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Police in the US city of Lewiston, Maine have warned a gunman is on the loose, with reports that at least 16 people have been killed. Residents of the city, as well as the nearby town of Lisbon, have been told to shelter in place. Police named Robert Card, 40, as a person of interest and said he should be considered “armed and dangerous”. The White House said President Joe Biden had been briefed on the situation and would continue to receive updates. There were also multiple but unconfirmed reports of at least 50 people injured. Billie Jayne Cooke, who…

A Polish tech entrepreneur’s global project, aimed at getting more children into computer programming, has been endorsed by Pope Francis. Miron Mironiuk, founder of artificial intelligence company Cosmose AI, is drawing on his own experience of coding transforming his life. He said the “Code with Pope” initiative would bridge “the glaring disparities in education” across the globe. It is hoped the Pope’s involvement will attract Catholic countries. “We believe that the involvement of the Pope will help to convince them to spend some time and use this opportunity to learn programming for free,” Mr Mironiuk told the BBC. The initiative…

Archaeologists have revealed a model showing what Peru’s most famous mummy would have looked like. The mummy, known as “Juanita” or the “Inca Ice Maiden”, was an Inca girl who is thought to have been sacrificed in a ritual more than 500 years ago. Scientists worked with a specialist in facial reconstruction to build a silicon bust of the mummy. Johan Reinhard, the US archaeologist who first found the mummy in 1995, said the bust “makes her even more alive”. A team of Peruvian and Polish scientists worked with Oscar Nilsson, a specialist in facial reconstruction from Sweden, to build…

Andrea Giambruno, Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni’s ex-partner, has been dropped as host of a national TV show after sexist off-air comments were leaked to another programme. TV company Mediaset said he would maintain an editorial role on the show. Ms Meloni announced last week that she was separating from her long-term partner after a recording was broadcast on a satirical TV show. Mediaset is owned by the family of late prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. Striscia La Notizia – The News Strip – last week broadcast a leaked recording of Giambruno talking to female colleagues about an affair he was…

Researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are sounding the alarm on a mental health crisis for health workers around the country. Using nationwide survey data between 2018 and 2022, a new report from the agency found that nearly half of health workers reported feeling burned out in 2022, up from under a third four years prior. Health workers’ reports of being harassed at work more than doubled, as well. The report, released on Tuesday, also shows that health workers face worse mental health outcomes than employees in other industries. The findings come on the heels of…

Vital fuel supplies needed to run hospitals and provide water to Gaza are on the verge of running out, a United Nations agency has said, exacerbating the crisis on a densely populated territory already facing severe shortages. The warning, from the main UN agency working in Gaza, that it will be forced to halt its operations by Wednesday evening due to a lack of fuel comes as Israeli airstrikes on the besieged strip killed more than 700 people in 24 hours, according to Palestinian officials. “If we do not get fuel urgently, we will be forced to halt our operations…

It’s raining “guilty” pleas in Trump-world. Jenna Ellis, the Salem Media host who served as one of Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign attorneys, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a felony charge of aiding and abetting false statements in the Georgia election subversion case. Her plea deal, the third in the last week, followed those from notorious election conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell and fake electors artist Kenneth Chesebro. The rapid succession of guilty pleas not only marks a big blow to Trump, but also to the right-wing media apparatus that championed and disseminated his election lies to the masses. In the aftermath of the…

Shares in Deutsche Bank surged nearly 7% Wednesday after it said strong earnings meant it could pay out more cash to shareholders over the next two years than previously anticipated. Germany’s biggest lender said in its third-quarter report that it was on track to notch up annual revenue of €29 billion ($31 billion) in 2023 — its highest in seven years — and that it “had the potential to free up additional capital of around €3 billion ($3.2 billion)” between now and 2025. The bank said it expected to buy back more of its shares — a move which typically juices a company’s stock…

Meta’s lawyers are really earning their paychecks this week. More than three dozen states are suing the parent company of Instagram and Facebook over fears that its platforms’ “addictive” features are harming teens’ mental health. In a federal lawsuit filed in California, 33 attorneys general allege that Meta’s products have harmed minors and contributed to a mental health crisis in the United States. The legal onslaught didn’t stop there, my colleague Brian Fung writes. Eight additional attorneys general sued Meta in state courts, making similar claims. And the state of Florida sued the company in its own federal lawsuit alleging it misled users about…

Liberia’s electoral commission on Tuesday scheduled a presidential election run-off for November after results showed that the two frontrunners, President George Weah and opposition leader Joseph Boakai, had failed to secure enough votes. Weah holds a slim lead at 43.83% of the vote, while Boakai has 43.44%, according to tallied results from 100% of polling places, the West African nation’s election commission said. Commission chairperson Davidetta Browne Lansanah said the run-off vote would be held on Nov. 14. She said there was a record turnout of 78.86% of around 2.4 million registered voters. The Oct. 10 election has been widely…