The World Cup officially kicked off this week – but alongside the football, there are questions around heat, cost, the environmental impact and travel restrictions. The BBC Analysis Editor Ros Atkins takes a look at the challenges facing this year’s tournament.
Continue ReadingFootball fans gathered at a FIFA World Cup watch party at Niagara Falls for the Canadian and USA teams’ opening matches. The setup included a big screen and seats for the football fans from around the world, with a stunning backdrop of the falls, which fittingly straddles the border of the US and Canada. Canadian […]
Continue ReadingUS President Donald Trump became the first American president to skip a United States opening match at a Fifa World Cup. President Claudia Sheinbaum also did not attend the Mexico opener at Azteca Stadium on Thursday, and Prime Minister Mark Carney skipped the Canada opener in Toronto on Friday. The BBC’s Carl Nasman breaks down […]
Continue ReadingThe Pentagon has released four eyewitness videos as part of its drive to declassify documents related to unidentified flying objects (UFOs). The clips, which were sent to the FBI, show bright orbs moving in the sky. The government says they were all filmed in the same general area of the northeastern US, but it does […]
Continue ReadingTom Mueller was the first employee at SpaceX, a company he co-founded with Elon Musk in 2002. Now, more than two decades later, the company is about to make its public market debut, with an estimated worth of more than $1.8 trillion. The BBC’s Michelle Fleury spoke to Mueller about Musk’s vision.
Continue ReadingThe Haskell Free Library and Opera House, a landmark community building built deliberately across the US-Canada border in 1904 so neighbours could share books and performances, has opened a new Canada‑only entrance. It comes after the Trump administration halted the use of the library’s original cross‑border main door, located on the US side in Vermont. […]
Continue ReadingThe Indian Ocean site is “far beyond anything we had imagined”, one researcher says.
Continue ReadingBoth Fable and Mythos, which are essentially the same model but with different safeguards and levels of access in place, can work “unattended” on human commands that the tools are given for longer periods of time “than any previous Claude models.” Anthropic added.
Continue ReadingSomali referee Omar Artan says he was subjected to an 11-hour immigration interview before being denied entry to the United States for the World Cup despite holding the “right papers” and “right visa”. Artan, who was set to be the first Somali to referee at a World Cup finals, was dropped from the list of […]
Continue Reading“Unfortunately, it does not appear possible to fully satisfy the demand for fuel at the current moment,” the Kremlin-appointed regional head, Sergei Aksyonov, admitted on 5 June. Hundreds of buses, he said, would not be leaving depots due to shortages.
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