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The service is a baby step towards a future in which robots increasingly take over manual labour from humans

AI robot cleaners leave the lab for China's living rooms

Bang Chun-ja, a South Korean elderly woman living alone, holds Hyodol, an AI-powered healthcare doll designed for elderly people, during an interview with AFP at her home in Yongin

In ageing South Korea, AI dolls care for the elderly

Coupang's fine is by far the largest ever penalty for a data leak in South Korea

S.Korea hits Coupang with record fine over e-commerce data leak

Russia's has hardened its once-avoidable conscription system amid the war

Using facial-recognition

Russia's conscripts recount pressure to fight in Ukraine

US President Donald Trump speaks to the press before boarding Air Force One prior to departure from John F. Kennedy International Airport, in New York, on June 9, 2026

Escalating tensions

US, Iran hit each other again as hopes for quick peace deal fade

Australia accuses Iran of being behind the torching of the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne in December 2024

Security services condemned

Twenty-two countries tell Iran to stop attacks 'on our soil'

The back of Air India flight 171 is pictured at the site after it crashed in a residential area near the airport in Ahmedabad on June 12, 2025

Accident probe agency

Pilots demand answers ahead of Air India crash anniversary

This handout photo released by US Central Command shows AH-64 Apaches flying above the Strait of Hormuz during a patrol on April 17, 2026

AI-driven sector

Drone rescue highlights US Navy's autonomous push

Elon Musk will control more than 82 percent of SpaceX voting shares and there is no designated successor

Richest man in the world

All in on Musk, SpaceX's self-declared 'dream weaver'

South Africa coach Hugo Broos says his players will have to block out an intense atmosphere in the Estadio Azteca

First match of World Cup

South Africa brace for Azteca test against Mexico

South Korea captain Son Heung-min talks to reporters at the Guadalajara Stadium in Zapopan, Mexico, on the eve of his side's World Cup opening match against the Czech Republic

Ahead of opening fixture

Son keeping 'fired-up' South Koreans calm as World Cup kicks off

Haiti have been forced to change their World Cup kit after it featured war imagery

Days before kick-off

Haiti forced to change World Cup kit over war imagery

Fewer than 800 Tapanuli orangutans remain in the wild, scientists say

Climate change-fuelled storm decimated world's rarest great ape: study

The next edition of the Cape Town Marathon will take place in May 2027

Cape Town becomes first African World Marathon Major

Lyhanna's body was found last week after she went missing in southwestern France

Macron says trust in France institutions 'at stake' after girl's killing

US President Donald Trump speaks during a signing ceremony for the "Secure America Act" in the Oval Office of the White House

Caused by Iran war

"I love the inflation": Trump comment on latest price jump sparks backlash

Fireworks were set off around Barcelona's Sagrada Familia after Pope Leo XIV blessed its new tower

Wednesday's visit

Pope blesses new tower at Barcelona's Sagrada Familia

Canada's culture minister Marc Miller argued the new legislation would protect children from online harms

Digital Safety Act

Canada moves to ban under-16s from social media, regulate AI

Police use water cannon as protesters gather near a hotel previously believed to house migrants, in the town of Mallusk, north of Belfast, on a second night of disorder

Captured on video

Northern Irish police use water cannon on second night of protests

Pop icon Patrick Bruel has said he 'never forced a woman'

Two dozen women came forward

French pop icon Bruel charged with rape, sexual assault

Tech giants have been targeted by the EU for a number of allegedly unfair practices

Involving 17,000 organisations

Record lobby cash shapes EU pro-business agenda, campaigners say

This year's summer monsoon could be drier overall but still bring hazardous rainfall

Worsened by El Niño

South Asia monsoon risks both floods and drought: experts

Guantanamo Bay, on the southeastern coast of Cuba, is the site of a notorious US facility for prisoners detained after the September 11, 2001 attacks

Ramping up pressure

Pentagon chief visits Guantanamo, warns Cuba against threatening US

The first-ever World Cup match in Canada will feature the home side against Bosnia-Herzegovina in Toronto, a city home to a small but passionate Bosnian community

Small community

Toronto's Bosnians relish improbable World Cup showdown

Scientists said discovering a necropolis of this scale was completely unexpected

Bottom of Indian Ocean

World's largest whale graveyard discovered by Chinese sub

Trump appeared to be losing patience with the peace talks with Iran, after weeks of repeatedly saying the two sides were close to a deal

Schrödinger’s deal

Trump vows 'hard' new Iran strikes for 'playing us for suckers'

Hugo Boss may get a new boss if a buyout offer by Britain's Frasers Group is successful

Frasers makes 2-bn-euro offer for Hugo Boss

Upon arrival, Gates said he hopes his 'testimony is helpful to the work -- important work -- of the committee to find justice for the victims'

'I never met any women'

Bill Gates tells Epstein hearing he 'never victimized anyone'

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