Human dignity must be protected from rise of AI, Pope says
EPA Pope Leo XIV has told the Vatican’s first Mass for Catholic social media influencers that human dignity needs to be protected online as the world faces the “challenge” of…
New York gunman left note blaming NFL for brain injury, mayor says
CBS A gunman who killed four people when he stormed a skyscraper in the heart of New York on Monday evening left a note that appeared to blame the National…
Joan Anderson, who helped create the hula hoop, dies aged 101
Chris Riess and Amy Hill Joan Anderson, who coined the name for the hula hoop and played an unsung role in its rise, has died age 101. The former model…
Victorious players promised $100,000 cash award and apartment
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu hailed the women’s national football team for their victory at the recent Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (Wafcon) at a grand celebratory reception where he promised…
BBC visits Beijing region hit by deadly flood
At least 30 people have died in Beijing as northern China experiences days of heavy rain and flooding. The BBC’s Stephen McDonell is in Miyun, northeast of Beijing, where authorities…
Hundreds of arrests during deadly fuel-price-rise demonstrations
EPA Parts of the capital, Luanda, came to a standstill on Monday Police in Angola say four people have been killed and 500 have been arrested after demonstrations in the…
People rescued from a nursing home and flooded streets in China
Rescue workers were deployed to help dozens of residents of a Beijing nursing home in chest-high water. At least 30 people have been killed in floods that have inundated large…
30 killed as China sees summer of extreme weather
At least 30 people have died in Beijing and more than 80,000 were evacuated to safety, Chinese authorities said, as heavy rains and floods ravage roads and houses in northern…
China offers parents $1,500 in bid to boost births
Parents in China are being offered 3,600 yuan (£375; $500) a year for each of their children under the age of three in the government’s first nationwide subsidy aimed at…
Russia strikes prison in Ukraine, killing 16 and wounding dozens
A Russian airstrike on a prison in a frontline region in southeastern Ukraine has killed 16 people and wounded more than 30 others, according to Ukrainian officials. The overnight attack…