Within 72 hours of the start of the Paris Olympics, star Chinese swimmer Zhang Yufei had already climbed the champions’ podium twice. The former gold medalist won two bronzes as China fights to best rivals like the United States and Australia. But the wins for Zhang, dubbed China’s “butterfly stroke queen,” have come under scrutiny – both from her legions ...
A teenage boy has been charged with murder after three young girls were killed in a stabbing attack at a dance class in northwest England on Monday, British police said. Bebe King, 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and 9-year-old Alice Dasilva Aguiar were stabbed to death while attending a Taylor Swift-themed class in the town of Southport, in one of the ...
Israel will not be invited to this year’s peace ceremony commemorating the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki to promote a “peaceful and somber atmosphere” at the August 9 event, the city’s mayor told local media Wednesday. Both cities had been under pressure from activists and bomb survivor groups to exclude Israel due to its actions in Gaza, where tens of ...
The Israeli military said its fighter jets killed Hamas’ military chief in Gaza, Mohammed Deif, in a strike in Khan Younis last month, according to a statement released Thursday. Israel’s claim that Deif was killed came nearly three weeks after it carried out the strike. During that time, Israeli officials said they had indications their strike was successful but were not ...
US fast food giant Taco Bell is expanding the use of artificial intelligence to take orders at hundreds of its drive-thrus. The voice AI system – which interprets customers’ orders based on voice recognition – has been in development for more than two years. The Mexican-themed chain is already operating the system at more than 100 sites across 13 US ...
The firm at the centre of the global IT outage last month is being sued by some of its shareholders. Lawyers claim cyber security company CrowdStrike defrauded investors by concealing flaws with its software testing. It comes after a software update sent out by the firm caused more than eight million computers to crash on 19 July. The meltdown hit ...
Teenagers who have a problematic relationship with their smartphones are more likely to suffer from anxiety, depression and insomnia than those who do not, new research has found. Young people who said they had problematic smartphone use, a pattern of behaviours resembling addiction, were twice as likely to report symptoms of anxiety compared to those who did not, according to ...
A 3D model of Robert the Bruce has been unveiled to mark the 750th anniversary of the former king’s birth. The reconstruction was produced from a cast of his skull, with Historic Environment Scotland (HES) describing it as the “most realistic” ever made. Robert I, born on 11 July 1274, was King of Scots from 1306 to his death in ...
Dozens of workers at TikTok-owner ByteDance’s office in Singapore have fallen ill in a mass food poisoning incident. At least 60 people developed gastroenteritis symptoms – which include cramps, diarrhoea and vomiting – with 57 of them seeking hospital treatment. ByteDance told Sky News it is investigating the incident. Seventeen ambulances, fire engines, a mass decontamination vehicle and Singapore Civil Defence ...
PHOENIX — A top Republican election official in Arizona’s most populous county known for his vigorous defense of elections lost his primary election Tuesday to a state lawmaker who called elections in the county “a laughingstock.” Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, who faced death threats and endless harassment for doing his job, lost his reelection bid to state Rep. Justin ...