Russian troops are in northern districts of the capital Kyiv, Ukraine says, and video shows armoured vehicles advancing
U.K. says the "bulk" of Russian troops advancing on the city remain more than 50 km away
Russian President Vladimir Putin tells Ukrainian troops to overthrow their own country's leadership
Meanwhile the Ukrainian government calls on citizens to make Molotov cocktails and defend the city
Ukraine's interior ministry says 18,000 guns have been given to...
Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled several ambitious artificial-intelligence projects, describing AI as "the key to unlocking the Metaverse," the BBC reports.
In a livestreamed demonstration, he created a basic virtual world – including an island, trees and a beach – using the AI feature Builder Bot.
Zuckerberg also announced a plan to build a universal speech translator.
"The ability to communicate with anyone in any language is a superpower that was dreamt of forever," he said.
Builder...
The rape and murder of Noor Muqaddam, by a man from the same circle of rich friends, outraged Pakistan – and it highlighted the shocking levels of violence women there face.
In the days after her death, people demanded justice for Noor and an overhaul of the criminal justice system. The BBC's Shumaila Jaffery in Islamabad watched the case unfold.
Warning: This story contains distressing details of violent crime.
On July 20 last year, a phone rang...
Russian forces have launched a military assault on neighbouring Ukraine, crossing its borders and bombing targets near big cities.
In a pre-dawn televised statement, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia did not plan to occupy Ukraine and demanded that its military lay down their arms, the BBC reports.
Moments later, attacks were reported on Ukrainian military targets.
Ukraine said that "Putin has launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine".
Russia's military breached the border in a number of places,...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the government can revoke the Emergencies Act now that the crisis in Ottawa and Canada’s border crossings has calmed down, the Financial Post reports.
Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act, which replaced the War Measures Act in 1988, for the first time last week, saying police needed extra help to end blockades that had been ongoing in downtown Ottawa for weeks and had spread to key Canada-U.S. border crossings.
On Monday, Trudeau...
Ukraine has urged its citizens living in Russia to leave the country immediately amid growing fears of war.
In addition to the order affecting more than three million people, Ukraine mobilized its military reserves and declared a state of emergency.
It came as Russian troops, ordered into two rebel-held regions in eastern Ukraine, were reportedly edging closer to the border. Russia has begun evacuating its embassy in Kyiv and lowered its flag there.
Western countries have announced a...
Blood pressure rose moderately during the early months of the pandemic, according to a University of Texas Southwestern study of patients who monitored themselves at home.
"People were less active, ate more, and drank more (alcoholic beverages) during the pandemic, all of which led to higher blood pressure," said Eric Peterson, MD and lead author of the study. "COVID made it challenging for people to see their doctors and have their medications adjusted."
The study, published in the American Heart...
Some apps in the virtual-reality metaverse are "dangerous by design," the U.K.'s National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) has warned in response to a BBC News investigation.
A researcher posing as a 13-year-old girl witnessed grooming, sexual material, racist insults, and a rape threat in the virtual-reality world.
The children's charity said it was "shocked and angry" at the findings.
Head of online child safety policy for the NSPCC Andy Burrows added the investigation had...
Men with a high body mass index (BMI) in their upper teens had an elevated risk of severe COVID-19, requiring hospitalization, later in life, University of Gothenburg researchers show in a register study.
For some time, overweight and obesity have been recognized risk factors for severe COVID-19. To date, however, there has been no study to monitor large groups of individuals whose obesity was identified at an early age, and to find out how severely ill they...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered troops into two rebel-held regions in eastern Ukraine, after recognizing them as independent states.
Russia said the troops have not yet been deployed but will be "peacekeeping" in the regions, which it has backed since 2014.
The U.S. said calling them peacekeepers was "nonsense", and accused Russia of creating a pretext for war, the BBC reports.
Several countries have announced sanctions in response.
Ukraine's president said his country was "not afraid of...
