Spain’s government has declared a national emergency after wildfires forced the evacuation of some 10,000 people in the central region of Madrid, while in southern France tens of thousands fled their homes to escape two major blazes. The national emergency in Spain means that the nation’s interior ministry, which controls police and security forces, has […]
Continue ReadingFlooding in India’s north-eastern state of Assam has killed at least 50 people and displaced 700,000 after days of heavy monsoon rain that overflowed the Brahmaputra River, officials said. The river, one of Asia’s largest that originates in the Tibet region and flows about 560 miles through Assam, flooded villages, swept away homes and forced […]
Continue ReadingA huge, stray piece of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, travelling at about 8,700km/h, is expected to crash into the moon in August and leave a crater on the lunar surface. The upper stage booster launched in January 2025, carrying lunar landers from Firefly Aerospace and Japanese company ispace, was supposed to burn up in […]
Continue ReadingA South Korean court has ordered billionaire SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won to pay his ex-wife 944 billion won (£485 million) in a case that the national media dubbed the “divorce of the century”. The Seoul High Court’s ruling came months after the Supreme Court ordered a further review by the appellate court of the […]
Continue ReadingSpain’s government has declared a national emergency after wildfires forced the evacuation of some 10,000 people in the central region of Madrid, while in southern France tens of thousands fled their homes to escape two major blazes. The national emergency in Spain means that the nation’s interior ministry, which controls police and security forces, has […]
Continue ReadingDonald Trump has suffered a setback in his $10 billion dollar defamation case against the BBC after a judge ruled the US president must turn over financial records sought by the broadcaster. The American leader’s legal team had attempted to block the move, claiming it was “premature, improper, and especially burdensome”. Trump is seeking substantial […]
Continue ReadingChatGPT maker OpenAI has said that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company on its own in what the firm called an “unprecedented cyber incident”. “We had a significant security incident during evaluation of our models,” OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said in a statement posted on social media. AI start-up Hugging Face […]
Continue ReadingA grandfather who was injured when he was rammed and thrown into the air by a bison has said hitting the ground was the worst part. Carl McDaniel, 65, suffered multiple bone fractures in the July 10 attack in Yellowstone national park but lived to tell the tale, as seen in a video he recorded […]
Continue ReadingRobbie Williams has responded after suffering a “deeply unprofessional” blunder during the World Cup. The 52-year-old British singer performed alongside Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger and Italian singer Laura Pausini during the closing ceremony of the football showpiece on Sunday night. However he also drew attention for an appearance on German TV channel Magenta Sport, where […]
Continue ReadingA relative of an executed opponent of the Nazis tried to remove a wreath from the far-right Alternative for Germany party at an event in Berlin marking the 82nd anniversary of a failed attempt to kill Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. Tobias Korenke, a great-nephew of Protestant pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, attempted to remove the […]
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