In an opulent ballroom on a Saturday night, the classic pump-up anthem “Eye of the Tiger” blared as artificial intelligence enthusiasts tapped away on their keyboards. This was a hackathon — an event where participants have a set amount of time to collaborate on a project they present to the crowd — at a sprawling […]
19 hours ago By Rachelle Krygier and Laura García, BBC Monitoring and BBC Mundo Getty Fighters belonging to breakaway groups associated with Colombia’s largest rebel movement are posting videos on TikTok to entice young people to join them. The BBC has investigated the growth of guerrilla “recruitment” videos, with dissident factions yet to agree to a peace […]
Please note that we are not authorised to provide any investment advice. The content on this page is for information purposes only. The Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), the regulatory authority of Switzerland, recently opened bankruptcy proceedings against FlowBank — a challenger bank in the investment banking space. According to the regulator, FlowBank saw serious, […]
8 hours ago By Luis Barrucho, BBC World Service Getty In 2018, Brazilian pensioner João sought medical help after he found a wart on his penis. “I started visiting medical clinics to find out what it was, but all the doctors told me it was due to excess skin and prescribed medication,” the 63-year-old recalls. Despite the […]
Macaque monkeys got on better with others in their social groups after a devastating hurricane, according to researchers. Researchers studied the impacts of a hurricane on a population of Rhesus macaques on an island off Puerto Rico. Temperatures are often around 40C so shade is a precious resource for macaques, since tree cover is still […]
Jun 21, 2024, 04:38 PM ET The next Africa Cup of Nations finals have been put back six months and will now be played from Dec. 21, 2025 to Jan. 18, 2026, the Confederation of African (CAF) football announced on Friday. The 2025 tournament in Morocco was supposed to take place in mid-year but has […]
8 hours ago By Laura Bicker, China correspondent Watch: US ‘focused on reducing conflict’ with China, ambassador tells the BBC’s Laura Bicker Washington and Beijing are talking more regularly to avoid a conflict in the South China Sea despite their “contentious and competitive” relationship, the United States ambassador to China has told the BBC. “Our militaries are […]
About 1,500 Tata Steel workers will begin an indefinite strike next month over the company’s plans to cut thousands of jobs, the trade union Unite has said. The move is the first time in more than 40 years that steel workers in the UK have taken strike action, the union added. About 2,800 Tata Steel […]
In a landmark ruling for gay rights campaigners, laws banning same-sex acts between men have been ruled unconstitutional in Namibia. Convictions for the colonial-era offences of “sodomy” and “unnatural sexual offences” were rare but fuelled discrimination against gay men who lived in fear of arrest. No laws exist prohibiting sex between between women in Namibia. […]
10 hours ago By Victoria Gill, @vic_gill, Science correspondent, BBC News Elodie Freymann The researchers observed the chimps to see what they sought out to eat Wild chimpanzees eat plants that have pain-relieving and anti-bacterial properties to heal themselves, according to scientists. They described their “detective work” in the forests of Uganda – observing animals that appeared injured […]