This is an airport like no other – impressive enough to be a tourist attraction. So beautiful it’s worthy of a postcard. So spacious it should perhaps carry a trigger warning for agoraphobics.
Which makes the experience of being a passenger in Abu Dhabi’s new Zayed International Airport – comprising one single Terminal A – an utterly surreal one.
There’s no hassle, no jostling, no general sense of despair. No one likes a delay but here it means the chance
Exiled opponents of President Alexander Lukashenko met in Poland on Sunday (6 August), on the eve of the third anniversary of their unsuccessful post-election protests, to display unity and plan strategy including the issuance of “New Belarus” passports.
Set up in August 2022 by Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the self-declared government-in exile has opened more than 20 alternative embassies and information centres abroad.
Tsikhanouskaya, 40, a former English teacher who fled after running against Lukashenko in a 2020 vote critics called rigged,
Porsha Woodruff was getting her two daughters ready for school when six police officers showed up at her door in Detroit. They asked her to step outside because she was under arrest for robbery and carjacking.
“Are you kidding?” she recalled saying to the officers. Ms. Woodruff, 32, said she gestured at her stomach to indicate how ill-equipped she was to commit such a crime: She was eight months pregnant.
Handcuffed in front of her home on a Thursday morning
The mysterious fate of Lord Lucan who was accused of murdering his family’s nanny in his London home before fleeing took another twist last night — with new bombshell claims that a facial recognition match for the aristocrat has been made in Australia.
An 87-year-old Buddhist who lived in Nepal before moving Down Under is said to be a ‘definite match’ for Lucan, according to Professor Hassan Ugail, a leading expert in the field who correctly identified the Russian agents
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“No regulation is regulation already. Until binding and effective legal instruments are adopted and applied, unacceptable patterns and practices will entrench themselves further.”
– Gregor Strojin, vice-chair of the Council of Europe’s Committee on AI
Story of the week: The European Commission will negotiate the AI Convention on fundamental rights, the rule of law and democracy within
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When a secretive start-up scraped the internet to build a facial-recognition tool, it tested a legal and ethical limit — and blew the future of privacy in America wide open.
In May 2019, an agent at the Department of Homeland Security received a trove of unsettling images. Found by Yahoo in a Syrian user’s account, the photos seemed to document the sexual abuse of a
