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‘California Certified’: New label will boost non-ultra processed foods - and it’s not the only state taking action

California was ‘clearing the way for the rest of the country to follow,’ Governor Gavin Newsom said this week

Americas

'Super Intelligence' AI safety accord signed by tech CEOs carries ‘Unites States’ typo under Trump’s name

Top technology executives have signed an agreement with US President Donald Trump promising stronger safeguards for increasingly powerful artificial

Israel-bound flight diverted to Saudi Arabia after brawl between pilots, Israeli official says

JERUSALEM, Sept 30 - A flight bound for Israel from the United Arab Emirates diverted to Saudi Arabia after transmitting emergency signals following a fight between the pilots, an Israeli official said on Wednesday.

Europe

Dozens injured in French student protests over school resources

PARIS, Sept 30 - Dozens of people have been injured so far in a wave of student demonstrations, France's Education Minister Edouard Geffray said on Wednesday, as students continued to protest against dilapidated schools, insufficient resources and stressful exams.

Anti-Trump crusaders put up new video game display in DC to mock president’s Greenland hopes

The anti-Trump group was also responsible for a series of statues depicting the president alongside Jeffrey Epstein

Language feud over Creole and French roils the tiny island of Guadeloupe

A language feud has erupted on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, fanning deep resentments over colonialism and perceived racism and classism

'Terrorist pilot planned to crash plane': Israel security minister on flydubai cockpit incident

NEW DELHI: Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Thursday said the person involved in the cockpit incident aboard a flydubai flight had

Florida mom left her 4 kids home alone to go on a 3-day cruise, cops say

The mom’s attorney denied the allegations during a bond hearing, clashing with the judge as she did so

Six smugglers jailed for manslaughter over worst Channel small boats disaster

Thirty-one migrants died when their boat went down in November 2021. The trial found that the guilty men were part of two smuggling networks.

Kurt Cobain’s Olympia apartment, where he lived from 1989 to 1991 and wrote some of Nirvana’s best-known music, is now an Airbnb; fans can stay inside a preserved piece of rock history for $250 to $300 a night

Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain’s downtown Olympia apartment, where he lived while producing much of the iconic 1991 album Nevermind, is now listed as a

Texas Senate candidate turns on Trump and blames him for faltering campaign: ‘Dropped our numbers’

Ken Paxton heard on leaked audio complaining that president’s two-day summit in Dallas earlier this month harmed his campaign: ‘Yeah, not good’

UK-France 'one in, one out' migrant scheme scrapped

Some 1,500 people have been removed to France since the scheme began just over a year ago.

Asia

Hong Kong police arrest journalist from online news outlet over alleged sedition

Hong Kong police have arrested a journalist from Boom News on suspicion of incitement by spreading disinformation

Middle East

Flydubai Dubai-Tel Aviv passengers recall horror, post videos: ‘There was a hijacking, we have subdued the terrorists’

In one video, a bloodied passenger speaks directly into the camera as the aircraft approaches Tabuk in northwestern Saudi Arabia.

Who gets to shape AI? UN debate centres on power, trust and inclusion

Artificial Intelligence or AI – and the technology behind it – is moving fast. The question being asked across the world is who gets a seat at the table deciding how it's used and who gets to benefit.

Meet Serge Boghossian, the 16-year-old Canadian student who taught himself to code and built a job platform; hundreds of teens have already joined

16-year-old Serge Boghossian has turned a problem he faced while looking for work into a platform designed to help other teenagers find their first jobs.

South Portland placed more than 200 discarded holiday trees on an eroded Maine beach after a 2022 storm; they trapped sand and vegetation began returning within months

After a powerful winter storm stripped away sections of Maine’s coastline in December 2022, an unlikely form of coastal protection began taking shape on

In 2022, he built a pocket-sized device to extract drinking water from the air in Death Valley using only sunlight; in 2025, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Between August 19 and 23, 2022, Omar Yaghi's team placed a thermos-sized cylinder in Furnace Creek, inside the Death Valley National Park.

Europe

Crews filming in Scotland told to hire local as industry booms

While the country’s screen sector is growing, only a fraction of production staff are Scottish themselves

Europe

Russia warns NATO of a possible nuclear response if Kaliningrad is cut off

Russia has warned NATO it could use nuclear weapons to defend Kaliningrad if allies attempt to cut off the exclave

Europe

Russia warns NATO of a possible nuclear response if Kaliningrad is cut off

Russia has warned NATO it could use nuclear weapons to defend Kaliningrad if allies attempt to cut off the exclave

A fugitive used a dead classmate's name from 1984 and lived under it for 40 years; he collected over $138,000 in Social Security before FBI agents caught him

A fugitive who was wanted in Wyoming on an attempted murder charge spent more than four decades living under the identity of a deceased former college

Woman accused of firing at home of Rihanna indicted on attempted murder and other felony counts

A Florida woman has been indicted for allegedly firing a rifle at Rihanna and A$AP Rocky’s home

Scientists develop eDNA markers to detect Burmese pythons in southern Florida waters, but finding the snakes remains difficult

Scientists have developed and optimised python-specific environmental DNA (eDNA) markers to detect Burmese pythons through water samples collected in