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View all →OpenAI says its review into hacks, including on Australian government sites, is costing $500,000 a day
OpenAI says its investigation into unauthorised access to government and research websites is costing the company more than $500,000 per day. The comp…
AI tool that copied actor’s ‘lustrous’ voice violated his rights, Tokyo court rules
A Tokyo court has ruled that an AI tool violated actor Kenjiro Tsuda's rights by cloning his voice for TikTok videos, marking a landmark legal decisio…
World
View all →Tigray rebel groups ‘forcibly recruiting boys as young as 15’ as fighting spreads
Fighting has reignited in Ethiopia's Tigray region after a ceasefire collapsed, with armed groups now forcibly recruiting boys as young as 15 to bolst…
Outcry in Trinidad and Tobago after passing of police bill that could threaten press freedom
Trinidad and Tobago's government passed the Special Operations Bill 2026 on 24 September, citing the need to combat rising crime and murder rates in t…
Argentina will stop Falklands exploiting offshore oilfields, foreign minister says
Argentina's foreign minister Pablo Quirno declared on Tuesday that his government would prevent the Falkland Islands from extracting offshore oil as p…
Health
View all →Kenya confirms first Ebola case as virus ‘surges’ in DR Congo province
Kenya reported its first-ever Ebola death on Tuesday, according to the country's health minister. The patient was a citizen who arrived from the Democ…
Lebanon: One in five children goes to bed hungry, says UNICEF
Lebanon's humanitarian crisis has deepened to the point where one in five children regularly goes to bed hungry, according to UNICEF. Four in five hou…
Environment
View all →Extreme heat warnings issued for parts of southern California
The National Weather Service issued extreme heat warnings for parts of southern California, including Los Angeles, through Thursday, with temperatures…
Worst ever outbreak of bluetongue hits British farms
Britain is experiencing its worst bluetongue outbreak on record, with case numbers already exceeding the total from the previous three years combined,…
May heatwaves, deaths, ruined harvests: study of Europe’s summer paints grim picture for the future
Europe's summer heat this year reached record-breaking intensity, with surface air temperatures in western Europe running 2.5 degrees Celsius above th…
Entertainment
View all →Sass Jordan, Canadian rock singer-songwriter, dies aged 65
Sass Jordan, a Canadian rock singer-songwriter who achieved prominence in the country's music scene during the 1990s, died on 2 October at age 65. No …
Daredevil Jaan Roose completes slackline walk high above central Seoul
Estonian aerial athlete Jaan Roose completed a 160-metre slackline walk suspended 120 metres above central Seoul on Thursday, according to The Guardia…
Mighty Sparrow, the Trinidad and Tobago singer known as the ‘calypso king of the world’, dies aged 91
Slinger Francisco, the Trinidad and Tobago musician who performed as the Mighty Sparrow, died Sunday in New York surrounded by family. He was 91. Fra…