Powerball: Lotto fever grips US for $1.6bn world record prize bbc.com One in 292 million odds of winning have not deterred hopeful Americans from snapping up their tickets....

Norway's Karsten Warholm breaks men's 400m hurdles world record edition.cnn.com Norway's Karsten Warholm broke Kevin Young's 29-year-old 400m hurdles world record when he completed the race in 46.70 seconds in front of his home fans at the ...

He Created the Web. Now He’s Out to Remake the Digital World. nytimes.com Tim Berners-Lee wants to put people in control of their personal data. He has technology and a start-up pursuing that goal. Can he succeed?...

Why AR, not VR, will be the heart of the metaverse venturebeat.com Virtual worlds will become increasingly popular, but the true metaverse will be a future of augmented reality and it will be everywhere....

2020 was a terrible year. But the world's in better shape than you might think edition.cnn.com In 2020, a devastating virus officially disappeared from the continent it had once ravaged -- a remarkable public health achievement that followed decades of wo...

Home in the World by Amartya Sen review – the making of a Nobel laureate theguardian.com From Bengal to Cambridge and beyond … precious insights into the early life and times of the economist and philosopher...