UN chief seeks 'significant' funding at summit to save nature
A drone view shows Lal and Willie Pierce’s 200-year-old ancestral family home which is at risk of being claimed by the sea due to coastal erosion hastened by climate change, in Ballyhealy, Ireland October 14, 2024. — Reuters The United Nations biodiversity summit, world’s biggest nature protection event, opens in Cali, Colombia, today (Monday) with a […]
King Charles heckled by Australian senator shouting ‘you are not my king’
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Why these Yankees finally broke through the ALCS curse
Bradford Doolittle, ESPN Staff WriterOct 20, 2024, 03:29 AM ET Close Sports reporter, Kansas City Star, 2002-09 Writer, Baseball, Baseball Prospectus Co-author, Pro Basketball Prospectus Member, Baseball Writers Association of America Member, Professional Basketball Writers Association CLEVELAND — Here’s the résumé of one era for a certain big league baseball team. It’s a 14-year period. […]
Putin’s plan to defeat the dollar
Now in their 15th year together, the original BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) have achieved little. Yet at this summit Mr Putin hopes to give the bloc heft by getting it to build a new global financial-payments system to attack America’s dominance of global finance and shield Russia and its pals from […]
Fireworks force Swedish league derby suspension
Oct 20, 2024, 03:03 PM ET A Stockholm soccer derby that could potentially decide the Swedish league‘s title race was suspended in the second half Sunday after Djurgarden supporters threw multiple fireworks onto the field. The game between Hammarby and Djurgarden is set to resume Monday afternoon without fans after police ruled that the game […]
Iran aided Russia against Ukraine. Now it needs to call in the favor
Russian President Vladimir Putin (C) enters the hall during the meeting with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (not pictured), October 11, 2024, in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. Contributor | Getty Images News | Getty Images Iran has been one of Russia’s few staunch allies throughout the war against Ukraine, but Tehran now faces the strain of indirectly fighting its nemesis Israel on […]
WHO declares Egypt malaria free after nearly century of efforts
A logo is pictured outside a building of the World Health Organization (WHO), in Geneva, Switzerland, February 6, 2020. — Reuters Egypt on Sunday achieved a significant milestone in public health as the World Health Organization (WHO) certified the nation as malaria-free, marking the elimination of a disease that had pagued the country since ancient […]
TikTok owner sacks intern for sabotaging AI project
TikTok-owner, ByteDance, says it has sacked an intern for “maliciously interfering” with the training of one of its artificial intelligence (AI) models. But the firm rejected claims about the extent of the damage caused by the unnamed individual, saying they “contain some exaggerations and inaccuracies”. It comes after reports about the incident spread over the […]