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A surge in the development of powerful artificial intelligence (AI) tools is already improving lives, but it is also bringing new urgency to calls for regulation as more governments wake up to the risks. Effective global regulation to ensure AI is developed safely for the benefit of all is urgently needed. Read the full story, […]

Dozens of Muslim worshippers have been killed in an accident in Kaduna state in northern Nigeria. The victims were on their way to celebrate Eid-el-Maulud, the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad, in the northern town of Saminaka. According to an Eid festival organizer, their bus collided with an oncoming truck near the town of Lere.

A catastrophic climate crisis, a glut of nuclear weapons, or unregulated AI: when it comes to potentially existential threats to humanity, there are plenty to choose from. When the United Nations was founded nearly 80 years ago, the world was shocked to emerge from a conflict so devastating that world leaders created institutions to ensure

New research shows that urban air transport (UAM) vehicles, such as electric air taxis that take off vertically, perform much worse than we might think in terms of travel times, costs and emissions. Researchers from the German Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim have studied the results of eleven studies on unmanned

The UN has described the current global situation as “uniquely dangerous,” with risks of major power conflict at the highest levels since the Cold War, the likelihood of nuclear war greater than in decades, and the climate crisis fueling migration and exacerbating tensions. “We are facing a collapse of international law obligations and a growing

(Bloomberg) — Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he is looking to Italy for lessons on how to tackle the flow of migrants in small boats to Britain’s south coast. Most read from Bloomberg Speaking after a bilateral meeting and working lunch with his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni in Rome, Starmer indicated he would be watching

“The international financial architecture, designed in 1945 after World War II, is undergoing a stress test of historic proportions – and is failing,” the UN argues. Secretary-General António Guterres in a 2023 policy note. He points out that unsustainable debt levels are putting many poor countries in dire straits, preventing them from investing sufficiently in

Her toothless chewing is already an internet hit and now Moo Dengthe pygmy hippo, stars in cosmetics ads and has quickly become a brand ambassador for Thailand. But the two-month-old’s meteoric rise to online stardom has also prompted her caregivers to urge visitors to behave well and limit the time they see her. Moo Deng,

Opinion by Winnie Byanyima, Martin Kimani (New York) Monday, September 16, 2024 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Sep 16 (IPS) – As heads of state and government fly to New York for the United Nations General Assembly and the Summit of the Future (22-30 September), 2.3 billion mothers, fathers and children do not know where

A team of archaeologists in Egypt uncovered a sword with hieroglyphs bearing the name of Pharaoh Ramesses II. The weapon was one of many artifacts from the well-stocked archaeological site of Tel Al-Abqain, near the coast of northwestern Egypt. The sword is made of bronze and features the name of King Ramses IIwho ruled Egypt