Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and his murderous regime were known for grandiose and reckless schemes, but few were as ambitious as a railway with gargantuan trains designed to link Germany with far-flung destinations. Streamlined luxury trains with a swimming pool and 196-seat cinema on board were to race to India, along with spartan carriages attached for slave labour.

Tehran criticized the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in strong terms on Monday for inaction after repeated US and Israeli attacks near Iran's sole nuclear power plant. In a letter to IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi, Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization chief Mohammad Eslami criticized him for failing to condemn the latest attack near the Bushehr nuclear power plant strongly enough.

Jan 13 () - Gene sequencing company Illumina on Tuesday introduced a dataset that maps genetic changes to help ​accelerate drug discovery through artificial intelligence. The company said ‌it was partnering with drugmakers AstraZeneca, Merck and Eli Lilly for its Billion ‌Cell Atlas, which will train advanced AI models at scale and advance research into fundamental disease mechanisms that have previously been out of reach.