On 15 August 2021, 21-year-old Sam Pordale and his father found themselves part of a huge, panicked crowd of people all trying to get to Kabul airport and away from the Taliban militants who, just hours earlier, had taken control of Afghanistan’s capital city. Between the crowd and the entrance to the airport, Pordale could…
Streeting tells MPs he does not want ‘corridor care’ in hospitals to be normalised Wes Streeting, the health secretary, has told MPs that he does not want “corridor care” – patients being treated in corridors because beds are not available in wards – to be normalised. In a Commons statement, he said he wanted to…
In December, Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, donated $1 million to President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inaugural fund, joining a number of other tech executives who are working to improve their relationships with Mr. Trump. Now, he and his company are laying out their vision for the development of artificial intelligence in the United States, hoping…
Authorities ordered the shutdown of two furnaces at a Mexican recycling plant that processes hazardous waste exported from the US, after an investigation by the Guardian and Quinto Elemento Lab that revealed heavy metals contamination in nearby homes and schools. A team from the environmental agency of the Mexican state of Nuevo León visited the…
The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, will not attend Donald Trump’s inauguration, but he is sending his vice-president, Han Zheng, as his special representative. The decision, announced on Friday in China by the foreign ministry, came more than a month after Trump extended the unusual invitation to Xi, a break from tradition since no heads of…
PM says reports of latest antisemitic attack ‘an outrage’ Anthony Albanese is speaking with ABC RN amid reports of an antisemitic attack in Dover Heights overnight. Sunrise reported that two cars were allegedly torched in the area just before 4am, with red paint thrown across a nearby house. We’ll bring you further details on this…
The prosecution: Lian Jing doesn’t want to eat the same thing twice in a week. It’s ridiculous to waste food My little sister Jing and I live together in an apartment owned by our parents. I work in finance, while Jing is doing her master’s. We split some of the cooking duties, but in reality I end…
Sudan’s military and its allies have taken back a strategic city from the rebel Rapid Support Forces, officials said. The recapture of Wad Madani, the capital of Gezira province, took place more than a year after it fell to the RSF. Wad Madani had previously been a haven for displaced families in the early months…