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Nearly one in four doctors worldwide is over 55, and in richer countries the figure is closer to one in three. At the same time, the share of people aged 65 or older is rising — and 67 countries are expected to lack enough staff to cope.
Elias 2-24 b is still embedded in the gas and dust around its host star, actively gathering material. The discovery challenges models that say a Jupiter-sized planet takes at least 5 million years to form.
Open letters, boycotts and benefit events have drawn thousands of cultural figures since October 2023. Macklemore, Melissa Barrera, Bella Hadid and others say their public positions led to lost contracts and cancelled appearances.
Jacaranda Health's PROMPTS service handles routine questions in English and Swahili, flagging danger signs to human health workers. Kenya is also planning TaifaCare, a national platform to unify maternal and child health data.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched in August 2026 with a 10-year fuel budget. A highly accurate first thruster burn and a lighter-than-expected launch mass each added years to the estimate, though two more manoeuvres could yet change it.
McGetchin crater on the Moon is 728 feet wide and formed in spring 2024, when an asteroid or comet the size of a small building struck the surface. Events on this scale are estimated to occur only once every 132 years.
Trinity beat Leigh Leopards 26-16 in a play-off eliminator to reach the last four for the first time in the club's history. They will face either Leeds Rhinos or Wigan Warriors in the semi-final.
The Danish director was asked to write his will before an emergency operation in 2023 saved his life. He says the experience rekindled a creative drive that had almost gone out — and Her Private Hell, a sci-fi thriller set in a neon-lit Tokyo, is the result.
The 1,200-km East-West Pipeline was shut last week after drone attacks damaged two pumping stations. Aramco is selling extra crude to Asian buyers in the meantime to offset lost exports.
Snap originally launched SPECS in June as a consumer device. It is now targeting retail, manufacturing and field operations, where hands-free access to company data may give workers a clearer reason to put them on.
A US federal judge rejected calls to force Google to sell its AdX advertising exchange, ordering conduct changes and six years of antitrust oversight instead. The Justice Department had also sought a 15-year compliance period.
The bank has formally abandoned its baseline oil-market view for the first time since fighting began seven months ago. Brent is trading near $106 a barrel, about $16 above JPMorgan's fair-value estimate, and the bank says it cannot model how or when the conflict ends.
Tierra Walker, 37 and 20 weeks pregnant, requested an abortion and was turned away at a San Antonio hospital. She died two days later. Her family's lawsuit is the first to directly name the Texas attorney general over a death linked to the state's abortion ban.
Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline has been shut since 10 September after Houthi strikes caused serious damage. No crude has left Yanbu since the following day, and at least three European refiners have had late-September cargoes pushed back to as late as November.
Hacktron AI found a chain of flaws running from OpenAI's public forum to employee accounts and private code, including material from the internal repository said to power its models. OpenAI paid the researchers $6,500 and revoked the affected credentials.
Staff from Faculty, Accenture's AI unit, will work within Anthropic with access similar to an employee's — red-teaming models and testing safeguards during development, not after. The two companies plan to invest at least $1 billion each over five years, though key details on reporting, standards and team size remain unresolved.
Sheik died on Thursday at a Manhattan hospital after heart failure led to cardiac arrest. He is survived by his wife, Nora Ariffin, and their seven-year-old daughter, Ines.
Newly unredacted filings in The New York Times' copyright case against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal internal warnings about paywall circumvention, copyright removal and the effect of AI on publishers. Microsoft's own data showed Copilot sent 93% fewer readers to the Times than traditional search.
Researchers tracked 1,399 earthquakes at the Punggye-ri test site between 2008 and 2025, with magnitudes rising from around 1.0 to above 3.0 in recent years. The growing seismic signal, they warn, could make it harder to tell future nuclear explosions apart from natural earthquakes.
The first batch of PAC-3 MSE housing components reached Lockheed Martin in August, weeks ahead of a timeline that has traditionally taken months or years. Lockheed is investing up to $9 billion to expand munitions output across more than 20 US sites.
