When you meet the Queen of Indian Cuisine, Actress, Author, Silver Bear winner, and a @beardfoundation Hall of Fame inductee, the one and only @madhurjaffrey at the @ROMtoronto and she recognizes you from your tweets, you are honoured. A moment of a lifetime! #AshMemories

Plenty of financial complications can arise: not just maintenance costs, but property taxes that heirs may not be able to afford, utility bills they need to cover and even property liens. washingtonpost.com/business/…

🚨🇸🇦 Update: What does daily life look like in Riyadh and across Saudi Arabia amid Houthi terrorist attacks? 🔵 King Khalid International Airport reopened and resumed flight operations today. 🔵 Events, conferences, concerts and entertainment activities continue. 🔵 Restaurants, cafés and public spaces remain busy as usual, late into the night. 🔵 The Kingdom continues to welcome heads of state and host diplomatic visits, cultural exchanges and entertainment events.

“And finally—to the child walking into a school that hasn’t been built yet, with a notebook slipping against his arm. Inside, a poster on the wall is crooked. Someone taped it in a hurry and left one corner hanging.”

"...the screen in his hand played footage of Khartoum burning. We’re good at that silence now... I kept thinking: Does everyone I love do the same? Carry so much that they stop feeling it, until a stranger has to cry for them?" africasacountry.com/2026/10/…

“Our species has been playing this game for at least 4,000 years. It’s as much an expression of the human spirit as music and literature. If AI continues to bulldoze pure math, it’s going to crush the hopes of the young people who were dreaming of joining this tradition.”

My field is as much an expression of the human spirit as music and literature. Is it for the machines now? @stevenstrogatz theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…

Times Investigation: More than 3,000 people lived in these public housing towers in Venezuela. When quakes hit, they crashed to the ground in seconds. We wanted to know why. nytimes.com/interactive/2026…

María Corina Machado, Venezuela’s Leading Opposition Figure, Returns Home After nearly 10 months in exile, Ms. Machado, a Nobel laureate, came back to challenge leaders who have sidelined her and press for new elections. @julieturkewitz nytimes.com/2026/10/25/world… via @NYTimes

Today in São Paulo was the single largest mobilization that I have seen in my entire life 🥹

“By finding beauty amidst ugliness, she finds a way of making our fractured world whole again."

This is tomorrow.

It's confusing. Trump claims there is a "genocide" in South Africa -- but he never lists it among the "shithouse countries" or the "terror-infested" countries.

The Archdiocese of New York will pay more than $800 million to settle the sexual abuse claims of 1,300 people. nyti.ms/4dVq7UF

Welcome to the world of cacophony! Journalism has ceased to exist in India.

Legacy media right now is worried about the politics in the country,” Mr. Owens said. “They’re worried about lobbies and sponsorships and advertisers. They’re looking over their shoulder.” Mr. Owens said he was not interested in that. “I want people to have the truth,” he said.

scoop: Bill Owens, the former EP of “60 Minutes,” has found his next job: Executive Producer of Newpress, the video journalism start-up that is raising $12 million from funders including Laurene Powell Jobs’ Emerson Collective nytimes.com/2026/10/25/busin…

Roughly 30% of PhD dissertations in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in the United States this year contained AI-generated text Moreover, PhD graduates who use artificial intelligence to help write their dissertations are more likely to work in industry and less likely to enter academia. Those with AI-generated abstracts were 17% less likely to be employed in academia than were graduates who did not use AI. This working paper analyzed dissertations from more than 226,000 STEM doctoral graduates nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

The ninth annual 24H de l'Accordéon festival is underway in Toulouse, France 🇫🇷, running continuously through Sunday evening. In a world roiled by turmoil, cynicism and strife, a much-needed moment of peace, love, and harmony. All the feels. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📹 Les Rustines de l'Ange