Twitter has apologised for a “racist” image cropping algorithm, after users discovered the feature was automatically focusing on white faces over black ones. The company says...
The job of harvesting cauliflowers could one day be in the mechanical hands of robots thanks to a collaboration between scientists and the French canned vegetable...
8.21pm EDT 20:21 Australian state of Victoria seeing steady downward case trend The state of Victoria in Australia is reporting a steady downward trend in daily...
Health officials have expressed alarm after huge crowds descended on Blackpool hours after it was excluded from coronavirus restrictions due to come into force this week....
The resistance movement forged in the early days of Donald Trump’s presidency now faces perhaps its greatest challenge: keeping open a supreme court vacancy that, if...
7.49pm EDT 19:49 What’s it like to be part of a Covid-19 vaccine trial? Alex Spring spoke to Australian Josh McGrane, an associate professor and educational...
After pounding parts of western and central Greece meteorologists have predicted a rare Mediterranean hurricane is headed south towards the island of Crete. Authorities struggling to...
The Pret a Manger head office in Victoria, London, has all the trappings of an internet startup: the open-plan kitchen offering free coffee, fruit and snacks;...
People in the queue to be tested for Covid-19 at the Buenos Aires health centre in south Madrid on Friday morning were met with a bleak...
The coronavirus pandemic moved to the centre of the US election again on Friday, as a former senior official on the White House taskforce turned on...
1.06pm EDT 13:06 Boris Johnson admits government considering extra national lockdown measures The Prime Minister said his administration is considering whether it needed to “go further”...
Graphic photos that surfaced online this week appear to show deep bruises on the face of a Black man who died following a police chase in...
This week, the question is: “Why is Biden polling better than Clinton did in 2016?” Polls don’t necessarily determine who will win an election, as anyone...
7.06pm EDT 19:06 These are the ten worst-affected countries worldwide in terms of the total number of cases – while the populations of countries do mean...
As wildfires continued to burn across America’s west coast, with smoke reaching as far as Europe, California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, issued a stark warning on climate,...
Here’s some of the latest on the wildfires from the Associated Press, which reports that the smoke from the western United States is stretching clear across...
12.29am EDT 00:29 Southern hemisphere has record low flu cases amid Covid lockdowns Health systems across the southern hemisphere were bracing a few months ago for...
Hurricane Sally left a trail of chaos and damage on the US Gulf coast on Wednesday, with pounding rain and winds whipping above 100mph as the...
The top congressional Democrat, the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, has joined mounting calls for an investigation into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention centre in...
Thousands of migrating birds have inexplicably died in south-western US in what ornithologists have described as a national tragedy that is likely to be related to...
12.01am EDT 00:01 India passes 5 million coronavirus cases India’s coronavirus cases have passed 5 million, testing the country’s feeble health care system in tens of...
Apple has unveiled a fully revamped iPad Air alongside a faster version of its cheapest iPad and new Apple One subscription service. The new fourth-generation iPad...
Egypt is building two highways across the pyramids plateau outside Cairo, reviving and expanding a project that was suspended in the 1990s after an international outcry....
Good morning. Boris Johnson won his first vote on the internal market bill very easily last night, but the morning papers won’t bring him much comfort...
10.52pm EDT 22:52 The New York Times reports that coronavirus cases in the midwestern United States have reached an all-time high for the region: Case numbers...
Good morning, this is Emilie Gramenz bringing you the main stories and must-reads on Tuesday 15 September. Top stories Pressure is mounting on the federal government...
The Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been taken off a ventilator and is able to leave his bed for short periods of time, German doctors...
