The ChristMASS Bash was a star-studded affair, with presenter Atlee and producers Priya Atlee, Murad Khetani, and Jyoti Deshpande joining director Kalees and the lead cast to share the festive spirit. The gathering also highlighted the strong camaraderie among the team, further building anticipation for Baby John.

Few ingredients are more essential to American cooks today than olive oil. And none is more affected by geopolitics. That’s because the United States consumes more olive oil than any other country except Italy, but produces very little of it. About 97 percent of the olive oil sold in America is imported, most of it […]

The credit-card size documents are known by many names: police courtesy cards, gold cards or family cards. They are distributed by law enforcement officers and their unions to a favored few and are flashed by drivers hoping for leniency when stopped for traffic violations. The arrangement has long been part of a largely unspoken code. […]

LONDON — The United Kingdom’s government is still working to finalize a controversial deal on the handover of the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius, after the new Mauritian prime minister demanded a renegotiation. Britain’s deal with Mauritius has come under intense scrutiny since it was announced in October — amid indications that key figures in United […]

China’s nuclear arsenal and other elements of its armed forces have grown robustly despite anticorruption investigations that have shaken the People’s Liberation Army at its highest levels, the Pentagon said on Wednesday. China’s navy “continues to develop into a global force, gradually extending its operational reach beyond East Asia,” the Defense Department said in an […]

The AI research community continues to find new ways to improve large language models (LLMs), the latest being a new architecture introduced by scientists at Meta and the University of Washington. Their technique, Byte Latent Transformer (BLT), could be the next important paradigm for making LLMs more versatile and scalable. BLT solves one of the […]

If aliens are the topic of conversation, you better believe Blink-182’s Tom Delonge is going to weigh in. The pop-punk singer/guitarist has offered his thoughts on the recent New Jersey drone phenomenon and, you guessed it, he definitely thinks it’s UFOs. “The drones that are being discussed, can hover for six hours, and then disappear […]

The far-right has doubled down on its pledge to take Germany out of the and the single currency, the Euro, if it gained power. In a draft election manifesto sent to its members ahead of a vote in the party conference scheduled for early January, the anti-immigration party repeated a promise from its European election […]

Dominique Pelicot is France’s most infamous predator. He admits that he surreptitiously drugged his wife for almost a decade so that he could rape her, and that he invited dozens of strangers he met online to violate her limp, snoring body. And yet, for more than three months, Mr. Pelicot, 72, has sat in the […]

Mark Rutte, the head of NATO, will host President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and several other European leaders at his residence in Brussels on Wednesday evening to discuss the deteriorating situation in the war with Russia and how Europe can offer more support to Kyiv. The dinner in Brussels comes at an uncertain moment for […]