The mountain section whose collapse triggered deadly floods in Nepal and China on August 26 experienced exceptionally high temperatures in the days before the disaster, according to meteorological data reconstructed and analysed
Silicon Valley has always excelled at selling a future that feels just around the corner, but the current AI boom has intensified that talent into a near-religious belief in a coming “digital
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India’s aviation regulator has imposed a record fine of $2.45 million on IndiGo, issued warnings to top executives and ordered the removal of a senior operations official after widespread flight cancellations last
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A Catalyst for Regional Transformation and Healing Introducing a school leadership program in Sri Lanka is a timely and transformative step toward empowering young learners in a region still recovering from the
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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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