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Intermittent Fasting: What the Trials Actually Show

A major Cochrane review of nearly 2,000 people found intermittent fasting barely beats ordinary dieting. Here is what the data really supports.

Mar 10, 2026

Ramadan Fasting and Metabolic Health: What Research Shows

Studies from recent Ramadan seasons tie dawn-to-dusk fasting to real metabolic gains, but the benefits depend heavily on what happens after iftar each night.

Apr 20, 2025

Sabudana Khichdi Is Fasting Food, Which Is Why It Is Made of Almost Nothing but Starch

Tapioca pearls, peanuts, potato and cumin. The dish exists because Hindu fasting rules exclude grains and most spices, and the constraint produced something people now eat on days they are not fasting at all.

Sep 4, 2026

The Conversation About Fasting With Diabetes Should Happen Two Months Before Ramadan, Not During It

The IDF and Diabetes and Ramadan International Alliance stratify patients into low, moderate and high risk, and updated the calculator for 2026. The assessment is meant to happen six to eight weeks ahead, which is when almost nobody books it.

Aug 3, 2026

Lifestyle

Swicy, Nostalgia and a Duck Comeback: What Fast Food Chains Are Actually Serving This Autumn

Taco Bell paired with Olivia Rodrigo for a pink Baja Blast, Chick-fil-A launched a chicken and waffle breakfast sandwich, and P.F. Chang's brought duck back after a decade. Chains are chasing sweet-and-spicy flavour and old favourites over pumpkin spice.

Sep 25, 2026

Heart Failure and Heart Attack Admissions Rose Faster Where US Cannabis Was Legalised, Study Reports

A BMJ Open analysis of 50 million hospital discharges found faster yearly rises in heart failure, heart attack and atrial fibrillation admissions in the Western states. It cannot show cause.

Oct 23, 2026

Webb and MeerKAT Find the Most Distant Fast Radio Burst Yet, From a Small Galaxy About 11 Billion Years Back

FRB 20240304B was caught by South Africa's MeerKAT and its host found by Webb. The galaxy is a surprise, a young dwarf far lighter than expected, and it favours magnetars over mergers.

Oct 9, 2026

Swangy Tamarind Glazed Chicken Wings for the Flavour Replacing Swicy on Fast Food Menus

Burger King's new Special Savory Sauce launched 1 September and was already being called swangy, sweet, tangy and a touch spicy, in a roundup two days later. This home version glazes wings in the same tamarind-and-BBQ direction.

Sep 29, 2026

Anthropic Released Claude Sonnet 5.5, a Faster Model It Says Costs Less to Run Than Its Predecessor

The new mid-tier model runs more than 30 percent faster while using significantly fewer tokens than Sonnet 5, keeps the same per-token pricing, and is the first Sonnet model to carry the cyber safeguards Anthropic had reserved for Opus.

Sep 29, 2026

Astronomers Say a Pulsar's Odd Slowdown Is Explained by a Hidden Sunlike Star, Making It a Rare Stellar Trio

China's FAST radio telescope tracked the millisecond pulsar for nearly five years. A distant star's pull seems to account for much of why it appeared to spin down so fast.

Oct 21, 2026

Kuwait's 5G-Advanced Roadmap Looks Beyond Faster Phone Downloads

Kuwait's telecom regulator is linking 5G-Advanced, AI, cloud services and local skills in a new digital transformation framework.

Jul 29, 2026

Tigst Assefa Runs the Third-Fastest Marathon in History in Berlin, Then Limps Home Short of the World Record

Assefa won in a course-record 2:11:04 while on world-record pace for most of the race, Guye Adola took the men's title in 2:02:50, and Ethiopia swept both elite races on Sunday.

Sep 28, 2026

Intermittent Fasting Works About as Well as Eating Less, Because in the Trials That Is What It Turned Out to Be

Three randomised trials put time-restricted eating against ordinary calorie control or against nothing. The eating window on its own did little. Combined with eating less, it did what eating less does. What that means for anyone considering it.

Sep 6, 2026

Brewers Beat Rays 3-2 in World Series Game 1 as Misiorowski Throws the Fastest Pitch in Series History

Milwaukee led from the first inning, then needed a video review and a final strikeout to hold off a late Tampa Bay rally in the opener of a series neither club has ever won.

