Hong Kong hospital uses VR tour to ease children’s fears ahead of operations
Eight-year-old Aidan was terrified at the prospect of having to undergo an operation at the Hong Kong Children’s Hospital in Kowloon Bay in 2024....
Pressure mounts on UK government to ban Kanye West after festival backlash
The British government was under growing pressure on Monday to bar American rapper Kanye West from entering the country after he was named as...
Strait of Hormuz: are France and Germany just out to ‘manage their irrelevance’?
France and Germany have ramped up diplomatic efforts to contain the fallout from an escalating Middle East oil crisis, seeking to project European autonomy...
The danger in the Global South’s pursuit of AI as a magical cure
Much Western discourse on artificial intelligence has lately focused on establishing safeguards and installing guardrails against powerful new AI systems, algorithmic bias, the collusion...
Video brings new scrutiny to Minnesota ICE shooting after charges against 2 men collapsed
The city of Minneapolis released a video on Monday showing a chase and scuffle that ended in a non-fatal shooting in January and the...
Venezuela’s government, opposition may cooperate to safeguard US assets
Venezuela’s government and its political opposition are seeking to coordinate their legal defence of the oil-rich country’s United States assets, after Washington’s official recognition...
Supreme Court clears path to overturn conviction of ex-Trump aide Steve Bannon
The US Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for Steve Bannon, a former adviser to US President Donald Trump, to overturn his conviction...
Trump hails Iran rescue, warns of strikes as deadline looms
Sounding triumphant following what the White House described as a daring operation to rescue a wounded American pilot from Iran, US President Donald Trump...
3 dead, 15 injured as Russia hits Ukraine’s port city Odesa in major drone strike
At least three people were killed on Monday in the latest powerful Russian drone strikes on the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa. Fifteen...