spoken like a former flame, Trump despaired that the alliance between the two countries was “not like it used to be,” telling…

Several leading Church figures have commented on the euthanasia of Noelia Castillo and have come out against this course of action. In the words of the Bishop of the Canary Islands, José Mazuelos Pérez, “we have all failed as a society”. In a statement, the bishops of the Subcommission for the Family and the Defence of Life expressed their sorrow over the case of the young woman, which they said reflected “an accumulation of personal suffering and institutional shortcomings that calls the whole of society into question”. In Mazuelos’s view, this option represents “another step towards a culture of death,…

There are two films out in cinemas right now which celebrate the Final Girl – the beloved horror trope coined by Carol J. Clover, whose exploration of the now-seminal figure of the sole female survivor has evolved from virginal damsel in distress to badass heroine who challenges conservative societal norms. Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come sees Samara Weaving reprise her role as Grace MacCaullay, who was the last woman / bride standing following the Le Domas family attempt to complete a sacrificial ritual in 2019’s excellent Ready Or Not. Weaving is sensational (as always), and new cast member…

He also claimed the West had “shot itself in the foot” by cutting reliance on Russian energy after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Dmitriev, an increasingly visible Kremlin economic envoy who has negotiated with the U.S. about the war in Ukraine, has ramped up his messaging in recent days, casting Russia as indispensable to global energy markets as supply tightens and arguing Western sanctions have backfired. His bullish remarks come with energy prices skyrocketing as Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz disrupts liquefied natural gas flows and pushes crude oil toward $100 a barrel, stoking fears of…

Published on 27/03/2026 – 12:25 GMT+1 A new era of quantum computing could challenge the foundations of online security sooner than many expect, Google says. Cybersecurity experts have sounded the alarm for years about quantum computers becoming so powerful that they could break the public encryption systems that protect our online conversations, bank accounts, and most vital infrastructure, wreaking havoc on governments and businesses. In a blog post, Google said that “quantum computers will pose a significant threat to current cryptographic standards, and specifically to encryption and digital signatures”. Quantum computing is a technology that uses the principles of quantum…

Published on 27/03/2026 – 12:05 GMT+1 A Russian court has banned the distribution of the award-winning documentary Mr Nobody Against Putin, after authorities claimed the film promoted “negative attitudes” about the government and the war in Ukraine. The ban on the documentary was issued by a Chelyabinsk court on Thursday after prosecutors said the film negatively portrayed Russia and promoted “extremism and terrorism”, according to AFP. Directed by David Borenstein and Pavel Talankin, the film follows Talankin – a school teacher – at a school in Karavash in Chelyabinsk region. His footage, secretly recorded over two years, chronicles how the…