Era CIA acted God: For 70 years, US spy agency via Project Artichoke considered hiding mind-control drugs in vaccines
The proposals contained in the document were part of the CIA’s top-secret Project Artichoke, which ran from 1951 to 1956, according to The Daily Mail. The document, declassified in 1983, recently circulated on social media. However, it was not published in the CIA’s online reading room until last year.
Iran, US to resume talks amid hardening military posture as observers say they ‘yielded encouraging signals’
In a phone call on Sunday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi and Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi stressed the importance of “constructive engagement and using the path of dialogue” to achieve a sustainable nuclear agreement, Iran’s official news agency IRNA reported.
World’s largest annual human migration witnessed 258 million since start of 2026 Chinese Spring Festival
China’s railways have witnessed 258 million passenger trips so far during the 40-day Spring Festival travel rush this year, as the travel period passed its halfway mark, the national railway operator said on Sunday. On February 21, the 20th day of the 2026 Spring Festival travel season, about 17.19 million...
Kenya’s Silicon Savannah welcomes African Centre for Technology as it starts construction of its headquarters
ACTS’ investment further strengthens Konza’s growing ecosystem of academic and research institutions, including the Open University of Kenya (OUK), Riara University and the Kenya Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Kenya-AIST), reinforcing Konza’s positioning as a national and regional hub for advanced skills, research, and innovation-led growth.
Musk-owned X social media platform seeking €120 million EU fine in European court
Information published on the Court of Justice of the EU website shows the General Court has registered several related actions, all lodged on February 16, 2026, and currently listed as pending, including challenges brought by X and its corporate entities, a separate action linked to Elon Musk, and another filed by the AI-related company associated with him.
China develops an AI model to push deep-space exploration way above US’ James Webb Space Telescope’s capacity
According to the findings published on Friday in the journal Science, the model can help extract extremely faint astronomical signals, identify galaxies more than 13 billion light years away and generate the deepest deep-space images ever produced.
How in a tiny rented in 1896 in Detroit, US, Henry Ford built the first gasoline-powered car and changed the way the world travels
Seven years later, on June 16, 1903, Ford launched the Ford Motor Company in a small converted carriage factory in Detroit. The company’s first year brought in $37,000 in profit against $28,000 in investment.
How technology, culture and daily Olympic life powered China to astounding success at Milan-Cortina Olympic Games
A visit to the official Milan-Cortina 2026 website offers an immediate clue. It features Olympic AI, described as the first official large language model deployed at an Olympics. The system is built on Qwen, a foundation model developed by Chinese tech company Alibaba.
New study finds causal link between Moderna Covid vaccine and high incidence of heart damage, death
The study, published last week in the journal Vaccines, found that among males ages 18-25, the Moderna mRNA-1273 Covid-19 vaccine was associated with 8 per cent to 52 per cent more hospitalisations for vaccine-attributable myocarditis and pericarditis (VAM/P) than the number of Covid-19 hospitalizations it prevented.
How solar energy restored survival hope in remote village in Zimbabwe as partnership with China powers agriculture in ‘forgotten’ region
Zindi Village, located in northern Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland Central Province, has witnessed a rapid transformation in agricultural development and the livelihoods of its residents in recent years as China-Zimbabwe agricultural cooperation prospers.
