MELBOURNE: Homes have gone up in flames and skies turned blood red as nearly 1,000 firefighters battle dozens of out-of-control blazes in southern Australia in the wake of the nation’s warmest summer on record. A days-long heatwave sent temperatures soaring towards 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) over the weekend,
JAKARTA: ndonesian authorities warned Monday that up to 100 people could still be trapped and feared dead inside a collapsed illegal gold mine despite a painstaking rescue effort that has so far plucked 19 people alive from the rubble, but also seen nine deaths. Search teams at the unlicensed mine
WASHINGTON: A tornado tore through the southern US state of Alabama on Sunday, killing 23 people, uprooting trees and causing “catastrophic” damage to buildings and roads, a local sheriff said. “Unfortunately our toll, as far as fatalities, does stand at 23 at the current time,” Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones
YouTube said it will disable user comments on a broad array of videos featuring children to thwart “predatory behaviour” after revelations about a glitch exploited for sharing of child pornography. The Google-owned video sharing service announced further steps to crack down on inappropriate comments a week after an investigation showing
Facebook’s feature allowing users to erase all their data is set to be released this year, many months after it was announced by the leading social network. David Wehner, Facebook’s chief financial officer, said in comments at a Morgan Stanley technology conference that the company is planning to roll out
The fast-growing, Chinese-owned video sharing network TikTok agreed to pay a US$5.7 million fine to US authorities to settle charges that it illegally collected personal information from children, officials said. The Federal Trade Commission said the penalty by the social network which had been known as Musical.ly was the largest
Vestel, Noa, Lesia… you have probably never heard of these smartphone brands but they are all taking part in the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the mobile industry’s biggest annual global event. While the glitzy stands of mobile giants like Samsung and Huawei hog the spotlight of the event’s vast
SYDNEY: An elusive sub-two hour marathon will finally be run in 2032, but women are unlikely to ever breach the magical mark, according to modelling released by scientists yesterday. The 42.195 kilometres (26.219 miles) race was one of the original Olympic events in 1896, and runners have been edging closer
TOKYO : Two rare oarfish, giant deep-sea serpents long believed by locals to be a harbinger of earthquakes and tsunamis, have been caught off the Japanese island of Okinawa. Fishermen were stunned to find a pair of the silvery fish – the bigger one measuring four metres (13 feet) –
STRASBOURG: The Council of Europe rights group on Tuesday urged France to halt the use of rubber bullet launchers blamed for dozens of injuries to anti-government protesters in recent weeks. France is one of few European nations to use so-called defence ball launchers, known by the French abbreviation LBDs, which
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