Author: Justin M. Larson

A three-year-old boy who would almost certainly have been born paralysed because of a severe spinal abnormality is able to walk after having ground-breaking stem cell surgery while still in the womb.An ultrasound scan 20 weeks into pregnancy showed Tobi Maginnis had spina bifida, a disabling condition in which the spinal cord fails to develop properly during pregnancy, leaving part of it growing outside the body. But he became just the second baby to have the abnormality repaired before he was born using rejuvenating stem cells taken from the placenta. Image: Tobi with parents Jeff Maginnis and Michelle Johnson His…

Cuba has accused those on board of planning “an infiltration with terrorist aims” and firing first. Source link

The Trump administration is signaling a different approach, after demanding an end to Cuba’s communist leadership. Source link

The Cuban government’s account of a supposed armed raid into its territory was called into question after one of the men identified as being on the boat turned up in Miami. Source link

Safety questions linger since the country is set to host matches in the world’s largest sporting event, the FIFA World Cup. Source link

The warning comes as the world’s youngest nation remains among the top displacement crises, with nearly 10 million people in need of humanitarian assistance including returnees fleeing the war in neighbouring Sudan. IOM requires just over $131 million for operations in South Sudan this year but faces a $29 million funding gap.  ‘An extraordinary burden’ The UN agency and partners are supporting the authorities with piloting government-led solutions under the UN Secretary-General’s Action Agenda on Internal Displacement whose goals include ensuring effective protection and assistance for those who have been uprooted, and preventing new displacement crises from emerging.  “South Sudan is carrying an extraordinary burden, and funding shortfalls risk undermining progress toward durable solutions for millions,” said IOM Deputy Director General for Operations, Ugochi Daniels, who is currently visiting the country.   “Displaced families and host communities are trying to rebuild their lives, but the…

The brutal conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) was the focus of debate as the Geneva-based Council holds its first session of the year. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk delivered remarks alongside Mohamed Chande Othman, Chair of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan established by the Council in October 2023.  Rise in civilian deaths Mr. Türk presented his latest report, outlining “yet another chapter in the chronicle of cruelty.” As fighting has intensified, violations by all parties have surged “while accountability has remained practically absent,” he said. Documentation by his office, OHCHR, “points to over a two and a half times increase in killings of civilians” in 2025, compared with the…

The South African leader said that the men had come home two weeks after he had won agreement from President Vladimir V. Putin. Source link

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Amazon made a lot of noise last October when it unveiled Blue Jay, a multi-armed warehouse robot built to speed up same-day deliveries. Just months later, the company quietly ended the program.The robot’s core technology will live on in other projects. Still, Blue Jay itself is done.That sudden shift raises an important question. If one of the world’s most advanced logistics companies cannot make a high-profile robot work at scale, what does that say about the future of artificial intelligence (AI) in the real world?Sign up for my FREE CyberGuy ReportGet my…

New restaurants are popping up in Caracas. Nightclubs are bursting at the seams. The streets are eerily safe — with big exceptions. Could a revival be on the horizon? Source link

O2 has become the first mobile network in the UK to switch on user access to satellites, meaning that people living in rural areas with no signal may now be able to connect to mobile data.The new connection should bring coverage to an area around two-thirds of the size of Wales, according to O2. When traditional services like 4G aren’t available, customers on the network will now automatically connect to Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites.Starlink is a network of satellites in low-earth orbit that are designed to offer an alternative to traditional data coverage. Image: Starlink satellites visible in the sky…

The indictment against an agent of the Shin Bet security agency added to a growing list of Israelis accused of exploiting their positions in the security forces to profit from the war in Gaza. Source link

The UK’s first deep geothermal plant that produces power from heat miles underground and lithium for batteries is being switched on in Cornwall. Geothermal Engineering Ltd’s (GEL) £50m United Downs site will deliver renewable electricity around the clock, generated from the country’s deepest well ever drilled, at more than three miles (5km) below the surface. The site will draw up water at extremely high temperatures of more than 190C to drive turbines that will generate power for 10,000 homes.The water contains a high concentration of lithium, which will be extracted to produce zero-carbon lithium carbonate, which can be used in…

