Worldwide web inventor Tim Berners-Lee said Tuesday he is on a mission to fix the problems of online abuse, misinformation and data protection that were not envisioned when the system was created decades earlier. Berners-Lee, credited with creating the web in 1989, told a Washington Post event he is committed
NAIROBI (Kenya): An assembly of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) opened in Nairobi yesterday under a dark cloud cast by the plane crash that killed 157 people, including 22 United Nations staff, many heading for the annual event. Delegates arrived with the UN flag flying at half-mast, and the flags
DOHA (Qatar): Japanese teenager Kaito Toba (pic) snatched victory in the first Moto3 grand prix of the season on Sunday, dramatically overtaking rival Lorenzo Dalla Porta on the final straight in Qatar. In doing so, the 18-year-old Honda star became the first ever Japanese rider to win in the Moto3
NAIROBI (Kenya): An assembly of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) opened in Nairobi yesterday under a dark cloud cast by the plane crash that killed 157 people, including 22 United Nations staff, many heading for the annual event. Delegates arrived with the UN flag flying at half-mast, and the flags
WASHINGTON: For the second time in less than six months, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 has crashed minutes after takeoff and killed everyone on board, raising fresh questions about the safety of a model that is crucial to the US giant’s future plans. On Sunday, the 157 passengers and crew
ATHENS (Greece): A Greek man said on Sunday he would have been the 150th passenger on the Nairobi-bound Ethiopian Airlines Boeing plane that crashed killing all on board, except he arrived two minutes late for the flight. “I was mad because nobody helped me to reach the gate on time,”
Search on for clues to deadly Ethiopia crash TULU FARA (Ethiopia): Ethiopia and China grounded fleets of Boeing 737 MAX 8 after the crash of a new passenger jet that killed all 157 people on board as the search resumed Monday for bodies and clues into the disaster. Ethiopia’s parliament
LONDON: Kento Momota became the first Japanese man to win the All England Open on Sunday, while China’s Chen Yufei was the surprise women’s champion. Momota is the reigning world champion, Asian champion and world number one and he can now add success in badminton’s oldest tournament to his glittering
BEAUREGARD (United States): Rescuers uncovered widespread damage in Alabama on Monday caused by two back-to-back tornadoes that ripped across the southern state, with the death toll of 23 expected to rise further. “It looks almost as if someone took a giant knife and scraped the ground,” said Sheriff Jay Jones
PARIS: Invisible to people but deadly to marine life, ocean heatwaves have damaged ecosystems across the globe and are poised to become even more destructive, according to the first study to measure worldwide impacts with a single yardstick. The number of marine heatwave days has increased by more than 50