Man cleared of sexually assaulting child after 35 years in prison
A man who spent 35 years behind bars in the US after being wrongly convicted of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl has been freed from prison thanks to a DNA breakthrough. Louis Wright, now aged 65, had lived near the child’s home in Albion, Michigan, at the time of the attack in 1988 and an […]
Israel-Hamas war: Hundreds of foreign nationals cross Gaza-Egypt border – with Britons among them
The first British nationals have left Gaza and crossed the Rafah border into Egypt, the Foreign Office has said. UK teams are on the ground providing assistance, but the Foreign Office did not specify how many Britons had crossed the border. A total of 76 wounded people and their companions left Gaza in ambulances today, […]
Wildfire forces thousands to flee their homes in California
More than 4,000 people have been forced to flee their homes to escape a wildfire scorching land around 100 miles southeast of Los Angeles. The blaze was first reported just before 12.45pm local time on Monday and within hours it had grown in size to cover an area of around two square miles, officials said. […]
Warnings Robert Card was ‘hearing voices’ and ‘going to snap’, before Maine mass shooting
The family of a man who carried out a mass shooting in Maine warned that he was hearing voices five months before he killed 18 people, officials have confirmed. Documents released on Monday show it was one of a number of attempts to alert authorities to the danger Robert Card potentially posed. In July, the […]
US and China back UK deal to collaborate over potentially ‘catastrophic’ threats posed by AI
The US and China have endorsed a joint declaration on the need to manage the potentially “catastrophic” risks posed by Artificial Intelligence. The world’s leading AI powers were among 28 nations to agree to the UK’s Bletchley Declaration, which stresses the need for countries to work together on the powerful technology. It was published on […]
Man who received second pig heart transplant dies in Maryland hospital
The second person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after the highly experimental surgery. Lawrence Faucette, 58, was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when he received the genetically modified pig heart on 20 September. The heart had seemed healthy for the first […]
Israeli military operations in Gaza ‘will escalate’, IDF warns
Israeli troops are pushing deeper into the Gaza Strip as the country’s chief military spokesperson warns military operations in the region “will escalate”. As Israel continues to demand the release of 239 hostages held in Gaza by Hamas, the militant group released a video on Monday claiming to show three of the women it captured […]
One of two missing fisherman found alive after boat disappears off Washington coast
A fisherman who went missing two weeks ago was found alive in a life raft off the Washington coast, the US Coast Guard said. A Good Samaritan vessel located the missing mariner some 70 miles (112km) northwest of Cape Flattery on 26 October. A second person aboard the missing boat has still not been found. […]
Derek Rosa: Boy, 13, charged with murder of his mother in Florida
A 13-year-old boy who allegedly stabbed his mother to death in front of her newborn baby has been charged with murder. Derek Rosa is accused of attacking 39-year-old Irina Garcia while she slept in their home in Hialeah, Florida. The teenager has been charged with first-degree murder, which means his case will be heard in […]
Joe Biden to unveil sweeping AI regulations – days before skipping Rishi Sunak’s safety summit
The White House has stolen a march on Rishi Sunak’s AI safety summit by unveiling sweeping regulations aimed at protecting workers and citizens from threats posed by the technology. US President Joe Biden will sign an executive order aiming to guide the development of the tech, requiring firms working on potentially dangerous models to share […]
