COP31 eyes modest steps as climate disasters multiply
Nations reeling from a year of climate devastation gather for COP31 next month but negotiations are not expected to deliver major progress in cutting the fossil fuels driving the crisis.
Read moreAsian stocks mixed despite tech-led Wall St record
Asian stocks were mixed Tuesday as a tech-led record on Wall Street was tempered by ongoing worries about a spike in government borrowing costs.
Read moreAmerican Nobel laureate in medicine hopes to illuminate the brain
Nobel Prize-winning American researcher Karl Deisseroth is a psychiatrist, neuroscientist and bioengineer who has spent more than two decades illuminating the workings of the brain to unlock its mysteries.
Read moreTens of thousands expected in Paris for high school protests
Tens of thousands of demonstrators are expected on the streets of Paris on Tuesday as France's powerful trade unions join high school students rallying for better conditions in a wave of protests marked by clashes with police.
Read moreTrump approves firing squad for convicted US military base shooter
President Donald Trump has approved the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, a US Army psychiatrist who shot dead 13 people at a military base in 2009, the Pentagon said on Monday.
Read moreAI borrowing binge rattles US markets
The world's richest companies can no longer rely on their massive cash piles alone to stay in the artificial intelligence race and have suddenly started borrowing massively in a shift that is sending repercussions across the world.
Read moreGrappling with 'homework scams,' US universities shun AI detectors
Locked in a cat-and-mouse struggle, biology professor Timothy Paustian devised novel ways to catch students turning in chatbot-generated assignments. But like many US universities, his institution is shunning AI detection software.
Read moreYoung Canadians sue government over alleged climate failures
When a wildfire threatened her northern Canada home three years ago, Kira Young packed what she could and fled.
Read moreSeparatists win Quebec election in test for Canada PM
Separatists won provincial elections in Quebec Monday, with a promise to hold a vote on leaving Canada after US President Donald Trump leaves office, testing Prime Minister Mark Carney's message of national unity.
Read moreWhite Sox down Guardians to take 2-0 series lead
The Chicago White Sox defeated the Cleveland Guardians 4-3 to take a commanding 2-0 series lead in Major League Baseball's playoffs on Monday.
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