Thirty years after launch, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory – SOHO – is still staring at the Sun from deep space and changing what scientists thought they knew about it.

A mission designed for two years of solar watching has instead become the most prolific comet hunter in history and a quiet backbone of space-weather forecasting.

On the American right, few issues once seemed more settled than support for Israel. Now, the split between Candace Owens, the late Charlie Kirk, and the movement he built through Turning Point USA captures how that consensus is coming apart.

A Dystopian Classic That Still Resonates Today

Imagine a world where every conversation is monitored, history is rewritten on a whim, and independent thought is a crime. This is the nightmare vision of George Orwell’s 1984, a dystopian novel published in 1949 as a dire warning against totalitarianism. Orwell’s chilling tale introduced terms like “Big Brother” and “Thought Police” into our everyday vocabulary—symbols of intrusive surveillance and thought control that are instantly recognized today.

More than 70 years later, 1984 feels more relevant than ever as modern society grapples with digital surveillance, “fake news,” and Big Tech's power to shape information

A powerful US advisory panel has just voted to roll back a 30-year policy that all newborns should receive a hepatitis B vaccine at birth. The move is already rippling through public-health circles worldwide – and could reshape the global vaccine debate in ways that go far beyond one infection.

Washington’s new National Security Strategy has landed like a diplomatic grenade in Europe – accusing the continent of sliding towards “civilisational erasure” and openly backing nationalist movements to change its course.

The European Union has handed X (formerly Twitter) a landmark €120 million fine under the Digital Services Act — a move that Elon Musk’s supporters see less as a neutral enforcement action and more as a direct challenge to his experiment in freer, less centrally controlled online speech.

After years of saying she might never marry again, Miley Cyrus has confirmed she is engaged to musician Maxx Morando. The low-key relationship that quietly became one of her most stable now steps into the spotlight — complete with a serious diamond and a very Miley backstory.

The United States has quietly told European allies it expects them to take over most of NATO’s conventional defence role by 2027 – or risk a dramatic American pull-back. Behind the headlines, this is less a tantrum and more a hard deadline in a long-running argument over who pays for Europe’s security.

Beloved children’s presenter Ms Rachel has found herself at the centre of a fierce political storm. A pro-Israel advocacy group has put her on its “Antisemite of the Year” list – not for anything in her videos for toddlers, but for her public advocacy for children in Gaza. The backlash says as much about today’s culture wars as it does about her posts.

Beijing and Tokyo are locked in their sharpest diplomatic clash in years – and the trigger was a few sentences about Taiwan that go to the heart of Asia’s security order.