PARIS -- When told by the stadium announcer that they were witnessing history, the Paris spectators roared and applauded. Not that the woman making history actually noticed: Sarah Adam was far too occupied — merrily slamming her wheelchair ...
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One person has died, with several injured, after severe turbulence on a London to Singapore flight. Authorities at Bangkok airport said the victim was a 73-year-old British man who \\\"likely\\\" died from a heart attack. Seven people are serio...
LONDON and HONG KONG --One person died and dozens of others were left injured after a Singapore Airlines flight encountered \\\"severe\\\" turbulence, the airline said in a social media post. The Boeing 777-300ER departed London's Heathrow...
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A new drone attack on Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia power plant has raised the risk of a \\\"major nuclear accident\\\", the UN's atomic watchdog has warned. Russia said Ukraine was behind the attack, which it said injured three people. Ukraine has d...
Artificial Intelligence could save lives by warning where a hurricane will hit land much sooner than traditional forecasting systems, researchers say. A new AI tool from Google DeepMind predicted where September's hurricane Lee would make...
The world is on an "unstoppable" shift towards renewable energy but the phase down of fossil fuels is not happening quickly enough, a new report says. The International Energy Agency, the global energy watchdog, predicted renewa...
Singapore state-owned investment fund Temasek Holdings says it has cut the pay of staff responsible for its investment in cryptocurrency exchange FTX, which collapsed last year. In November, the fund wrote off all of the $275m (£222...
Fast food chain McDonald's is temporarily closing its US offices this week ahead of an expected announcement on corporate job cuts. The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the move, said McDonald's had told US and some internat...
Artificial intelligence (AI) could replace the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs, a report by investment bank Goldman Sachs says. It could replace a quarter of work tasks in the US and Europe but may also mean new jobs and a produc...
Germany's transport network will be at a near standstill on Monday as two of the country's largest unions strike. Staff at airports, ports, railways, buses and subways walked out shortly after midnight for a 24-hour stoppage. Uni...
The United Kingdom is among more than 30 countries that have pledged support to an ongoing ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes competing in international sporting events amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It follows a summit involving all the ...
Oil and gas giant Shell has reported record annual profits after energy prices surged last year following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Profits hit $39.9bn (£32.2bn) in 2022, double last year's total and the highest in its 115-year...
Climate change is severely impacting people's health around the world, a report by a leading medical publication has found. The Lancet Countdown report says the world's continued reliance on fossil fuels increases the risk of food insecur...
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