Cambridge (US), Oct 1 (The Conversation) Elections around the world are facing an evolving threat from foreign actors, one that involves artificial intelligence. Countries trying to influence each other’s elections entered a new era in 2016, when the Russians launched a series of social media disinformation campaigns targeting the US presidential election. Over the next […]
HANGZHOU, China Oct 1 (Reuters) – An athletics official suffered a broken leg and serious bleeding after being hit by a misthrown hammer in the Asian Games in Hangzhou, but his vital signs are now stable, a spokesman for the games said on Sunday. Just before 8 p.m. (1200 GMT) on Saturday, Kuwait’s Ali Zankawi […]
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – U.S. automaker Tesla on Sunday released an updated version of its Model Y in China, with minor changes to the vehicle’s exterior and interior. The changes include a new wheel design, according to a post by Tesla’s official WeChat account. The starting price in China for the Model Y, the company’s global […]
Mohamed Muizzu during the election campaign. | Mohamed Tholal/Twitter Opposition candidate Mohamed Muizzu was elected next president of the Maldives on Saturday after he defeated the incumbent Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, in an election closely watched in India. Muizzu, the candidate of the Opposition alliance comprising the Progressive Party of Maldives and the People’s National Congress, […]
Breaking stereotypes In Mukherji’s world, the hypermasculine cop is not a solo traveller. If there are violent police officers with a propensity for third-degree torture inside lockups, there are also killers who like carving their names with knives on the foreheads of their victims. If his cinema is about superstars in search of a last hurrah or monks who were kings before, […]
An athletics official suffered a broken leg and serious bleeding after being hit by a misthrown hammer in the Asian Games in Hangzhou, but his vital signs are now stable, a spokesman for the games said on Sunday. Just before 8 p.m. (1200 GMT) on Saturday, Kuwait’s Ali Zankawi lined up for one of his […]
Ukraine war has once again brought focus to the loitering munitions, also known as the Kamikaze or suicide drones. The munitions are designed to arrive as the air defence radars that remain silent and transmit selectively for short in the general target area, wait passively, look for the target, identify and then attack. Loitering munitions […]
SHENZHEN, China, Sept. 30, 2023 /CNW/ — The 59th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) is set to take place from October 2nd to 6th, 2023, in Hamburg, Germany. Making its debut at this prestigious event, Shenzhen Sibionics Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “SIBIONICS”) will unveil its flagship […]
The changes include a new wheel design, according to a post by Tesla’s official WeChat account. The starting price in China for the Model Y, the company’s global best-seller, was unchanged at 263,900 yuan ($36,146). Tesla unveiled a restyled Model 3 with a longer driving range, manufactured at its Shanghai factory, in China and other […]
China’s lottery ticket sales in August soared to their highest for any month so far this year, amid public concern about the economy following months of mostly gloomy data including youth unemployment. Nationwide lottery ticket sales jumped 53.6% in August from a year earlier to 52.96 billion yuan ($7.25 billion), the official Xinhua news agency […]
With the latest iPhone now in people’s hands and Google’s annual Android flagship not far behind, it’s a pertinent time to release a film about the once iconic device that paved the way for both. BlackBerry hasn’t appeared alongside them on shop shelves for years, and any remaining devices were effectively killed off last January […]
Opinion The tall poppy who fixes government, makes it work and do things it otherwise could not, is the natural target for those who want to critique policy, without openly challenging it. Robert PotterCyber-security expert Oct 1, 2023 – 12.20pm When I first met Michael Pezzullo I was a reasonably small-business owner, full of ideas […]
Pro-China candidate Mohamed Muizzu won Saturday’s presidential election in the Maldives, a result set to once again upend the archipelago’s relationship with traditional partner India. Muizzu helms a party that presided over an influx of Chinese loans when it last held power in the atoll nation, better known for its luxury beach resorts and celebrity […]
Amanda Dixon was teaching second grade at Kings Center Charter School in Buffalo, New York, while her husband Solomon, 38, was running writing workshops at middle schools around New York state. The couple was working long hours to support their three young children, then 4, 2, and 1, when Amanda, 43, thought to herself, “I’m […]
