One person was killed and several others were hurt when a massive fire broke out at a luxury beach resort in the Dominican Republic on Friday, local officials said. The fire broke out at around 11 a.m. at Viva Wyndham Dominicus Beach, a four-star resort in the town of Bayahibe in the La Altagracia…
At least 12 people were shot Saturday when gunmen, possibly aiming for each other, opened fire near a summer festival in Toledo, Ohio, officials said. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Gunfire erupted just after 5:30 p.m. near the Old West End Festival in Toledo by…
MultiChoice is bracing for a major organizational shake-up following its acquisition by French media giant Groupe Canal+. While a three-year retrenchment moratorium imposed by South African competition authorities temporarily protects local workers, industry experts warn it may merely delay deeper job cuts rather than prevent them entirely. Read: Bandwidth Blog & Smile 90.4FM Tech Tuesday:…
Getty Images The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant has the world’s largest installed capacity Japan has restarted operations at the world’s largest nuclear power plant for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima disaster forced the country to shut all of its reactors. The decision to restart reactor number 6 at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa north-west of Tokyo was…
Fire at Fuerte Tiuna, Venezuela’s largest military complex, is seen from a distance after a series of explosions in Caracas on Jan. 3, 2026. Str | Afp | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday the United States conducted a large-scale strike in Venezuela that resulted in the capture and removal of Venezuelan President…
Amazon Proteus robots demonstrate autonomous navigation using barcodes on the floor during the Delivering the Future event at the Amazon Robotics Innovation Hub in Westborough, Massachusetts, US, on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Artificial intelligence is widening the productivity gap between large and small companies, lifting up bigger firms that…
Fabricio Bloisi, CEO at Prosus. Naspers unit Prosus has introduced large commerce models (LCMs) – agentic artificial intelligence (AI) systems that it says are set to replace traditional search and recommendation engines. In a statement today, the company says the LCM has been trained on Prosus’s global database of commercial transactions, continually learning from over…
A manhunt was underway late Wednesday for the killer of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated earlier in the day by a gunman, while speaking to a crowd of several thousand people at Utah Valley University in Orem. An initial suspect was released from custody after being interrogated by law enforcement officers, said…
Danai Nesta Kupemba BBC News Star Tribune via Getty Images/Minnesota State Senate Melissa Hortman (left) and John Hoffman (right) A manhunt is under way in Minnesota after two state lawmakers were targeted and one of them killed on Saturday morning in what Governor Tim Walz called an “act of targeted political violence”. Melissa Hortman, 55,…
