Japanese emergency workers battled Thursday to rescue any remaining survivors from a devastated shopping mall, as the death toll from a major earthquake hit 28 and thousands sweltered in punishing heat. The government issued the new tally as Kumamoto officials said they have now extracted four bodies from the mass of rubble, steel and wires […]
Read MoreRussian strikes killed at least eight people and wounded more than a dozen others across Ukraine, authorities said on Thursday, after President Volodymyr Zelensky warned of Moscow launching another massive attack overnight. A ballistic missile struck a village house near the central city of Kryvyi, killing four adults and two girls aged five and 12, […]
Read MoreA boom rang out over the city of Sevastopol on the Russian-annexed peninsula of Crimea. A Russian air-defence drill or a Ukrainian drone attack? Local Georgy shrugged. “We’re already used to it, really … nothing scares us anymore,” he told AFP. Ukraine has heavily targeted the Black Sea territory — a popular summer retreat despite the four-and-a-half-year […]
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A French teenager was fined in Singapore Thursday after pleading guilty to a public nuisance charge for a straw-licking stunt that landed him in hot water in the city state. Didier Gaspard Owen Maximilien, 19, was handed a Sg$600 ($465) fine after admitting to posting to social media a video of himself putting a straw […]
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Amina Helmi’s passion for the Milky Way is clear as soon as one steps into her small office at the University of Groningen, in the north of the Netherlands. Alongside family photos and piled-up dissertations with impenetrable titles sits a bowl stacked with the chocolates named after the star system she has spent her career […]
Read MoreUnder banners emblazoned “Solidarity” and “We stand together with victims”, a group of South Korean women digital detectives dredges the internet for a scourge of illegal AI-enabled pornography. South Korea — home to the world’s leading smartphone and memory chipmakers — takes huge national pride in its tech prowess. But the success story has a dark […]
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Getrieben durch die weltweite Nachfrage nach Speicherchips für Künstliche Intelligenz hat der südkoreanische Technologiekonzern Samsung seinen Gewinn massiv steigern können. Im zweiten Quartal habe der operative Gewinn bei 89,49 Billionen Won (knapp 54 Milliarden Euro) gelegen, teilte das Unternehmen am Donnerstag mit. Dies sei ein Anstieg um 1813 Prozent gegenüber dem Vorjahreszeitraum. Der Umsatz belief sich […]
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Der Bundesgerichtshof in Karlsruhe entscheidet am Donnerstag (08.45 Uhr) über sogenannte Ärztesiegel. Im Magazin “Focus Gesundheit” erscheinen einmal im Jahr Ärztelisten und darauf basierend Siegel wie “Top Mediziner” oder “Focus Empfehlung”, die Ärzte gegen eine Lizenzgebühr zu Werbezwecken nutzen können. Die Wettbewerbszentrale hält das für irreführend. Sie klagte gegen den Burda-Verlag. (Az. I ZR 130/25)Konkret […]
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Up to 23 people were feared dead on Thursday after a major earthquake in Japan, with four bodies now pulled out from the tangled wreckage of a shopping mall ripped apart by a suspected massive gas explosion. The Kumamoto disaster management office’s latest tally put fatalities at 17 and those without vital signs at six, […]
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