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Getty ImagesRussian missiles and drones are hammering Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, like Odesa”My crane operator, my partner, died five metres from me… The driver remained in the cabin. He also died.”Svitlana Halchenko winces as she remembers the Russian ballistic missile which exploded at work in Odesa, killing her colleagues. Svitlana works as a warehouse shift manager at the city’s main port.Despite her injuries – she walks with a limp, pieces of shrapnel still embedded in her leg and back – Svitlana is determined to keep working.Russia is ramping up its efforts to strangle Ukraine’s commercial links to the outside world,…
NEW YORK (news agencies) — Parasitic illness cases in 15 states have been linked to iceberg lettuce, U.S. health officials said Wednesday.Cyclospora cases have been reported in at least 47 states this year, and investigators have continued to probe how many could be linked to a common contaminated source.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the number of states tied to the deadly outbreak had grown from nine to 15. Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire and North Carolina were added to a list that previously included Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.Investigators initially…
Watch: “It went on for hours, I felt like a piece of meat” – female Harrogate recruits speak to BBCWarning: This article contains sexual language and details of sexual assaultFour young women have told the BBC they were sexually assaulted and harassed at an army training college for teenagers – with one saying she was raped by several fellow junior soldiers in an attack that lasted hours.The women all attended the Army Foundation College (AFC) at Harrogate, North Yorkshire, over the past five years and say the incidents happened when they were aged 17.These reports are “extremely distressing and serious”,…
Phil Walter/Getty ImagesThe Afghan women’s football team gathered for the first time since Fifa ruled they could represent their country in official matchesThe changing room is busy with footballers going through their pre-match routines. Some stretch and tighten their boots, others embrace.”Be strong as always because we are representing Afghan women,” says midfielder Fatima Haidari to fellow members of Afghan Women United.Applause erupts in the room where an Afghan flag hangs and a patriotic song is played. As the women sing along some struggle to hold back tears.There’s a final team huddle with words of encouragement from their coach before…
Inc via Getty ImagesMeta chief executive Mark ZuckerbergFacebook owner Meta says an error during an evaluation by an independent testing company allowed one of its artificial intelligence (AI) models to connect to the internet and hack another organisation’s system.The announcement follows recent incidents across the AI industry, including breaches by OpenAI and Anthropic models, that have raised cyber-security concerns.A Meta spokesperson told the BBC that it was investigating the hack that was caused by a “misconfiguration”, which it described as similar to previously reported incidents at other firms.The incidents have prompted researchers and governments to call for tougher safeguards and…
BBCThe University of Cambridge professor at the centre of a plagiarism row has resigned “with immediate effect”. Prof Jason Arday said he had “concluded that the only way to bring this chapter to an end is to step away”. Earlier, the university said it had launched an investigation “following new information” about Arday’s “academic qualifications and honorary appointments”. It comes after another academic – self-defined “race realist” Nathan Cofnas, who was sacked from his Cambridge role in 2024 – said he found numerous instances of plagiarism in Arday’s work and questioned some of his stated achievements. The academic has admitted…
“We built this campaign brick by brick”- Abdul El-Sayed speaks after winning Michigan Senate primaryThe tremors from Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan’s Senate primary will have been felt hundreds of miles away by the Democratic Party leadership.In a year in which Republicans appear to be facing significant electoral headwinds, Democratic primary voters have taken a chance on a left-wing insurgent, raising the stakes in a Senate race in November that could decide overall control of the upper chamber.The question is whether the way El-Sayed has electrified the party base and tapped into their anger will work on general election voters.…
AI or real? BBC analyses viral China disaster videosAs weather events become more extreme, fake videos are being shared rapidly online, and it’s causing real world problems in China.1 hr agoAsia
NEW YORK (news agencies) — Scientists have captured images of the sun’s surface in the finest detail yet, revealing a strange and dynamic facade. It’s dangerous to look directly at the sun without proper eye protection. But researchers were able to peek at its scorching surface with the help of the National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, located on the island of Maui in Hawaii. Scientists originally took the images for a different reason: to fine-tune and test the limits of the telescope. But when they looked at the results, they realized they’d photographed the sun’s bright outer…
The Trump administration said Wednesday it will shut down a Kentucky organ donation group accused of continuing plans for organ retrieval from some patients who unexpectedly showed signs of life.While those surgeries were canceled, the cases made headlines several years ago, prompting a spike in people around the country revoking their organ donor registrations.Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called the nonprofit Network for Hope “a bad apple” and accused it of “persistent safety failures” in announcing the government was starting the process to decertify it.Network for Hope is one of about 55 organ procurement organizations, or OPOs, that coordinate…