Brazil has fined Elon Musk’s companies after some users in the country were able to briefly access the social media platform X, despite a ban imposed last month. Brazilian users swarmed the site on Wednesday after X updated how its servers within the country were accessed. The platform’s restoration was unintended, the company said. Hours […]
One of Georgia’s most well-known transgender women has been killed in her home, a day after the country’s parliament passed a major anti-LGBT bill. Local officials say Kesaria Abramidze, 37, was stabbed to death in her flat in the capital, Tbilisi, on Wednesday. The interior ministry said it was investigating a “premeditated murder committed with […]
The Taiwanese government has said none of the components in thousands of pagers used by the armed group Hezbollah that exploded in Lebanon earlier this week were made on the island. Fragments of the pagers that blew up had labels which pointed to Taiwanese manufacturer Gold Apollo. But the firm denied making the devices used […]
Andrew Cooper, Butterfly Conservation The small tortoiseshell butterfly has suffered its worst year on record in the count A wildlife charity has declared a national “butterfly emergency” after its annual Big Butterfly Count recorded its lowest ever numbers. The count has been running for 14 years. This year’s poor results are partly down to the […]
Jason Brown Jason Brown was happy with the AI input into his holiday to Ireland When Jason Brown organised his summer holiday to Amsterdam and Ireland this year, he didn’t turn to a travel book or check out Instagram. Instead the founder of recruitment company People Movers consulted ChatGPT, Open AI’s generative artificial intelligence tool. […]
Israeli defence minister says Hezbollah to ‘pay an increasing price’ as group promises retaliation over device attacks. Israel has intensified attacks on southern Lebanon, launching dozens of air raids amid fears of a wider escalation in the region. Israeli warplanes targeted the towns of Mahmoudieh, Ksar al-Aroush and Birket Jabbour in the Jezzine area on […]
Guinea’s most wanted fugitive – a former senior military officer who escaped from prison last November – has been extradited from neighbouring Liberia, along with his son. Ex-Col Claude Pivi will now serve his life sentence after being convicted in absentia for his role in a massacre of opposition supporters at a stadium in the […]
BBC Pam Perceval-Maxwell say the repercussions of not getting eye treatment in a timely fashion was people may lose their sight earlier than otherwise A woman who relies on regular injections to preserve her sight said she worries each night she will wake up blind, because of delayed appointments. Pam Perceval-Maxwell is one of the […]
Surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents, the Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump, dances his way offstage. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The U.S. Secret Service is once again embroiled in controversy following a second apparent attempt on the life of former President Donald Trump. The agency came under […]
Interest rates are expected to be held at 5% by the Bank of England on Thursday. The decision at midday comes after it was revealed inflation, which measures the rate UK consumer prices are rising at, remained at 2.2% last month. The figure is just above the Bank’s 2% target, but its governor Andrew Bailey […]