1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (293+ words) BEIJING — Beijing is banning the possession of drones within city limits in new rules announced Sunday that further tighten its regulations on drones, which already include a May ban on sales of the devices. The ban on possession will come…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (477+ words) BANGKOK — China hit back Wednesday against U.S. claims that Chinese artificial intelligence developers are engaged in "aggressive, malicious" industrial-scale efforts to extract capabilities from frontier American AI systems. The FBI, National Security Agency and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (507+ words) VIENNA — The Assad-era government in Syria was constructing a nuclear reactor that was configured to produce fissile material for possible use in nuclear weapons, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Monday. The "configuration" and the "technical…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (853+ words) Kelly Rand's teenage twin boys playing hockey in St. Paul, Minnesota, are going through growth spurts that force the family to buy new equipment what seems like all the time. The goaltender's $400 helmet in 2022 now runs $1,000. The chest protector they…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (498+ words) TOKYO — Global shares were trading mixed on Monday, with benchmarks in Tokyo and Seoul leading gains thanks to buying of computer chipmakers' stocks. France's CAC 40 was little changed, inching up less than 0.1% in early trading to 8,282.06. The German DAX shed…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (327+ words) THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Dutch central bank announced Wednesday that it has moved billions of dollars worth of its gold reserves out of North America in a move it described as “crisis preparedness” in a time of global political unrest....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (403+ words) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Scientists have discovered an enormous 10-sided wave pattern in the icy ammonia clouds over Saturn's south pole. The spinning, meandering decagon appears to be even bigger and more unstable than the hexagon of clouds around Saturn's north…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (454+ words) HONG KONG — World shares tumbled Wednesday after stocks slipped on Wall Street and as a global bond market sell-off deepened. The future for the S&P 500 lost 0.3% and that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 0.1%. In early European…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (992+ words) BENGALURU, India — When India’s power demand surged at the height of summer, the country struggled to meet evening needs as air conditioners ran longer amid hotter nights. Despite this demand, some renewable energy providers were told to limit their output…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (924+ words) In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming's harms. So now the world must figure out how to…...