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Children pulled from mud as hundreds die in severe flooding in Afghanistan

Three bewildered children sit on the roof of a mosque in Baghlan province, northern Afghanistan, their eyes blinking away mud ...

Putin replaces Russia’s defense minister with a civilian, citing rising military spending and need for innovation

Russian President Vladimir Putin has replaced his defense minister Sergei Shoigu with a civilian, Andrey Belousov, citing the country’s rising military ...

With a surprise cross-border attack, Russia ruthlessly exposes Ukraine’s weaknesses

For Ukraine, May is turning out to be the cruellest month. The town of Vovchansk in the northern Kharkiv region, liberated from Russian ...

GPT-4o: OpenAI to begin rollout of latest version of artificial intelligence chatbot

The new version of the ChatGPT AI chatbot has been unveiled and offers near-instant results across text, vision and audio, ...

‘Disgust factor’ must be overcome if planet-friendly insect food to become mainstream

The “disgust factor” must be overcome if insect-based foods are to become mainstream, according to a study. Insects can be ...

Obesity drug shows significant weight loss for at least four years, with fewer serious events, study finds

The largest and longest study of the obesity drug Wegovy has shown people maintain significant weight loss for at least ...

Deepfakes and influencers: The digital election in India

Divyendra Jadoun is proud of his professional alias: the Indian Deepfaker.  “I know we do deepfakes,” he tells Sky News. ...

Doctor still cancer-free almost a year after incurable brain tumour diagnosis – thanks to his own pioneering treatment

An Australian doctor who applied his own pioneering research on melanoma to the incurable brain cancer he was diagnosed with ...

Infected blood scandal: Experimented on and exploited – the Treloar’s School pupils who ‘lost everything’

Returning to Treloar’s School brings back many bittersweet memories for Gary Webster, Steve Nicholls, Richard Warwick and Ade Goodyear. This ...

Man who crashed U-Haul near White House pleads guilty

A St. Louis-area man who crashed his rented U-Haul truck into Lafayette Square last year, with the apparent intention of ...