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Is it safe to charge your phone overnight?

Melbourne, Sep 29 (Conversation) It’s bedtime. You set your alarm, notice your phone is down to 23% battery, plug it in beside the bed and go to sleep. By the morning, it’s been connected to the charger for some seven to eight hours – much longer than it needed to reach 100%, especially if it’s on a fast charger. You may have a vague recollection this could be bad for your phone’s battery. The chemistry that makes lithium-ion batteries rechargeable has a limited shelf life, and it’s shortened by repeated charge–discharge cycles. In the past, the advice has been simple:

In Islamabad, shipping containers on the streets signal a protest is imminent

ISLAMABAD, September 29, 2026 (AP) — It’s a familiar sight in Pakistan’s capital whenever a protest is expected: shipping containers lined up along streets or placed across key routes to restrict demonstrators’ movement and keep them from reaching sensitive areas. For residents, the steel barriers have become an unmistakable warning of what may follow: blocked streets, snarled traffic and long detours across Islamabad and neighboring Rawalpindi. The latest deployment came ahead of a march by supporters of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan demanding his release. Cranes have lifted red, blue and green containers from trucks and lowered them into

Do calorie‑restricted diets work? Or will I just re‑gain the weight?

Sydney, Sep 29 (Conversation) In the last few years, there’s been a lot of interest in calorie-restricted diets for weight loss. These can vary significantly, from intermittent fasting (where you restrict eating to a certain window of the day), alternate day fasting (where you consume limited or no calories on every other day) to the Fast 800 which promotes rapid weight loss by drastically reducing calories with the “Mediterranean diet”. The basic idea might seem obvious: reduce how much you eat, and you’ll theoretically lose weight. But are they healthy? And will you just put the weight back on if

CEC Gyanesh Kumar under pressure over alleged manipulation of electoral rolls

NEW DELHI, Sept 28 (Reuters) – Opposition groups are demanding the ​resignation of India’s election chief Gyanesh Kumar over allegations of widespread voter-list manipulation during the verification ‌of the country’s one billion voters. The calls come barely a month after US President Donald Trump praised Kumar, a former bureaucrat who took over as India’s chief election commissioner in February 2025, for insisting that Indian voters prove their identity with photo ID, ​unlike in the US. Criticism of Kumar, who has denied all allegations, soared last week when the Indian ​Express newspaper said his two de facto deputies had raised at

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