Initial investigations suggested the group of Russian mountaineers died “as a result of falling down a slope,” the embassy said. Officials added that they were in contact with the other members of the expedition and were assessing the feasibility of retrieving the bodies from the mountain for identification and repatriation. Dhaulagiri – which translates from Sanskrit to mean “White Mountain” ...
Mohammad Sultan, 28, said he and his family fled their house in Jabalya in northern Gaza “due to the intense and continuous bombardments in the area.” When he went back to retrieve food, water and blankets, he and other civilians were fired at, he said. Footage taken by Sultan during his journey shows residents walking along a sandy road, surrounded ...
A man has been charged for the rape and murder of a resident doctor during a night shift in India’s eastern city of Kolkata, a crime that ignited nationwide protests about the country’s pervasive problem with gender violence. The resident doctor’s body was found the following day with multiple injuries and signs of sexual assault in a seminar hall at ...
North Korea’s army said it will take the “substantial military step” of completely cutting off its territory from South Korea on Wednesday, after months of fortifying its heavily armed border. The announcement, which comes after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un scrapped a longstanding policy of seeking peaceful reunification with South Korea earlier this year, declared that remaining roads and railways connected to ...
Mourners wept and monks prayed at a cremation ceremony Tuesday in a small town in central Thailand for 23 young students and teachers who died in last week’s bus fire on a school field trip. A large cremation site was set up close to the temple in Lan Sak town whose compound hosts the school that was attended by the victims. Several ...
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has apologized after using an ableist slur to taunt political opponents in parliament. Albanese was speaking during question time on Tuesday when opposition lawmakers repeatedly interrupted him. “Have you got Tourette’s or something? You know, you just sit there, babble, babble, babble,” he said, before immediately adding: “I withdraw and apologize.” Albanese later returned to ...
The 2024 Nobel prize for physics has been awarded to two scientists who laid “the foundation” for artificial intelligence – although one of them recently warned the technology could be the end of humanity. John Hopfield from Princeton University and Geoffrey Hinton from the University of Toronto spent decades developing our knowledge of artificial neural networks, which are the basis ...
The unused cables and broken tech items you have tucked away at home could help steer the UK away from a copper crisis, according to new research. The research by campaign group Recycle Your Electricals (RYE) suggests the UK has 1.3 billion unused or binned electricals, including 627 million cables, which could hold the answer to the nation’s fast-approaching gap ...
The Draconid meteor shower will peak tonight, meaning stargazers have the best chance of seeing some of its shooting stars if the skies are clear. If the weather is cloudy, however, it should also be visible for the next two evenings. But with meteor showers appearing in the night sky all year long, how can you tell your Draconids from ...
Thirteen US states and Washington DC are suing TikTok over claims it is harming children’s mental health and not doing enough to protect them. The lawsuits allege the video-sharing app is designed to be addictive and keep teenagers glued to the screen. TikTok said the claims were “inaccurate and misleading” and pointed to features such as default screen time and ...