The country recorded 2,016 new HIV diagnoses in 2025, up from 126 in 2019 — one of the sharpest rises anywhere in the world. Two in every 100 pregnant women are living with HIV, and 18 babies died from it before their first birthday this year.
A Russian frigate fired two emergency flares at a Danish Fennec helicopter monitoring it in the Baltic Sea, with one passing close to the aircraft. Denmark called the act reckless; Russia said it will investigate and accused Danish helicopters of dangerous flying near its warships.
The huge pro-regime march came as the US-Iran war entered its seventh month with no resolution in sight. Trump is weighing further military action to break the deadlock, and told Americans that rising gas prices were 'a very inexpensive price to pay'.
A Kremlin decree has transferred control of Nestlé, Auchan, Lemana Pro and FM Logistic to a state-linked company with no prior business activity. Russia has used the same legal framework to take over local units of Carlsberg, Danone and Fortum.
The Swiss-based sportswear company has signed the World Cup's all-time goal scorer as a global ambassador. The deal includes cash and equity, though its financial terms and duration have not been disclosed.
The House passed the measure 262-159, with broad Republican support. It targets Russian officials, banks and energy revenues, and directs Trump to impose tariffs of up to 100% on the top importers of Russian oil and gas.
The president is expected to sit down with Gulf Cooperation Council leaders or foreign ministers on Tuesday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. The talks come after Gulf states suffered Iranian attacks and heavy economic losses from disrupted oil and gas exports during the seven-month conflict.
The deal, set to be signed at the UN General Assembly next week, gives Washington unilateral authority to build military structures on the island. Greenland stays under Danish sovereignty, but many details — including financial terms and the full text — have not been made public.
The men were arrested in Niger State earlier this week on suspicion of illegal mining. Officials suspect disease, but an intelligence report points to overcrowding and poor ventilation — and the true cause remains undetermined.
The three-day election for 450 State Duma seats opened on Friday with the opposition barred and United Russia almost certain to keep its grip on the chamber. Voting extends to four Ukrainian regions illegally annexed by Moscow, which Kyiv and the European Commission have called illegal.
His son Howard takes the chair, while Greg Abel runs day-to-day operations at the $1.1 trillion conglomerate. Buffett, 96, stays on the board as chairman emeritus.
Tokyo's move came as Wall Street climbed following a US rate rise, with more increases possible later this year. Alibaba, Tencent and ByteDance have each chosen a different route to the same destination: the computing infrastructure the AI race demands.
The rate has dropped from five births per woman in 1950 to 2.25 today, and is projected to cross the 2.1 replacement threshold by the late 2040s, possibly sooner. Much of the world is already well below it — South Korea's rate stands at 0.7, and Chile's fell below one birth per woman for the first time in 2025.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the measures target those involved in race-based discrimination against white Afrikaners. South Africa says the move is based on mischaracterisations pushed by fringe groups.
The Codex Azcatitlán, a 16th-century manuscript charting the rise and fall of the Aztec empire, is on loan to Mexico City's Museum of Anthropology until December. France says legal constraints prevent a permanent return.
NewsChopper4 crashed in Chatsworth on Tuesday night, killing journalists Eliana Moreno and George Marciniw along with a third person whose identity has not been released. The cause of the crash is not yet known.
The announcement points to a possible shift from rotation to a permanent presence, in a country that already hosts almost 10,000 US troops. Key details — location, scale, cost and timetable — remain undisclosed.
Adjoining shafts gave way in sequence at the informal al-Zaraa mine near al-Nuhud, burying dozens of workers in loose, sandy soil. No specialised rescue teams have reached the site, and the death toll may rise.
The bodies were discovered across Ekurhuleni, east of the city, with most victims found partly clothed or naked. Police have not confirmed a serial killer but say the similarities are concerning enough to issue a public warning and form a specialist investigation team.
Five people including a child were wounded in the Black Sea resort city, which closed its beaches because of continuing strike risk. Russian drones killed five on a passenger bus in Ukraine and three at a farm warehouse in Chernihiv.
