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South China Morning Post - World News

2026-05-05 01:33:46 (2 days ago)

Drones shatter months of relative calm in Sudan’s capital as international airport targeted

Sudan’s armed forces blamed a drone attack ⁠on Monday that targeted Khartoum airport on the United Arab Emirates and Ethiopia, the latest in a barrage of assaults in recent days that has shattered months of relative calm in Sudan’s capital, three years into its civil war. Reuters could not independently verify the claims. Neither country immediately commented on the allegations made late on Monday. Sudan has often accused the UAE of supporting Rapid Support ‌Forces (RSF) paramilitaries, a charge...

ABC News - International News

2026-05-05 01:30:05 (2 days ago)

Cruise ship waiting for help after suspected outbreak of hantavirus onboard killed 3

A cruise ship with nearly 150 people is waiting for help off Cape Verde's coast in the Atlantic Ocean after three passengers died and three others were left seriously ill in a suspected hantavirus outbreak

BBC News - Science & Environment

2026-05-05 01:14:33 (2 days ago)

Companies pay out to charity after slurry incidents

The three companies has paid out a total of £33,500 after the Environment Agency's investigations.

BBC News - Health

2026-05-05 01:09:08 (2 days ago)

'I went undercover to expose dangerous advice given to parents'

Alison Scott-Wright, also known as 'The Magic Sleep Fairy' has appeared on TV giving advice around improving the sleep of babies.

France 24 - World News

2026-05-05 01:07:18 (2 days ago)

Ex-model accuses French scout of grooming her for Epstein

Former French model Juliette G. says it took her years to make sense of how she ended up in a New York bedroom with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

France 24 - World News

2026-05-05 01:07:18 (2 days ago)

Former model accuses French scout of grooming her for Epstein

Former French model Juliette G said Daniel Siad, a French modelling scout with close ties to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, had groomer her with the aim of introducing her to potential abusers. Juliette, who has asked to withhold her surname to protect her privacy, is one of two ex-models to have accused Siad of grooming. 

The Guardian - World News

2026-05-05 01:05:42 (2 days ago)

Google DeepMind workers in UK vote to unionize amid deal with US military

Exclusive: Worker pointed to Iran war and Pentagon’s Anthropic feud as indications the department is ‘not a responsible partner’

Workers developing Google’s artificial intelligence products in the UK have voted to unionize, in part out of concerns about a deal between the company and the US military that was announced last week.

In a letter slated to go to management on Tuesday and shared exclusively with the Guardian, workers at Google DeepMind, the company’s AI research laboratory, requested recognition of the Communication Workers Union and Unite the Union as joint representatives of the lab’s UK-based staff.

BBC News - Science & Environment

2026-05-05 01:04:30 (2 days ago)

Wildlife park welcomes three male Asiatic lions

There are about 500 to 600 Asiatic lions left in the wild which only live in Gir Forest, India.

The Guardian - World News

2026-05-05 01:02:07 (2 days ago)

US military strike kills two pushing death toll in alleged ‘narco boat’ campaign to at least 188

Despite the Iran war, US military strikes in the eastern Pacific have ramped up in recent weeks

The US military said it bombed another boat allegedly ferrying drugs in the Caribbean Sea, killing two people, on Monday.

The Trump administration’s campaign of blowing up alleged drug-trafficking vessels in Latin American waters has persisted since early September and killed at least 188 people. Other strikes have taken place in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

BBC News - Health

2026-05-05 01:01:18 (2 days ago)

Dangerous baby-sleep advice given to parents by self-described experts, secret filming reveals

The advice puts babies at risk of serious harm, even death, medical professionals have told the BBC.

The Guardian - World News

2026-05-05 01:00:44 (2 days ago)

Concierge firm co-founded by queen’s nephew went on ‘ill-timed’ hiring spree before Iran war

Quintessentially almost quadrupled staff in Middle East and Asia less than year before wealthy began to flee Gulf

The embattled luxury concierge service co-founded by Queen Camilla’s nephew Ben Elliot embarked on what appeared to be an inopportune hiring spree in the Middle East and Asia before wealthy individuals began fleeing the region because of the US-Israel war on Iran.

Quintessentially almost quadrupled staff in the regions from 22 to 84 during its financial year to 30 April 2025, according to newly released annual accounts, which again reported multimillion-pound losses and warned of “material uncertainty” about its future.

The Guardian - World News

2026-05-05 01:00:44 (2 days ago)

Women behind the lens: ‘After state massacres, I began burning the prints as an act of mourning’

Iranian visual journalist Parisa Azadi set her images alight in response to January’s violent repression by the regime, not to erase them, but to convey ‘rage, grief and refusal’

In September 2022, as revolution spread across Iran, I witnessed it from Dubai through the unstable glow of phone screens. Raw videos surfaced daily before disappearing into internet blackouts: women burning their hijabs, young men wounded by metal pellets, teenagers dragged into unmarked vans.

Unable to return safely to Iran, where I had spent six years documenting life under repression, I felt helpless. This work emerged from that pain and is both testimony and absence: the public violence of the state and my private, long-distance bearing witness.