The UK’s seemingly endless supply of fresh fruit and vegetables may be heading for a difficult test. A powerful El Niño climate pattern developing in the tropical Pacific is threatening to disrupt
For nearly three weeks, Rosa Valentina Perez has remained in a bed at Cuba’s main cancer clinic, waiting for a CT scan that could determine whether the cancer she battled two years
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OpenAI has introduced a new version of ChatGPT designed specifically for the workplace, marking a significant shift in how the company envisions artificial intelligence being used in everyday professional life. Rather than
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The UN Human Rights Office has described the recent outbreak of deadly violence at a Sri Lanka jail in Negombo as “deeply alarming,” calling on authorities to establish the truth behind the
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A growing fleet of shadowy cargo vessels operating around Taiwan has drawn renewed scrutiny after a Financial Times investigation found that many ships placed on Taipei’s maritime security blacklist have links to
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US artificial intelligence companies OpenAI and Google have been supplying advanced AI services to Singapore-based subsidiaries of Chinese technology giants that have been placed on a Pentagon blacklist, raising fresh questions in
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo The deaths of prison officers and inmates during the violence at Negombo Remand Prison have taken a darker turn following postmortem findings that revealed several victims suffered
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The political legacy of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is shaping the country’s current position between the United States and China, highlighting the challenges facing Washington’s efforts to reduce Beijing’s influence in
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Tokyo-based agritech startup Plantx has opened a pilot facility featuring fully sealed vertical-farming systems, introducing what the company describes as the world’s first cultivation platform of its kind as Japan continues to
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OpenAI has been accused by several US news organizations of concealing and destroying evidence related to how ChatGPT was trained on copyrighted news content, as the legal battle over artificial intelligence and
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Meta will invest more than $9.1 billion (€8.4 billion) to build its first artificial intelligence data centre in Canada and its largest such facility outside the United States, with the project to
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Thousands of mourners gathered in Mashhad late into Thursday for the burial of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, with funeral ceremonies marked by calls for revenge and opposition to any compromise
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China has publicly disclosed details of a new generation of high-power microwave (HPM) weapons capable of producing outputs of up to 100 gigawatts, according to a paper published by defence scientists, marking
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Goldman Sachs has introduced new restrictions on employee participation in prediction markets, limiting betting activity to sports and entertainment categories as the Wall Street bank seeks to address compliance risks associated with
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Anti-immigration groups in South Africa have shifted their campaign from large public demonstrations to door-to-door neighborhood searches targeting suspected undocumented migrants, marking a new phase in protests that organizers say will continue
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Donald Trump’s second term has brought a familiar question back to the centre of American politics: how much can a president do before political or legal consequences follow? For now, Democrats remain
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