Oct 24, 2026

Matcha is taking over your local cafe faster than coffee

Gen Z made matcha aesthetic, brands made it accessible, and now supply can't keep up. What happens when a trend grows too fast.

Sep 30, 2024

BMJ Analysis Warns Fast-Growing Private Testosterone Prescribing Could Land on the NHS

Two UK clinicians say subscription clinics may be treating vague symptoms and borderline blood tests, leaving the health service to monitor patients it never diagnosed.

Oct 14, 2026

Emaar's Founder Expects Dubai Property to Give Back Five to Ten Per Cent, and Says It Could Turn Just as Fast

Mohamed Alabbar told the AIM Congress the Iran war is an extraordinary situation and the market will adjust. Emaar's cancellations rose from 700 to 1,000 a month in the conflict and fell to 550 after the ceasefire. The Abu Dhabi train arrives on 30 September.

Sep 10, 2026

Adults Over Forty Thought Twelve Per Cent Faster After a Month With an Air Purifier

A randomised crossover trial with a sham unit found the effect only in participants aged 40 and over. It is also a secondary outcome analysis, it ran for a month, and it had fewer than ten people over 60 in it.

Aug 31, 2026

Why Fast Weight Loss Is Not Evidence That a Diet Is Right

Every restrictive plan produces results in the first month, including plans that contradict each other completely. That is a fact about restriction, not about the theory attached to it.

Jun 30, 2026

Lifestyle

The Fastest Growing Thing in Nightlife Is a Room Where Your Phone Is Locked Away

Phone-free events have grown by 567 per cent globally since 2024 and by 913 per cent in the United States. The interesting part is not the abstinence. It is that people are paying for enforcement.

Aug 17, 2026

The Thirty-Year Treasury Has Held Above Five Per Cent for a Month, and the Two-Year Is Rising Faster

The long bond closed at 5.27 per cent on 1 and 2 September and has not been below five since July. The two-year has climbed from 4.17 to 4.39 in a week. What the Federal Reserve's own data shows, and why the shape of the move matters more than the level.

Sep 8, 2026

A Hundred Radio Flashes From Deep Space Have Given Astronomers a New Way to Weigh the Universe's Missing Matter

Fast radio bursts last a millisecond and arrive smeared by everything they pass through. Caltech's Kritti Sharma and Vikram Ravi used that smear from about a hundred of them to measure how clumpy the gas between galaxies is. It is smoother than anyone thought.

Sep 15, 2026

Just 3% of the World's Glaciers Account for Over Half of Glacier Ice Loss, Study Finds

Glaciers that end in lakes, oceans or ice shelves lost 134 billion tonnes a year from 2000 to 2019, and lake-ending ones lost ice about 57 percent faster for their size.

Oct 23, 2026

Sustainable fashion: progress report on a promise

After years of greenwashing, the secondhand market is growing 11x faster than retail. Real progress on sustainability exists, but the scale of waste remains sobering.

Sep 15, 2025

Why Gulf Diners Are Eating Differently This Year

Boycotts, tighter budgets and a longer war are reshaping where GCC consumers eat, and Western fast food chains are the ones feeling it hardest.

Sep 10, 2024

Design

Slow Design Is Killing the Flat Pack Refresh Cycle

Handmade ceramics, woven blinds and vintage frames are displacing furniture bought to last three years. Designers say the grey rental box interior is finally over.

Aug 4, 2026

OpenAI Launches GPT-6.1 Terra at Half the Price, Pitching It for Computer Use and Everyday Work

A cheaper, faster model arrives in ChatGPT Work, Codex and the API. OpenAI's own tests show big gains, but the error figures are internal and the company still sends hard coding elsewhere.

Oct 27, 2026

Whatever Happened to Tanghulu, the Candied Fruit Craze?

Sugar-glazed fruit skewers turned into a shop-opening frenzy across Korea in 2023, then collapsed almost as fast as the chains had multiplied.

