Americas

Travel News

US drops COVID tests for passengers - for now

The US travel industry has welcomed the change as a "huge step forward."

13/06/2022

Tech News

Is Google’s AI bot sentient? Here’s why one engineer believes it is

Blake Lemoine shared transcripts of an "interview" he had with Google’s LaMDA language model, in which they discuss personhood, death - and Les Misérables.

13/06/2022

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Men riding horses take part in traditional festival Cavalhada in Brazil

Men riding horses take part in Cavalhada, a traditional festival held in Mateus Leme city, southeastern of Minas Gerais state.

13/06/2022

USA

Biden welcomes US gun control proposals after two mass shootings

If passed "it would be the most significant gun safety legislation to pass Congress in decades", said Biden

13/06/2022

World News

Justin Bieber reveals a rare disorder has paralysed half of his face

The Canadian superstar says a rare disorder that has paralysed his face is the reason behind his tour postponement.

11/06/2022

The Cube

Online posts falsely claim Trump gold card provides free food and gas

Multiple channels on Telegram have been falsely promoting the new gold Trump card as a guarantee for free food, electricity and even fuel.

11/06/2022

World

US Capitol riot 'was a Donald Trump-inspired attempted coup'

Trump, unapologetic, dismissed the investigation anew — and even declared on social media that 6 January "represented the greatest movement in the history of our country”.

10/06/2022

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Marilyn Monroe drag queens call on presidents to act on climate change

Drag queens dressed as Marilyn Monroe performed Thursday in Los Angeles on the sidelines of the Summit of the Americas to fight climate change.

10/06/2022

The Cube

Post falsely claims there are no school shootings in Israel

After calls for stricter gun control have sprung in the US, misleading posts have been circulating comparing gun ownership in Israel to America.

09/06/2022

Tech News

Twitter plans shareholder vote on Elon Musk sale

Elon Musk's lawyers have warned Twitter that he might walk away from the acquisition if the company fails to provide the data he seeks on spam and fake accounts.

09/06/2022

Climate

Why is this lake in America becoming an ‘environmental nuclear bomb’?

The lake has already shrunk by two-thirds since the 1980s, and will have deadly human and environmental impacts if it disappears.

09/06/2022

Earth News

Dom Phillips: Why is the Amazon rainforest dangerous for journalists?

British journalist Dom Phillips has been missing in the Amazon rainforest with his guide since Sunday - but there’s more to the story than you might think.

08/06/2022

Earth News

Is this the 'Chilean Chernobyl'? 75 people poisoned by sulphur dioxide

"We had a sulphur dioxide peak that exceeded five times the hourly norm," say authorities.

08/06/2022

USA

Watch: Oscar-winning actor pleads for stricter US gun control laws

McConaughey was born in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children died in a school shooting last month.

08/06/2022

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Migrants caravan continues its journey to the US border

A caravan of 4,000 to 5,000 migrants crossed southern Mexico on Tuesday in search of a visa to enter the United States.

08/06/2022

Health news

This experimental drug trial saw cancer vanish in every patient

The cancer patients saw their tumours disappear after the treatment, and have been cancer-free for two years.

07/06/2022

Earth News

Which city wants to ban crypto miners using fossil fuels?

Fossil fuel power plants currently provide energy to miners of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.

07/06/2022

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An abortion rights activist chains himself to the SCOTUS fence.

An abortion rights activist was arrested outside the Supreme Court on Monday after chaining himself to a fence.

07/06/2022

Tech News

Musk threatens to walk away from Twitter deal over fake accounts

The billionaire’s lawyers accuse Twitter of breaching its obligations by withholding data on its spam and fake accounts.

06/06/2022

Health news

Watch: Scientists 3D print and transplant an ear made of human cells

A woman has become the first person to receive a 3D-printed ear transplant made from her own cells grown in a lab.

04/06/2022

Tech News

Musk spooks markets with his ‘super bad feeling' about the economy

The billionaire entrepreneur has a "super bad feeling" about the economy, according to an email seen by Reuters.

03/06/2022

Art

Man who was "mad at his girl" smashes $5 million of art in US museum

21-year-old man Brian Hernandez told the police he was upset "at his girl" when he broke into the Dallas Museum of Art through a window and smashed millennia-old artworks valued at millions.

03/06/2022

USA

US president makes impassioned plea for ban on assault weapons

Ten days after 19 children and two teachers were massacred by a teenage gunman in Uvalde, Texas, US President Joe Biden has asked that "common sense" prevails in the debate on gun control legislation.

03/06/2022

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One of South America's largest cemeteries fumigated for dengue fever

Health brigades spray one of South America's largest cemeteries in Lima to eradicate the dengue-transmitting mosquito and collect larvae in an attempt to control a new outbreak of the endemic disease in Peru, which has killed about 30 people this year.

02/06/2022

Health news

Got a food allergy? You’re 50% less likely to get COVID, study finds

The US study also confirmed that being overweight or obese increases the risk of coronavirus infection.

02/06/2022

Work

Elon Musk to staff: Return to office or ‘pretend to work’ elsewhere

Neither Tesla nor Musk confirmed the leaked memo, but the CEO tweeted: “They should pretend to work somewhere else”.

02/06/2022