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South Korea’s coast guard launched an investigation into a ferry that ran aground overnight, arresting the first officer and an Indonesian crew member for suspected gross negligence, officers said.

Regulator Ofgem will announce its next price cap, affecting the bills of millions of people from January.

The girl hid in a toilet; another managed to sneak away. Security forces are still trying to rescue the 24 girls who were abducted in northwestern Nigeria.

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia — The Director General of the Civil Service Agency (CSA), Josiah F. Joekai, Jr. has urged graduates of the Adler University Class 2025 to go boldly, calling on them to take what they have learned, wrap it in purpose, and go out there and change the world.

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia — Former University of Liberia student leader and current Special Assistant at the Ministry of Justice, Siaffa Bahn Kemokai II, has called on veterans of the Student Unification Party (SUP) to reclaim ownership of the movement and recommit themselves to its ideological foundation.

[FrontPageAfrica] Margibi County — A Liberian educator Prince S. D. Marley has called on graduates of the Unification Town YMCA Community High School in Lower Margibi County to cultivate self-confidence as they pursue higher education.

IBM and Cisco plan to link quantum computers over long distances by the early 2030s, “with the goal of demonstrating the concept is workable by the end of 2030,” reports Reuters. “The move could pave the way for a quantum internet, though executives at the two companies cautioned that the networks would require technologies that do not currently exist and will have to be developed with the help...

Mozilla is officially ending its partnership with Onerep after more than a year of controversy over the company’s founder secretly running people-search and data-broker sites. Monitor Plus will be discontinued by December 2025, existing subscribers will receive prorated refunds, and Mozilla says it will focus on privacy tools it fully controls. KrebsOnSecurity reports: In a statement published...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: The world’s largest music companies have licensed their works to a music startup called Klay, which is building a streaming service that will allow users to remake songs using artificial intelligence tools. Klay is the first music AI service to reach a deal with all three major record labels, Universal Music Group NV, Sony Music and Warner...

ByHeart, the maker of the product, has been linked to an outbreak of illnesses among infants that led to their hospitalizations.

A previous version denied a link between vaccines and autism. It now echoes the doubts about that conclusion voiced by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Consumers are increasingly fixating on their scalps, turning to head spas, pricey treatments and products to combat thin hair and irritation.

The virus circulating this year is more virulent and has been spreading faster and earlier than usual.

Eskom and the City of Johannesburg are still in discussions about how the metro will resolve its outstanding debt, says CEO Dan Marokane.

A peer-reviewed study, published in the journal Nature, found that the carbon emissions stemming from 111 of the world’s biggest fossil fuel producers resulted in at least $28 trillion in economic losses in the three decades to 2020, writes Nick Hedley.

The challenging global context has not deterred our commitment to the Just Energy Transition Partnership, writes the International Partners group.

Three organisations have partnered to showcase and display a block made from recovered glass and building rubble waste.