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...

EWF’s Maurice White dies at 74

LOS ANGELES – Maurice White, the founder of R&B funk band Earth, Wind & Fire, died in Los Angeles at age 74, a band...

Michigan emails show officials knew of Flint water disease risk

Emails between high-ranking Michigan state officials show they knew about an uptick in Legionnaires' disease and that it could be linked to problems with...

To silence propaganda, Iraq seeks to take Islamic State offline

DUBAI –Iraq is trying to persuade satellite firms to halt Internet services in areas under Islamic State's rule, seeking to deal a major blow...

Top airlines offer to re-assign crew from Zika-hit routes

Major US airlines United and Delta and Europe's Lufthansa  and Air France are offering to re-assign certain flight crew concerned about contracting the Zika...

First US Zika virus transmission reported, attributed to sex

AUSTIN, TEXAS – The first known case of Zika virus transmission in the United States was reported in Texas on Tuesday by local health...

Proposal unveiled to keep Britain in EU, sceptics unmoved

LONDON/BRUSSELS – European Council President Donald Tusk presented on Tuesday proposals for keeping Britain in the European Union to a mixed response, underlining the...