Take your eyes off your mobile phone, says inventor, 50 years on
The problem with mobile phones is that people look at them too much.. As for the problem of people gawping at their phones too much -- even as they cross the road -- he's not worried.
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'Life-altering': the suffering of US gun violence survivors
Ralph Norman's life was changed forever almost 13 years ago when a stray bullet left him paralyzed, launching him into a world of depression and fears of stigma as part of the ever-growing list of US victims of gun violence.. "Until the last two years, I have never told I was shot by a bullet.
Pope Francis spends night in hospital after breathing issues
Pope Francis spent the night in hospital in Rome, where the 86-year-old will continue receiving treatment on Thursday for what the Vatican has said is a respiratory infection.. Tests showed a respiratory infection that was not Covid-19, requiring "a few days of appropriate hospital medical treatment", Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said.
Beatles photos shot by Paul McCartney unveiled ahead of exhibition
A UK art gallery on Thursday released a handful of previously unseen photographs taken by Paul McCartney, ahead of a major display later this year showcasing how he captured Beatlemania through his own lens.. The exhibition, "Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes Of The Storm", will run for three months from June 28 to mark the famous London gallery's reopening after three years of refurbishments.
Tarantino says script finished on his final film
Cult film director Quentin Tarantino said on Wednesday he has finished the script for what will be his "last" movie.. "I have finished the script of what will end up being my last movie," the 60-year-old said while being questioned by Thierry Fremaux, director of the Cannes Film Festival, at the launch of his new book in Paris.
At Ukraine's captured nuclear plant, Russian troops say 'ensuring security'
A Russian armoured personnel carrier marked with the letter V and equipped with a radiation detector stands guard on the premises of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.. "The units of the National Guard fulfil the objective of ensuring the security of the plant," a Russian soldier told reporters.
Mexican president vows 'no impunity' for 38 migrants' fire deaths
Mexico's president on Wednesday vowed there would be "no impunity" over the deaths of 38 migrants in a fire at a detention center, as relatives waited desperately for news about the victims.. "We will not hide anything and there will be no impunity," President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told reporters after the blaze at a detention center in Ciudad Juarez near the US border late Monday.
UK museum to surrender Courbet painting stolen by Nazis
A British university museum has agreed to return a 19th-century painting by French artist Gustave Courbet, which was seized by the Nazis, to the descendants of its original Jewish owner.. Courbet, who died in 1877, was the leader of the Realist movement in French art and responsible for "L'Origine du monde", considered the most scandalous painting of the 19th century for its depiction of a woman's genitalia.
Pomp and paper crowns as Germany welcomes Charles III
Charles III has visited Germany 40 times before but the monarch will never have seen anything like Wednesday's welcoming ceremony for his first foreign trip as king at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate.. "It's the visit of the king in Germany.
'Far from peace:' Colombia says ELN guerrillas killed 9 soldiers
Colombia's ELN guerrilla group has killed nine soldiers in an attack in the country's northeast, the government said Wednesday, despite being engaged in peace talks.. The government resumed peace talks with the ELN, considered the last active guerilla group in Colombia, after Petro took office last August pledging to bring a "total peace" to the violence-riddled country.
