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...

Nanny who beheaded Russian girl cites revenge for Putin’s Syria strikes

MOSCOW – A woman who brandished the severed head of a four-year-old girl in her care outside a Moscow metro station has said she...

EU launches emergency refugee aid scheme for Greece

BRUSSELS – The European Union, faced with a burgeoning refugee crisis in Greece, launched a new aid program on Wednesday worth an initial 700...

Trump, Clinton capture key wins on Super Tuesday

Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton took big steps toward securing their parties' presidential nominations on Tuesday with a series of state-by-state victories,...

Bin Laden called for Americans to rise up over climate change

WASHINGTON – Osama bin Laden wrote a letter calling on the American people to help President Barack Obama fight "catastrophic" climate change and "save humanity",...

Mexico says 11 pregnant women infected with Zika

MEXICO CITY – Mexico has confirmed 11 pregnant women are infected with the Zika virus, out of a total of 121 cases, the government...

Trump, Clinton poised for big wins on Super Tuesday

WASHINGTON/AUGUSTA, GA – Front-runner Donald Trump is in position to take firm control of the Republican presidential race when 11 states vote on Tuesday,...