RIYADH: Saudi Aramco has completed its acquisition of a 49 percent stake in artificial intelligence company Humain, formalising an agreement first announced in October 2025, in a transaction involving approximately SR9.9 billion ($2.6 billion) in cash contributions during 2026. The Public Investment Fund retains a 51 percent stake in Humain, while Aramco holds its interest through a wholly owned subsidiary. The transaction also involves Aramco contributing AI, computing and digital assets to th
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Huge win for Brighton at Manchester City.
Hürzeler was asked what is possible for Brighton this season. “The only thing we’re focused on is that we are in a big process, a process of analysing the game. Then try to prepare for Getafe [on Thursday], a big challenge.”
Brighton can be proud of victory here – and of being third. They are worth the lofty position and who would bet against Champions League qualification? They protected their lead admirably because City kept coming at them: City’s problem was the final touch or finish and not creating enough for the lethal Erling Haaland.
Indian opposition parties stage new protest against the elections chief
India’s opposition parties called for the elections chief’s resignation, leading to protests against Prime Minister Modi’s government. The event drew significant crowds and heightened security measures.
Strauss: An Alpine Symphony album review – monumental work’s mystic vision guides Petrenko
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Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic’s take on Strauss’s tone poem is full of darkness and light, with an impressionist’s eye for details
This is the third recording of Richard Strauss’s monumental tone poem to appear in the last year, and in some respects the most interesting. Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra adopt an expansive view, taking three minutes longer to clamber up and down the composer’s musical mountain than Edward Gardner or Nicholas Collon’s recent recordings. And yet nothing here seems to drag its feet.
The natural world through which the intrepid hikers pass may be the emphasis of the ascent, but it’s the mystic vision and elegy on the summit where the conductor’s focus lies – that and the uneasy darkness into which Strauss’s day of thrills and spills ultimately descends.
Rampant Salford hint that Beckham’s lofty ambitions are not a pipe dream
The aim of reaching the Championship looks more realistic for a Manchester club in the shadow of City and United
After seven seasons in League Two, Salford City are finally threatening to match the hype brought by their high-profile owners. First it was the Class of ‘92 who guided them up through the non-league system into the fourth tier but failed to progress any further. Gary Neville and David Beckham remain, part of a new group that took over in May 2025, with this year beginning to look transformational after securing an eighth straight win, against Exeter, to put them five points clear at the top.
The budget has increased, allowing the club to sign a number of players who will feel they are above League Two standard. Striker Macaulay Langstaff arrived from Millwall; the last time he played at this level, he scored 28 goals in a season for Notts County. Matchwinner Will Aimson spent the past two seasons in the division above with Wigan and has dropped down because of Salford’s project.
Dafne Keen and Harriet Walter on working with Patrick Stewart: ‘I’ve never seen anyone so ecstatic’
The late actor’s co-stars in Logan and Anthony and Cleopatra remember dog impressions, marching band-conducting and a fervent belief in fun
I had the unbelievable privilege of working with Patrick when I was 11 [in Logan]. He was a man of extraordinary warmth, wit and generosity. He possessed that increasingly rare ability to make everyone around him feel as though they were being let in on something wonderful. To work alongside him was to be reminded, every day, of what it means to love what you do, and to share that love with others. He imparted lessons in a way that was so wise, you didn’t even realise you were being taught.
‘Progress takes time’: Stonewall CEO on turning down the heat on the trans debate
Leader is charting a course through troubled waters as a new survey finds trans people feel more pessimistic about social acceptance after combative decade
Transgender people fear social acceptance is going into reverse and some are retreating from public spaces, according to the first major analysis since last year’s supreme court ruling in the UK on the definition of a woman.
The Stonewall survey finds that while almost half of British LGBTQ+ people feel more accepted by society than a decade ago, 58% of trans+ people – and 75% of trans women – feel less so. Almost half of trans+ people now avoid certain bars and restaurants where they do not feel safe, 37% avoid single-sex spaces such as toilets and changing rooms, and 29% avoid exercise classes or sports teams. A striking 80% are pessimistic about the future of equality, in stark contrast to the net hope expressed when the same question was asked in 2017.
Qatari gas tanker struck in Gulf: state media
A Qatari liquefied natural gas tanker, Al Mayeda, was attacked in Gulf waters with unidentified objects. The incident is part of ongoing tensions involving Iran in the region.
WATCH: Unlawful haredi protests ramp up near IDF recruitment center in Kiryat Ono
The protesters also tried to intimidate the new recruits arriving at the base, police added.
Manurewa car wreckers fire: Emergency alert lifted as crews fight secondary blaze
Fire and Emergency say a second pile of cars has caught fire.