Saturday, April 27, 2024

World

US sets up board to advise on safe, secure use of AI

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The chief executives of OpenAI, Microsoft and Google are among the high-profile members of a new federal board created to advise the US government on the...

Britney Spears settles long-running legal dispute with estranged father

Britney Spears has reached a settlement with her estranged father more than two years after the court-orderd termination of...

Pelosi urges Gaza campus protesters to target Hamas as well as Israel

Nancy Pelosi, the former Speaker of the US House of Representatives, has urged protesters on college campuses to...

300 Nigerian inmates escape after suspected Islamist raid

Around 300 inmates are on the run after a suspected raid by Islamist Boko Haram militants on a...

815 hit by vomiting bug at Stuttgart spring festival

A norovirus outbreak at a festival in south-west Germany has affected more than 800 people. They caught the vomiting...

Family of Sandra Bland reaches $1.9 million settlement

AUSTIN, TEXAS – The family of a black motorist found hanged in her Texas jail cell after being held in police custody following a...

White Ohio police officer shoots black boy, 13, armed with BB gun

A white Ohio police officer responding to a robbery report shot to death a 13-year-old black boy after he pulled out what appeared to...

Obama says US ready to lift Myanmar sanctions after Suu Kyi’s visit

WASHINGTON – Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi called on Wednesday for the lifting of economic sanctions against her country and President Barack Obama, in...

Obama campaigns for sick Hillary

PHILADELPHIA – With Hillary Clinton sidelined by pneumonia, President Barack Obama took up the Democrats’ fight against Donald Trump on Tuesday, trying to quash...

Ex-PM Cameron resigns as an MP

Former Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday he was resigning from his seat in parliament to avoid becoming a distraction for his successor,...

Chinese gay activist challenges homosexuality ‘disorder’ textbooks

BEIJING – A gay Chinese student activist on Monday lodged a suit against the Ministry of Education over school textbooks describing homosexuality as a...

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