We had barely entered the new year when Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were captured in a brazen raid on the orders of US President Donald Trump. In the early hours of...
Elon Musk’s 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...
Five student unions among nine colleges at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) have been dissolved in the space of a year, with their leaders attributing the closures to the institution’s requi...
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Key European allies of Ukraine and top US envoys meet President Volodymyr Zelensky in Paris on January 6 in their latest bid to agree security guarantees for any ceasefire in Russia's war against its ...
Doctors, nurses and students at HKSH Medical Group in Hong Kong set aside their clinical routines to join a day of physical activity and fundraising, inspiring all to “throw kindness and catch health”...
The Mandatory Reporting of Child Abuse Ordinance becomes operational in Hong Kong on January 20, and will enhance child protections. It contains a mechanism for the early and effective detection of ch...
Tourists planning to spend Christmas in Hong Kong have fuelled a surge in guest house bookings since October, driving occupancy and room rates to their strongest levels in five years. But those arrivi...
Chinese researchers have proposed a simple yet powerful theory to explain one of physics’ oldest puzzles: why time only moves forward and why travelling to the past remains impossible. Physicist Cai Q...
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Nvidia's Jensen Huang and Google's Larry Page had different responses to California's proposed billionaire's tax. Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images, EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/GettyImages A proposed w...
The restaurant industry is grappling with major changes this year — and there are big questions about finances, consumer behavior, and labor issues on operators' minds. Scott Suchman/For The Was...
U.S. President Donald Trump says Iran has proposed negotiations after his threat to strike the Islamic Republic as an ongoing crackdown on demonstrators has led to hundreds of deaths. But while Iran s...
Nearly 30% of Japan's population is 65 or older, and many still work. Francesco Riccardo Iacomino/Getty Images Japan has adapted to an aging workforce with government support and job programs. Nearly ...
Warning: Spoilers follow for Season 1 of Pluribus , Carol. Have you been watching Pluribus, the new sci-fi show from Vince Gilligan of X-Files, Breaking Bad, and Better Call Saul fame? Apple TV has co...
Arthur Johnson, a North Carolina high school teacher, attended an institute on democracy and capitalism amid Americans' declining views on capitalism over time. Jesse Barber for BI Pop quiz: The airli...
In the wake of the US military’s dramatic capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, President Trump and his top advisers have made increasingly explicit that their next focus could be Greenland,...
It was like any other day for 24-year-old sales adviser Kanimolhi Krisnan from Shah Alam in Malaysia’s Selangor state. She was at the MRT station waiting for the bus to go home after work when a stran...
The Navy's Officer Candidate School (OCS) in Newport, Rhode Island, is a 13-week course that turns civilians and enlisted sailors into naval officers. Candidates face intense physical, mental, and lea...
Diarmuid Early won the 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championship. He has some Excel pointers for today's office workers. Diarmuid Ealry Diarmuid Early won first place in the 2025 Microsoft Excel World C...