First local lockdown will see non-essential shops shut on Tuesday and schools close for most of the pupils on Thursday in Leicester over the Covid-19 surge. The loosening of restrictions for pubs and restaurants in England on Saturday will also not be taking place there. The health secretary Matt Hancock said measures would be enforced…
A Ferry capsized after colliding with another vessel killing 30, including several children and several more missing near the capital Dhaka in Bangladesh. Rescue officials said the ship, the Morning Bird, overturned after a collision with another vessel in the Buriganga river, close to the country’s largest river port, Sadarghat. The ferry came from a…
An idea takes off like wildfire, changing our world forever, as a deadly virus suddenly explodes into the population. We live in a world that’s more interconnected than ever before. Our lives are shaped by outbreaks of disease of misinformation, even of violence that appears, spread, and fade away with bewildering speed. Adam Kucharski, an…
Learn from the monkey how to remain calm in adversity and to wait for your opponent to make a mistake.
Armed men with automatic rifles in Toyota Corolla car threw a grenade and then began firing at a security post outside the stock exchange and stormed the financial hub in Karachi, killing at least two and injuring others before police guards fought back shooting all four gunmen them dead. Militants from the Baloch…
Coronavirus death toll surpasses half a million and over 10 million infected according to Johns Hopkins University in the US. The US has reported a total of 2.5 million cases and 125, 000 deaths with Covid-19 so far more than any other country. The virus which emerged in China, late last year and spread across…
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Daniel Susskind’s A World Without Work show why advances in artificial intelligence mean that all kinds of jobs are increasingly at risk. Susskind argues that machines no longer need to reason like us in order to outperform us. Tasks that used to be beyond the capability of computers –from diagnosing illness to drafting legal contracts-…
Lisa Balabanlilar, Rice University specialist on early modern Asian history, comes to life, in her sensitive biography of Jahangir, the fourth of the six great Mughal Emperors of India, the oldest son of Akbar the Great who extended the Mughal Empire across the Indian subcontinent and the father of Shah Jahan, the builder of…