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 university degree is supposed to prove that someone has studied, researched and earned a place in the professional world. In Sri Lanka, that meaning is collapsing. The same culture that sees
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Oxford University has been accused of putting women’s safety at risk by withholding information about persistent sexual harassment allegations against a senior professor, Times UK reports. The university’s central administration allegedly refused
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Humanoid robots are approaching a point where they could become commercially useful, according to Chinese and U.S. companies that have unveiled plans in recent months to produce them at scale. As reported
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In 2015, world leaders made a landmark commitment to end epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other communicable diseases by 2030, and to achieve universal health coverage and equitable access to medicines
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OpenAI and Microsoft will face a jury trial after a U.S. judge rejected their efforts to dismiss Elon Musk’s lawsuit accusing the artificial intelligence startup of betraying its founding principles as a
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For more than a century and a half, the origins of birds have been dominated by a single, iconic fossil from Germany: Archaeopteryx. Long regarded as the first bird and a textbook
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A growing scandal over AI-generated sexual images on X has pushed women off the platform and drawn the attention of regulators on both sides of the Atlantic, as critics accuse the company
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A single mistake that was in a Grade 6 English textbook has ignited a huge firestorm in Sri Lanka. What should have been a straightforward quality control issue has instead become a
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A new study led by researchers at Imperial College London has found that same-sex sexual behaviour is a recurring feature of primate life, challenging the long-held notion that sex among animals is
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The UK government and regulators have launched an international row over Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, hosted on his social media platform X, after users were able to manipulate images to strip
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As mpox continues to trigger localized outbreaks in Africa and sporadic cases elsewhere, scientists warn that the virus is evolving in ways that could set the stage for another global surge. A
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A groundbreaking study mapping immune cells in more than 400 Chinese adults has uncovered critical differences in immune function between populations, offering new insights for personalized medicine and drug development. Published in
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As artificial intelligence continues its rapid evolution, 2026 promises to be a pivotal year, with Chinese AI models gaining unprecedented influence in Silicon Valley and regulatory tensions escalating in the United States.
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Ethiopia has launched construction of a $12.5 billion airport that officials say will be the largest aviation infrastructure project in Africa, marking a major expansion of the country’s ambitions as a continental
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Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI has limited the image generation functionality of its Grok chatbot on social media platform X to paying subscribers, following a surge of criticism over the tool’s use
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