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FILE - A teenage boy uses his phone in Sydney, Nov. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)
08 Sep, 2026 0

Australian social media users to be offered choice to opt out of algorithms

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian social media users would be given a choice to opt out of algorithms under proposed laws announced by the government Tuesday that would let users have more control…
Travelers wait for their flights at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, Indonesia.
07 Sep, 2026 0

Flights cancelled as Anak Krakatau volcano erupts

JAKARTA (AP): Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau volcano erupted early Sunday, prompting the cancellation of all flights at Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport and disrupting operations at other…
A contestant competes on a game show called Masoyinbo, which translates to ‘Do not speak English,’ in Lagos, Nigeria.
07 Sep, 2026 0

Africa’s mother tongues are finding new life

HARARE (AP): A television game show in Nigeria’s commercial hub of Lagos has an unforgiving rule: Speak English and you lose. For a US-born millennial in the audience, and a student of her parents’…
A technician cleans solar panels installed on the roof of a home in Omdurman, on the outskirts of Khartoum, Sudan.
07 Sep, 2026 0

War-driven blackouts push residents towards solar power but high costs shut many out

OMDURMAN (AP): For almost a year, Randa al-Mansour, a 31-year-old Sudanese housewife, has relied on solar-energy panels installed on the rooftop of her building to survive the recurrent blackouts…
Pedro Gomez (left) walks through La Guaira, Venezuela, with a friend, asking people if they have seen his cousin, Andres Molina.
07 Sep, 2026 0

Venezuela | Months after quakes, a family refuses still searches for missing relative

CARACAS (AP): Antonella Molina, her nephew Pedro Molina and a group of friends set out at 8 a.m. on a recent Saturday, hands full of flyers, walking carefully through the rubble that remains…
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07 Sep, 2026 0

Former Cuban President Raúl Castro reappears at a military event

HAVANA (AP): Former Cuban President Raúl Castro reappeared in public at a military event that celebrated the anniversary of an army branch responsible for protecting its top leaders. Cuban state…
A boy plays in wet sand as others swim and commercial vessels lie anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran.
07 Sep, 2026 0

Daily life in Iran on the beach along the Strait of Hormuz

BANDAR ABBAS (AP): As global attention focuses on the Strait of Hormuz, some Iranians are able to see its waters as a haven. A child plays with a toy on the beach in Kuhestak, and others soak in the…
From left: Atlant Bieri, Pia Viviani and Marcel van der Heijden pose with the trophy during the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony held in the Zurich Convention Center in Zurich, Switzerland, last Thursday.
06 Sep, 2026 0

Scientists studying cockroach milk and nose-blowing win Ig Nobel prizes for quirky science

Ten research teams were honoured last Thursday at a satirical science awards ceremony that was hosted outside the United States (US) for the first time because of travel concerns. Researchers who…
A participant who goes by ‘Ciclope’, or Cyclops, competes in an aura-farming battle at Las Sombrillas beach in Lima, Peru.
06 Sep, 2026 0

‘Aura farming’ trend inspired by video games is sweeping Latin America

LIMA, Peru (AP) Dozens of young people gathered recently on a beach in Peru’s capital to dance, pose and show off their most creative moves – all in pursuit of one thing: aura. They were taking part…