China has successfully landed a reusable rocket for the first time in a major breakthrough for the country’s space programme, according to state media. The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation said the Long March 10B rocket lifted off from Hainan in southern China at 12:15 local time (04:15GMT) on Friday. Around six minutes after […]
Continue ReadingSouth Korean computer chip maker SK Hynix has raised $26.5bn (£19.8bn) in its New York share offering, marking the largest ever listing by a foreign firm in the US. The company, a key supplier to artificial intelligence (AI) chip giant Nvidia, said on Thursday that it had sold 177.9 million American depositary shares for $149 […]
Continue ReadingLeaving the Sea of Azov is not necessarily a guarantee of safety from Ukraine’s drone strikes. Ukraine’s general staff released footage on Wednesday of a naval drone attack on a sanctioned tanker called Blue. The onboard footage shows the unmanned vessel evading fire as it approaches the tanker, before the video cuts out as it […]
Continue ReadingShe is concerned, however, that it will be difficult for voters to coalesce around any new candidate in just three months. “The thing I’m the most worried about is we run somebody and he or she loses, and then we spend the next four years pointing fingers at whose fault that was,” she said. In […]
Continue ReadingThe Maine Democratic Party has announced it will select a new nominee at a convention held sometime in the next two weeks. Media reports indicate hundreds of delegates will weigh in on the choice. The party will have to tread carefully when nominating a replacement aligned with the policies that Platner successfully ran on, while […]
Continue ReadingIn a first-of-its-kind study from Australia’s Macquarie University, in collaboration with Southern Medical University in China, researchers observed bees showing “emotion-like behaviours” previously only seen in mammals. The BBC’s Australia reporter Lana Lam explains how their work suggests that bees might have a much richer inner life than ever thought before.
Continue ReadingThe ICC has been investigating allegations of war crimes in Darfur for more than 20 years since the previous round of violence in the 2000s. “What we see is patterns of offending that in fact were the same patterns of offending 20 years ago when this situation was first referred to us by the Security […]
Continue ReadingDavid and Ally have yet to receive official confirmation from authorities that Marcus is one of the allegedly trafficked babies. But the BBC has found clear signs, which have been shared with the couple. Going through court documents, we found Marcus’s full Indonesian name listed as one of the allegedly trafficked babies. One woman on […]
Continue ReadingMeanwhile, as the new AI boom takes hold, the tale of who gets to stay in San Francisco and who doesn’t is told by its residents. Two San Francisco families with school-aged children, who both asked for anonymity to protect their privacy, recently succeeded in buying move-in-ready single-family homes to meet their desperate needs for […]
Continue ReadingPublic health experts are warning the outbreak in Bangladesh is proof of the dangers of any interruption in vaccine coverage. Three hours outside of the capital Dhaka, we witness the consequences of the vaccine shortage. Mosammat Nila Akhter and her husband took their 10-month-old child, Maliha, to a clinic for her vaccine in February, but […]
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