Tuesday, April 30, 2024

World

Elon Musk in China to discuss enabling full self driving

Elon Musk is visiting Beijing with media reports saying he aims to discuss enabling autonomous driving mode on Tesla cars in China. Mr Musk wants to enable Full Self Driving...

Harvey Weinstein hospitalised after conviction overturned

Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has been hospitalised just days after his 2020 rape conviction in New York...

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...

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...

Court to decide on rights to Happy Birthday song

NEW YORK – The copyright to the world's most popular song, Happy Birthday to You, has been in dispute for decades, but if an...

India introduces net neutrality, bars free Facebook internet

NEW DELHI – India introduced rules on Monday to prevent Internet service providers from having different pricing policies for accessing different parts of the...

Nine dead in German train crash

BAD AIBLING – Nine people were killed and more than 100 injured when two passenger trains collided head-on near a Bavarian spa town about...

Journalist killed in Guinea

CONAKRY – A journalist was shot and killed in Guinea on Friday during clashes between rival factions of the West African nation’s main opposition...

Italian student killed in Egypt criticised Cairo govt in articles

ROME – An Italian student found dead by a roadside in Cairo with cigarette burns and other signs of torture on his body had...

UN panel: WikiLeaks’ Assange should go free from embassy and be compensated

LONDON – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be allowed to go free from the Ecuadorian embassy in London and be awarded compensation for what...