Travel website Booking.com has left many hotel operators and other partners across the globe thousands of dollars out of pocket for months on end, blaming the lack of payment on a “technical issue”. The issue is widespread in Thailand, Indonesia and Europe among hoteliers who are venting their frustrations in Facebook groups as rumours swirl […]
It was not the first time in his long and eventful career that media mogul Jimmy Lai became the story, and it wouldn’t be the last. But it was certainly the most dramatic. On 10 August 2020, about 200 police officers frogmarched 72-year-old Lai out of the offices of his embattled newspaper, Apple Daily, as […]
AN IRISH adventurer has told how she tried out Ireland’s first and only alpine coaster. The alpine toboggan first came to Belfast’s Colin Glen adventure park in 2021. 2 An Irish adventurer tried out Belfast’s alpine coaster for the first timeCredit: pr handout 2 The alpine toboggan is in Colin Glen adventure parkCredit: Social Media […]
China’s lottery ticket sales in August soared to their highest for any month so far this year, amid public concern about the economy following months of mostly gloomy data including youth unemployment. Nationwide lottery ticket sales jumped 53.6% in August from a year earlier to 52.96 billion yuan ($7.25 billion), the official Xinhua news agency […]
Open this photo in gallery: The Belkin House in Vancouver on Sept. 28.Jimmy Jeong/The Globe and Mail After pleading guilty to his 11th random assault, Mohammed Majidpour was released from jail last month, on the condition that he stay at a downtown Vancouver homeless shelter. He had been in pretrial detention for nearly a year. […]
Aditya Thackeray first targeted Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s tour of the UK and Germany, which was initially scheduled for October 1-8, but was postponed on Tuesday. (PTI/File) Shiv Sena-UBT leader Aditya Thackeray claimed some of these foreign visits were cancelled after he highlighted them. He alleged that the government falsely cited droughts and floods as […]
Our reporter didn’t know about it either! Japan has a lot of delicious ice cream brands, but apparently there are even some our Japanese-language reporters have never heard of before. Take Viennetta, for example, which is a British multi-layered ice cream cake sold around the world. In Japan, it’s sold by popular sweets, dairy, and […]
George Stephenson and the Rocket steam locomotive at around the time of the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830). Photo by SSPL/National Railway Museum There’s a map doing the rounds on social media at the moment which shows the scale of Japan’s Shinkansen rail network: 2,800km of high-speed trains, a system so vast […]
The rules of austerity do not seem to apply to Pakistan’s interim prime minister, Anwaarul Haq Kakar, who visited the Eiffel Tower with his family in Paris while on his way to New York. While Pakistanis are being urged to drink less tea to save on imports, their prime minister dined at a restaurant on […]
Maria de Los Angeles tree is over 700 years old and is alive with the help of artificially created technology. Amit Mandal wrote that the most expensive tree in the world is a blindfolded tree located in Mexico City, Mexico. In a digital age where information seekers are perpetually intrigued by the world’s most exclusive […]
On Monday, striking Hollywood screen writers won a long battle for higher pay and job security. On Tuesday, Joe Biden – who describes himself as the most pro-union president in history – became the first United States premier to join a picket line, endorsing a landmark strike by members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) […]
Fisher Stevens was playing Succession’s most oleaginous lick-spittle when he got the call. Leonardo DiCaprio wanted him to direct a Netflix documentary about David Beckham. At first Stevens wasn’t interested; he was having too much fun playing Hugo Baker, slimy comms guy for the loathsome Logan dynasty. “I was like: ‘Nah.’ That’s going to be […]
The news that Destiny Equity have acquired a minority stake in Liverpool this week effectively brings to an end Fenway Sports Group’s long-running search for investment. It’s nearly a year now since it became public knowledge that FSG had created a sales brochure for any seriously interested parties while instructing two major banks in Goldman […]
Nayanthara and Vignesh Shivan are now also business partners. (Image: Instagram) Nayanthara’s skincare brand 9Skin was recently launched in Malaysia. Her husband Vignesh Shivan is her business partner for the line. Nayanthara and Vignesh Shivan are undoubtedly a power couple in the Tamil film industry, loved by fans for their unconditional support and appreciation for […]
