Bondi Beach Massacre: Images Show Four Officers Near the Attackers as Police Response Faces Scrutiny
Images show officers near Bondi Beach gunmen moments before the massacre. Police response now under internal and public scrutiny.
Images show officers near Bondi Beach gunmen moments before the massacre. Police response now under internal and public scrutiny.
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Dostyk, Kazakhstan (AFP) Dec 12, 2025
Operating a huge cargo lifter, Zhandos Nurmagambetov was stacking containers onto a train before it headed across the steppe of Kazakhstan on a new railway route vital for China-Europe trade.
Central Asia is in the midst of a logistics boom, as Beijing invests heavily in the New Silk Road - a vast overland transport network linking China to Europe that can help bypass Russia and shorten fre
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Dec 12, 2025
Spain urged the EU to keep a 2035 ban on new petrol cars, a letter showed Friday, as Brussels looked set to replace it with a less ambitious 90-percent emission-reduction target.
The European Commission is due to propose amendments to its landmark ban next week - having come under intense pressure to weaken it from some big car-producing nations, like Germany and Italy.
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Taipei (AFP) Dec 11, 2025
Taiwan plans to keep making the "most advanced" chips on home soil and remain "indispensable" to the global semiconductor industry, the deputy foreign minister told AFP, despite intense Chinese military pressure.
The democratic island makes more than half of the world's chips, and nearly all of the most advanced ones, that power everything from smartphones to AI data centres.
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New York (AFP) Dec 14, 2025
The delivery of a new Boeing jet to be used by the US president, famously known as Air Force One, has been delayed once again by at least a year.
According to an updated timeline by the US Air Force, the first of two new specially equipped Boeing 747-8 aircraft, known as the VC-25B, will not enter service until at least 2028.
"On Dec 12, 2025, the US Air Force awarded a $15.5 million mod
Washington, United States (AFP) Dec 12, 2025
The United States on Thursday announced a pact with allies to secure supply chains for minerals needed for artificial intelligence, hoping to secure a key resource as China quickly takes a lead.
The United States signed an agreement on the supply chains with key Asia-Pacific allies concerned about China's growing clout - Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Australia - as well as Israel.
San Francisco, United States (AFP) Dec 11, 2025
OpenAI released its latest artificial intelligence models on Thursday, shrugging off worries about how it will cash in on massive spending in its technology race with Google.
The San Francisco-based AI superstar touted GPT-5.2 Pro and GPT-5.2 Thinking as its best models yet for handling math or science work.
"Strong mathematical reasoning is a foundation for reliability in scientific and
Mumbai, India (AFP) Dec 10, 2025
E-commerce giant Amazon said Wednesday it would nearly double its investment in India, seeking to expand exports, create jobs and invest in artificial intelligence in the world's most populous nation.
Several global corporations, including technology giant Microsoft, have announced large investments this year in the South Asian nation, the world's fifth-largest economy, and which is projecte
Lambres-Lez-Douai, France (AFP) Dec 10, 2025
France is developing domestic production of electric vehicle batteries with an eye on industrial independence but Asian experts are proving key in launching operations.
In the Verkor factory outside the northern city of Dunkirk, which will be inaugurated on Thursday, foreign specialists, notably from South Korea and Malaysia, are training the local staff.
Verkor is the third battery giga
Paris, France (AFP) Dec 12, 2025
France released on Friday a revamped roadmap to become carbon neutral by 2050, with an ambitious plan to phase out oil and gas.
The updated strategy was unveiled on the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, the landmark climate accord designed to cut greenhouse gas emissions and keep global warming well below 2C, with efforts toward 1.5C.
The announcement comes as climate diplomacy fa
Abu Dhabi (AFP) Dec 10, 2025
Deep in the Abu Dhabi desert, a vast AI campus a quarter the size of Paris is starting to emerge, the oil-rich UAE's boldest bet yet on technology it hopes will help transform its economy.
Towering cranes clank as long, low buildings take shape below, the eventual home of data centres powered by five gigawatts of electricity - the biggest such facility outside the United States.
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Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Dec 12, 2025
Car manufacturers in Europe will have to include more recycled plastics in new vehicles under new EU rules agreed on by the bloc's countries and lawmakers on Friday.
European Union governments and parliament representatives reached an early morning deal to mandate that at least 25 percent of plastics used in cars, trucks and motorcycles has been recycled.
Carmakers will have to meet the
Yancheng, China (AFP) Dec 14, 2025
In a light-filled workshop in eastern China, a robotic arm moved a partially assembled autonomous vehicle as workers calibrated its cameras, typical of the incremental automation being adopted even across smaller factories in the world's manufacturing powerhouse.
China is already the world's largest market for industrial robots, and the government is pouring billions of dollars into robotics
Ermelo, South Africa (AFP) Dec 12, 2025
Growing up, Cyprial dreamed of being a lawyer. Instead, he now spends his days underground, swinging a pickaxe against rock in a pitch-black illegal mine that snakes for kilometres beneath South Africa's coal heartland.
The rumbling of wheelbarrows echoed down the narrow tunnels where he and dozens of other men had been mining since dawn.
Some chipped away at the rock face, their dim hea
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 12, 2025
Researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County extracted building blocks from precise hand gestures in Bharatanatyam, a classical Indian dance form. Their analysis revealed a richer set of movement patterns than those in natural grasps. The team published findings online Nov. 24 in Scientific Reports.
Ramana Vinjamuri leads the UMBC lab that studies brain control of complex ha
Former editor Brian McGrory will return to lead the Boston Globe. The announcement comes just days after the paper said Nancy Barnes will step down from the editor position.