Eastern Herald

One in three people globally cannot afford a healthy diet, according to the 2026 UN State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report. The annual assessment found 733 million people still experiencing hunger and the 2030 zero-hunger target now considered out of reach.

Meta pulled its Instagram Muse Image AI feature three days after launch amid backlash over non-consensual imagery concerns. The Creative Artists Agency raised alarms after account owners received no notification when their photos were used in AI-generated content.

While four volunteers remain locked inside a simulated Mars habitat in Houston with three months left, NASA has opened applications for an even longer analog mission that adds a simulated spacecraft transit before the surface phase even begins.

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Trk issued a 'red alert' on Friday as el-Obeid's power station and fuel depots were bombed, leaving 500,000 residents and 100,000 refugees without reliable water. Fifteen RSF drone strikes between June 6-28 killed 45 people in the North Kordofan capital.

Victor Willis, the Village People frontman who co-wrote Y.M.C.A., Macho Man, and In the Navy, died Tuesday following a short but aggressive illness, his wife Karen Huff Willis announced on Facebook. He was 74, and spent his final years having reclaimed legal ownership of the songs that defined him even as Y.M.C.A. played at Trump rallies without his endorsement, an irony that followed him to the end.