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Blue Origin crew including Katy Perry and Gayle King readies space launch mission

All-female crew including Jeff Bezos’s fiancee Lauren Sánchez to blast off from Texas on Monday morningSix women – including the pop star Katy Perry and morning TV host Gayle King

Detecting prostate cancer: why we need more research

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Good news at last: just a little exercise can reduce the risk of dementia | Devi Sridhar

A recent study shows the benefit of being a middle-aged ‘weekend warrior’ who only exercises once or twice a weekIn these bleak times, glimmers of hope often seem to come

Israeli attack puts last functioning hospital in Gaza City out of service

The last functioning hospital in Gaza City has been put out of action by an Israeli strike at the weekend, while a child patient with reported head trauma died while

Sudan war: ‘Darkest chapters’ ahead as Darfur massacre claims over 100 lives

As Sudan’s devastating war enters its third year, UN rights investigators are warning that its “darkest chapters” may still lie ahead, following the massacre of more than 100 people at

Thousands of Gaza patients waiting for urgent medical evacuation

The Israeli bombardment of Al-Ahli, a Gaza City hospital, has put even more pressure on the remaining health facilities in the occupied Palestinian territory, where the delivery of aid and

UN forum on People of African Descent examines reparations and AI challenge

The fourth session of the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent opened on Monday at United Nations Headquarters in New York.  

World News in Brief: Gaza aid crisis worsens, South Sudan clashes, Ecuador oil spill update

The humanitarian situation in Gaza is now likely the worst it has been in the 18 months since the outbreak of hostilities, the UN relief coordination office, OCHA, reported on

Millions displaced, health system in ruins as Sudan war fuels famine

More than 12.4 million people have been forced from their homes across Sudan – including over 3.3 million refugees who have fled to neighbouring countries – as two years of

Sudan: 15 million children require humanitarian assistance after two years of war

The number of children in need of humanitarian assistance in Sudan has doubled as the war between rival militaries enters a third year on Tuesday.  

Meta AI ‘Piracy’ Lawsuit: Publishers and Professors Challenge Fair Use Defense

Tech companies are racing to build the most powerful Artificial Intelligence (AI) but how these systems are trained is now mired in controversy. Many major tech firms allegedly used huge

Against Animal Farming

The farming of animals—raising, using, and ultimately killing animals for human purposes—is a tradition that dates back to the Neolithic Revolution, about 11,000 years ago. That’s only 3 percent—a mere