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...
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...
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,...
Elon Musk says artificial intelligence isn’t ‘necessary for anything’
Elon Musk has hit out at artificial intelligence (AI), saying it is not "necessary for anything we're doing". The Tesla, Twitter and SpaceX owner claimed super-intelligence was "a double-edged sword". "If you have a genie that can grant you anything, that presents a danger," according to the billionaire, who said...
Toddler finds gun in sofa and accidentally kills himself
A 2-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed himself after finding a gun on the sofa at the family's home in Michigan. The boyfriend of the toddler's mother has been charged with involuntary manslaughter. Markus Nevills Jr, 22, objected to being charged at his first court appearance. Nevills told police he...
Two other Memphis police officers and three firefighters fired after Tire Nichols’ fatal beating
The consequences of the fatal beating that Tire Nichols, a 29-year-old black man, suffered at the hands of the police now includes the firing of two more Memphis officers, adding to the five who had already been fired previously. In addition, three members of the city's fire brigade were removed...
Biden plans to end the national covid-19 and public health emergency on May 11
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, plans to end the national emergency of covid-19 and public health emergencies on May 11, the White House announced this Monday. In an administration policy statement opposing two Republican measures to end emergencies, the White House said the national emergency and public...