Naples paints the town blue for first Scudetto since Maradona era
The face of a young Diego Armando Maradona gazes down from a mural in Naples’ Miracles Square, watching the city gear up for a celebration it hasn’t enjoyed since ...
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Mexican prosecutors investigating murder in deadly fire at migrant center (Update)
Migrants were locked in a cell as a blaze spread killing 39 people at a detention center in Mexico, witnesses and a survivor said on Wednesday, as Mexican prosecutors said they ...
Russia’s Wagner chief says battle for Bakhmut has damaged his forces
The head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group acknowledged on Wednesday that fighting for the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut had inflicted severe damage on his own forces as well as ...
Spurs director Paratici’s ban extended worldwide by FIFA
FIFA have extended bans imposed on past and present Juventus officials to apply worldwide, world football’s governing body said on Wednesday, with Tottenham Hotspur’s current managing director of ...
Elon Musk and others urge AI pause, citing ‘risks to society’
Elon Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives are calling for a six-month pause in developing systems more powerful than OpenAI’s newly launched GPT-4, in ...
BYD posts 11-fold jump in Q4 profit
Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD Co Ltd (002594.SZ) reported an 11-fold increase in fourth-quarter profit as it extended its lead in the domestic market with a wide range of products.
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Ukraine hits Russian-held city deep behind front
Ukraine struck a railway depot and knocked out power in the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol deep behind the front line on Wednesday amid growing talk from Kyiv of a counterassault ...
French Constitutional Council to rule on pension bill on April 14
France’s Constitutional Council will issue a much-awaited verdict on April 14 on whether the government’s plans to increase the retirement age are in line with constitutional rules, it said ...
WHO revises COVID-19 vaccine recommendations for Omicron-era
The World Health Organization has tailored its COVID-19 vaccination recommendations for a new phase of the pandemic, suggesting that healthy children and adolescents may not necessarily need a shot but ...
Housing market in tech hubs cooling faster than other parts of US
Housing markets in tech hubs are cooling more rapidly than other parts of the United States amid a wave of layoffs in the technology sector and elevated mortgage rates, according ...
EU countries approve 2035 phaseout of CO2-emitting vehicles
European Union countries gave final approval on Tuesday to a landmark law to end sales of new CO2-emitting cars in 2035, after Germany won an exemption for cars running on ...
UK grocery inflation hits new high of 17.5 per cent
British grocery inflation rose again in March to a record 17.5 per cent, inflicting yet more pain on consumers battling a cost-of-living crisis, industry data showed on Tuesday.
Market researcher Kantar ...
Prince Harry says tabloid’s journalists are ‘criminals’
Britain’s Prince Harry has accused Buckingham Palace in court documents of withholding information from him about phone-hacking and said he was exposing the alleged wrongdoing by tabloid “criminals” out ...
King Charles heads to Germany on first overseas trip as monarch
King Charles set off to Germany on Wednesday in his first state visit abroad since becoming British monarch, as part of efforts to turn the page on years of rocky ...
Greece arrests two men suspected of planning attack on Israeli restaurant
Greek police have arrested two men suspected members of a group that was planning an attack against an Israeli restaurant in Athens, a case which Israel said was orchestrated from ...
Nvidia shows new research on using AI to improve chip designs
Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O), the world’s leading designer of computer chips used in creating artificial intelligence, on Monday showed new research that explains how AI can be used to ...
IOC rules on participation ‘unacceptable’, says Russian Olympic head
The head of Russia’s Olympic Committee denounced as unacceptable” on Tuesday criteria announced by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) intended to enable Russian and Belarusian athletes to take part ...
Milestone Messi shines in Argentine goal fest
Lionel Messi surpassed the 100-goals mark for World Cup champions Argentina on Tuesday by scoring a hat-trick in their 7-0 friendly win over Curacao.
Argentina’s leading scorer reached a ...
French prosecutors search banks over alleged dividend stripping
French authorities on Tuesday searched the Paris offices of five banks, including Societe Generale (SOGN.PA), BNP Paribas (BNPP.PA) and HSBC (HSBA.L), on suspicion of fiscal fraud, part ...
WHO to consider adding obesity drugs to ‘essential’ medicines list
Drugs that combat obesity could for the first time be included on the World Health Organization’s “essential medicines list,” used to guide government purchasing decisions in low- and middle-income ...
Russian forces making no headway in Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Ukraine says
Russian forces are relentless in their attempts to capture the bombed-out eastern Ukrainian towns of Bakhmut and Avdiivka but were not making progress, Ukraine’s military said on Wednesday, but ...
Nashville school shooter had ’emotional disorder’ and small arsenal, police say
The former student of a Christian grade school in Nashville who killed three 9-year-olds and three adults in a shooting spree there was under a doctor’s care for an “...
Russia says it has rerouted all oil exports hit by Western embargo
Russia has successfully redirected all its crude oil exports affected by Western sanctions over Ukraine to “friendly” countries, Energy Minister Nikolai Shulginov said on Tuesday, while still a decline in ...
Banking rebound remains fragile as regulators review response to failures
Investor confidence in the banking sector remained fragile on Tuesday, with the European Central Bank (ECB) saying recent volatility highlighted the need for greater regulatory scrutiny.
European bank stocks (.SX7...