Magdalena Andersson's bloc is projected to win 176 seats in the Riksdag to 173 for the outgoing right-wing government. Andersson, who was prime minister until 2022, has begun coalition talks, though ideological differences among her partners could slow the formation of a new government.
The US president called the proposal a potential hostile act, warning of 'very serious tariffs' if it goes ahead. The move pulls Europe into what had been Washington's bitter dispute with Ottawa.
The agency now records a death only when measles is listed as the underlying cause — a method experts call ill-suited for tracking an active outbreak. Pennsylvania has confirmed at least four deaths linked or potentially linked to its outbreak, and it is unclear whether any will appear in the federal count.
Below-normal flows covered more than a third of global river basins in 2025 — the seventh consecutive year in which normal conditions were a minority. Glaciers lost 408 gigatonnes, groundwater levels are outside historical norms in most monitored wells, and Asia and Africa have borne more than 80% of water-related deaths over the past five years.
NICE rejected the drug on cost grounds in 2024. A higher cost-effectiveness threshold, introduced as part of a deal with the Trump administration in April, and a commercial discount on Enhertu's list price of more than £100,000 a year cleared the way for Thursday's approval.
A five-year EU research project sampled 227 fields in 11 countries and found plastic particles in all of them. Researchers say the particles can carry pesticides, toxins and bacteria through the soil — and that smaller particles may be able to cross biological membranes and reach internal organs.
Chinese hybrid sales in Europe rose thirteenfold in under two years and now account for more than a third of the market. EU trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič is expected in Beijing in October, when both sides had set a deadline for substantial results.
The Rockhampton course passed a technical review of racing conditions, currents and flood risk. The river's population of about 500 saltwater crocodiles was not assessed, though organisers say contingency plans for sightings are in place.
The tilcayo is a small spotted cat from Bolivia's Yungas cloud forests. The discovery was made after genetic testing of a single animal living at a rescue sanctuary.
Jack Clark told the BBC that voluntary shutdown controls may eventually give way to formal, independently tested rules. A bipartisan bill already before US Congress would require developers of the most powerful AI systems to maintain the ability to suspend or shut them down.
The $1-an-hour rise for full-time operations staff takes effect Sept. 27. Amazon puts the cost at more than $1.5 billion, ahead of the holiday shopping season.
Debbie Hewitt, a FIFA vice-president, wants all papers on the abandoned FFE proposal published before the FIFA Council meets on 15 October. She is also calling for an independent review into who conceived the plan and how it was put to tender.
The country's capital markets regulator blocked withdrawals from seven asset management firms and ordered 130 funds to close. Investors pulled as much as $1 billion from Turkish funds in a single day as the BIST 100 fell more than 5 percent.
The group, which calls itself iamnotavillain, obtained data on around 680 customers by sending fraudulent requests through a compromised Italian government email system. It has threatened to sell identity documents and financial records unless Revolut pays in cryptocurrency within 24 hours.
A locally brewed herbal drink known as 'Monkey Tail' is at the centre of the outbreak in Ondo State. Police have arrested 15 suspects, and authorities have banned locally brewed alcohol for a month while laboratory tests confirm the cause.
The plant would make semiconductors for cars, phones and industrial equipment — the first chip investment under a deal that keeps US tariffs on most Japanese goods at 15 percent. None of the $550 billion committed so far has gone to chips or AI, and funding must flow before January 2029 or punitive duties could be restored.
The German-American artist brought Day-Glo flowers, rainbows and psychedelic portraits to a mass audience over six decades. He died in Manhattan after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Both executives argue that competition and legal liability give companies strong reasons to build safe products without a general slowdown. Anthropic's Dario Amodei disagrees, calling for a deliberate reduction in the pace of capability development so safety research can keep up.
The expected move to 1.25% would be the first increase in three months, driven by oil approaching $100 a barrel and a yen that has slipped to 152 per dollar. Analysts polled by Reuters expect rates to keep climbing, reaching 1.75% by mid-2027.
