Dan Houser, the cofounder of Grand Theft Auto publisher Rockstar Games, cast AI in gruesome terms last week by likening…

Dan Houser, the cofounder of Grand Theft Auto publisher Rockstar Games, cast AI in gruesome terms last week by likening…

The final supermoon of 2025 graced night skies around the world from Thursday evening through to early Friday, creating some spectacular illuminated scenery.
According to the Beijing Planetarium, this supermoon reached its…

In the first part of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, a shy young hobbit named Frodo Baggins inherits a simple gold ring. He knows the ring has power, but not that he alone holds the secret to the survival–or…

For years, a mysterious bacterial toxin lurking in the human gut was suspected of driving colorectal cancer. Now researchers in a pair of Harvard labs have caught the toxin in the act of damaging DNA and creating the very sorts of mutations long…

Nerida HansenAt 6ft tall and plus-size, shop-bought clothes had never fitted Maree O’Connor well.
Sewing offered her a solution – allowing her to use beautiful fabrics to make garments that fit just right.
One day, while on the lookout for…

After indie narrative horror game Horses was banned from Steam two years ago, it put the studio, Santa Ragione, at risk of closure. Studio cofounder and Horses producer Pietro Righi Riva had to make a difficult phone call to the game’s…

KARACHI – The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) injected Rs2,610.8 billion through Reverse Repo Purchase and Shariah Compliant Mudarabah based Open Market Operations (OMO) on Friday to maintain liquidity in the market. The central bank conducted the Open Market Operation, Reverse Repo Purchase (Injection) for 7 and 14-day tenors on December 05, 2025, and injected Rs2,437.8 billion against 14 bids while other Rs173 billion were inserted through Shariah Compliant Mudarabah based OMO. The central bank received 11 bids for the 14-day Reverse Repo Purchase, cumulatively offering Rs2,384.8 billion at the rate of return ranging between 11.01 to 11.08 percent.
The SBP accepted all the bids with the entire amount at 11.01 percent rate of return.
Moreover, the SBP also received 3 quotes for the 7-day tenor, cumulatively offering Rs53 billion at the rate of return ranging between 11.03 percent to 11.05 percent.
The SBP accepted the entire amount at 11.03 percent rate of return.
Meanwhile, SBP also conducted Shariah Compliant Mudarabah based Open Market Operation for the 7 and 14-day tenors. The central bank did not receive any bid for the 14-day tenor while 3 quotes were received for 7-day tenor offering Rs218 billion at rate of return ranging between 11.01 to 11.06 percent. SBP accepted Rs173 billion against two bids at 11.05 percent rate of return.

LONDON – The last supermoon of 2025 dazzled bright in the night sky on Thursday night. Appearing brighter and larger than a normal full Moon, the third supermoon of the year was also spotted by some in the UK with an atmospheric phenomenon…

Google has announced several autofill improvements being rolled out to the mobile and desktop versions of Chrome. The updates will give autofill access to more of your data from places like Google Wallet and make it easier to select the right…

A new study suggests that certain genetic differences, passed down from ancient human ancestors, and exposure to common present-day chemicals could explain why some women are more likely to develop endometriosis.
The research,…