Tag: bbc.com

  • Chris Mason: From inside the room, how Burnham survived first Trump meeting

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/25ce/live/8d688920-b724-11f1-a430-4d16ee157c41.jpg”] Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images As I crouched between the cameras, determined to catch Donald Trump’s eye and ask a question, I listened to a president seeking to be magnanimous. Remember, Trump can and does do warmth when he wants to, as well as acerbic. Prime Minister Andy Burnham, a mayor a matter of…

  • Haze-choked Indonesia records more than 170,000 respiratory cases

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/e4af/live/c72c9a50-b703-11f1-a4bb-21add78cf97f.jpg”] Getty Images More than 40,000 cases – which range from mild coughs to pneumonia – involve toddlers Some 175,000 people in Indonesia have suffered from respiratory illness since August, its health ministry said, as it continues to battle wildfires that have raged for weeks. More than 40,000 cases – which range from…

  • Super intelligence: Will Trump’s attempt to rebrand AI work?

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/891c/live/a452a4e0-b6ed-11f1-af5e-b359cc50acc4.jpg”] Watch: Moment Trump rebrands Artificial Intelligence to Super Intelligence US President Donald Trump says the term artificial intelligence (AI) makes the technology “sound fake” and wants it to be called “super intelligence”. “Welcome to the new world of super intelligence – SI,” Trump said during a wide-ranging speech to the United Nations…

  • ‘Extremely dangerous’ Hurricane Polo intensifies to rare category 5 storm

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/007a/live/8fa1e5e0-b6f9-11f1-9a66-c939a2a740e3.jpg”] CSU/CIRA & NOAA/Handout via REUTERS Hurricane Polo has rapidly intensified off the coast of Mexico to become one of the most powerful storms of the season in the Pacific Ocean. A Hurricane Hunter aircraft, operated by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), flew into the storm on Tuesday and recorded…

  • Supreme Court stays out of custody case involving surrogate who refused abortion

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/346b/live/78c168b0-b6d0-11f1-b2fe-f10f693c3bae.jpg”] Getty Images McKenna West, the surrogate, has pushed for custody over the child after giving birth against the couple’s wishes The US Supreme Court has refused to intervene in a custody dispute involving a surrogate who refused an abortion request from the parents who hired her to have their baby. Justice Elena…

  • Man who sold toxic chemicals should rot in hell, says mother of woman who killed herself

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/288a/live/85c69120-b6a8-11f1-a430-4d16ee157c41.jpg”] Family handout Imogen Nunn died after ingesting a poison she ordered online A Canadian man who sold toxic chemicals to people who went on to kill themselves should “rot in hell”, the mother of a British woman who took her own life has said. Imogen Nunn, known as Immy, died at her…

  • ‘I don’t have a buoyancy aid’: Living without the Bank of Mum and Dad

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/bf88/live/3e21a580-b699-11f1-bc1f-3f186ca4140c.png”] BBC Buying a home or even moving into a rented property is an increasingly unrealistic dream for many young people. This summer, BBC Your Voice revealed more than 40% of 25-year-olds were now living with their parents. Dozens of young people told us they were having to rely on the so-called Bank…

  • Artificial intelligence ‘creating, not cutting’ jobs in Newport

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/844b/live/ff6a04d0-b5cc-11f1-a400-69b398dfd72b.jpg”] Getty Images Newport has a long history of semiconductor production, which is booming due to the hardware requirements of artificial intelligence “I think there’s a huge fear of AI taking away jobs. It’s quite the opposite here,” said Jutta Meier, who leads one of Wales’ most successful semiconductor companies. In a vast…

  • Morocco election: How Ceuta, football and Israel have shaped the campaign

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/ea6d/live/eb5cde20-b6af-11f1-bc1f-3f186ca4140c.jpg”] AFP via Getty Images Moroccan voters will find candidates from 27 parties on the ballot Disillusioned young voters in Morocco were courted with viral football slogans, promises of one million jobs and anti-Israel rallying calls ahead of Wednesday’s parliamentary elections. Yet, for many young Moroccans, politics remains deeply disconnected from reality. “I…

  • US judge blocks deportation of DoorDash driver shot by ICE

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/97eb/live/8e6f0380-b5ee-11f1-aff1-eb6baa3fda4f.png”] Watch: Bodycam footage shows arrest of DoorDash driver shot by ICE A US judge has temporarily blocked the deportation of a Venezuelan man who was shot by immigration agents in Texas, his lawyer says. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, is being held in a detention centre with a bullet in his back,…