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Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., during a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa’s president, not pictured, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. Jim Lo Scalzo | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesTesla shares have dropped 7% from Friday’s closing price of $323.63 to the $300.71 close on Tuesday ahead of the company’s second-quarter deliveries report.Wall Street analysts are expecting Tesla to report deliveries of around 387,000 — a 13% decline compared to deliveries of nearly 444,000 a year ago, according to a consensus…

This undated file photo shows a researcher demonstrating the lunar 3D printing process at the Deep Space Exploration Laboratory in Hefei, east China’s Anhui Province.  (Xinhua)HEFEI, July 1 (Xinhua) — A groundbreaking 3D printing system developed by Chinese scientists has explored using only on-site-sourced lunar soil to build habitats, paving the way for the large-scale, on-site construction of lunar research stations.The Deep Space Exploration Laboratory in Hefei, Anhui Province, has successfully prototyped a lunar regolith 3D printer that eliminates the need for Earth-sourced construction materials, according to Yang Honglun, a senior engineer at the lab.He revealed that the system uses…

Listen to article ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi has announced that each parliamentarian will be granted one prohibited bore licence for personal security. The announcement was made during a meeting of the Senate’s Standing Committee on Interior, chaired by Senator Faisal Saleem on Tuesday. The committee chair expressed dissatisfaction with the lack of arms licences being issued to parliamentarians, prompting Naqvi’s response. The minister also directed the interior secretary to look into complaints regarding the performance of the DG Passports. The committee discussed security concerns, with the minister agreeing that areas with poor law and order would see an increase in licence…

A kid poses for photos with panda decorations at a celebration event held in Victoria Park in Hong Kong, south China, July 1, 2025. Celebrations were held here to mark the 28th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to the motherland on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Chen Duo)Citizens pose for photos at a celebration event held in Victoria Park in Hong Kong, south China, July 1, 2025. Celebrations were held here to mark the 28th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to the motherland on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Chen Duo)A kid poses for photos with panda decorations at a celebration event held in Victoria Park in Hong…

Listen to article ISLAMABAD: A new polio case has been reported in the North Waziristan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, confirmed the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH) Islamabad on Tuesday. A 19-month-old boy from Union Council Miranshah-3, North Waziristan, has been confirmed as the eighth polio case from K-P this year. With this latest case, the total number of polio cases in Pakistan in 2025 now stands at 14, including eight from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, four from Sindh, and one each from Punjab and Gilgit-Baltistan. Polio is a highly infectious and incurable disease that can cause lifelong paralysis. The…

Disposable diapers are a massive environmental offender. Roughly 300,000 of them are sent to landfills or incinerated every minute, according to the World Economic Forum, and they take hundreds of years to decompose. It’s a $60 billion business.One alternative approach has been compostable diapers, which can be made out of wood pulp or bamboo. But composting services aren’t universally available and some of the products are less absorbent than normal nappies, critics say.A growing number of parents are also turning to cloth diapers, but they only make up about 20% of the U.S. market.ZymoChem is attacking the diaper problem from…

A person walks past a sign of the Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island, U.S., March 17, 2025. Brian Snyder | ReutersThe House Judiciary Committee issued subpoenas Tuesday to Brown University and the University of Pennsylvania, demanding additional documents from the schools as part of an ongoing probe into alleged antitrust violations in Ivy League tuition and financial aid policies.The two subpoenas mirrored one that was issued by the committee last week to Harvard University.Brown, Penn and Harvard are among a group of eight Ivy League universities that all received letters from the committee In April, demanding a huge tranche of…

Members of the Communist Party of China (CPC) review the Party admission oath beside the replica of a boat, now referred to as the Red Boat, on which CPC founders concluded their meeting in 1921, on Nanhu Lake in Jiaxing, east China’s Zhejiang Province, June 30, 2025. (Xinhua/Xu Yu)by Wang Meiqi, Yu Xiaohua, Zhao Xiuzhi, Zhu XibingBEIJING, July 1 (Xinhua) — Despite a packed schedule of exams and final papers at the end of the semester, Ling Jiajun still makes time every day to read online articles carried by Qiushi, a flagship magazine of the Communist Party of China (CPC),…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai addresses the crowd during Google’s annual I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California on May 20, 2025. Camille Cohen | AFP | Getty ImagesThe Google Doodle is Alphabet’s most valuable piece of real estate, and on Tuesday, the company used that space to promote “AI Mode,” its latest AI search product.Google’s Chrome browser landing pages and Google’s home page featured an animated image that, when clicked, leads users to AI Mode, the company’s latest search product. The doodle image also includes a share button.The promotion of AI Mode on the Google Doodle comes as the tech…

QUETTA: Balochistan government spokesperson Shahid Rind confirmed that a 16-year-old boy lost his life in a terrorist attack in Mastung district, while two India-backed terrorists were gunned down during a counter-operation carried out by security forces. According to Rind, the attackers targeted key government installations including the tehsil office, a local bank, and other administrative buildings. The assailants opened indiscriminate fire, killing the teenage student on the spot and leaving at least seven others injured. Security personnel from the Frontier Constabulary, Counter-Terrorism Department, and Levies Force responded promptly, sealing off the area and engaging the terrorists in an intense exchange…