Around 5.8 million refugee children did not attend school in 2025, according to the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR, leaving 44 per cent of the world’s 13.2 million school-age refugee children without
A remarkable archaeological discovery in Austria is forcing a reassessment of the scale of Iron Age iron production and trade in Central Europe. The findings, reported in Antiquity, the international, peer-reviewed journal
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When Krisca, an international student in east China’s Shandong Province, stepped out of a taxi, she didn’t realize she had left her bag behind. Moments later, panic set in—her passport was inside,
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When Jordan Seow joined OpenAI in June 2025, he became the company’s first locally hired forward-deployed engineer in Asia-Pacific. At the time, the company’s Singapore office had fewer than 20 employees. The
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US President Donald Trump has announced plans to establish an “AI Force” to oversee artificial intelligence, signalling a possible shift towards greater government supervision of a technology whose rapid development he has
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Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD will immediately recall more than 180,000 cars to address a manufacturing defect affecting a brake pedal component, China’s market regulator said on Friday. The recall covers 183,211
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Volkswagen is recalling 208,724 vehicles in the United States because of a faulty steering rack bolt that could break and result in a loss of steering control, the US National Highway Traffic
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At 14, Sabrina González Pasterski built her own aircraft and learned to fly it. At 22, she wrote a paper on gravitational memory and black holes that was subsequently cited by Stephen
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Australia is set to tighten migration rules, including restricting international students from bringing partners and children with them, as the government moves to reduce net overseas migration amid growing political pressure over
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For two centuries, mathematicians have struggled with a deceptively simple question: can the equations that describe the movement of fluids suddenly break down? Now, according to reporting by New Scientist, OpenAI says
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The research team recovered 8173 arthropod remains, of which 8082 could be taxonomically identified, representing a minimum number of 5792 individuals. The remains included species associated with human decomposition as well as
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The Government of Fiji has declared a national emergency to address a rapid increase in HIV infections, seeking to contain the virus and protect public health. The health crisis, first evident in
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Chinese researchers have developed what they describe as the world’s smallest CT scanner, a portable machine weighing just 6kg (13.2lbs) and designed to produce detailed images of small fossils, archaeological relics and
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Europe risks becoming dangerously dependent on foreign AI, threatening its economic independence, security and geopolitical influence. The warning is that decisions made now could determine whether Europe helps shape the future of
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Bill Gates has spent much of his life at the centre of technological change. Since co-founding Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975, he has witnessed — and helped shape — the rise
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A co-founder of Anthropic has called for companies developing artificial intelligence to be legally required to provide a mechanism capable of shutting down AI systems, as concerns grow over the potential risks
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