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In the foreground is a round, translucent, petri dish with tiny blue dots of bacterial growth. It is being held by a scientist, out of focus in the background, wearing a pair of purple latex gloves and using a fine needle-like implement to manipulate the blue bacterial colonies.
AI designs antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA superbugs
NEW YORK – Artificial intelligence has invented two new potential antibiotics that could kill drug-resistant gonorrhoea and MRSA, researchers have revealed.The drugs were designed atom-by-atom by the AI and killed the superbugs in laboratory and animal tests.The two compounds still need years of refinement and clinical trials before they could be prescribed.But the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) team behind it say AI could start a "second golden age" in antibiotic discovery.Antibiotics kill bacteria, but infections that resist treatment are now causing more than a million deaths a year.Overusing antibiotics has helped bacteria evolve to dodge the drugs' effects, and there has been a shortage of new antibiotics for decades.Researchers have previously used AI to...
August 15, 2025

AI designs antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA superbugs

Baby Shark's got a catchy tune and plans for world domination
Baby Shark did not plagiarize, South Korea's top court rules
SEOUL — South Korea's Supreme Court has rejected a US composer's allegation that the producers of the inescapably catchy children's song Baby Shark plagiarized his work, ending a six-year-long legal battle.The court upheld two lower court verdicts that favoured Pinkfong, the South Korean company behind the tune with the "doo doo doo doo doo doo" refrain that has been streamed billions of times.Jonathan Wright recorded a version of the tune in 2011 based on a children's folk song. Pinkfong's version was released in 2016.Wright said he owned the copyright to the interpretation, but Pinkfong argued that its version was an arrangement of the same folk song, which is in the public domain.The court ruled that Wright's version "had not reached a level of...
August 14, 2025

Baby Shark did not plagiarize, South Korea's top court rules

Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodriguez announce engagement after eight years together
RIYADH — Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo is engaged to his longtime partner Georgina Rodriguez, the couple confirmed on Monday.Rodriguez, 31, announced the news from Riyadh on Instagram on Aug. 11, sharing a photo of her hand resting atop Ronaldo’s and displaying a large oval-shaped diamond engagement ring.“Yes I do. In this and in all my lives,” she wrote in a translated caption.Ronaldo, 40, and Rodriguez have been together since 2017 and share five children: twins Eva Maria and Mateo, 8, daughter Alana, 7, daughter Bella, 3, and Ronaldo’s 15-year-old son Cristiano Jr.The couple suffered the loss of Bella’s newborn twin brother, Ángel, in April 2022.The pair made their first public appearance together at the Best FIFA Football Awards in Zurich in January 2017 and...
August 11, 2025

Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodriguez announce engagement after eight years together

Guangdong authorities have vowed to take decisive and forceful measures to stop the spread of the disease
China reports 7,000 cases of chikungunya virus
SINGAPORE — More than 7,000 cases of a mosquito-borne virus have been reported across China's Guangdong province since July, prompting measures similar to those taken during the Covid-19 pandemic.In Foshan city, which has been hit the hardest, chikungunya patients must stay in hospital, where their beds will protected with mosquito nets. They can only be discharged after they test negative or at the end of a week-long stay.Spread through the bite of an infected mosquito, the virus causes fever and severe joint pain, which sometimes can last for years, but is not usually deadly.Here is what you need to know about the disease.Although rare in China, chikungunya virus outbreaks are common in South and South East Asia and parts of Africa.Most people bitten by an infected mosquito will...
August 07, 2025

China reports 7,000 cases of chikungunya virus

Kelley Mack poses for photos at an event in Chicago in October 2021
‘The Walking Dead’ actress Kelley Mack dies at 33
LOS ANGELES — Actress Kelley Mack, known for her appearance in post-apocalyptic zombie drama “The Walking Dead,” has died. She was 33.Mack, who was born Kelley Klebenow, “passed away peacefully” in her hometown of Cincinatti on Saturday after battling glioma of the central nervous system, according to a statement posted on the social networking site CaringBridge. A glioma is a type of tumor that affects the brain or spinal cord.“It is with indelible sadness that we are announcing the passing of our dear Kelley. Such a bright, fervent light has transitioned to the beyond, where we all eventually must go,” read a post on Mack’s Instagram on Tuesday alongside a photo of the actress.Condolences have poured in from colleagues, friends and fans remembering her as “talented”...
August 06, 2025

