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‘I thought as you’re so fluent!’ Sadiq Khan mocks Zack Polanski by answering him in Urdu after Green leader released by-election campaign video in South Asian language
London mayor Sadiq Khan mocked Green Party leader Zack Polanski during Mayor’s Question Time by responding to him in Urdu, following Polanski’s release of a by-election campaign video in the South Asian language. Polanski is standing as the Green candidate for Holborn and St Pancras in an October 8 by-election triggered by former prime minister…
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Pictured: Brit facing life in prison in Hong Kong after £1.5m of ketamine found in his suitcase
Paul Squire, a 50-year-old British man from Doncaster, has appeared in court in Hong Kong charged with attempting to smuggle ketamine worth £1.5 million into the region. He was arrested in June at Hong Kong International Airport after customs officers discovered 26kg of the drug concealed in his checked-in luggage, arriving on a direct flight…
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‘When you tell people the story, it’s almost too good to be true’: the incredible journey behind The Cycle of Love
The documentary The Cycle of Love recounts how Indian artist Pradyumna Kumar Mahanandia, known as PK, cycled thousands of miles from India to Sweden to reunite with Lotta von Schedvin, the Swedish woman he fell in love with in 1975. Their extraordinary journey, shaped by determination, coincidence and predictions about PK’s future wife, has led…
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Japanese company develops a humanoid robot ‘ambulance’ for on-the-spot repairs
GMO Internet Group has launched what it calls Japan’s first “humanoid ambulance” onto the streets of Tokyo, a maintenance van that responds when its humanoid robots break down while on duty. Rather than shipping a malfunctioning robot away for repairs and disrupting its work, the vehicle brings engineers, diagnostic equipment, spare parts and even a…
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Five moon bears freed from Korean farm settle into Suffolk sanctuary
British wildlife campaigner and TV farmer Jimmy Doherty has rescued five Asiatic black bears from one of South Korea’s last bile farms and flown them 5,500 miles to a new home at his wildlife park in Suffolk. The bears, some of which had spent more than two decades confined in rusty metal cages, mark the…
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Modi’s gesture at BRICS summit triggers fresh Xi health rumors
Rumours about Chinese President Xi Jinping’s health have resurfaced after footage emerged showing Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pausing his opening speech at the BRICS summit in New Delhi to check on his counterpart. Modi was seen turning towards Xi and asking a translator “is it okay?” after aides appeared to rush over and exchange…
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Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon call for curbs on AI at ‘pro-human’ summit
Senator Bernie Sanders and strategist Steve Bannon shared a platform at the “Pro-Human Assembly” in Washington on Tuesday, both warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence and calling for restrictions on Silicon Valley “oligarchs”, despite occupying opposite ends of the political spectrum. The event highlighted an unusual convergence between progressive and populist-right figures on AI…
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Newborn baby was bitten 180 times by family’s dog called Chomp before horror death… as his father strikes plea deal with judge
An Indiana father has taken a plea deal and been sentenced to 16 years in prison over the death of his newborn son, who was fatally mauled by the family’s dog last September. Austin Kinsey was one of six family members arrested after one-week-old Jason Anthony Weaver died from blunt-force trauma when he was attacked…
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India ends free ride for larger transactions on its ubiquitous digital payments network
India is ending free processing for larger merchant transactions on its Unified Payments Interface (UPI), the QR-code-based digital payments network that underpins much of the country’s economy. From 15 October, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), which runs UPI, will charge a 0.4% fee on certain payments above ₹2,000 (roughly $21), a significant shift…