Authors sue Claude AI chatbot creator Anthropic for copyright infringement

A group of authors is suing artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, alleging it committed “large-scale theft” in training its popular chatbot Claude on pirated copies of copyrighted books.

Push into Russia’s Kursk region is to create a buffer zone: Zelenskyy

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said yesterday the daring military incursion into Russia’s Kursk region aims to create a buffer zone to prevent further attacks by Moscow

French actor and heartthrob Alain Delon dies at 88

Alain Delon, the internationally acclaimed French actor who embodied both the bad guy and the policeman and made hearts throb around the world, died at age 88,

Sintra or, a look at the chaos of ‘overtourism’ in the summer of 2024

The doorbell to Martinho de Almada Pimentel’s house is hard to find, and he likes it that way. It’s a long rope that, when pulled, rings a literal

Sintra or, a look at the chaos of ‘overtourism’ in the summer of 2024

The doorbell to Martinho de Almada Pimentel’s house, in Sintra, is hard to find, and he likes it that way. It’s a long rope that, when pulled, rings a literal bell on the roof that lets him know someone is outside the mountainside mansion that his great-grandfather built in 1914 as a monument to privacy.

As the Middle East frets about conflict, Dubai booms with an influx of anxious wealth

As conflict casts a shadow across the Middle East, people are getting rich in Dubai. The desert sheikdom’s economy is buzzing with tourism and construction

Fire breaks out at Somerset House, home to priceless works by Van Gogh, Cezanne

Priceless paintings by Monet, Cezanne, Van Gogh and others were unharmed Saturday after firefighters worked to douse a blaze that broke out in the roof of

Now that mpox is a global emergency, will it trigger another pandemic?

The World Health Organization has declared the ongoing outbreaks of mpox in Congo and elsewhere in Africa to be a global emergency, requiring urgent action to

Iran Police shot a woman while trying to seize her car over hijab law violation

On a darkened road beside the Caspian Sea, Iranian police officers opened fire last month on a 31-year-old woman who had tried to speed away likely knowing

How X owner Elon Musk uses his social platform to amplify his right-wing views

As X’s owner and most followed user, Elon Musk has increasingly used the social media platform as a megaphone to amplify his political views and, lately,

Ford, Mazda warn owners to stop driving older vehicles with dangerous Takata air bag inflators

Ford and Mazda are warning the owners of more than 475,000 older vehicles in the U.S. not to drive them because they have dangerous Takata air bag

Mpox has been declared a public health emergency in Africa

The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared this week that the increasing spread of mpox across the continent is a health emergency, warning the virus might

Ukrainian forces control 1,000 sq km of Russia’s Kursk region

Ukraine’s top military commander says his forces now control 1,000 square kilometers of Russia’s neighboring Kursk region, the first time a Ukrainian military official has publicly commented

An ocean’s worth of water may be hiding beneath the red dusty surface

Mars may be drenched beneath its surface, with enough water hiding in the cracks of underground rocks to form a global ocean, new research suggests.

Berlin Zoo is hoping for more German-born giant pandas as scans confirm a pregnancy

The Berlin Zoo has much anticipated news: Meng Meng the panda is pregnant again, months after the first giant pandas born in Germany were sent to

Bulgaria seizes heroin at a Black Sea port worth $38 million en route from Kyrgizstan

Bulgarian authorities have seized some 436 kilograms of heroin at the Black Sea port of Burgas, the district prosecutor’s office said. The heroin was stashed in 434 packages hidden

The US gov’t wants to make it easier to click the ‘unsubscribe’ button

In the name of consumer protection, a slew of U.S. federal agencies are working to make it easier for Americans to click the unsubscribe button for

On Geneva Conventions’ 75th anniversary, fighters in Gaza, Ukraine ignore rulebook of war

At its 75th anniversary, the world’s best-known rulebook on the protection of civilians, detainees and wounded soldiers in war has been widely ignored — from Gaza to Syria to

Co-founder of Smartmatic voting machine company charged with paying bribes for Philippine contracts

A U.S. federal indictment has charged three current and former executives of Smartmatic in a scheme to pay more than $1 million in bribes to put its

Tragedy prevented by foiling plot to attack Swift concerts in Vienna, official says

Following the cancellation of three Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna over an apparent attack plot, Austria’s Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said yesterday in Vienna that “the

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