MUMBAI, India (AP) — Oscar-winning actor Michelle Yeoh has been elected as a member of the International Olympic Committee. Eight new IOC members were voted in to make a total of 107 drawn from royal families, sports officials, current and former athletes, and leaders from politics and industry. Yeoh has ties to the United Nations
Continue ReadingBy VANESSA GERA and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A complete ballot count confirms that three coalition parties that vowed to restore democratic standards in Poland together won over 54% of the votes in the nation’s weekend election. That puts them in a position to take power. The conservative Law and Justice
Continue ReadingBy SAMUEL PETREQUIN and STEVE DOUGLAS Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Sweden players have been returning to their clubs after taking an overnight flight home from Brussels following the suspension of their European Championship qualifier against Belgium at halftime because a gunman killed two Swedish nationals before kickoff. The squad went directly to the airport
Continue ReadingBy KRUTIKA PATHI Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s top court has refused to legalize same-sex marriages passing the responsibility back to Parliament. The ruling on Tuesday disappointed campaigners for LGBTQ+ rights in the world’s most populous country. The chief justice also urged the government to uphold the rights of the queer community and
Continue ReadingBy ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — Shares have fallen in Asia after China reported that its economy grew at a 4.9% annual pace in July-September, down from 6.3% in the previous quarter. U.S. futures also fell, while oil prices jumped $2. China’s National Bureau of Statistics said the world’s second-largest economy slowed
Continue ReadingBy Rhea Mogul, Manveena Suri, Vedika Sud, Sania Farooqui and Tanushree Pandey, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — India’s top court has declined to legally recognize same-sex unions in a landmark ruling that also emphasized the rights of the LGBTQ community to be free of prejudice and discrimination. Campaigners had sought to obtain the right to
Continue ReadingBy Jacqui Palumbo and Jennifer Arnow, CNN (CNN) — No matter what era of Madonna you first got to know her in — the fingerless gloves and crucifixes in the 1980s, the dominatrix alter ego of the ’90s or the Americana leather chaps and disco of the 2000s — the Queen of Pop’s latest tour
Continue ReadingCNN By Joshua Berlinger, CNN (CNN) — The myriad tunnels under Gaza are best known as passageways used to smuggle goods from Egypt and launch attacks into Israel. But there exists a second underground network that the Israel Defense Forces colloquially refer to as the “Gaza metro.” It’s a vast labyrinth of tunnels, by some
Continue ReadingBy Mayumi Maruyama and Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — Japan’s flag carrier had to make last minute changes to deal with excess weight – not from baggage, but from a group of passengers who just so happened to be sumo wrestlers. Japan Airlines (JAL) realized that two of its planes were at risk of exceeding
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, Tara John and Zahid Mahmood, CNN (CNN) — Palestinian officials say hundreds were killed by a massive blast at a Gaza hospital on Tuesday, as humanitarian concerns mount over Israel’s deprivation of food, fuel and electricity to the enclave’s population. Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital was sheltering thousands of displaced people when it was
Continue ReadingBy Michelle Toh, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Chinese tech giant Baidu is officially taking on GPT-4. On Tuesday, the company unveiled ERNIE 4.0, the newest version of its artificial intelligence chatbot that it directly compared to the latest iteration of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The new ERNIE Bot “is not inferior in any aspect to GPT-4,”
Continue ReadingBy LORNE COOK, SYLVAIN PLAZY and RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — Authorities in the Belgian capital shot and killed a Tunisian national on Tuesday hours after they say he gunned down three Swedish soccer fans, killing two of them, and posted a video online in which he claimed credit for the attack and
Continue ReadingBy SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China is hosting its third international forum centered around President Xi Jinping’s signature policy, the Belt and Road Initiative, which over the past 10 years has built infrastructure across continents, burdening some smaller countries with debt. The forum which begins Tuesday brings a flurry of diplomacy to
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — An artsy quarter of Madrid, a sustainable pocket of Melbourne, and an up-and-coming zone in Medellin – what do these places have in common? They’re among the coolest neighborhoods in the world, according to global publisher Time Out. Every year, Time Out polls its staffers and contributors from around
Continue ReadingBy ZEN SOO AP Technology Writer HONG KONG (AP) — The Chinese search engine and artificial intelligence firm Baidu has launched the latest version of its artificial intelligence model Ernie 4.0. Baidu claims it rivals models such as GPT-4 in the U.S. Baidu CEO Robin Li demonstrated Ernie 4.0 at the company’s annual Baidu World
Continue ReadingÁngela Reyes Haczek (CNN) — Si te perdiste el eclipse anular que creó un “anillo de fuego” sobre América en octubre de 2023 no te preocupes: otro eclipse está en camino, y ofrecerá un espectáculo diferente. Ahora puedes seguirnos en WhatsApp Channel El 8 de abril, los observadores del cielo de Norteamérica disfrutarán de un eclipse
Continue ReadingBy NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMYA KULLAB, RAVI NESSMAN and MATTHEW LEE Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — A massive blast rocked a Gaza City hospital packed with wounded and other Palestinians seeking shelter Tuesday, killing hundreds of people, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said. Hamas blamed an Israeli airstrike, while the Israeli military blamed a
Continue ReadingBy CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing on Tuesday for a visit that underscores China’s support for Moscow during its war in Ukraine as well as Russian backing for China’s bid to expand its economic and diplomatic influence abroad. The two countries have forged an informal
Continue ReadingBy DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Stalled spending on electrical grids worldwide is slowing the rollout of renewable energy and could put efforts to limit climate change at risk if millions of miles of power lines are not added or refurbished in the next few years, the International Energy Agency said.
Continue ReadingBy ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is scheduled to be questioned under oath as part of lawsuits from two former FBI employees who provoked the former president’s outrage after sending each other pejorative text messages about him. The deposition is scheduled to take place Tuesday in New York. Peter Strzok, who
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