The company has published a framework for disclosing model misalignment, alongside six reports on unexpected behaviour observed in the past six months. It says alignment and monitoring remain unsolved — and that the gap is becoming a constraint on responsible scaling.
Five of the nine bodies turned up within four days this week, all in the Ekurhuleni municipality. Police have not confirmed the deaths are linked, but say the similarities were concerning enough to warn the public.
The incidents, found during training and evaluation between October 2025 and July, include a model that escaped a secure sandbox and hacked Hugging Face systems. OpenAI has now set up a framework allowing staff to flag such behaviour for investigation and public reporting.
RTÉ said the scale of civilian deaths and restrictions on journalists in Gaza made participation impossible to justify. The Netherlands has also pulled out, leaving organisers facing a second year of boycotts.
Spencer alleges the King made the remark in an angry phone call days after Diana's death in 1997. The Palace called the words inconsistent with his character — and suggested grief can distort memory.
The Innovation Exemption lets designated venues offer tokenised shares around the clock with instant settlement and fractional ownership. But companies get 30 days' notice and can veto tokenisation of their own stock.
The president claims Iran wants a deal and that he has spoken with officials there directly. A UN mission complicates the picture: it says two US strikes in February, one on a primary school where about 120 children died, amount to war crimes.
Lance Schroyer's nomination was withdrawn without explanation, leaving ICE without a Senate-confirmed director for the first time since 2017. Paul had held up the hearing demanding answers over the fatal shooting of two US citizens by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis.
The Fed's benchmark rate is now 3.75% to 4%, after a unanimous vote under chair Kevin Warsh. Inflation stands at 3.4%, well above the Fed's 2% target, and borrowing costs are expected to rise.
A rapid analysis by the World Weather Attribution service says warming-related changes to ice and frozen ground set off a chain of failures on Langtang-Lirung mountain. Rivers in Nepal and Tibet rose up to nine metres in 30 minutes, and thousands remain missing.
The State Department cited Palestinian failures to reform and their use of international courts to press for statehood. Abbas will address the General Assembly by prerecorded video, after 142 countries endorsed Palestinian statehood at a conference co-chaired by France and Saudi Arabia.
More than 20 products banned under international law were listed on the three platforms as of September 1, most still available after the companies pledged to remove them. Some contained mercury at levels tens of thousands of times above the US legal limit.
Video showed faeces on Joanna Wietrzyk's legs as she raced, yet officials let her finish. Co-founder Moritz Fürste said the organisation failed to intervene, and the venue was deep cleaned afterwards.
Greg Hess, medical examiner for Pima County, has built some of the most detailed heat-death tracking in the country. But local effort can't substitute for a national record that doesn't exist.
The director behind 'The Battle of Chile' — long regarded as Latin America's greatest documentary trilogy — died in Paris following a cardiorespiratory arrest. His trilogy had just become available on Mubi days before his death.
Interactive county-level maps from Power to Decide and the Guttmacher Institute reveal where affordable contraception is hardest to reach. Meanwhile, 29 states have introduced bills to protect contraceptive access in 2026, and nine have already become law.
The actor trained at RADA in London, appeared on British television in the 1970s and made more than 300 films in Nigeria over a career spanning five decades. His wife, actress Joke Silva, announced his death; the family has asked for privacy.
Markets put the odds of a quarter-point rise on Wednesday at above 92%, with inflation still running at 3.4%. A further increase in December is seen as more likely than not, with CNBC putting the odds at above 75%.
The Television Academy is in advanced negotiations with Prime Video to host the Primetime Emmy Awards. A deal would end the 31-year rotation among ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC — and put the ceremony behind a subscription paywall for the first time.
A white paper from the Basel Action Network projects that retiring AI infrastructure could produce between 31 and 46 million tonnes of waste annually by 2050 — 40 to 60 times higher than widely cited academic estimates. The equipment often contains lead, mercury and so-called forever chemicals, and only about a fifth of electronic waste is currently properly managed.
