Oil Slides As Qatar Touts 'Talks' Again; Iran Struck Large Crude Tanker Overnight

Xi Presses Trump For Taiwan Policy Shift As $14 Billion Weapons Deal Hangs In Limbo Following our earlier coverage of Barclays senior China economist Yingke Zhou's view that Chinese leader Xi Jinping's state visit delivered "more signaling, less substance," attention turns to Taiwan, where Xi pressed President Donald Trump to oppose Taiwan independence. According to China's official Xinhua News Agency, Xi urged Trump to "adhere to the correct position of opposing Taiwan independence." The conversation took place at Thursday's White House summit. For years, Washington has held the stance that it "doesn't...

Spain's World Cup Hero Rocks 'Make Spain Great Again' Hat Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Spain are the world champions again. Ferran Torres came off the bench and smashed home the only goal of the 2026 World Cup final in the 106th minute against Argentina. The next day, as the open-top bus rolled through Madrid and nearly two million Spaniards packed the streets, the hero of the final stood shirtless, draped in the national flag, and wearing a bright red baseball cap that read "Make Spain Great Again." The image...

An AI-Designed Drug Just Moved Six Different Aging Clocks At Once An experimental drug designed using AI has produced measurable shifts toward a younger biological-age profile in patients. Developed by Insilico Medicine, the drug - rentosertib - was initially engineered to treat idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a progressive, age-associated lung-scarring disease. When researchers analyzed blood samples from a Phase IIa clinical trial, they applied six proteomic profiling "aging clocks" among 42 participants. All six detected reductions in predicted biological age, whereas the placebo group showed little change or slight increases. The most pronounced...