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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Wednesday called snap parliamentary elections for October 25. They are expected to be a key test of his right-wing populist Serbian Progressive Party after nearly two years of student-led anti-corruption protests.
A top Anthropic researcher says there's more than a 10% chance AI "could kill all humans," after a colleague resigned over similar concerns.
Construction activity has significantly increased at Iran's underground Pickaxe Mountain nuclear site this year. The United States is developing new weapons to target deeply buried facilities. President Trump has repeatedly threatened strikes on the heavily fortified Iranian location. The US military maintains operational plans for potential strikes against the site. This renewed scrutiny occu...
British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has defended the decision to ban trade with Israeli settlements in the West Bank
Spokesperson for Merz declines to give a reason for cancellation, but notes that it was not due to schedulingBack to Oslo, the funeral procession for King Harald is about the begin, and the 1.2km route to the Oslo Cathedral is lined up with 1,900 soldiers from all branches of the Norwegian defence forces.The procession is expected to walk very slowly – at around 60 steps per minute – and will incl...
Podcast is now on YouTube site of Mike Graham, fired from TalkTV after racist post appeared on his Facebook pageWhen Liz Truss launched her podcast last year, she declared it would bring a “counter-revolution” to take on the “deep state”, which, she said, “tried to destroy” her.The revolution, however, has not yet arrived. Truss, whose stint as UK prime minister abruptly ended after her disastrous...
Messi poised to become majority owner of a second club in Spain after the purchase of fifth-tier UE Cornella in April.
The Tetris Company says it takes "copyright infringement very seriously" and is not involved with the game.
The first-half shortfall has exceeded Qatar’s original full-year forecast. Doha has said cuts to operating spending exclude salaries and capital projects, while European gas buyers face delivery cancellations extending into early November as the Iran war postpones revenue.
A former industrial site now houses Uzbekistan's first permanent centre dedicated to contemporary art. Its opening exhibition brings together local and international artists, while partnerships with major museums extend its reach abroad.
France is co-hosting a major space summit with Germany this week, as Europe finds itself at a strategic crossroads.
A family court has granted a man a personal protection order (PPO) against his wife, who had abused him emotionally or psychologically with text messages about him having sex with his sister. The court found that the sending of fake images and videos of the husband and his sister engaging in sexual acts, generated by artificial intelligence, amounted to family violence. The man had sought the PPO ...
South Australia has sunk the 40-metre MV Andrew Wilson six kilometres off Brighton to create an artificial reef. The vessel now rests 20 metres underwater and forms part of a $165 million algal-bloom recovery effort. Fishing is banned within 200 metres of the wreck for 12 months to help local fish stocks recover.
Thousands line streets of Norway's capital as King Harald V is laid to rest during service attended by world leaders.
Digital bank ZA Bank is taking 45,000 square feet (4,181 square metres) across four upper floors at Hysan Development’s Lee Garden Eight for its new headquarters, adding to a wave of financial and technology companies reshaping Causeway Bay’s commercial landscape. The move comes as landlords across the district grapple with a changing property market marked by excess office space. The bank is sche...
France is co-hosting a major space summit with Germany this week, as Europe finds itself at a strategic crossroads.
Almost 100 anti-war activists protested on Wednesday outside the Sejong Centre in Seoul.
Friedrich Merz says Alternative für Deutschland is ‘dividing our society’ after party won nearly 44% of vote in Saxony-Anhalt state electionEurope live – latest updatesGermany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has accused the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) of seeking “ethnic cleansing” with its “remigration” drive, after the nativist party’s seismic weekend victory in a state election.In ...
Trump and JD Vance headline the unusual two-day Republican convention before the November midterm elections.
Iran said it fired ballistic missiles at a US base in Jordan early Wednesday, in retaliation for US strikes on Iranian oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman and near Kharg Island, off Iran’s coast. The US said five Iranian tankers were destroyed.
Charity stresses small boat rescues are tiny part of its work and speaks out after volunteers abused by far-right agitatorsThe lifeboat charity RNLI has vowed to continue to rescue asylum seekers in the Channel despite attacks on volunteers and staff after the recent high-profile small boat landings.RNLI bosses said workers had been subjected to online and physical abuse and there had been “basele...
LIV Golf says it intends to restructure its business with a $49.6m bankruptcy loan provided by the Saudi PIF.
Former Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons officials say they have found evidence that the Sudanese government may have deployed chemicals amid the country's ongoing civil war.
With European gas prices hitting the highest since early 2023, the International Energy Agency says governments should consider strategic reserves, more flexible contracts and closer international cooperation to prepare for future natural gas shortages.
China has accused Philippine officials of “grandstanding and lying” after Manila’s defence secretary publicly read aloud a Chinese diplomat’s note on the South China Sea that the Philippine minister described as “coercion, bullying and aggression”. “We urge certain people in the Philippines to stop this grandstanding and lying, and to protect China-Philippine relations and the peace and stability ...
Authorities and public bodies to be urged to buy goods and services from Europe, but without binding quotasEuropean authorities will be encouraged to buy more domestic goods and services when they spend public money under the EU latest effort to counter China’s economic might.In a further “Buy European” plan, the European Commission published proposals on Wednesday for a sweeping overhaul of EU pu...
At 18, Martin Taborda began studying law at Argentina’s prestigious University of Buenos Aires, hoping to become the first in his family to graduate. Just two years later, that dream has slipped out of reach. Unemployed and US$1,300 in debt, he can no longer afford the bus fare from his suburb or the books he needs to keep studying – even at a tuition-free university that has helped generations of...
The International Atomic Energy Agency's says the facility is cause for "serious concern".
PM and leader of the opposition spar over defence spendingAlex Burghart, the deputy Tory leader, was giving interviews this morning. On Israel, he opened up a new line of attack against the government, accusing it of hypocrisy. This is what he told GB News.At the same time that Labour were saying all these things about Israel in the House of Commons, they put out a communique.They put out an accou...
