At the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) in Singapore, it was yet another busy Monday as volunteers cleaned cages and leashed dogs for walks around the shelter. Squinty, a seven-...
The tech giant removed Facebook, Instagram and Threads accounts to comply with Australia's social media ban for under-16-year-olds....
In early December, Joshua Aaron, the developer behind the ICEBlock app - designed to let people alert others about the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents - filed a federal la...
A judge has ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration cannot block child care and other federal social service money from flowing to five states for now...
After their grandmother passed away, a family surprised their 92-year-old grandfather ā whom they call Papa ā with a dinner featuring all of his grandkids at his home in the Bronx....
Flash flooding, very cold and unsettled weather expected across Palestine, according to the Meteorological Department....
More than 40 million are on alert as the next winter storm is forecast to bring inclement weather from the Dakotas into northern New England over the coming days....
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As AI blurs the line between real and synthetic media, strategies for restoring user trust online are still taking shape as we enter 2026....
Billionaireās xAI start-up lacks adequate safeguards, say experts, but many AI models are trained on troubling material...
Elon Muskās AI Grok has been fiercely criticised in recent days, after the chatbot began generating sexualised images of women and girls, flooding the app with explicit content. Some of the images inv...
Deadly fighting between Kurdish forces and Syria's national army in Aleppo has led to new widespread displacement. As thousands flee amid shelling, can US, Turkish, and UN mediators stop a full-scale ...
The actress and singer was a symbol of sexual revolution. She later became an animal-welfare campaigner and incendiary right-wing commenter....
Firdaus Hashim has spent nearly two decades breathing life into the impossible. The Malaysian visual effects (VFX) artist has won multiple accolades for his painstaking, frame-by-frame artistry and ev...
The Columbus, Ohio, police chief is speaking out for the first time since the mysterious murders of dentist Spencer Tepe and his wife Monique Tepe....
The economic situation is likely to worsen as Iran's Central Bank drastically reduced the subsidised exchange rates for dollars it offers to importers and producers....
Rex was missing for nearly a day before being returned to the petting zoo and animal sanctuary in Williamstown, New Jersey, from which he escaped....
A man is due in court on Monday for allegedly gunning down his ex-wife and her husband in their Ohio home over the holidays, authorities said....
Elon Muskās Grok AI chatbot faced backlash for creating images of undressed women and children. The image-generating function will now be available only to paying subscribers....
Prasit photo/Getty Images I was delighted when my shy kindergartener was invited to one of his classmates' birthday parties. Even though I didn't recognize the birthday boy or any other parents, I tho...