Feb 5, 2026

Amazon Stock Slides After Hours Despite AWS Growing 39% as Free Cash Flow Turns to a $42 Billion Outflow

Record profit and the fastest cloud growth in almost five years were not enough, as a $77.3 billion quarter of spending and an earnings miss sent Amazon shares sharply lower in extended trading.

Oct 29, 2026

Microsoft Rises About 4% After Hours as Azure Grows 48% and Capital Spending Comes In Light

Microsoft disclosed Azure revenue in dollars for the first time, $33.17 billion, and guided to faster cloud growth in the fiscal second quarter.

Oct 28, 2026

Crypto

A Tokenized Stock Is Only as Good as the Rights Behind the Token

Tokenized securities promise faster settlement and wider access, but custody, redemption, voting rights and bankruptcy treatment determine what an investor actually owns.

Aug 2, 2026

Russell Tops the Only Practice in Singapore, Then Faces a Back-of-the-Grid Start With Antonelli 84 Points Clear

Mercedes' George Russell was fastest in the one hour of running before sprint qualifying, but a fresh engine sends him to the rear for Sunday while team-mate Kimi Antonelli eyes the title in Austin.

Oct 9, 2026

GPT-5 Is Here. Here's What Actually Changed for Users

OpenAI's long-awaited GPT-5 merges fast chat with deep reasoning into one system, and the rollout has already been messier than the launch-day pitch.

Aug 12, 2025

iPhone 15 Launch Date and New Features Leaks

According to some leaks, the iPhone 15 is the latest and greatest iPhone from Apple, and it’s packed with new features and updates that make it the best iPhone yet. An industry insider predicts that Apple’s much-awaited iPhone 15 series launch will be postponed until October, extending the smartphone release date past the customary early

Aug 21, 2023

Volkswagen's Electric Car Orders Overtook Petrol and Diesel Orders in Germany for the First Time

The shift, driven by the sold out ID. Polo, has been fast enough that Volkswagen is cancelling extra shifts at its Wolfsburg petrol car plant and adding shifts at its electric factories in Emden and Zwickau instead.

Sep 27, 2026

Fifteen Million Garments a Week Arrive in Ghana, and Forty Per Cent of the Country's Clothing Imports Become Waste

The donation bin is the end of the story for the person using it and the beginning of a long one for everybody else. What happens next is a functioning trade, a genuine livelihood, and a waste problem nobody exports a solution for.

Aug 20, 2026

Crypto

Stablecoins Are Becoming Payment Infrastructure With Bank-Like Questions

Stablecoins promise faster settlement and programmable money, but reserves, redemption, governance and operational resilience now matter more than hype.

Jul 28, 2026

Chicken Cheesesteak at Home: Seared Thigh, Sweet Onions and Melted White American on a Sesame Roll

Arby's put three chicken cheesesteaks on its menu on 12 October. This version takes 50 minutes, sears the chicken hot and fast, and keeps the cheese properly molten.

Oct 26, 2026

Saudi Healthcare’s Transformation Is Becoming Visible in Everyday Life

Better prevention, faster access and digitally connected care show how Vision 2030 can translate national reform into a healthier daily future.

Jul 28, 2026

Microsoft's Project Perception Turns Cybersecurity Into a Team of AI Agents

Microsoft is building specialized red, blue and green AI agents for security work, raising the promise of faster defense and the need for tighter control.

Jul 31, 2026

Nobody Counts What They Drink, Which Is Where Most of the Sugar Is

Liquid sugar arrives faster than any solid food, does almost nothing to make you feel full, and is invisible in the mental accounting people do about their diet. Four cups of sweet karak is a dessert nobody counted.

Aug 17, 2026

Vegetarian Middle Eastern Cooking Is Not a Compromise

Most of the Levantine repertoire was already meatless, because meat was expensive and fasting traditions are old. These are dishes designed to be eaten without meat, not adapted to be.

Aug 14, 2026

Somebody Actually Measured What Five Varieties of Dates Do to Blood Sugar, in the UAE, in People With Diabetes

Dates are sweet, so the assumption is that people with diabetes should avoid them. A study of Fara'd, Lulu, Bo ma'an, Dabbas and Khalas found low glycaemic indices and no significant glucose excursions in the diabetic group.

