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Tourists and locals had been perplexed when the water in a stretch of Venice’s Grand Canal glowed brilliant inexperienced just lately. A chemical used for water testing was guilty. ...

Artificial intelligence poses an identical threat of human extinction as pandemics and nuclear warfare, specialists have warned.The boss of the agency behind ChatGPT, the top of Google's AI lab, and CEO of Anthropic - one other main AI agency, have all signed an open letter. It reads: "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war."The Center for AI Safety, which revealed the assertion, stated it hoped to open up dialogue as "it can be difficult to voice concerns about some of advanced AI's most severe risks".British laptop scientist Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, thought-about by many the "godfathers" of AI, have additionally put their identify to the warning. More than 350 fol...

BERLIN (AP) — A panel of historians set as much as evaluation the 1972 assault on the Munich Olympics is beginning its three-year mission to look at what occurred earlier than, throughout and after the occasions of 5 many years in the past on Tuesday, the German authorities mentioned. ...

A wild elephant that has terrorised villages and destroyed dozens of properties, retailers and vehicles in latest months in India has killed an eleventh man over the weekend, in accordance with native experiences.The elephant, named Arikomban, had wreaked havoc in town of Cumbum within the state of Tamil Nadu in latest days. Authorities within the space had urged residents to remain indoors over the weekend as they tried to tranquilise and relocate the elephant.Officials additionally stopped electrical energy and public transport whereas the elephant made its manner via the city.The man who was killed was an autorickshaw driver, who was in his car when the elephant destroyed it. He escaped however suffered a extreme head damage and inner bleeding after falling whereas making ...

BEIJING (AP) — China on Tuesday expressed its help for Serbia’s efforts to “safeguard its sovereignty and territorial integrity” following renewed violence between ethnic Serbs and NATO peacekeeping troops in Kosovo. ...

An Iranian-born mannequin has left the web divided after sporting a costume that resembled a noose.Mahlagha Jaberi, 33, mentioned she wore the costume to the 76th Cannes Film Festival to "make a statement" and to attract consciousness to the executions taking place in Iran. She additionally shared a video and film of it on Instagram.The video concerned totally different close-up pictures of the mannequin within the costume with textual content which mentioned: "Stop executions."In one other publish, the mannequin mentioned she wished to "bring media attention" to the scenario in Iran.She wrote: "We wanted to make a fashion statement to observe the glamour of Cannes, but more importantly, to bring media attention to the wrongful executions of Iranian people."Unfortunately, pol...

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — The NATO-led peacekeeping power in Kosovo, KFOR, on Tuesday raised the variety of its troops injured in fierce clashes with ethnic Serbs to 30. ...

A person has managed to prise a crocodile's jaws from round his head when he was attacked close to a luxurious resort in Queensland, Australia.Marcus McGowan was snorkelling about 17 miles (28km) off Haggerstone Island in Cape York when the reptile struck. "While checking out some coral and fish and talking to a fellow snorkeller, I was attacked from behind by a saltwater crocodile which got its jaws around my head," he mentioned in an announcement."I thought it was a shark but when I reached up, I realised it was a crocodile."I used to be capable of lever its jaws open simply far sufficient to get my head out. "The crocodile then attempted to attack me a second time, but I managed to push it away with my right hand, which was then bitten by the croc."Read extra:Cambodia croc...

TALLINN, Estonia — Belarus and Russia don't have any plans to undertake a joint foreign money within the close to future, Belarus’ strongman chief introduced on Monday. ...

Nine individuals have been injured in a taking pictures on a boardwalk by Hollywood Beach, Florida.Several of the victims have been taken to a close-by youngsters's hospital. However, authorities haven't but launched the ages of the victims who included six adults and three youngsters.A preliminary investigation has discovered that an altercation between two teams resulted in pictures being fired.One individual has been arrested and one other suspect continues to be being sought. The taking pictures occurred about 6.30pm on Memorial Day.Read extra:The Florida governor taking up Mickey Mouse and Donald Trump - 5 issues to learn about Ron DeSantisFlorida governor Ron DeSantis to go to Britain as a part of a global commerce missionOne witness, Alvie Carlton Scott III, advised Re...