‘The Walking Dead’ actress Kelley Mack dies at 33

Ed Sheeran surprised fans in Wexford on Tuesday night
Ed Sheeran surprises fans with Irish performance 
BELFAST — Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran has surprised fans by playing a number of original songs and Irish tunes during a music and arts festival in Wexford town.The hitmaker played alongside Irish bands Amble, BIIRD, Beoga and Aaron Rowe in the Sky and The Ground pub on Tuesday night, as part of Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann.Brought up in Suffolk, the Galway Girl singer's dad hails from Belfast, and in June Sheeran announced that he identifies culturally as Irish.Sheeran also made sure fans who couldn't get make inside the pub didn't miss out, as he made his way outside to perform an acoustic rendition of his hit single Perfect.Sheeran and all-female trad supergroup BIIRD performed traditional folk song Wild Mountain Thyme together.The crowd sang along as Sheeran played the...
August 06, 2025

Ed Sheeran surprises fans with Irish performance 

Fan dies after fall at Oasis Wembley Stadium concert
LONDON — Oasis said Sunday its members are “shocked and saddened” after a man died following a fall during the band’s concert at London’s Wembley Stadium.The Metropolitan Police said officers and paramedics responded just before 10:30 p.m. Saturday to reports of an injured person.A man in his 40s was found “with injuries consistent with a fall” and was pronounced dead at the scene.Police appealed for witnesses or anyone with phone video of the incident to come forward.“We are shocked and saddened to hear of the tragic death of a fan at the show last night,” Oasis said in a statement, offering “sincere condolences to the family and friends of the person involved.”The Britpop group’s first tour in 16 years began July 4 in Cardiff, Wales. Saturday’s concert was the...
August 03, 2025

Fan dies after fall at Oasis Wembley Stadium concert

A 4,000-year-old ancient Egyptian handprint has been discovered on a 'soul house' at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
4,000-year-old handprint found on ancient Egyptian tomb
CAMBRIDGE — A 4,000-year-old handprint has been discovered on a clay model used for offerings in an Ancient Egyptian tomb.Researchers from Cambridge University’s Fitzwilliam Museum, in the United Kingdom, stumbled upon the imprint while preparing for an exhibition, which is set to open this fall.It was found on the base of a “soul house,” a building-shaped clay model typically found in burials and said to have provided a place for the soul to live, according to a press release from the museum.The model has an open space at the front where food offerings, like bread, lettuce or an ox’s head, could be placed.The handprint is likely to have been from the potter who made the soul house.It showed that the unnamed potter would have first created a framework of wooden sticks for the...
July 30, 2025

4,000-year-old handprint found on ancient Egyptian tomb

Gwyneth Paltrow featuring in the video.
Astronomer pokes fun at viral scandal with Gwyneth Paltrow video as ex-CEO fallout lingers
NEW YORK — US data firm Astronomer has released a tongue-in-cheek promotional video featuring Gwyneth Paltrow as its “temporary spokesperson,” in a bold PR move following the viral scandal involving its CEO and chief people officer, who were caught embracing on the big screen at a Coldplay concert.In the 60-second clip posted to Astronomer’s X account, Paltrow — who was married to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin for over a decade — deadpans responses to what she calls “the most common questions” the company has recently faced.The first question, displayed as “OMG! What the actual f,” is answered with a straight-faced endorsement: “Yes, Astronomer is the best place to run Apache Airflow.” She closes the segment by claiming the firm is “thrilled so many people have a...
July 27, 2025

Astronomer pokes fun at viral scandal with Gwyneth Paltrow video as ex-CEO fallout lingers

Female HR exec resigns after viral Coldplay concert embrace with CEO
NEW YORK — Kristin Cabot, the human resources executive at tech firm Astronomer, has resigned following a viral video showing her embracing the company’s CEO at a Coldplay concert, multiple news outlets reported.Her departure comes just days after CEO Andy Byron also stepped down, following the company's announcement that he was placed on leave pending an internal investigation.The incident, which unfolded during Coldplay’s show at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, gained widespread attention after frontman Chris Martin called for the cameras to pan the crowd during his “Jumbotron Song.”The pair were caught on screen cuddling and smiling, but their reactions quickly shifted to shock as they noticed themselves on the big screen.Cabot’s jaw dropped and she spun...
July 25, 2025

Female HR exec resigns after viral Coldplay concert embrace with CEO

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