Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter) has sued the watchdog group Media Matters alleging it manufactured a report to show advertisers' posts alongside neo-Nazi and white nationalist content. Major US companies including Disney, Warner Bros and Sky News' parent company Comcast pulled advertising from X over concerns about their ads showing...
Frank Borman: NASA astronaut dies aged 95
Astronaut Frank Borman, who commanded NASA's first Apollo mission to the moon, has died aged 95. Borman commanded Apollo 8's historic Christmas 1968 flight, which saw the spacecraft circle the moon 10 times - paving the way for the following year's lunar landing. He died on Tuesday 7 November in...
World’s first whole-eye transplant hailed as breakthrough – but sight not yet restored
Surgeons have performed the world's first ever whole-eye transplant, a feat hailed as a breakthrough despite the patient not yet regaining his sight. Doctors "never expected it to work at all", patient Aaron James said, but the eye has shown signs of health, such as functioning blood vessels and a...
Racial bias in AI: Officers questioned father in watch theft probe after he was wrongly identified by facial recognition technology
Three years ago in Detroit, Robert Williams arrived home from work to find the police waiting at his front door, ready to arrest him for a crime he hadn't committed. Facial recognition technology used by officers had mistaken Williams for a suspect who had stolen thousands of dollars worth of...
Man cleared of sexually assaulting child after 35 years in prison
A man who spent 35 years behind bars in the US after being wrongly convicted of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl has been freed from prison thanks to a DNA breakthrough. Louis Wright, now aged 65, had lived near the child's home in Albion, Michigan, at the time of the...
Five US service members killed after aircraft suffers ‘mishap’ during training mission
Five US service members have been killed on a routine training mission after the military aircraft carrying them suffered a "mishap" and crashed into the sea. The military personnel were taking part in a routine air refueling mission in the eastern Mediterranean Sea on Friday as part of their training,...
Former Spanish FA president Luis Rubiales says ‘the truth hasn’t surfaced’ in interview days before court appearance
Luis Rubiales has said the "truth hasn't surfaced" relating to the kiss that overshadowed Spain's World Cup triumph, thrust him into the spotlight and cost him his job. The former Spanish FA president is due to testify in court this Friday over his allegedly unsolicited kiss on the lips of...
Cruise ship carrying 206 people runs aground in Greenland – and rescue will not arrive until Friday
A cruise ship with 206 passengers and crew on board has run aground in northwestern Greenland - and rescuers will not arrive until Friday at the earliest, authorities said. The Ocean Explorer ran aground on Monday in Alpefjord in a national park 870 miles (1,400km) northeast of Greenland's capital Nuuk,...
Libya floods: At least 30,000 displaced, with fatalities expected to rise significantly
At least 30,000 people have been displaced in the town hardest hit by floods in Libya. Meanwhile, a minister has said 5,300 bodies in the country's east have been recovered - with the number of fatalities expected to rise significantly. Officials are appealing for international help, and have warned Libya...
Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi says it will spend $6bn US prisoner swap funds ‘wherever we need it’
Iran's president has said his government will decide how it will spend $6bn released by the United States under a prisoner exchange deal. The US has issued a sanctions waiver for international banks to transfer the billions in frozen Iranian funds - paving the way for the release of a...