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Cuttlefish dazzle mates with light patterns invisible to humans
New York Times, Published on 27/01/2026
» NEW YORK - Many of the snazziest decorations in the animal kingdom are charm offensives, put on by creatures trying to mate. While some of these adornments, like a peacock’s tail feathers or a moose’s antlers, are obvious even to humans, others can be perceived only with sensory capabilities that we do not have.
HIV workers race to plug funding gaps after Trump USAID cuts
Thomson Reuters Foundation, Published on 03/04/2025
» JOHANNESBURG - Tarryn Lokotsch can see the US aid money she desperately needs to help South African rape survivors sitting in her organisation's bank account, but she cannot touch a cent of it.
Pope told to 'stick to Church' after Trump migrant critique
AFP, Published on 11/02/2025
» VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis described Donald Trump's migrant deportations as a "major crisis" Tuesday, prompting a rebuke from the US president's border czar, who told the pontiff to "stick to the Catholic Church".
Trump intensifies crackdown on diversity, immigration
AFP, Published on 23/01/2025
» WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump stepped up a crackdown on diversity programs and immigration Wednesday, with the Republican preparing to lay out more of his hardline agenda in an Oval Office interview.
US bans pharmacy Rite Aid from facial recognition use
AFP, Published on 20/12/2023
» WASHINGTON - Pharmacy group Rite Aid was ordered Tuesday to stop using facial recognition for the next five years by a US regulator, which said the company falsely identified consumers as shoplifters using the technology.
'Unintended consequences': friction at COP28 over green trade
AFP, Published on 05/12/2023
» DUBAI - Inside the negotiating rooms and on the sidelines of the COP28 climate talks, simmering tensions over wealthy countries' "green trade" policies have been bubbling to the surface, with developing nations fearful they will be penalised.
US probe opened over Harvard's 'legacy' admissions policy
AFP, Published on 26/07/2023
» WASHINGTON - The US Department of Education has opened a civil rights investigation into Harvard University's policy of giving family members of former students and donors preference in admissions decisions, documents showed Tuesday.
ChatGPT drafts law as Latin America seeks to regulate AI
Diana Baptista of Thompson Reuters Foundation, Published on 11/07/2023
» MEXICO CITY: When Costa Rican lawmakers wanted to draw attention to the need to regulate artificial intelligence, they asked ChatGPT to write a new law to do it for them.
US Supreme Court backs business that turned away same-sex couple
AFP, Published on 30/06/2023
» WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court ruled on Friday that some private businesses can refuse service to same-sex couples for religious reasons, in a landmark erosion of anti-discrimination laws.
CO2 cuts v. cash: Climate talks stymied by stand-off
AFP, Published on 16/06/2023
» PARIS - Pressure to speed cuts in carbon pollution took a back seat at UN climate talks that ended late Thursday night, as emerging economies, including China, demanded that rich ones vastly scale up climate financing.