“A second liberation.” This is how the new leader of Bangladesh’s interim government, Professor Muhammad Yunus, has described the historic events that are unfolding in the country. In recent weeks, after decades of autocratic rule, millions...
Plans to lift an electric-powered “flying taxi” over Paris during the Olympics have been scrapped because certification for its engine has not come through, its promoters said on Thursday. German manufacturer Volocopter has been conducting test...
From a small Algerian village, home of the boxer Imane Khelif at the centre of a gender eligibility row in the Paris Olympics, her father hailed the athlete as a “heroine”. Omar Khelif told AFP that...
Artificial intelligence has a sustainability problem and the solution, according to IBM’s former global head of AI, is a paradigm shift away from today’s large language models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 or Anthropic’s Claude. Tools like ChatGPT...
A jailed Kurdish leader and a Turkish writer on the other side of the bars have used their penpal exchanges to write one of Turkey’s highest-selling books. The crime novel “Duet in Purgatory”, which features a...
Student leaders in Bangladesh on Tuesday demanded Nobel winner Muhammad Yunus lead a caretaker government, a day after the military took control as mass demonstrations forced longtime ruler Sheikh Hasina to flee the country. Hasina, 76,...
TikTok will permanently remove a feature in a spinoff app in France and Spain that rewards users for watching and liking videos, bowing to pressure from European regulators, the EU and the Chinese-owned company said Monday. ...
Breaking, popularly called “breakdancing,” doesn’t require much—just some thumping beats and space to slide, collapse, jump and spin. That’s probably what turned the dance form, which emerged in New York’s Bronx borough in the 1970s, into...
One of the last chapters in Elon Musk’s six-year legal fight to save his $56 billion Tesla Inc. pay package unfolded Friday, as the world’s richest man made his final pitch to a judge that ruled the compensation deal...
Coca-Cola Co. said Friday it will pay $6 billion in back taxes and interest to the Internal Revenue Service while it appeals a final federal tax court decision in a case dating back 17 years. The Atlanta...
