Tech giants Amazon and Microsoft have announced a combined $52.5bn (£39.4bn) investment plan for India over the coming years. Amazon said on Wednesday it was pumping in $35bn into India by 2030 to advance AI-driven digitisation, export growth and job creation, a day after Microsoft committed $17.5bn strengthen the country’s AI ecosystem. India, which is…
María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who was awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, will not attend the ceremony in Oslo on Wednesday, the director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute said, adding that he did not know where she was. Machado was set to receive the award in the Norwegian capital at 1 p.m….
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The Sizewell A and B nuclear power stations, operated by Electricite de France SA (EDF), in Sizewell, UK, on Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images The U.K. was the birthplace of commercial nuclear energy, but now generates just a fraction of its power from it…
The BBC blogged about it, News Corp boasted about it and the New York Times questioned its effectiveness. Australia’s world-first laws stopping children accessing social media until they turn 16 turned heads globally, with mixed and nuanced results. In the UK, the BBC ran a live blog canvassing the views of teenagers, exploring how success…
Reliance Industries (RIL) share price today Reliance Industries (RIL) share price was trading firm on Wednesday, gaining 1 per cent on the BSE to hit an intraday high ₹1,547.50. The stock was outperforming the otherwise lacklustre market. At 12:16 PM, RIL stock was trading 0.63 per cent higher at ₹1,538.50 as against…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella appears at an event with tech CEOs and senior officials, including Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in the East Room of the White House in Washington on June 22, 2023. Chris Kleponis | CNP | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft on Tuesday announced it would invest $17.5 billion in India’s cloud…
Yuna Ku,BBC Koreanand Koh Ewe Getty Images Park Na-rae, one of the country’s most successful female comedians, has now left her popular variety shows amid allegations of workplace bullying In a matter of days, three big names in South Korea’s entertainment industry have made headlines in separate scandals that could derail their careers. The allegations…
Helen BriggsEnvironment correspondent Getty Meerkats are incredibly social animals and live in large groups known as ‘mobs’ or ‘clans’ Humans are a bit like meerkats when it comes to pairing up, according to a study that examined the monogamous lifestyles of different species. In our romantic life, we more closely resemble these social, close-knit mongooses…
Storms battered large portions of Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, December 9, bringing “flash floods, hail, and dust-raising downdraft winds,” according to local news reports. Footage from Musab Nader Photography shows heavy rain and thunderstorms slamming the city of Jeddah, on the central western coast of the country. According to the Saudi Gazette, citing the National…