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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A young bear born to parents rescued from a Spanish circus will today undergo pioneering brain surgery. Boki, a two-year-old European brown bear, has been suffering seizures and vision problems for the last five months. MRI scans show he has hydrocephalus, a build up of fluid inside his skull that is putting pressure on his brain. It’s a condition that ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
US officials have confirmed they are considering breaking up Google’s “illegal monopoly” of internet searches. The tech giant could face restrictions on its own products – including its Chrome browser, Play Store and Android operating system, the US Justice Department said. It comes after a judge found in August the company had broken anti-trust laws to ensure its dominance of ...
Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday announced a plan for Medicare to cover long-term care services at home, a significant expansion of the program that would be aimed at helping tens of millions of Americans who are caring for aging parents. Harris’s announcement was designed to address the growing number of elderly Americans with serious medical needs who hope to ...