The world's most powerful militaries in 2023, ranked

Tech Insider
Pakistani military personnel stand beside a Shaheen III surface-to-surface ballistic missile during Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad, Pakistan, in March 2017.
Pakistani military personnel stand beside a Shaheen III surface-to-surface ballistic missile during Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad, Pakistan, in March 2017.

REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood

Recruitment officers in Ukraine are resorting to conscription raids on gyms and shopping centers: report

Tech Insider
A Ukrainian soldier putting a blue tape on another soldier's uniform in Kyiv
A Ukrainian soldier putting a blue tape on another soldier's uniform in Kyiv on March 21, 2022.

Getty Images

Somebody returned a copy of 'Beowulf' to a library 54 years after it was checked out. It would have accrued $1,000 in fines.

Tech Insider
A stock photo shows open books in a library.
A stock photo shows open books in a library.

Mitshu/Getty Images

A Russian paramilitary group opposed to Putin says it attacked a troop stronghold inside Russia's borders

Tech Insider
Service members with the Freedom of Russia Legion under the Ukrainian Army prepare to fire a mortar
Members of the Freedom of Russia Legion under the Ukrainian Army prepare to fire a mortar at a Russian military position, in Donetsk region, Ukraine, in March 2023.

REUTERS/Alex Babenko

Russia shot down yet another one of its prized fighter jets by mistake, Ukraine says

Tech Insider
Su-25
Russian SU 25 SM ground attack aircraft (ground) and MIG 29 jet fighters (taking off) attend a training session at Primorkso-Akhtarsk, Krasnodar region on March 26, 2015.

SERGEY VENYAVSKY

Florida GOP cut Christian Ziegler's salary to $1 and stripped him of his power after a rape allegation

Tech Insider : Politics
Florida GOP Chairman Christian Ziegler addresses attendees at the Republican Party of Florida Freedom Summit at the Gaylord Palms Resort in Kissimmee.
Florida GOP Chairman Christian Ziegler addresses attendees at the Republican Party of Florida Freedom Summit at the Gaylord Palms Resort in Kissimmee.

Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Mexican cartels are accessing a database used by the government to monitor their victims in real time: report

Tech Insider
Mexican police, billboard of cartel

ALFREDO ESTRELLA/Getty Images

US Navy fights off barrage of 14 drones in Red Sea fired from Yemen as 'global trade problem' looms

Tech Insider
Coast of the Red Sea Gulf of Eilat in Israel
Coast of the Red Sea Gulf of Eilat in Israel

vblinov

The deputy editor of newspaper favored by Putin was found dead in her apartment at 35, just a year after the paper's editor-in-chief died

Tech Insider
Russian men read a copy of the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper as they sit in a park in central Moscow August 22, 2000.
Russian men read a copy of the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper as they sit in a park in central Moscow August 22, 2000.

Alexander Natruskin/Reuters

Senate staffer fired after X-rated video appeared to show him having sex in famous Congress hearing room

Tech Insider : Politics
A Senate hearing room.
A Senate hearing room.

Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Subscribe to news-uk