8 Palestinians reported killed in Israeli air attack in northern Gaza An Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza today has killed eight, Al Jazeera Arabic reports, citing a source at Al-Shifa Hospital. Several people were also injured in the attack. Egypt, China call for international efforts for reconstruction of Gaza Egyptian President…
Watching the president of France and the prime minister close up was to see two men under the cosh, behind in the opinion polls and fighting for what they see as the essence of their political creed. It boils down to this – how do Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron make the case for…
Video game actors have voted to end a year-long strike over artificial intelligence (AI) protections. About 2,500 members of US union SAG-Aftra were involved in the action against 10 of the biggest companies in the industry, including Activision and Electronic Arts. Both sides had spent months hashing out a deal over the use of AI…
The Milky Way could have more satellite galaxies than previously thought, according to new research. Cosmologists at Durham University predict the existence of between 80 and 100 satellite galaxies surrounding our home galaxy on top of the 60 already known. Scientists used a technique combining high resolution supercomputer simulations and mathematical modelling to reach their…
The States of Guernsey is planning to bring more services online with the introduction of an artificial intelligence (AI) platform. The government is working with digital transformation company EPAM to implement the ServiceNow platform and to provide “much needed” application support services for the Revenue Service, at a cost of about £5m. Gé Drossaert, the…
Lord Robert Winston, a professor and TV doctor who was a pioneer of IVF treatment, has resigned from the British Medical Association (BMA) over planned strikes by resident doctors. Resident doctors, previously known as junior doctors, are planning a walkout for five consecutive days from 25 July until 30 July over a pay dispute with…
A way for eye patients to assess their own sight has been introduced at a hospital after a test was developed during the Covid pandemic. The system, created by Cambridge University Hospitals’ consultant paediatric ophthalmologist, Dr Louise Allen, is now being used at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in the city and is a first for the UK….
Lancashire is to receive £38.8m to help get more people back into work in the county. It is one of four areas to be given a share of £100m of government funding as part of the Connect to Work programme, with Lancashire the only place in the North West. The scheme aims to help those…
A mental health trust has made “some improvements” to a few of its services, inspectors said. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) carried out an inspection at Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) between November and December. The CQC visited nine wards across the trust to see if progress had been made after some its…
They look like an ordinary pair of glasses – but these are tech-packed specs. On a Zoom call, Niko Eiden, chief executive and co-founder of Finnish eyewear firm IXI, holds up the frames with lenses containing liquid crystals, meaning their vision-correcting properties can change on the fly. This one pair could correct the vision of…
