Venezuela's interim government says it will start holding formal talks with some members of the opposition from 1 August.

The announcement comes just over six months after US troops seized Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan leader at the time, in a dawn raid on the capital, Caracas, and took him to New York to face drug-trafficking charges.

Archaeologists working at the ancient Egyptian site of Oxyrhynchus have made a remarkable discovery: a papyrus containing a passage from Homer's Iliad was found inside a Roman-era mummy dating back about 1,600 years. Researchers say it is the first known case in archaeological history in which a Greek literary text was intentionally incorporated into the mummification process.

Independently financed American genre films rarely arrive without scars. In the case of “Cowboy,” Nathan Grubbs’ directorial debut, which bowed at London’s Raindance Film Festival, the struggle to get the film made became almost inseparable from the story being told.

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Warren Buffett said he — not Berkshire Hathaway's new CEO, Greg Abel — was the driving force behind the conglomerate's recent big investment in Alphabet.

One child survives hit on Deir el-Balah home as Israel escalates attacks across territory despite October ‘ceasefire’.

Three members of a family – a father, a mother and their six-year-old daughter – have been killed in an Israeli air attack on an apartment in central Gaza as Israel continues to violate a “ceasefire” with near-daily attacks.

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Warren Buffett called Bill Gates' association with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein "distasteful" after the Berkshire Hathaway chairman excluded the Gates Foundation from his sizable annual charitable donations.

Inside, some 100 stainless-steel cabinets each hold hundreds of chips. On those chips, thousands of light particles will fly through a maze of optical switches and beam splitters. Each photon must be accounted for, because precisely measuring where it ends up will help answer questions that current computers might take millions of years to solve.

A man was arrested in Utah for stabbing a Muslim ⁠man multiple times and ⁠stated that he targeted ​the victim because of the victim’s religion, police said in court records on Tuesday.