From toe-curling behaviour at the Winter Olympics to tech bros who can't bear to hold hands... Your weekly roundup of offbeat stories from around the world.

Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn—will be visible to the naked eye. Uranus and Neptune, being much farther away, will ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Even as bigger players retreat from certain Medicare Advantage (MA) markets, Alignment Healthcare is charting the course for future growth with a simple mantra: Focus on the senior. CEO ...

Few executives would disagree that strategic alignment—the careful arrangement of a company’s core value drivers, including its market strategy, capabilities, people, technologies, culture, structure, ...

An extraordinary and rare celestial event – an alignment of two distant planets and their star, predicted to take place on 1 April 2026 – will probably go unseen by humanity because astronomers have ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Signaling a move toward the next phase of change, leaders at the ...

The United States and like-minded democracies are engaged in a systemic competition for global leadership. They are pitted against an increasingly coordinated authoritarian club that includes Iran, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bruce Japsen writes about healthcare business and policy. Alignment Healthcare Thursday reported its second consecutive profitable ...

If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably had this very scenario pop-up on the golf course — and it’s infuriating as hell when it happens. You take some practice swings, identify a general area ...

Plans to reach nearly 8.3 million Medicare-eligible adults across five states during annual enrollment period, Oct. 15-Dec. 7 ORANGE, Calif., Oct. 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alignment Health Plan, ...

A new center uses humor to point out the tangled web of those focused on making AI safe with AI companies themselves. A new center uses humor to point out the tangled web of those focused on making AI ...

Putters often spur emotional responses that sometimes echo the impression that wine connoisseurs reserve for their favorite varietals. That's not to say that these "feels" are an inconsequential ...