Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from VCG

Geminid meteor shower 2025 thrills skywatchers with an end-of-year celestial firework show (photos)

The Geminid meteor shower peaked overnight on Dec. 13.

Space

Avatar’s Zoë Saldaña And Fallout’s Ella Purnell Just Rocked The Same Dress On The Red Carpet, With One Key Difference

They both pulled it off well.

Cinemablend

Horrifying Scene Caught On Video As Massive Fire Rips Through Hong Kong High-Rise

"I have no home to go now. My apartment is not insured," an older resident lamented.

Bored Panda

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Four accused in black-market scheme to smuggle hundreds of Nvidia GPUs to China—while raking in millions

The smugglers are facing decades in prison for an alleged conspiracy that involved routing highly coveted chips through Malaysia and Thailand.

Fortune

Move over Harvard and MIT—this university might be winning the AI race, and you've probably never heard of it

China’s Tsinghua University is outperforming U.S. Ivy Leagues in generating AI-related patents and top-cited research papers—though American influence remains high.

Fortune

Three more Chinese astronauts are now stranded in space following successful rescue of their colleagues

The Shenzhou-21 crew has been marooned on China's Tiangong space station after three of their colleagues were brought back to Earth in the wrong spacecraft. For now, the astronauts have no safe way of returning home.

LiveScience

China's Shenzhou 20 astronauts return to Earth on different spacecraft after finding window cracks in their own (video)

The three astronauts of China's Shenzhou 20 mission headed back to Earth today (Nov. 13) after a week-long delay caused by a debris strike on their spacecraft.

Space

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

See stunning photos of November's full 'Beaver Moon' — the biggest supermoon of 2025

See breathtaking photos of the full "Beaver Moon" brightening November's sky.

Space

Three Chinese astronauts stranded in space after debris hits their return capsule

Three Chinese taikonauts — Wang Jie, Chen Zhongrui and Chen Dong — will be extending their stay aboard China's Tiangong space station after their return capsule was struck by a presumed piece of orbital debris on Wednesday.

LiveScience

US leaders view China as a ‘pacing threat’ − has Washington enough stamina to last the race?

When Donald Trump meets with Xi Jinping on Oct. 30, 2025, he won’t just be chatting with any run-of-the-mill leader of a rival nation. Rather, he will be sitting down the with the chief representative of the United States’ “pacing threat.”

The Conversation

OpenAI's staggering mental health crisis revealed — Millions use ChatGPT like a therapist, but that's about to change

OpenAI has provided some internal numbers related to users who seek help from GPT-5, and they're a lot bigger than I was expecting. The AI firm has laid out details as to how it's combating the issue.

Windows Central

Autumn 2025 Skywatching sights: 8 targets to see in the night sky

From glowing comets to ancient galaxies, autumn's night sky is filled with celestial treasures.

Space

Shapeshifting 'braided river' in Tibet is the highest in the world, and is becoming increasingly unstable — Earth from space

A 2025 satellite photo shows a particularly complex section of the Yarlung Zangbo River as it twists its way through the Tibetan Plateau. This part of the "braided" waterway has experienced drastic visual changes over recent decades, which could soon be accentuated by climate change.

LiveScience

Harvest supermoon photos: See the moon at its biggest and brightest in pictures from around the world

This year's full 'Harvest moon' was also a supermoon. Check out some of the best images of this lunar event with our worldwide gallery.

LiveScience

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Conversation

Goodbye petrostates, hello ‘electrostates’: how the clean energy shift is reshaping the world order

For more than a century, global geopolitics has revolved around oil and gas. Countries with big fossil fuel reserves, such as Saudi Arabia and Russia, have amassed significant wealth and foreign influence, helping shape the world order.

LiveScience

New report warns that China could overtake the US as top nation in space — and it could happen 'in 5-10 years,' expert claims

A new report from the Commercial Space Federation warns that China could soon overtake the U.S. in the "new space race." The country's rapid progression starkly contrasts the limitations imposed on NASA by record-breaking budget cuts.

LiveScience

'Blood moon' gallery: Stunning snaps from last night's total lunar eclipse

A "blood moon" hovered above parts of the globe last night. And while North America missed out, we've rounded up some of the best photographs of September 2025's total lunar eclipse.

Space

Blood moon wows skywatchers worldwide: Best photos of the September 2025 total lunar eclipse

See spectacular photos from the Sept. 7-8 total lunar eclipse.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Space

China shows off advanced hypersonic missiles, ICBMs and drones in military parade (photos)

Beijing's recent military parade unveiled new hypersonic and intercontinental missiles alongside stealth drones, highlighting China's expanding strike and defense capabilities

The Conversation

China’s electric vehicle influence expands nearly everywhere – except the US and Canada

In 2025, 1 in 4 new automotive vehicle sales globally are expected to be an electric vehicle – either fully electric or a plug-in hybrid.

The Conversation

China’s WWII anniversary parade rekindles cross-strait battle over war narrative − and fears in Taiwan of future conflict

World War II casts a very long shadow in East Asia. Eighty years after ending with Japan’s surrender to Allied forces on Sept. 2, 1945, the conflict continues to stir debate over the past, in the context of today’s geopolitical tensions.

Woman & Home

'Sometimes you'll see that twinkle in his eye' – Emma Heming Willis opens up on caring for Bruce Willis following his dementia diagnosis

Appearing in an emotional documentary about her life as a carer to her husband, Emma offers heartbreaking insights into their lives living with dementia

Windows Central

"We don't install secret tracking devices in our products," — NVIDIA responds to a new report suggesting US officials are adding trackers to AI chip shipments

In a new report from Reuters, it's claimed that trackers have been discovered in some AI chip shipments "at high risk of illegal diversion to China." That's terrible timing for NVIDIA, which is under the microscope due to national security concerns from Beijing officials.

Windows Central

Google took the stage for OpenAI's GPT-5 launch — but Microsoft services quietly got the biggest boost

Google got the spotlight at GPT-5’s launch, but Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and GitHub quietly gained powerful new integrations as well.

Space

Perseid meteor shower 2025 outshines moon to put on a spectacular show (photos)

The Perseid meteor shower 2025 peaked Aug. 12-13, delighting skywatchers worldwide.

1 2 3 4

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the Trump Administration

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.