Donald Trump says the US will launch an investigation into the European Union and threatened a fresh tariff over fines handed to some of the biggest American tech companies. It comes days after the European Commission fined Google €890m ($1bn) for operating in a way that squeezed out competitors to its services. In a post…
(RNS) — When Pamela Ayo Yetunde began hospice volunteering with an organization that utilizes mindfulness to help patients confront their own deaths, she was already far removed from her Methodist upbringing and on a quest for “peace of mind.” At the same time, she was reading the book “Touching Peace” by the influential Buddhist monk…
Tomorrowland has confirmed that it will be banning “large-scale” fireworks and having “limited pyrotechnics” due to wildfire fears. The restrictions for the 2026 edition were introduced in time for the first weekend, which took place earlier this month. In the announcement, the festival revealed that the limitations had been recommended by the local authorities in…
Doubly destroyed by two fires, Scotland’s finest piece of architecture, the Mackintosh building at the Glasgow School of Art (GSA), cuts a lamentable sight, its charred carcass tightly shrouded in white plastic sheeting, like a vacuum-packed Christo sculpture. A 12-year saga of destruction, rebuilding and yet more destruction, all underscored by an unedifying seam of…
