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Chris BockmanIn southern FrancePascal POCHARD-CASABIANCA/AFPAlain Orsoni was shot at his mother’s funeral service in his native village of VeroThe mourners had gathered in the small village of Vero, a half-hour drive from Ajaccio, the capital of the picture-postcard Mediterranean island of Corsica.In their midst was former nationalist leader Alain Orsoni, 71, who had flown in from exile in Nicaragua to bury his mother. Suddenly, with the ceremony under way, a single shot was fired from nearby scrubland, killing Orsoni instantly.Thirty-five people have been fatally shot on this island of 350,000 people in the past three years alone, giving it one…
Eswatini TourismUS YouTuber IShowSpeed took part in an initiation ceremony to become a warrior in EswatiniOne of the world’s most popular content creators has been attracting huge crowds, mostly his young fans, as he undertakes a 20-nation tour of Africa, a continent he says is “full of surprises”.Pre-teen boys in Rwanda and Ethiopia cried with joy and excitement as they hugged their online hero in real life – known by his gamer tag IShowSpeed or simply Speed, who now has more than 48 million YouTube subscribers. He is famous for his high-tempo, frenetic and totally unscripted broadcasts that last anything…
An Australian man took a dive into a flooded golf course on Sydney’s northern beaches as heavy rains and thunderstorms lashed coastal communities.Craig Finniss soaked up the opportunity by swimming a lap of the waterlogged course at Palm Beach.Residents in some nearby suburbs were ordered to evacuate their homes due to flash flooding, as 180mm of rain hit some parts of Sydney over the weekend, according to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.
Soldiers are on standby for possible deployment to Minneapolis, a US defence official has told CBS News, the BBC’s US partner. The official said the 1,500 soldiers, currently in Alaska, are an option for the US president if he decided to use active duty military personnel, as anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) demonstrations continued in the city on Saturday.No decision has yet been made on whether to deploy the soldiers from Alaska, the official said.Minnesota officials have urged protesters to stay orderly and peaceful during demonstrations after an ICE agent shot dead US citizen Renee Good earlier this month. The…
It’s effectively a mobile garage and is kitted out with spare parts, tools, a fridge and vast stores of brown food. All hands on deck Each crew has just 25 minutes to service their car, which normally involves changing tyres, refuelling and attending to any mechanical problems. Ours works like a well-sorted Formula 1 team when our Peugeot comes in for its stops. Sure, we don’t have the wheels swapped in under two seconds, but everyone knows their job. I leave the mechanical tasks to the others and instead prepare hot drinks and food (lots of coffee and carbs), clean…
Instagram/@detailanceJi says he has become more self-conscious interacting with younger colleaguesJi Seung-ryeol, 41, prides himself on his sense of fashion. He diligently shares mirror selfies on Instagram, where everyone knows the more likes you get, the cooler you are. So he was bewildered to find out that men his age have become the subject of ridicule online, mocked for shoehorning their way into styles associated with Gen Z and younger millennials.AI-generated caricatures of this demographic have gone viral on social media: a middle-aged man decked out in street wear and clutching an iPhone. The kids call them “Young 40s”.The memes…
Rebecca Morelle, Alison Francis and Kevin ChurchScience team Watch: Timelapse shows Nasa rocket’s 12-hour journey to launch padNasa’s mega rocket has been moved to the launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida, as the final preparations get underway for the first crewed mission to the Moon in more than 50 years.Over almost 12 hours, the 98m-tall Space Launch System was carried vertically from the Vehicle Assembly Building on the 4-mile (6.5km) journey to the pad.Now it is in position, the final tests, checks – and a dress rehearsal – will take place, before the go-ahead is given for the 10-day Artemis…
Faisal IslamEconomics editorGetty ImagesUS President Donald Trump’s apparently coercive threat to force Western allies not to oppose his proposed annexation of Greenland, or face further damage to their trade with the US, is without both parallel and precedent.We’ve had some unusual and unexpected economic threats from President Trump over the past year, but I think it is safe to say this exceeds all of them, and takes us into both surreal and utterly dangerous territory.If taken at face value, it is a form of economic war being levied by the White House on its closest allies.That’s because it targets allies…
Most Apple products are pretty expensive, but some of the most affordable (and useful) ones are AirTags. The Bluetooth trackers are priced pretty reasonably even when not on sale, but they can be a steal if you can get them on a discount — like right now. A four pack of AirTags is on sale for $65 at Amazon, which is only a few dollars more than the record-low price we saw during Black Friday this year.AppleThat’s a near-record low price on the Bluetooth trackers. $65 at AmazonAirTags can be useful for people who travel frequently, helping you to keep…
We now have some idea of what’s at stake in the longstanding feud between Elon Musk and OpenAI. As first reported by Bloomberg, the latest filing, as part of a lawsuit that accuses the AI giant of abandoning its non-profit status, claims that Musk is owed anywhere between $79 billion and $134 billion in damages from the “wrongful gains” of OpenAI and Microsoft.Musk claimed in the filing that he’s entitled to a portion of OpenAI’s recent valuation at $500 billion, after contributing $38 million in “seed funding” during the AI company’s startup years. Along with providing “roughly 60 percent of…