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October 10, 2024
UK firm GSK to pay $2.2bn over Zantac cancer claims
October 09, 2024
Google DeepMind scientists share Nobel Prize in chemistry for work on proteins
October 09, 2024
Viktor Orbán and Ursula von der Leyen clash in fiery debate at European Parliament
STOCKHOLM — The 2024 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for their fundamental discoveries in machine learning, which paved the way for how artificial intelligence is used today.Hopfield, a professor at Princeton University and Hinton, a computer scientist at the University of Toronto, were praised for laying the foundations for the machine learning that powers many of today’s AI-based products and applications. Hinton, however, has also expressed fears about AI’s future development, cutting ties with his former employer Google in order to speak more freely on the issue.“Their work was fundamental in laying the cornerstones for what we experience today as artificial intelligence,” Mark Pearce, a member of the Nobel Committee of physics,...
October 09, 2024
‘Godfather of AI’ shares Nobel Prize in physics for work on machine learning
PARIS — A pair of red shoes, two beaded necklaces and a British 10p coin are among the few clues that could help to identify a teenage girl found murdered in western France more than 40 years ago.Her death is one of 46 cold cases European police are seeking to solve as part of the second phase of a campaign aimed at finding the names of unidentified murdered women.BBC coverage of last year’s appeal helped to identify a British woman some 30 years after her murder.“We want to identify the deceased women, bring answers to families, and deliver justice to the victims,” Jürgen Stock, secretary-general of Interpol, which is coordinating the effort, said in a statement on Tuesday.“Whether it is a memory, a tip, or a shared story, the smallest detail could help uncover the truth.”The...
October 08, 2024
Interpol asks public to help crack new missing women cases
October 07, 2024
Nobel Prize goes to microRNA researchers
KYIV — Ildar Dadin, a well-known Russian opposition activist who was fighting in Ukraine on the side of Kyiv, has been killed in action, according to the group that recruited him.A spokeswoman for that group, the Civic Council, told the BBC that Dadin had died, adding that "he was, and he remains a hero".The activist-turned-fighter was killed when soldiers from his volunteer battalion, the Freedom of Russia Legion, came under Russian artillery fire in the Kharkiv region of north-eastern Ukraine.For now, there are no more details and the Legion itself won’t comment whilst it says a military operation is still active.But Ilia Ponamarev, an exiled Russian opposition politician with previous links to the Legion, has told the BBC he is "certain, alas" that Dadin is...
October 07, 2024
Russian opposition activist killed fighting for Ukraine
BEDFORDSHIRE — A British climber who went missing in the Himalayas has spoken of her relief after surviving for two days in "brutal" conditions that put her life in danger.Fay Manners, originally from Bedfordshire, and her climbing partner, Michelle Dvorak from the United States, were stranded on Chaukhamba mountain in northern India when the rope lifting their food, tent and climbing equipment snapped, leaving them without supplies.The pair sent an emergency message at more than 20,000ft (6,096m), but search and rescue teams had initially been unable to find them.Ms Manners told the BBC the pair were "terrified" as they tried to make part of the descent alone, before being met by rescuers.Ms Manners is an alpinist, a mountain climber who specializes in difficult...
October 07, 2024
Climbers rescued after three days on mountain
October 04, 2024
At least 15 killed in severe flooding after heavy rainstorm hits Bosnia
October 04, 2024
EU hits China with tariffs in electric car sales battle