Aug 12, 2026

How to Stop Gulf Summers Destroying Your Clothes

Heat, sweat, hard water and relentless sun age a wardrobe faster than wear does. Most of the damage is preventable, and almost all of it comes down to washing habits rather than fabric choice.

Aug 12, 2026

Threads app: A New Era of Diverse and Interconnected Networks

OpenAI’s ChatGPT reached 100 million monthly users in just two months, but Threads surpasses it even faster. Threads app, the new social Meta app reached more than 100 million users organically a few days after its release. Threads app offers its users the ability

Aug 31, 2023

How to Travel Smarter on Points and Budgets in 2026

Points are getting devalued faster and fares are climbing. Here is how frugal travelers are still booking business class and cheap trips in 2026.

May 19, 2026

Paris 2024: The Olympics That Won the Whole Summer

Simone Biles returned, Noah Lyles ran the fastest hundred meters of his life, and the Seine became an Olympic stage. Paris delivered.

Aug 12, 2024

Birria Went From Tijuana Side Streets to Every Menu in America

The rich, red stewed meat that started as a Tijuana taco filling now shows up in ramen, quesadillas, and fast food chains coast to coast nationwide.

Sep 30, 2024

Where to Eat Plant-Based in Dubai and Abu Dhabi

A Michelin-starred vegetarian tasting menu, a food court burger stand, and the cafes in between: plant-based dining across Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

Aug 14, 2025

Bookings Are Back, Confidence Is Still Catching Up

Two months after Iran and Israel's war grounded Gulf flights, travel demand is rebuilding, though not evenly and not everywhere at once.

Aug 28, 2025

Altitude: What Happens to the Body Above 2,500 Metres and How to Climb Without Getting Ill

Fitness does not protect you and youth does not either. The only reliable defences are a slow ascent, sleeping lower than you climbed, and turning round at the first sign that the headache is not going away.

Dec 9, 2025

Beirut and Lebanon's Vegan and Plant-Forward Tables

Centuries of fasting cuisine gave Lebanon a plant-based head start. Here is where that history shows up on menus across Beirut today.

Mar 5, 2026

Fashion Brands Spent Years Fighting Resale. Now They Want to Run It

Secondhand is a 393 billion dollar market and roughly a tenth of all money spent on clothing. Zara, H&M, Levi's and others are building their own platforms to capture a trade they used to ignore.

Aug 17, 2026

Lifestyle

Houseplants Do Not Purify Your Air, and the Real Reason to Keep Them Is Better Than the Myth

A 1989 NASA experiment in sealed chambers became the most repeated claim in interior décor. In an actual room, ventilation removes pollutants far faster than plants can, and you would need an implausible indoor forest to compete.

Aug 21, 2026

Diving

Lung Squeeze: The Freediving Injury That Comes From Trying Too Hard

Coughing pink after a deep dive is not something to shrug off. Squeeze happens when tissue cannot keep up with pressure, and the usual causes are tension, forcing equalisation and pushing depth too fast.

Aug 13, 2026

The AI Cloud Is Splitting Into Specialized Machines

Microsoft's new AMD systems and Google's surging cloud backlog show why AI infrastructure is moving beyond a one-chip, one-workload model.

Jul 31, 2026

Sustainable Fashion: The Rise of Ethical and Eco-Friendly Clothing Brands

The fashion business has undergone a considerable transformation in recent years toward sustainability and ethical behavior. A new generation of ethical and eco-friendly clothing manufacturers has emerged as consumers become more aware of the effects of their wardrobe decisions on the environment. This blog post examines the emergence of sustainable fashion, emphasising the value of

May 29, 2023

How Claude Fable 5 Got Pulled, Then Came Back Three Weeks Later

A jailbreak report and a same-day export order took Claude Fable 5 offline for weeks, testing how fast a frontier AI company can lose and regain access.

Jul 1, 2026

NASA Ends the Swift Mission After Nearly 22 Years as Its Orbit Decays and Re-Entry Looms

Swift saw over 2,000 gamma-ray bursts and fed some 7,000 papers; drag from a more active Sun pulled it down to 275 km, where its telescopes could no longer hold steady, and NASA stopped science.

Oct 25, 2026