Silvery balls spotted hovering in the skies above Tartu are blimp drones being used as part of a demonstration event, Maaleht reported.

Minister of Education and Research Kristina Kallas (Eesti 200) says high school admissions should run more smoothly next spring under a unified schedule and revamped system.

The Reform Party has decided that Erkki Keldo will become the new minister of climate and energy, while Liina Vahtras will become minister of economic affairs and communications.

The president often has to choose between doing their job and dodging MPs' displeasure, President Alar Karis said in his last speech opening the fall session of the Riigikogu.

Minister of Education and Research Kristina Kallas (Eesti 200) says high school admissions should run more smoothly next spring under a unified schedule and revamped system.

Over 60 percent of young people left without a school place hail from Russian-language basic schools and could not enter vocational school due to virtually nonexistent Estonian skills, Education Minister Kristina Kallas said.

Tšiili ralli oli jaapanlasele Takamoto Katsutale teine ​​järjestikune ebaõnnestunud võidusõit MM-sarjas.

Tartu südalinnas Küüni tänaval on praegu hulgaliselt päästeautosid, tuletõrjujad otsivad GMP Plaza ärihoone katusekonstruktsioonide vahelt tulekoldeid. Keegi hetkel ohus ei ole, kinnitas päästeameti pressiesindaja.

The Danish prime minister has accused Russia of "reckless" behaviour, while the Kremlin is yet to comment.

Trains were cancelled or delayed on Tuesday after objects were found on tracks at multiple locations.

The effective interest rate on US government bonds over 10 years, known as the 10-year Treasury yield, has risen as high as 5.04% but has eased back since.

The rise has reignited the debate about the state pension's long-term affordability and generational fairness.

The first five months of the Iran war cost the U.S. $38 billion, according to Congress’ nonpartisan scorekeeper, the most comprehensive look at the extended military conflict ahead of the midterm elections. The Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday that the conflict — which has cost more than half of the Trump administration’s total war spending request — would reach about $2 billion to $3 billion a month. The agency also confirmed that the war has depleted U.S. weapons stockpiles, including critical interceptors for air defenses. The independent estimate — the latest to reflect the financial ramifications of the war on taxpayers — will likely add to the political firestorm over the conflict as November elections near.

President Donald Trump called AI concerns a “hoax.” One of the country’s leading AI companies said Tuesday it’s hoping Washington will still act. OpenAI, which this weekend called for federal safety measures alongside its rival Anthropic, said it spent the beginning of the week meeting with members of both parties to discuss legislation that would rein in AI developers as warnings of impending doom, job loss and massive cyberattacks become increasingly prevalent. Models are developing at breakneck speed and agents are acting in ways that engineers are struggling to predict or control. Even as there have long been calls for regulation, recent hacks of companies such as Hugging Face have engendered fresh waves of concern that the technology is reaching a point in which it is capable of causing serious harm. “We have certainly conveyed that really over the last month that capabilities are in a different place, and as a result of those capabilities being in a different place, we do feel like there needs to be an urgency to this,” Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer, said the company told the White House. That neither the president, the House speaker or the Senate majority leader seem particularly enthused by the idea should not be cause for alarm, Lehane said. “The way policy works in this town is you push, you push, you push, and then when it gets there, you can sort of leap through the window. The window is open. Now we need to go through the window,” Lehane said. “There’s a phrase in basketball, right? You want to hang around the rim so that you can take the ball, and like there’s a bit of that right now.” On Tuesday, OpenAI endorsed a bipartisan House plan that would require top AI companies to embed outside evaluators who would hold them to safety standards. Companies including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google have also been meeting with each other to discuss a private sector-led standards body that would function similar to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority for the financial industry. An executive order that would have created such a body has support inside the White House but Trump has demurred following a phone call during which Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expressed concerns about the plan. And Trump, in a series of increasingly adamant social media posts on Monday, made clear that he is not concerned that industry is developing technology it might not be able to control. In fact, calls from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI for more regulation have been viewed skeptically by Trump and Vice President JD Vance. “The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades! The Trump Administration has stopped AI ‘people’ from doing bad, or potentially bad, ‘things,’ like Dario (Anthropic!), who is now pretending to be a ‘perfect little angel’ – and we will continue to do so!” Trump posted on social media on Monday. Trump insists the only concern is not allowing China to race ahead. “There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China. WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS! We are leading China, and all others, and will continue to do so,” Trump said. While Anthropic has frequently tussled with the administration, including over how the Pentagon should use AI on the battlefield, OpenAI frames its relationship with the administration as pragmatic, Lehane said. Altman recently met with the president at the midterm convention in Dallas. While it’s unlikely that legislation will pass before the midterms, Lehane said, he remains hopeful that bipartisan consensus on regulating AI could grease the wheels with the White House. “I think if we get to a place where there’s real, you know, bipartisan support, I think that would certainly create momentum in terms of how people are looking at the need to do this,” he said.

Sanju Samson's half century helps India seal three-match series with wins in first two games.

Red Sea disruptions impact Egypt’s economy, with Suez Canal revenues dropping by $7bn in two years.

Robert Garcia expresses concern over ‘any possible foreign entanglement’ between White House and Umar KremlevRobert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House oversight committee, is investigating potential ties between the White House and a Russian oligarch who paid for a portion of Donald Trump Jr’s wedding.In a letter sent to Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, on Monday, Garcia expressed concern about “any possible foreign entanglement” between the president’s son and the oligarch, Umar Kremlev. Garcia asked Wiles to provide documents, records and communications between the White House and Trump Jr about Kremlev, among other requests. Continue reading...

Ursula von der Leyen says incidents ‘part of broader pattern of Russian aggression and provocation against Europe’A Russian warship fired two emergency flares at a Danish helicopter in the Baltic Sea and an Italian Nato fighter jet shot down a drone carrying an explosive device over Lithuania in what the EU described as “reckless and dangerous” Russian behaviour.Poland also scrambled fighter jets “due to the activity of Russian jet-powered unmanned aerial vehicles conducting strikes on Ukrainian territory”, the day after Polish security forces retrieved a suspected Russian drone adrift in its waters. Continue reading...

Dan Thomas said that while he had been ‘released without charge’, he was standing down due to ‘personal reasons’

Move by UK government risks adding to other challenges facing embattled sector, warns ruling Scottish National Party