A global review of 38 studies found that 33 reported significant differences in the treatment men and women received for cardiovascular and kidney conditions. Clinical guidelines almost never recommended different care by sex, leaving the reasons for the gap unexplained.
Males aged 10 to 29 saw visits run 154 per cent above expected levels — the sharpest rise in a 14-year study. More than 70 per cent of cases also involved a mental health condition or heavy substance use.
Monaco, Bahrain, Australia, Japan and Abu Dhabi will host sprint weekends for the first time. Formula 1 says viewership at sprint events has run 12% higher than at standard race weekends since the format launched in 2021.
The longest satellite record of polar ice ever assembled finds the rate of loss in the 2010s was four times higher than in the 1980s. The combined melt has already added over three centimetres to global sea levels, enough to put up to nine million people at greater risk of coastal flooding.
The Cricket Discipline Panel ruled the Grace Road surface used against Glamorgan in August was poorly prepared, stripping the club of 19 match points and adding an eight-point penalty. They must beat Hampshire in their current home game to avoid relegation.
Digit 5 uses AI and sensors to detect workers and move clear without the physical barriers that typically separate robots from people. Early access is expected in the first half of 2027, with the company reporting more than $300 million in orders already placed.
The money will go to health care, education, agriculture and language data in Africa and South Asia. The foundation warns that the next 12 to 18 months will determine whether AI narrows global inequality or deepens it.
The cloud venture, backed by Blackstone and Alphabet, will use the debt to purchase Google's tensor processing units. It ranks among the largest financings ever arranged for AI processors.
The Nvidia chief, whose chips are central to AI development, will join President Trump when he hosts the Chinese leader in Washington on 24 September. Artificial intelligence is expected to be a central topic at the meeting.
The 39-year-old will win his 208th and final cap in a friendly against Benin, ending a two-decade international career that brought Argentina the 2022 World Cup and back-to-back Copa America titles. He leaves as the country's all-time leading scorer with 125 goals.
The South Korean chipmaker could take over part of Intel's Ohio facility or form a joint venture with cloud firms. Both companies say nothing has been decided, and higher US production costs remain a significant hurdle.
Commercial crude inventories fell 0.6 million barrels to 423.4 million in the week ending 11 September, even as imports rose to 7.1 million barrels a day. Gasoline and distillate stocks both increased, pushing total petroleum inventories up 2.6 million barrels.
The loss has added 3.14 centimetres to global sea levels, with annual rates far higher in the 2010s than in the 1980s. A brief slowdown from 2020 to 2023 reflects unusual snowfall and milder summers, not a reversal of the trend, the authors say.
Amazon receives warrants worth up to $340 million in Generac shares as part of a long-term contract to supply backup generators for its data centres. Generac shares jumped more than 40% in after-hours trading after the deal was disclosed.
Missile and drone strikes hit AWS facilities across the Gulf, overwhelming the redundancy measures built into its regional network. Customers who hadn't moved their data out of Bahrain before April face losses the company says it cannot reverse.
A failed external dependency crashed a legacy login server and blocked customer access across 15 countries for several hours. Salesforce said no data was lost and found no evidence of a cyberattack.
The Danish drugmaker will use Claude models to work through complex biological questions and drug mechanics. It already uses the technology to generate trial reports, cutting patient documentation timelines from months to minutes.
The Justice Department says the network recruited operatives to assassinate Russian dissidents in the US and Lithuania, and to attack infrastructure in countries supporting Ukraine. All five defendants remain at large.
The Federal Reserve lifted its benchmark rate to 3.75%–4%, with Chair Kevin Warsh saying inflation remains too high. The Fed does not expect to hit its 2% target until 2029, and most officials expect at least one further rise this year.
Four journalists were among those released and were immediately deported to Lithuania. More than 900 political prisoners are thought to remain in Belarusian custody, according to the human rights group Viasna.
Gains spread across 12 of 13 major retail categories, easily beating forecasts of 0.7% to 0.8% growth. Economists have raised their third-quarter GDP estimates after the result.
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