By AFPChinese internet search giant Baidu released a new artificial intelligence reasoning model Sunday and made its AI chatbot services free to consumers as ferocious competition grips the sector.Technology companies in China have been scrambling to...

By AFP/Tomohiro OSAKIOnly seven years into her marriage did Yuki Niimi first touch her husband -- at a morgue where she collected his body after he was executed, and kissed him in a coffin.Before that a glass screen had always separated her from her...

By AFPCost-slashers of President Donald Trump and his billionaire friend Elon Musk seized control Monday of the US Institute of Peace, ousting the leader of the taxpayer-funded center for conflict resolution.The non-violent show of resistance befitti...

By AFP/Max DELANYThe EU led the way as donors on Monday pledged $5.8 billion euros in aid for Syria at a conference in Brussels -- but the call for funding to help the war-torn country after Bashar al-Assad's ouster fell short of last year as US supp...

By AFP/Margioni BERMÚDEZMervin Yamarte's family in Venezuela thought the 29-year-old -- arrested by US authorities amid President Donald Trump's migrant crackdown -- would be put on a deportation flight home. But the plane never arrived.Instead, they...

By AFPA man in tears struggled Wednesday to retrieve the body of a small boy from under the rubble of a building in Gaza City hit by a recent wave of Israeli air strikes.One by one, relatives and neighbours used a sledgehammer to try to break apart t...

By AFPIsrael must evacuate all settlers from the West Bank and make reparations for decades of illegal settlement, the UN rights chief said Tuesday, describing the policy as "a war crime"."The transfer by Israel of parts of its own civilian populatio...

By AFPElon Musk's SpaceX subsidiary Starlink is the most widely-known firm offering satellite communications, but the sector is the scene of hot competition between several groups.Depending on their technology, different players can offer widely vary...

By AFP/Pol-Malo LE BRISA pioneering rigid shipping mast has set off on its first journey, harnessing the wind to propel a cargo ship from England to Canada and using less fuel to help reduce emissions.After a night of work and a short nap, George Tho...

By AFP/Ebrahim HARRISAs dusk fell, hundreds of Muslims at a mosque in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur feast on bowls of fragrant rice porridge known locally as "bubur lambuk", part of a Ramadan tradition dating back decades.Slow-cooked with var...

By AFP/Amélie BOTTOLLIER-DEPOISSeveral countries united with campaign groups Monday to call for caution in regulating the divisive practice of deep-sea mining at a meeting on the issue in Jamaica.Members of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) ar...

By AFPIranians on Tuesday lit bonfires in the streets and jumped over them, carrying on an ancient tradition ahead of the Persian New Year to purify themselves and ward off evil spirits.The fire festival, called Chaharshanbe Suri, is celebrated every...