We spend a huge part of our social lives online. Over five billion people scroll, post and comment on social media every day, using these platforms to keep in touch, share experiences and express themselves. Yet social media is often blamed for making us lonelier, more anxious
SYDNEY, Dec 10 - Australian teenagers have taken to social media for the last time to farewell their followers and mourn the loss of the platforms that shaped much of their lives before a world-first ban took effect on Wednesday.
The price of the precious metal has topped $60 an ounce for the first time ever.
Some children have already died and only a minority who inherit the mutation will escape cancer in their lifetimes.
The new law requires tech platforms to ensure that Australians aged under 16 don't hold accounts.
More than 400,000 people have been evacuated in Thailand, with another 100,000 displaced in Cambodia.
On International Human Rights Day, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, emphasised the need to "reclaim" these fundamental values, which he says have been undermined in Europe.
The civil war in Sudan has spawned the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. The region is still grappling with past traumas.
Experts say Australia’s new social media ban might not change children’s online lives as much as regulators hope.
"Rage bait" has been named the word of the year by the Oxford University Press. It means social media content that is designed to create a strong and negative reaction.
BISC is an ultra-thin neural implant that creates a high-bandwidth wireless link between the brain and computers. Its tiny single-chip design packs tens of thousands of electrodes and supports advanced AI models for decoding movement, perception, and intent. Initial clinical
[ACSS] China has gained a dominant position in Africa's critical minerals sector through long-term investments in mining and refining capacity--factors that make it challenging for African countries to advance up the value chain.
Indian streaming giant JioHotstar is scaling its South India operations following dramatic audience growth over the past 10 months, with executives detailing the strategic rationale behind the platform’s INR4,000 crore ($445 million) content investment unveiled on Tuesday in
Mr Oh expressed regret that the difficulty level of the English section had turned out to be out of line with the purpose of absolute grading.
China's top court said courts must prioritise the well-being of children in their handling of cases.
[UN News] Countries rallied at UN Headquarters on Tuesday to shore up a key humanitarian fund that provides timely assistance for millions worldwide when conflict and climate-related disasters strike.
[The Conversation Africa] Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Guinea and Gabon have all suffered regime change in the last five years, led by men in military uniform.
Teenagers affected by Australia's under-16 social media ban showed the BBC what happened when they tried to access their accounts.
Nia DaCosta's sequel to Danny Boyle's '28 Years Later' opens in theaters on Jan. 16.
IMDb has unveiled its annual ranking of the most popular Indian series of 2025, with Aryan Khan’s “The Ba***ds of Bollywood” claiming the top spot among global viewers. The rankings are determined by page views from IMDb’s more than 250 million monthly visitors worldwide and
This public backlash against private English academies that administered entrance assessments to children below school age.
Some politicians have said that Lee's comments appeared to be directed at the Unification Church.
SEOUL, Dec 10 - South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has called for an investigation into the suspected illegal links between a religious group and politicians, Lee's office said on Wednesday.
Her son took his life after being bullied online and seeing posts that fuelled an eating disorder.
Kolahoi is one of many glaciers whose decline is disrupting whole ecosystems – water, wildlife and human life that it has supported for centuries From the slopes above Pahalgam, the Kolahoi glacier is visible as a thinning, rumpled ribbon of ice stretching across the western
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) expressed concern that Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies will not be extended before the end of this year. “It’s a tragedy,” Sanders told host Kaitlan Collins on CNN’s “The Source.” The Vermont progressive added that Americans “are not prepared”
The Donald Trump administration’s much-awaited National Security Strategy (NSS) landed last week with an audible thud. The somewhat truncated document is an odd combination of social media-style triumphalism and an effort to lay a strategic veneer on the administration’s often
The 137-member Cambodian sports delegation had attended the Games' opening ceremony a day ago.
Nearly 20,000 people died in the 2011 disaster, when a 9-magnitude tremor struck under the ocean.
"This decision was not made lightly," says the secretary-general of the committee of the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia.
His groundbreaking field research was instrumental in banning the international ivory trade and protecting elephants from poachers.
Scuffles broke out during a vote linked to attempts to reduce the former president's jail term.
Deep in the Abu Dhabi desert, a vast AI campus a quarter the size of Paris is starting to emerge, the oil-rich UAE's boldest bet yet on technology it hopes will help transform its economy. Towering cranes clank as long, low buildings take shape below, the eventual home of data
The International Film Festival of Kerala has unveiled a 14-title international competition lineup that stretches from India’s Khasi Hills to Latin America, East Asia and the Middle East, anchoring the 30th edition of the festival in Thiruvananthapuram from Dec. 12–19.
Companies that breach the law face fines of up to A$49.5 million.
US has called on both sides to immediately end hostilities.
Democrats on Tuesday flipped a state House seat in a red-leaning district in Georgia, delivering the party another notable win heading into next year's midterms. Democrat Eric Gisler was projected to defeat Republican Mack Guest IV in the special election in Georgia's House
Policymakers in Indonesia, Denmark, Brazil and other nations are moving to rein in Big Tech.
The president says he is focused on "making America affordable again", as cost of living becomes a campaign issue.
The House Rules Committee on Tuesday evening advanced a sweeping bipartisan defense policy bill following months of work by the House and Senate Armed Services committees, clearing a key procedural hurdle and sending it to the floor for consideration. The panel advanced the
Because pickaxe upgrades get pricey, and some recipes call for a calculator.
The incident in Australia comes after the man was jailed for nine days and deported from Singapore for public nuisance.
A new study led by the UvA suggests that even a fictional personality system, the Hogwarts houses from Harry Potter, can reveal meaningful patterns in real-world entrepreneurial mindsets.
