Explainer

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Microsoft has ened Windows 10 support after ten years. Photo: Collected

Your Windows 10 is about to lose support. What now?

Windows 10 computers will still run - but they will no longer receive crucial security, feature, or technical updates, leaving millions of users potentially exposed to cyber threats

Containers are stacked on the deck of cargo ship One Minato at Port Liberty New York in Staten Island, New York, US, April 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Jeenah Moon/File Photo

How the United States is eating Trump's tariffs

Miners are seen at the Bayan Obo mine containing rare earth minerals, in Inner Mongolia, China July 16, 2011. Picture taken July 16, 2011. Photo: REUTERS/Stringer/CHINA OUT/File Photo

How China's rare earth dominance became a geopolitical flashpoint

An employee of the Norwegian Nobel Institute holds a replica of a Nobel Peace Medal in the Institute in Oslo, Norway, September 9, 2025. Photo: Reuters.

Nobel Prizes 2025: The winners, their discoveries, and why Trump dominated the headlines

Members of the Great Lakes anti-fascist organization (Antifa) fly flags during a protest against the Alt-right outside a hotel in Warren, Michigan, US, March 4, 2018. Photo: REUTERS/Stephanie Keith/File Photo

What is antifa and why is Trump targeting it?

The Nobel Prize medal. Photo: Reuters

Explainer: The quiet revolution in immunology that earned this year's Nobel Prize

People walk past the U.S. Capitol building as the deadline to avoid partial government shutdown looms in Washington, U.S., January 18, 2024. REUTERS/Leah Millis/ FILE PHOTO

Explainer: What's Trump's strategy behind the US shutdown?

Tear gas rises during a standoff with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and federal officers in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, US, October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Jim Vondruska

'Fear enforcement, not law enforcement': Why Chicago is protesting Trump’s ICE raids

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Explainer: What gaps are delaying Dhaka airport’s 3rd terminal launch?

Supporters of the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC), an alliance of Kashmir civil rights groups, chant slogans as they gather to attend the funeral of men who were killed during a protest following a shutter-down strike in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Pakistan October 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Naseer ud Din

Explainer: What happened in Pakistan-administered Kashmir after days of anti-government protests?

Jimmy Carter

Carter, Civiletti, and the birth of the shutdown: America’s political gridlock explained

A visitor walks past the White House and a new flag pole installed on the North Lawn in Washington, DC, US, June 19, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File photo

Explainer: What would stay open, what would close if the US Government shuts down

Natural sinkholes in Xiaozhai Tiankeng, China (left) and Great Blue Hole, Belize (right). Source: UNB

Explainer: What causes sinkholes, and why do they collapse so suddenly?