Can Europe still afford its generous state pensions?
Rising numbers of older people across the continent are straining budgets and making for some difficult political decisions...
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Rising numbers of older people across the continent are straining budgets and making for some difficult political decisions...
A Hong Kong court has ordered the buildings authorities to reconsider the licence renewal application of a construction company linked to five workplace deaths across three accidents, ruling that offi...
How isolation, intransigence and desperate economic hardship provoked an upsurge of protest that brought the regime to the brink...
Two open letters are directed at Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. | Photo: Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images X is awash with nonconsensual sexual deepfakes that blatantly violate Apple's ...
Scars of a crackdown, which have brought anti-regime demonstrations to an end for now, are visible across Iran’s capital...
The new head of the International Bar Association (IBA) has said that the organisation will speak out if unjustified and illegal sanctions are imposed on legal professionals in Hong Kong. The remarks ...
A police complaint against one of Indonesia’s best-known comedians has reignited debate over satire, blasphemy and free expression in the world’s third-largest democracy. The case involves 46-year-old...
Bahram Salih, the new head of the UN's refugee agency says that he knows the pain of being ripped from all one knows. The former Iraqi president has just taken over the UNHCR and headed to Kakuma refu...
The author moved from the US to Wales 15 years ago. Courtesy of the author Moving overseas meant living far from my mom for most of my adult life. Staying close across an ocean takes effort, grief, an...
Chiechi and her husband. Marissa Chiechi/ Carrie McGuire Life-long Californian, Marissa Chiechi, moved from Los Angeles to Alexandria, Virginia, in 2023. Chiechi relocated for her then-boyfriend, now ...
As an initiative redistributes a bumper surplus of spuds, here's a look at the Germans' great love affair with the potato....
Cut off from the outside world, Iran has been convulsed by some of the worst violence since the 1979 Islamic revolution...
Eryn Bostwick, 37, is delaying having kids because of her student loan debt. Courtesy of Eryn Bostwick Eryn Bostwick, 37, is postponing having kids due to her student-loan debt. As a first-generation ...
Kruthika Jayatheertha Kruthika Jayatheertha Kruthika Jayatheertha left her Microsoft job to take an extended career break after maternity leave. She believes being present during her child's early yea...
A cartoon by the French satirical weekly portraying the deadly fire in Crans-Montana as the "comedy of the year" provokes disgust....
A social media account called "Raise the Colours Operation France" late last year posted videos of far-right activists on France's northern coastline....
OpenAI now uses behavioral signals to identify accounts likely belonging to minors and automatically apply content limits, while experts warn of errors and bias....
Guterres also used his wide-ranging remarks to urge action against the abuse of artificial intelligence and to call for efforts to fight inequality....
The UK is weighing an Australia‑style ban on social media for under‑16s, as regulators ramp up enforcement of the Online Safety Act....
A Chinese phone application called “dead or alive” that helps users check in daily has become a top-ranked app, reflecting the trend of solo living among the country’s young people. The Sileme app, or...