Explosion at China fireworks factory kills 26 people
A blast at a fireworks factory in Hunan province has killed 26 people and injured 61, state media report.
A blast at a fireworks factory in Hunan province has killed 26 people and injured 61, state media report.
Jefferson Lewis, the man accused of murdering five-year-old Kumanjayi Little Baby near a town camp on the outskirts of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory last week, has been excused from his first court appearance. Lewis, 47, was expected to appear in the Alice Springs Local Court via video-link on Tuesday morning, charged with murder…
OpenAI on Monday began emailing more than 8,000 developers who applied for its invite-only GPT-5.5 party with a surprise consolation prize: a tenfold increase in Codex rate limits on their personal ChatGPT accounts, effective immediately and lasting through June 5. “We had over 8,000 people express interest in just 24 hours, and while we wish…
Matthew Rhys is leading a BBC drama exploring the work of one the most iconic British journalists of all time. The Americans and Beast in Me star is playing former Sunday Times editor Harry Evans in Dragon Slayers, which will act as a potted 20th century history of UK investigatory work including when Evans’ team…
Andrea Orcel, chief executive officer of Unicredit, in London, UK, on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images UniCredit CEO Andrea Orcel told CNBC Tuesday that he does not foresee a future where the Italian lender fully controls Commerzbank. Orcel’s comments came as the Italian lender’s tender offer to raise its stake…
Nouakchott, Mauritania – Moulay Ould Rais waited to pick up his son and daughter from a government-owned school in west Nouakchott’s Sahraoui neighbourhood. As the closing bell rang at the Abdellahi Ould Nouegued Basic School, streams of pre-teen children rushed out into the hallways with their bulky schoolbags and lunch boxes. Recommended Stories list of…
On April 17, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California sent a command to turn off an instrument on Voyager 1 known as the Low-energy Charged Particles experiment, or LECP. The spacecraft, powered by a nuclear energy source, is gradually losing power, and shutting down this instrument is the most effective way…
Swipe at US president appears to wipe out year-long effort to establish rapport
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The second round of the 2026 NBA postseason began on Tuesday, and it gave severe “opposite day” vibes. The first matchup between New York and Philadelphia was supposed to be the start of what most expected to be the most competitive series of the round, a rematch of an epic 2024 series that went six…