Wed 13 August 2025: Germany‘s nationwide unidentified flying object (UFO) reporting centre received many calls after lights were seen in the morning sky that were said to resemble “pairs of drones, car headlights in the sky and stars that do not exist.” “Many people have called excitedly or written emails,” the head of the UFO […]
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Wed 13 August 2025: Shop manager Olarewanju Ogunbona says he uses Styrofoam and plastic packs at least five times a day — nothing unusual in the megacity of Lagos, one of the world’s most plastics-polluted urban areas. The city’s over 20 million people contributed 870,000 tons of the world’s 57 million tons of . Lagos state authorities last month […]
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Wed 13 August 2025: Large language models speak over 100 languages fluently unless you’re one of Africa’s 1.2 billion people. Are so-called “universal” AI systems excluding an entire continent’s linguistic heritage from the digital future? Nine years ago, Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai first pledged that artificial intelligence would make information “universally accessible” to everyone, regardless […]
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Tue 12 August 2025: On Sunday evening, three reactor units at the Gravelines nuclear power station, located on the English Channel, were automatically shut down due to a large influx of jellyfish clogging the plant’s water pumping systems, according to France’s energy company, Electricite de France (EDF). A fourth reactor was taken offline early Monday […]
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Tue 12 August 2025: A study led by the University of Queensland discovered that Australian skinks have evolved molecular defenses to protect their muscles from deadly snake venom, which provides insights into how to treat snakebites in humans. The research, published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, described the skinks’ adaptations as “evolution at its most ingenious,” according […]
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Mon 11 August 2025: At the beginning of 2025, panic about fraud and human trafficking erupted on Chinese social media. It started when a Chinese actor called Wang Xing was tricked into travelling to Thailand for an audition, where he was abducted by criminals and taken to a scam centre in Myanmar. Wang was reported missing and, within […]
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From left: Anas al-Sharif, Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, Moamen Aliwa and Mohammed Qreiqeh [Al Jazeera] Mon 11 August 2025: Israel deliberately attacked the tent the journalists were working out of, at the gates of al-Shifa Hospital. Late on Sunday, an Israeli strike shook al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, targeting a journalists’ tent by the […]
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Mon 11 August 2025: Mosquito-borne viral fever chikungunya cases are rising, and since the beginning of this year some 240,000 infections have been recorded across the world, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). The virus cases were recorded until July in 16 countries and regions across the Americas, Africa, Asia, […]
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Sun 10 August 2025: WhatsApp banned more than 6.8 million accounts linked to scam operations in the first half of this year, its parent company Meta said in a statement Tuesday. “As part of our ongoing proactive work to protect people from scams, WhatsApp detected and banned over 6.8 million accounts linked to scam centers,” the company said. […]
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Sun 10 August 2025: New research showed that Britain’s King George IV, who ruled for a decade until 1830, personally profited from enslaved labour on Grenadian plantations, a finding that experts say heightens pressure on the monarchy to confront its historical links to slavery. Independent scholar Desirée Baptiste uncovered a 1823-24 document at the National […]
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