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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that India will “definitely look into” any evidence provided on its alleged links to an assassination plot in the US. In November, the US charged an Indian man of conspiring to murder a Sikh separatist leader in New York. Mr Modi told the Financial Times that the allegations will not affect ties between India and the US. This is the first time he has spoken publicly about the issue. “If a citizen of ours has done anything good or bad, we are ready to look into it. Our commitment is to the rule of law,” the…

Jonathan Majors was one of Hollywood’s fastest rising stars, with a major role in the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But a conviction for assaulting his girlfriend has left his career in tatters and mounting questions over where Marvel goes next. Majors was due to be at the heart of movies that Marvel is pinning its hopes on to turn its fortunes around – and that were expected to cement his status in Hollywood’s A-list. His first appearance as supervillain Kang the Conqueror was praised by many as the best thing about Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which got…

There was a time when more than one of your TVs, computers, speaker systems or other essential electronic goods would have been made by Toshiba. Once a poster boy for Japan’s dominance in electronics – known as Japan Inc – the company has delisted, ending a 74-year history with Tokyo’s stock exchange. So why did one of Japan’s most famous industrial names have such a spectacular fall from grace? It all started in 2015 when accounting malpractices across multiple divisions came to light, with many of them involving top management. For seven years, Toshiba had overstated its profit by $1.59bn…

A 13-year-old who admitted to planning an attack on a synagogue was sentenced to probation – and a book report. The boy was arrested in September after he created a plan to carry out a shooting at Temple Israel in Canton, Ohio. He was told to write a book report about Carl Lutz, a Swiss diplomat who saved thousands of Jews from the Nazis. The teenager was also sentenced to a year of probation, US media reports said. The boy previously pleaded “true”, which is the equivalent of guilty in family court, to misdemeanour charges of inducing panic and disorderly…

Rescue efforts for survivors of an earthquake that killed at least 131 in China’s north-west are nearly over. Authorities on Tuesday said they were wrapping up rescue operations and would now focus on treating the inured and helping those who lost their homes. The 6.2 magnitude quake hit Gansu province Monday night, injuring nearly 1,000 in the remote, mountainous villages. Thousands of rescue personnel continue to work in sub-zero temperatures. Temperatures hit -13C (8.7F) on Tuesday, Chinese media reported. Large parts of northern China are caught in a cold snap, with many cities reporting record low temperatures. Sixteen people remain…

The videogame studio behind Spider-Man 2 has been the victim of a huge hack in a ransomware attack. Last week, hackers demanded $2m from Sony-owned Insomniac, which developed the PlayStation 5 superhero hit, to keep stolen information private. Since then, details of future releases and work-in-progress footage showing the company’s upcoming Wolverine game have appeared online. BBC Newsbeat has approached Sony for comment. A listing for the leak, seen by the BBC, suggests it includes private employee data and internal company emails. Fellow games developers, journalists and fans were quick to condemn the attack, urging others not to share or…

Nasa has streamed an ultra high-definition video of a cat back to Earth from the depths of space. The 15-second clip of Taters the cat was sent via laser – and fittingly shows it chasing a laser beam. Footage of the orange tabby travelled 19 million miles – some 80 times the distance from Earth to the Moon. Nasa hopes the laser tech it was testing will eventually improve communications with more remote parts of the solar system. Taters, whose paws remained firmly on Earth, is owned by an employee of Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California. The video…

From the United Nations to NGOs and even influencers, critics of the way Israel is waging war against Hamas in Gaza are not in short supply; even US President Joe Biden has decried its “indiscriminate bombing.” But if there’s one area where Israel is arguably beyond reproach, it’s in the consistency of its stated war aims: • Destroy Hamas so it can’t fulfil its goal of repeating the October 7 massacre. • Bring back the remaining hostages held by Hamas. There are other aims, such as reestablishing deterrence to Israel’s foes, and reassuring Israelis the state can still protect them. But those were the main ones – until last…

As the world grapples with the existential crisis of climate change, environmental activists want President Joe Biden to phase out the oil industry, and Republicans argue he’s already doing that. Meanwhile, the surprising reality is the United States is pumping oil at a blistering pace and is on track to produce more oil than any country has in history. The United States is set to produce a global record of 13.3 million barrels per day of crude and condensate during the fourth quarter of this year, according to a report published Tuesday by S&P Global Commodity Insights. Last month, weekly US oil production hit 13.2 million barrels…

OpenAI has laid out plans to prevent any worst-case scenarios that could arise out of the powerful artificial intelligence technology that it is developing. The company behind the mega-viral chatbot ChatGPT this week unveiled a 27-page “Preparedness Framework” document that outlines how it is working to track, evaluate and protect against “catastrophic risks” from cutting-edge AI models. These risks range from AI models being used to cause a mass cybersecurity disruption to assisting in the creation of biological, chemical or nuclear weapons. As part of the checks and balances under the new preparedness framework, OpenAI says that company leadership holds the decision-making power on…