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About 600 self-driving cars made by a unit of General Motors are being investigated by regulators after reports of injuries to pedestrians. Self-driving cars made by Cruise may have been “encroaching on pedestrians”, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The NHTSA said it had received two reports involving pedestrian injuries. Cruise says its safety record “continues to outperform comparable human drivers”. The NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation said the reports were related to self-driving cars hitting pedestrians on crossings in San Francisco. Both the reports submitted to the NHTSA involved pedestrians crossing after the cars’ traffic lights…

After a record 57 weeks, Nigerian Afrobeats star Rema’s song Calm Down has fallen off the Billboard Hot 100. “It made history, becoming the longest-charting and most successful African song of all time,” the music monitoring platform Chart Data said on X. The song smashed the 35-week record held by fellow Nigerian Afrobeats star Wizkid’s song Essence. Calm Down entered the Billboard Hot 100 in September last year, about seven months after its release. The captivating song, which Billboard magazine music analysts described as “a melancholy slow jam with a subtle hypnotic draw”, has gripped music enthusiasts worldwide since its…

Princess Diana’s relationship with Dodi Fayed is one of the storylines Netflix has teased in a series of images ahead of the show’s sixth season. The forthcoming series will dramatise the events of the late 1990s including the last days of Princess Diana’s life. Australian actress Elizabeth Debicki said it was a “unique challenge as an actor” to portray her final weeks. Season six will be split into two parts, with the first four episodes released on 16 November. It will once again be written by Peter Morgan, who created the hugely popular series which began in 2016. Debicki said:…

Khulood Khaled was woken up by the sound of Israeli airstrikes as she slept next to her son last week. Black smoke filled the room, making it difficult for her to breathe. She felt a sense of panic setting in, followed by pain in her abdomen. She thought she was going into early labor. Eight months pregnant and worried about her unborn child, the 28-year-old decided to leave her home in the al-Karama district of the northern Gaza Strip the next day as the bombing continued. “We watched houses dropping as we drove, thinking we could die any minute,” she told CNN. On…

Foreign nationals and dual citizens have scrambled to find ways to get out of Israel after Hamas’ gruesome attack on October 7 pushed the country into war. But leaving the country has proven to be an emotional and arduous task, with complications that include soaring ticket prices, canceled flights, overwhelmed embassies and misinformation about further attacks. Some leaving the country found themselves stuck at Ben Gurion International Airport, as flights were almost immediately suspended after the attacks. Others who were fortunate to board a flight sometimes found themselves accepting temporary stopovers in foreign lands where they relied on the kindness of strangers for…

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are set to meet in Beijing this week in a visit expected to underscore their shared vision for a new international order no longer dominated by the United States and its democratic allies. This meeting between the world’s two most powerful autocrats comes as geopolitical fault lines harden globally – first following Russia’s grinding invasion of Ukraine, launched just three weeks after the leaders’ last meeting in the Chinese capital in 2022 – and now as Israel’s war against Palestinian militant group Hamas threatens to spiral into a broader conflict that could shatter…

An artsy quarter of Madrid, a sustainable pocket of Melbourne, and an up-and-coming zone in Medellin – what do these places have in common? They’re among the coolest neighborhoods in the world, according to global publisher Time Out. Every year, Time Out polls its staffers and contributors from around the globe to assemble a list of the 40 most fun, interesting and fashionable ‘hoods. Topping the 2023 list is Laureles, in Colombia’s bustling city of Medellin, which is the hometown of musicians J Balvin and Karol G. According to Time Out, up-and-coming Laureles has a “pretty laid-back reputation” despite being…

Manchester United and England great Rio Ferdinand said soccer’s leadership structures need to “quickly” address issues around diversity and representation as “decisions are being made by people that don’t have a complete understanding or empathy with the people that are actually on the football pitch.” Speaking to CNN ahead of a roundtable, entitled “A Seat At The Table,” which focuses on representation in sport and premiers on TNT Sports 1 at 8 p.m. BST on October 19 (streaming on discovery+ in the UK), Ferdinand gave his candid views of what needed to change at organizations, even saying he’d be open at taking up…

Oil prices rose above $91 a barrel Monday as diplomatic efforts to address the crisis in the Middle East intensified, but slipped back later in the day, falling below $90 on reports that that US was nearing a deal to ease sanctions on Venezuela. Prices dropped on Monday afternoon after the Washington Post reported that the United States and Venezuela had agreed to a deal that would ease restrictions on Venezuela’s oil industry in exchange for a freer presidential election in the country next year. Brent crude futures, the international oil benchmark, rose as high as $91 a barrel in Asian hours…

The short video clip shows Mia Schem lying on a bed, her right arm being bandaged by someone out of the frame. A long, fresh scar is clearly visible. Schem, a 21-year-old French-Israeli woman, is being held hostage by the militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The video released by Hamas on Monday is the first footage of any of the dozens of people held in the enclave. Speaking into the camera, Schem, who looks pale, but is sitting up straight with her head held high, says she was injured and taken to Gaza, then pleads to be returned to her family.…