Ugandans voted in a tense national election on Thursday after an often violent campaign and internet shutdown, with President Yoweri Museveni seeking to extend his rule into a fifth decade. Museveni ...
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Former Corsican nationalist leader Alain Orsoni, who also served as the president of soccer club AC Ajaccio, was shot dead in Corsica on January 11 during his mother’s funeral. He was 71. Alain Orsoni...
A Chinese national suspected of running a Cambodia-based scam operation linked to the killing of a South Korean university student has been arrested during a raid on a luxury house in Thailand, author...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Iran’s current leadership may be nearing its end amid mass protests across the country. “If a regime can only stay in power through the use of violence, then it i...
US President Donald Trump is expected to get a briefing over sanction options against Iran, as Washington has been threatening to act against the country. But according to US newspaper Wall Street Jou...
Tobias Osborne, a Leibniz Universität Hannover physics professor, says AI apocalypse fears distract regulators and let companies evade accountability for real harms happening today. Yuichiro Chino/Get...
Home prices in mainland China continued to decline at a rapid pace in December, posing challenges for an economy that is struggling to find new growth drivers. New home prices fell 0.4 per cent month ...
Sen. Mark Kelly said his lawsuit is about fighting back on the Pentagon's crackdown on speech. Heather Diehl/Getty Images Senator Mark Kelly sued Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the Pentagon's spe...
As someone who lived there for a year, I know what to pack for a trip to Ireland. Hannah Kennedy As an American who spent a year living in Ireland , I've created a great packing list for visitors. To ...
Screens at the White House display AI-modified videos of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) that were shared on social media by President...
The United Kingdom has walked back plans to make its upcoming digital ID scheme a mandatory requirement for working adults. While the UK government remains "committed to mandatory digital right-to-wor...
Simon Sung, the CEO of Samsung Electronics Europe. Samsung Electronics Samsung has a very different AI strategy from the likes of OpenAI. The company develops AI for consumer products like kitchen app...
Mercedes-Benz is pausing the roll-out of Drive Pilot, an "eyes off" conditionally automated driving feature that was available in Europe and the US . As first reported by German publication Handelsbla...
The number of foreign students enrolling in US universities has declined Eduard Figueres/Getty Images Graduate international student enrollment in US colleges fell by 5.9% in fall 2025. The drop comes...
Peter Hoar, the Emmy-nominated director of The Last of Us , is working on a reboot of the British sci-fi cult classic Blake’s 7 . The new version of the story will be produced by Hoar’s new outlet, Mu...
British Airways announced a deal with Starlink in November. Courtesy of British Airways Lufthansa is the latest airline to sign up for Elon Musk's Starlink WiFi. 31 carriers have announced deals for t...
Jerome Powell, a particularly mild-mannered speaker, slammed recent attempts to intimidate his department. Li Yuanqing/Xinhua via Getty Images The DOJ is probing Jerome Powell over his congressional t...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is headed to Davos. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to call out President Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum. Newsom has been a vocal...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveils the Cybertruck at an event in 2019. FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images Things are not looking great for Elon Musk's Cybertruck. Tesla sold just over 20,000 of the "...