Australia's internet safety watchdog on Thursday threatened to fine Twitter for failing to tackle online abuse, saying Elon Musk's takeover had coincided with a spike in "toxicity and hate". . She said the watchdog was "far from being alone in its concern about increasing levels of toxicity and hate on Twitter, particularly targeting marginalised communities".
Since it sank on its maiden voyage more than a century ago, the Titanic has had an unshakeable grip on the public imagination.. - Palace of luxury - RMS Titanic set sail on its maiden voyage in April 1912 from Southampton, England bound for New York.
The United States has granted its first ever approvals to two companies to sell chicken grown directly from animal cells, paving the way for lab-grown meat to be eaten by consumers.. Perhaps not - Lab-grown meat involves first harvesting cells from a living animal or a fertilized egg, to establish a cell bank that can be kept for decades in deep freeze.
Small island states sinking under rising seas are encouraged by a summit starting Thursday charged with revamping the global financial system to better cope with climate change and other 21st-century challenges, their representative to the talks told AFP. The two-day summit in Paris, hosted by France, "is very good news because it fits well with what we are trying to do", Samoa's Fatumanava Pa'olelei Luteru, chair of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), told AFP in an interview.. Sea levels sure to rise well into the 22nd century and cyclones made more deadly by global warming have put AOSIS' 39 low-lying island and coastal states on the front lines of climate impacts and UN talks.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrated the International Day of Yoga Wednesday as he took part in a multi-country session of the ancient discipline at UN headquarters.. Another record was set on this edition of the International Day of Yoga: some 153,000 people took part in a mass session in the city of Surat in the state of Gujarat, local authorities said.
The father and son aboard the missing Titanic tourist submersible hail from one of Pakistan's most prominent and wealthiest families, who are known for their philanthropic contributions to the country.. "They set up major industrial projects and thus provided employment to thousands of people in the newborn country," Dhedhi told AFP. He described the family as being "one of the top philanthropic groups in Pakistan", adding: "They don’t boast about any of it."
American 13-year-olds continue to struggle academically in the wake of the pandemic, especially in mathematics, according to official data out Wednesday.. The assessment, which relies on nationally representative samples, revealed several additional concerns, including that the number of 13-year-olds who said they read for fun hit an all time low.
After a spate of arrests and executions for drug offences, Ibrahim, a dealer in Saudi Arabia, is not taking any chances.. The result is at least 20 executions for drug offences since last year, according to an AFP tally, and a sharp rise in arrests.
A reported increase in Muslim girls wearing the abaya dress at French schools has triggered a debate about their violation of the country's sacrosanct commitment to secularism in education.. BFM TV reported from a school in the southeastern city of Lyon and quoted a teacher who requested anonymity as saying the abaya-wearing girls were creating "pressure", even if unintentionally.
Japanese campaigners on Wednesday slammed a government report into the sterilisation of thousands under a eugenics law in place until 1996, saying it failed to take responsibility for the procedures.. But "it lacks a summary of why this terrible law was enacted and existed for 48 years, and fails to mention why the government didn't take responsibility even after the law was amended," he said.
