3+ hour, 1+ min ago  (1045+ words) Iran's World Cup campaign has been overshadowed by travel disruption, organisational problems and a shortage of key support staff, with players and coaches openly criticising conditions around the team. Forward Mehdi Taremi described the situation as "a disaster, citing confusion…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago  (881+ words) The United States and Canada have postponed the opening of the $4. 7 billion Gordie Howe International Bridge linking Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, just days before a planned inauguration, amid ongoing bilateral discussions. A ribbon-cutting ceremony had been scheduled for Friday, but…...

2+ week, 20+ hour ago  (869+ words) Google has asked U. S. regulators for permission to release up to 32 million sterilised mosquitoes in California and Florida as part of its experimental "Debug" programme aimed at reducing populations of disease-carrying insects. The request, submitted to the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (732+ words) A Canadian man accused of selling sodium nitrite and suicide-related items online to people in multiple countries pleaded guilty on 29 May to aiding the suicides of 14 people in Ontario, after prosecutors said recent legal rulings made murder charges impossible to…...

3+ week, 23+ hour ago  (534+ words) Residents living near a burning textile warehouse in the town of Tubize, southwest of Brussels, have been evacuated after authorities warned of a risk of explosions caused by gas canisters stored inside the building. "Right now, we are evacuating everybody…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (822+ words) The inaugural Enhanced Games are set to take place in Las Vegas on Sunday (24 May), launching one of the most controversial experiments in modern sport, in which'athletes openly compete using performance-enhancing drugs banned under traditional anti-doping rules. Held in an…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago  (750+ words) Tesla CEO Elon Musk won shareholder approval on Thursday for the largest corporate pay package in history as investors endorsed his vision of morphing the electric vehicle (EV) maker into an artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics juggernaut....

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (714+ words) Investigators have discovered what officials described as "anti-Islamic writings" inside a vehicle connected to the two teenagers accused of carrying out the deadly shooting at a mosque in San Diego, according to a U. S. Department of Justice official familiar with the…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (1317+ words) More than 2, 000 people gathered in San Diego this week for funeral prayers honouring three men killed while trying to stop an attack at the Islamic Centre of San Diego, in what authorities are investigating as a suspected hate crime. Community…...

4+ week, 13+ hour ago  (875+ words) A U. S. jury has ruled against Elon Musk in his lawsuit against Open AI, finding the company not liable over claims it had abandoned its original mission to benefit humanity. The unanimous verdict, delivered in a federal court in Oakland, California,…...