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Iraq is debating a draft federal budget for 2027 that would be the biggest in its history, but the plan is also the most detached from the country's financial reality. The bill, a copy of which was seen by The National , looks like a welfare-state budget drafted for a stable time, not an austerity plan for a government in the middle of its worst financial cr

For a decade, Muhammed Krubally has shown what is possible and what still needs to change.

ComfortDelGro has grown far beyond Singapore, guided by a simple principle: Pursue opportunities that play to its strengths.

Developers are increasingly turning to legal appeals to overturn council planning decisions and a record number of NSW development appeals are being finalised in court.

Wonder is leaning into automation and user-built restaurants as founder Marc Lore prepares the startup for a potential IPO.

Teenage Engineering is branching out into instrument amps with the previously leaked EP-35, a multi-input, multi-instrument, battery-powered amp with built-in effects. The back of the unit has a line-in port, as well as a 1/4-inch guitar input and an XLR input for mics, including mics that require phantom power. You can also stream audio to […]

The French Institute of Pondicherry’s Director, Renaud Colson, reflects on the institute’s research legacy and its priorities for the future on the occasion of its 70th anniversary

Rose and Chris Murray’s house near Navan was demolished in March after two-decade battle

The architects were in fact using simple ideas gleaned from our well-loved Queenslander homes, scaled up to a city size.

This private supper club serves a singular, wood-fired take on Australian-Italian cooking. The only challenge? Scoring a booking.

The PMK president says these structures had obstructed rainwater flow and caused flooding at Pallikaranai and Jalladianpet, where the stagnant rainwater had to be pumped into the marsh.

Tour our miniature dream house to see how oil and gas became part of everyday products.

Taiwan has focused heavily on military readiness against China, but it now faces a tougher question: how its society will deal with prolonged duress.

SEPANG, Oct 22 — As the government encourages Malaysians to consider switching from Waze to locally developed navi...

For the first time, the Treasury calculates how much the UK could have raised by investing North Sea proceeds.

Sakurai helped launch ‘The Eric Andre Show’ in the 2010s, a building block that has now led to a big-budget video game movie.

Startup Recursive has released Flint, a free, laptop-sized coding model built largely by its own AI research system, as an early test of AI that improves itself.

New York Comic Con can be a strange place sometimes, but this year, Sega gave select media the opportunity to make it stranger (than heaven). We went hands-on with developer Ryu ga Gotoku's next major project, and while our extended look offered glimpses into the decades-spanning adventure, there's clearly still a lot more to see.  The three-hour demo w

Ryu Ga Gotoku's next major game hopes to live up to Like A Dragon's legacy.

Lovell Friedman’s footprints remain across Cape Town, the city she loved. They are set in glass and ceramic, in murals that give voice to the forgotten, in benches that offer sanctuary and in art that brings solace to the vulnerable.

Using AI to comb through hundreds of thousands of handwritten pages of port records, historians have constructed an interactive map of Britain’s maritime trading routes. Even as it expanded in Asia and the Americas, Britain's commerce with Europe remained overwhelming

Electric Plant has built an AI-powered translator to help humans listen to what plants are saying with the subtle electricity coursing through their stems.