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OpenAI's rogue agent compromised a customer at a second tech firm, executive says

Technology July 29, 2026

The rogue agent that escaped from OpenAI and went on a days-long hacking spree at the AI firm Hugging Face also compromised a customer at a second tech company New York-based Modal Labs, according to ...

After the quake came the blast: Inside Japan's shopping mall disaster

News July 29, 2026

Workers in a mall in southern Japan described being thrown to the floor or enveloped in a cloud of dust by a massive 7.1-magnitude quake that rattled the building on Tuesday. They were the lucky ones....

Rescuers in Japan haul survivors from collapsed mall as earthquake toll rises to 13

Business July 29, 2026

Rescuers were frantically searching on Wednesday for survivors of a 7.1-magnitude earthquake that shook southern Japan, killing at least 13 people, knocking out power to thousands of homes and rupturi...

Kenyan footprints shed light on prehistoric human cousin Paranthropus

News July 28, 2026

Footprints left on a muddy lakeshore in northern Kenya around 1.43 million years ago are providing new insight into the size and behaviour of a species in the human evolutionary lineage that was the l...

India's top court orders no coercive action against youth protesters and release of minors, media reports say

News July 28, 2026

India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the release of under-18s arrested during the youth protests over exam leaks and said authorities must ensure surveillance footage is preserved after petition...

Firefighters in France, Spain scramble to contain blazes as new heatwave looms

News July 28, 2026

Firefighters raced on Tuesday to subdue huge wildfires that have forced unprecedented evacuations of tens of thousands of people across France and Spain, as western Europe braced for another heatwave....

Powerful quake hits southern Japan, deaths feared in shopping mall explosion

News July 28, 2026

A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit Japan’s southern Kumamoto prefecture on Tuesday, knocking out power to thousands of homes, rupturing roads and leaving some trapped and others presumed dead inside a p...

World risks HIV resurgence as funding falls 18pc, UNAIDS says

News July 28, 2026

The world risks a resurgence of β€Œthe HIV epidemic after global funding fell by nearly a fifth last year, the UN body fighting AIDS said on Monday. Washington previously accounted for 75 per cent of ...

Oil prices near one-week low after US, Iran pause fighting over weekend

Business July 27, 2026

Oil prices hovered around a one-week low on Monday after the US and Iran paused strikes over the weekend following two weeks of attacks, raising hopes of a diplomatic solution that would de-escalate t...

Modi faces challenge from activists over surveillance at India youth protest

Technology July 27, 2026

Indian activists are challenging Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government over the use of AI-powered surveillance at the largest youth protest in decades, with one court case set to become a test o...