Instagram will start notifying parents if their children repeatedly search for suicide and self-harm content. However, a leading online safety charity criticised the update as “flimsy” and say it risks leaving parents “panicked and ill-prepared” for the difficult conversations that may follow. In the coming weeks, parents who have parental supervision set up on their children’s Instagram accounts in the UK, US, Australia and Canada will start receiving the notifications.The messages will be sent if an underage user repeatedly searches for phrases promoting suicide or self-harm, phrases that suggest a teen wants to hurt themselves, and terms like “suicide” or “self-harm”…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Your web browser may feel like a safe place, especially when you install helpful tools that promise to make your life easier. But security researchers have uncovered a dangerous campaign in which more than 300,000 people installed Chrome extensions pretending to be artificial intelligence (AI) assistants. Instead of helping, these fake tools secretly collect sensitive information like your emails, passwords and browsing activity.They used familiar names like ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Assistant. If you use Chrome and have installed any AI-related extension, your personal information may already be exposed. Even worse, some…

The national mood is somewhere between anxiety, resignation and anticipation as President Trump considers whether to attack Iran. Source link

“This situation calls for urgent political dialogue, rather than escalating the use of force,” said the High Commissioner for Human Rights, following a sharp increase in civilian casualties in cross-border clashes with Pakistani military forces, who have been reportedly targeting armed militants sheltering in Afghanistan. According to the UN Mission in Afghanistan, UNAMA, 70 civilians were killed and 478 were injured in Afghanistan in the last three months of 2025. “There were further casualties earlier this week, when 13 civilians were killed and several more injured following airstrikes by Pakistani forces,” Mr. Türk said. Deadly decreesThe latest batch of Taliban decrees…

NASA has revealed details of an incident aboard the ISS that prompted the first medical evacuation in the space station’s 25-year history.On 7 January, astronaut Mike Fincke “experienced a medical event that required immediate attention from my incredible crewmates”, according to a statement by him, which NASA shared online. “Thanks to their quick response and the guidance of our NASA flight surgeons, my status quickly stabilised”, wrote the astronaut. Image: Astronaut Mike Fincke was helped out of a spacecraft after returning to Earth in January. Pic: Reuters NASA decided the safest course of action was to bring him and the…

THE FULL TEXT OF THE LETTER An Open Letter to Our Fellow Leaders in Global Media From: Tim Davie, BBC Director-General; Jon Slade, CEO, Financial Times; Anna Bateson, CEO, The Guardian; David Rhodes, Executive Chairman, Sky News; Anna Jones, CEO, Telegraph Media Group We write to you at a pivotal moment for our industry. We invite you – global leaders across publishing, broadcasting, media and news – to join us as founding members of a new coalition: SPUR – the Standards for Publisher Usage Rights coalition. Artificial Intelligence is fundamentally reshaping how content is created, distributed, discovered and monetised. We…

THE FULL TEXT OF THE LETTER An Open Letter to Our Fellow Leaders in Global Media From: Tim Davie, BBC Director-General; Jon Slade, CEO, Financial Times; Anna Bateson, CEO, The Guardian; David Rhodes, Executive Chairman, Sky News; Anna Jones, CEO, Telegraph Media Group We write to you at a pivotal moment for our industry. We invite you – global leaders across publishing, broadcasting, media and news – to join us as founding members of a new coalition: SPUR – the Standards for Publisher Usage Rights coalition. Artificial Intelligence is fundamentally reshaping how content is created, distributed, discovered and monetised. We…

On a recent stopover, the writer savors the wintry charms of this Canadian city, taking time out for a little urban skiing, bagels and his favorite Leonard Cohen songs. Source link

Rolls-Royce said Thursday it expects profits of over £4 billion ($5.42 billion) this year as the aero engine and power systems maker banks on another year of robust growth. The aerospace giant is targeting underlying operating profit of between £4 billion and £4.2 billion in 2026, above the midpoint of £3.65 billion as expected by analysts polled by FactSet. It expects free cash flow of between £3.6 billion and £3.8 billion this year, also above expectations. Shares rose 5.8% in morning trading Thursday.Based on the bullish outlook, the company now expects to deliver profits within the prior mid-term guidance range two years…

Antonio Filosa attends the presentation of the new Fiat 500 Hybrid at the Stellantis FIAT Mirafiori plant in Turin, Italy, on November 25, 2025.Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesAuto giant Stellantis on Thursday reported its first-ever annual loss after saying it had over-estimated the pace of the energy transition.The multinational conglomerate, which owns household names including Jeep, Dodge, Fiat, Chrysler and Peugeot, posted a full-year 2025 net loss of 22.3 billion euros ($26.3 billion), compared to full-year profit of 5.5 billion euros a year ago.The net loss was impacted by 25.4 billion euros in write-downs from last year, Stellantis said,…

Four armed Cuban nationals aboard a Florida-based speedboat died in a gunfight with border troops near the island nation’s coast, officials said. Source link