A family who arrived at their rented holiday house to find bloodstained furniture and a room full of sex toys were told the problem was “minor” by the booking platform Vrbo. Paul Norris [not his real name] and his wife had booked the five-bedroom, £300-a-night house in Northern Ireland for a week’s holiday for their…
News1 Locals laid flowers at the school’s gate to mourn the eight-year-old student A teacher has fatally stabbed an eight-year-old girl at an elementary school in South Korea, in an incident that has shocked the nation. The female teacher, who is in her 40s, confessed to stabbing the student in the central city of Daejeon,…
DeepSeek has rattled the U.S.-led AI ecosystem with its latest model, shaving hundreds of billions in chip leader Nvidia’s market cap. While the sector leaders grapple with the fallout, smaller AI companies see an opportunity to scale with the Chinese startup. Several AI-related firms told CNBC that DeepSeek’s emergence is a “massive” opportunity for them, rather…
The Kansas City Chiefs weren’t in the most celebratory mood last Christmas, when they fell at home to the Las Vegas Raiders in a sloppy 20-14 loss. This Christmas was a different story. On Wednesday, the Chiefs dominated the Steelers in Pittsburgh with a wire-to-wire 29-10 win. The Chiefs were feeling the holiday spirit after…
Play video content Sky News CA Gov. Gavin Newsom tried to use President Biden as a shield when a distraught wildfire victim confronted him Thursday — but his efforts kinda blew up in his face. The woman, a lawyer named Rachel Darvish, ran up to Newsom as he was getting into his car — leaving…
China is grappling with a significant demographic challenge, characterised by an surplus of nearly 35 million so-called “leftover men”. This issue has gained attention following a controversial suggestion from a associate professor at Xiamen University, who proposed promoting international marriages as a potential solution. His comments have sparked widespread debate and outrage online, as reported…
Jimmy Carter’s six-day farewell to the nation culminates on Thursday as the 39th president receives a state funeral at Washington National Cathedral before returning to his home town of Plains, Georgia, for burial beside his wife, Rosalynn. The service marks the end of Carter’s lying in state at the US Capitol, where yesterday Vice-President Kamala…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp said the rise of competing artificial intelligence models such as China’s DeepSeek is a sign that the U.S. needs to work quicker to develop advanced AI. “Technology is not inherently good,” and could pose threats in the hands of adversaries, Karp told CNBC’s Sara Eisen in an interview airing Friday. “We…
BBC Mark Carney is due to be sworn in as Canada’s next prime minister in the coming days, having won the race to succeed Justin Trudeau. It means he will lead the governing Liberal Party of Canada in the next election – which is expected to be called soon. Several political leaders had called for…
British oil and gasoline company BP (British Petroleum) signage is being pictured in Warsaw, Poland, on July 29, 2024. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images British oil major BP on Thursday said it is planning to cut thousands of jobs as part of a major cost-reduction exercise. “Today, we have today told staff across bp that…
