One woman made €9,000 (£7,650) from a single clip, according to BR, whose investigations found that a group of professional YouTubers from Ukraine and several people from Bavaria were behind the videos. At least 32,000 videos of women on the Teufelsrad have been in circulation, according to Munich-based daily Süddeutsche Zeitung. Some have apparently been […]
Continue ReadingHawaii’s famous Hōlei Sea Arch, a 90-foot-tall (27.4m) lava rock structure that formed about 550 years ago, has collapsed into the Pacific Ocean. The collapse’s exact time is not known. The arch was still projecting into the water from the coast of Volcanoes National Park on 23 September, but was gone by 27 September, the […]
Continue ReadingThere is a renewed debate about the death penalty after Christa Pike survived two execution attempts in Tennessee. So how widely used is the death penalty in the US? BBC Verify’s Jake Horton has looked into the facts and figures. Produced by Krystal Campos and Meiying Wu; Graphics by Mark Edwards and Leo Scutt-Richter
Continue ReadingThe Sindicato de Inquilinas (Tenants’ Union) activist association which has been co-ordinating protests, announced during the congressional debate that it was abandoning the tent protest in central Madrid. It said it wanted to “take the struggle to all the neighbourhoods, residential blocks and homes of Madrid, wherever there are rental increases, expulsions and abuses each […]
Continue ReadingAn Indian pilot who was attacked by his co-pilot on an Israel-bound Flydubai plane has received a call in his hospital bed from India PM Narendra Modi. Visibly emotional, Capt Smit Machchhar said he fought back because he could not allow everyone on the flight to die. He has been hailed a hero for opening […]
Continue ReadingOne of the most ominous findings is what researchers observed at measurement sites at the highest elevations, where temperatures are lowest and glaciers are typically snow-covered. Even as high as 3,500 metres above sea level, scientists found no snow remaining at the end of summer. “At some glaciers we’ve seen four metres of ice loss […]
Continue ReadingSouth Korea’s President Lee Jae Myung has threatened to take unspecified “further action” if Ukraine does not issue a public apology for revealing that two North Korean prisoners of war had been sent to the South. Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky made the disclosure to the UN general assembly last week, angering Seoul, who said the […]
Continue ReadingOpenAI has fired three researchers for allegedly mishandling information, including work that involved an external organisation that analyses artificial intelligence (AI) models. “Our investigation confirmed that these individuals mishandled sensitive information outside established company procedures, violating our policies and breaking the trust essential to our work,” a spokesperson told the BBC. The ChatGPT-maker did not […]
Continue ReadingGreece also feels threatened by a far bigger, immediate neighbour. It perceives Turkey as a “constant and significant danger to its national security and sovereignty”, Nick Malkoutzis, co-founder of political analysis website MacroPolis, tells me. In the past, the US mediated disputes between the two countries. Both are members of Nato. But under Donald Trump, […]
Continue ReadingTennessee death row inmate Christa Pike is in hospital after surviving two lethal injection attempts. According to Pike’s attorney, she is alive and “receiving life-saving medical care” in hospital. Tennesseean Governor Bill Lee says a review into what happened has been ordered and executions in the state have been halted for the rest of the […]
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