The internet is made up of hundreds of cables crossing the floors and the canyons of the earth’s oceans. So what happens when the cables snap? James Glanz, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, explains what could go wrong with subsea internet cables and how these cables get fixed. Source link
EPA Thousands of protesters returned to the streets of Tbilisi on Friday to protest against the government’s decision to suspend accession talks with the European Union. Demonstrators were seen shouting “traitors” and holding photographs of journalists who they say were beaten by police in the previous night’s protests. For the second night running, police deployed…
The chief of MI6 has said that the world is more dangerous than it has been in the last forty years amid ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and the West’s mounting tensions with Russia. Speaking at the British embassy in Paris, Sir Richard Moore also warned that Britain and its allies are facing a ‘reckoning’ as…
HYDERABAD: A 22-year-old Indian student from Khammam in Telangana was shot dead by assailants at a store in Chicago in the US. Sai Teja Nukarapu died on the spot, succumbing to bullet injuries. The incident took place on September 29 in the US.Relatives of Sai Teja said they received information after the incident at 5.40…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Florida to meet Donald Trump as Canada seeks to head off the president-elect’s threat to impose a 25% tariff on Canadian goods, a source has confirmed to the BBC. Canadian media reported that Trudeau landed in Palm Beach International Airport on Friday evening to visit Trump at his Mar-a-Lago…
This potential was realised in late September with the birth of Hurricane Helene. It intensified rapidly before making landfall on the Florida coast as a major category four storm. Helene brought catastrophic flooding and widespread wind damage across large swathes of the south-east US, from Florida’s Gulf Coast to the southern Appalachians. According to preliminary…
Campaigners rally in support of assisted dying in London on Friday. Assisted dying is legal in a handful of European countries, Canada, New Zealand, and in 10 US states and the District of Columbia Lawmakers in Britain voted on Friday to allow assisted dying for terminally ill patients in England and Wales under strict conditions,…
Kairos Futura Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, has long been known as “the green city in the sun” because of its mix of forest and grasslands among the urban sprawl, but it all depends on where you are viewing it from. Seen from one of the city’s comfortable apartment blocks or homes, then yes, perhaps – from…
Sebastian Usher Qassem Abu Khalaf and his wife Malak Hijaz have a library of hundreds of ingredients A young Palestinian couple in Jerusalem have produced a range of perfumes to embody the heritage of their people. Despite the horror of the war in Gaza, they hope their scents can still summon memories of a better…
Reuters Imran Khan’s wife, Bushra Bibi, encouraged protesters into the heart of Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad A charred lorry, empty tear gas shells and posters of former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan – it was all that remained of a massive protest led by Khan’s wife, Bushra Bibi, that had sent the entire capital into lockdown….
