Nvidia said Thursday it will buy AI developer platform Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, its latest major investment to expand its influence in open-source artificial intelligence. The deal would bring Nvidia closer to developers and broaden its customer base as tech giants develop chips to reduce re…
Giorgia Meloni's hard-right government on Friday becomes the longest-lasting in Italy's postwar history -- a notable record that belies considerable challenges ahead of elections next year.
In tonight's edition, legal loopholes and gaps about specialised medicine may be driving Illegal organ harvesting in Nigeria. Also, South Sudan may be moving closer to delivering on elections scheduled for December.
The UN warns El Niño is a "supersized" phenomenon that will hit the global economy. UK cider producers are feeling the impact of drought. Plus, Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9 billion.
Pro-Israel lobby group UN Watch alleged that Secretary-General Antonio Guterres referred Francesca Albanese, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Palestine, "out of control", saying he'd previously called her a "horrible woman." But Guterres named no one in his remarks.
Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial are deliberating for a sixth day in Plymouth, Massachusetts after twice saying they can’t agree whether the former labor and delivery nurse is criminally responsible for killing her three young children. FRANCE 24's Monte Francis explains.
A Nepalese worker recounts his harrowing escape from a hydropower project tunnel after last week's devastating flood. Around 900 workers remain trapped in tunnels at six hydroelectric plants in Nepal as the number of missing in the Himalayan disaster rose to 5,624 on Thursday, according to Nepalese…
A Christian man by the name of Nader Boulos Tannous was murdered in Homs, Syria on August 15, 2026. After his death, Israel, Greece and Cyprus were quick to denounce what they called an anti-Christian act.
El Nino could be the strongest since records began four decades ago, the United Nations' climate agency warned Thursday, with the UN chief warning the world is in the "danger zone of extreme weather".
Two Palestinian teenagers were killed on Wednesday in an attack by Israeli settler militants and army troops on their village in the occupied West Bank, local officials and the Palestinian health ministry said, amid an uptick in violence by Jewish settlers in the territory.
US energy firms on Wednesday signed a raft of multi-billion-dollar deals with Venezuela, days after the South American country agreed to grant the United States control of a huge chunk of its vast oil reserves.
France's recent heatwaves didn't just pose enormous health risks, they also hampered the economy. Authorities have estimated that the recent heat and drought caused production to plummet and expect wealth generated by the agricultural sector to decline by 8% over the course of the year.
The co-founder of Ms. Magazine and celebrated feminist icon Gloria Steinem has died at her home at the age of 92. An internationally recognised activist in the fight for women's equality, she spoke out for the legalisation of abortion, same-sex marriage, and equal pay.
Small groups of Russian soldiers have been inching forward through the vast, drained Kakhovka reservoir since they blew up the dam in June 2023. Russian forces are infiltrating this “no man’s land” for reconnaissance purposes rather than for a future military offensive, said a military expert.
Italy's first female Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, has surpassed a longevity record set by the late Silvio Berlusconi. When she took office in 2022, many European allies viewed her with unease, given her party's neo-fascist roots.
French President Emmanuel #Macron is in #London on the occasion of the #Bayeux Tapestry's exhibition at the #BritishMuseum. The 1,000-year-old work of woven art recounts the Battle of #Hastings, in which William the Conqueror – #KingCharles's ancestor – led the Norman Conquest of #England.
London is entering the era of autonomous vehicles: driverless cabs are now available through Uber and British tech firm Wayve in the capital. It marks a setback for Google's Waymo and Chinese giant Baidu, which have been eyeing Europe as a largely untapped market for autonomous vehicles.
A campaigner who has worked on the case of murdered Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia since she was killed by a car bomb in 2017 has spoken of his devastation at the not guilty verdict.
Spain has found no evidence to conclude that July's deadly border rush from Morocco into its enclave of Ceuta was orchestrated by Moroccan authorities, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Thursday, countering allegations in a Spanish police report.
Hundreds of people demonstrated in the Maltese capital Valletta after a wealthy businessman was found not guilty of masterminding the murder of an investigative journalist. The verdict on Daphne Caruana Galizia's car-bomb killing in 2017 sparked outrage from Maltese civil society groups and internat…
Mike D rose to fame in the 1980s as part of New York's Beastie Boys, a rap-rock trio who soon tired of poking fun at frat boy humour with hits like "Fight for Your Right (To Party!)" and" Girls".
Oliver Farry is pleased to welcome Inger Andersen, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme. Her central argument is that decades of what she calls “carbon procrastination” have made exceeding 1.5°C unavoidable: the question is…
Nepali authorities have erected a makeshift zip line to help stranded residents travel across the swollen waters of the Trishuli river after last week’s deadly flash floods swept away bridges, leaving them cut off from the outside world.
This week, we're looking look at efforts to incorporate artificial intelligence into the workplace. But not just your run-of-the-mill generative AI chatbot: we're focusing on actual AI agents.
