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Nobel prize hike adds $106,000, with the sum shared if more than one laureate wins in a category The first Nobel prizes were awarded in 1901, when the prize sum was 150,782 kroner per discipline.PHOTO: PIXABAY This year’s Nobel Prize winners, to be announced from October 5-12, will receive 12 million kroner ($1.27m) per discipline, … Read more
Pangram excels at distinguishing chatbot-generated words from human writing. But it’s not reliable for spotting artificial images.
[Oil prices fell more than $2 a barrel on Monday as investors took profits after recent gains and awaited details of expected new US sanctions on Iran, which could further disrupt supplies. Brent crude futures were down $1.71, or 1.81%, to $92.69 at 1648 GMT, while US WTI crude was at $85.34 a barrel, down … Read more
The rise came a day after a sharp sell-off in government debt.
“Our priority is to ensure that all visitors have the best experience possible,” the museum said about the hottest ticket in London.
PM Shehbaz Sharif, DPM/FM Ishaq Dar, Chinese Ambassador Jiang Zaidong and NA Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq cut a cake in Islamabad. PHOTO: APP ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday reaffirmed Pakistan’s commitment to further strengthening its all-weather strategic cooperative partnership with China, describing the enduring bilateral friendship as a bond built on mutual trust, … Read more
Forty thousand Karachi families refused polio vaccines this year. In a city where the virus circulates through every district, those refusals represent the gap between Pakistan's impressive polio infrastructure and its inability to close the final mile of eradication. Pakistan has cut polio cases by more than 99.6% since 1994—from 20,000 annual cases to just … Read more
[Jed Shafer once sounded the alarm about a shambolic federal loan forgiveness program. Eight years later, it’s his sons who need some money for college.
A passenger on a flight to Tel Aviv on Wednesday said he watched in horror as the plane’s pilots tumbled out of the cockpit, locked in a bloody brawl.
[ Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb speaks during a Reuters interview in Islamabad, Pakistan, June 15, 2026. PHOTO: REUTERS ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is exploring emerging opportunities in the virtual assets and digital finance ecosystem, including the potential application of blockchain and tokenisation technologies in financial markets, following constructive engagement between the Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (PVARA) … Read more