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At least 40 Indians are among 49 people killed in a fire at a residential building in the Kuwaiti city of Mangaf, India’s foreign ministry said. Video shared on social media showed flames engulfing the lower part of the building and thick black smoke billowing from the upper floors. Authorities said many of the casualties are from the southern Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi sent his condolences to the victims and their families. “The fire mishap in Kuwait City is saddening,” he said on X. “My thoughts are with all those who have…

Iran and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been accused of violating a UN arms embargo by supplying drones to the warring sides in the 14-month conflict that has devastated Sudan. We look at the evidence to back up the claim. On the morning of 12 March 2024, Sudanese government soldiers were celebrating an unprecedented military advance. They had finally recaptured the state broadcaster’s headquarters in the capital, Khartoum. Like most of the city, the building had fallen into the hands of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) at the start of the civil war 11 months earlier. What was…

Riot police in Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse protesters outside Congress, before lawmakers gave an initial approval to budget-slashing reforms in the country’s Senate on Wednesday. Demonstrators – who say the measures will hurt millions of Argentines – threw petrol bombs and stones, setting one car alight. A number of people were reported injured, with local media describing the scene on Wednesday as a “battlefield”. The reform package, proposed by right-wing President Javier Milei to revive the country’s flagging economy, includes declaring a state of economic emergency, cutting pensions and watering down labour…

A Thai film about a young man caring for his dying grandmother as he vies for her fortune has struck a chord in South East Asia, where TikTokers’ teary responses are going viral. How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies has topped box offices across the region since it was released in April. The film follows M, who is plotting to win an inheritance from his cancer-stricken grandmother, but begins to question his motives as he grows closer to her. The story appears to have deeply resonated with moviegoers, who have been sharing emotional videos of themselves before and after…

Apple is to boost its Siri voice assistant and operating systems with OpenAI’s ChatGPT as it seeks to catch up in the AI race. The iPhone maker announced the Siri makeover along with a number of other new features at its annual developers show on Monday. It is part of a new personalised AI system – called “Apple Intelligence” – that aims to offer users a way to navigate Apple devices more easily. Updates to its iPhone and Mac operating systems will allow access to ChatGPT through a partnership with developer OpenAI. ChatGPT can also be used to boost other…

An invasive species of mosquito has been found in 13 countries in the EU, including France, Spain and Greece, with experts linking their discovery to a rise in dengue fever in Europe. Climate change is creating favourable conditions for the tiger mosquito to spread, said the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). As far north as Paris, where the Olympic Games will take place at the end of July, authorities have been monitoring and trapping the insect. The ECDC has warned international travel will further increase the risk of more European outbreaks. It has advised people to remove…

US video game retailer GameStop says it has raised more than $2bn (£1.57bn) in its second share sale in a month after a rally led by the investment influencer Keith Gill, known as Roaring Kitty. The announcement comes just days after Mr Gill’s first YouTube livestream in three years. The company’s shares jumped by almost 23% on Tuesday and have doubled in the last six months. GameStop’s popularity among retail investors during the pandemic helped coin the idea of meme stocks – those that gain popularity through sites like Reddit. Stocks that often became popular were ones that had been…

The Japanese scientist whose pioneering work led to the creation of statins, the life-saving drugs used by millions, has died at the age of 90. Akira Endo’s pivotal work has been likened to the discovery of penicillin. The biochemist is said to have been inspired by Alexander Fleming’s discovery of penicillin, prompting him to study mould, or fungi, in his quest to find new medicines. In 1973, Prof Endo found the first cholesterol-lowering compound able to reduce the risk of heart disease and strokes. Paying tribute, Prof Bryan Williams, chief scientific and medical officer at the British Heart Foundation, described…

Elon Musk has unexpectedly asked a California court to withdraw a legal case against OpenAI and its boss Sam Altman, which accused them of abandoning the firm’s founding mission of developing artificial intelligence (AI) for humanity’s benefit. The filing submitted by the multi-billionaire’s lawyers asked for the months-old case to be dropped without offering any reason for the move. It came just a day before the court was expected to hear the ChatGPT-developer’s bid to have the case dismissed. BBC News has contacted Mr Musk’s lawyer and OpenAI for comment. The latest filing asked for the case’s dismissal “without prejudice”,…

In 2015, Saurabh Netravalkar gave up his dreams of playing professional cricket in India and moved to the US to work as a software engineer. “Cricket was over for me. I had no hope or expectation left to play again,” he says. On Wednesday, almost a decade later, he will face the Indian cricket team in a T20 World Cup match at the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium, New York. But he will do so as part of the US team. As he embarks on his World Cup dream, Netravalkar says the match will be an “emotional moment” for a…