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China erasing Tibetan culture by separating children from their families

Chinese officials say the schools help Tibetan children to quickly become fluent in the Chinese language and learn skills that will prepare them for the modern economy

Jeju Air's problems mount after plane crash that killed 179 people

Jeju Air's stock price, already trading near record lows, has fallen 10% since the crash

'Embers of the Hands': Barraclough uncovers untold stories of history

People love the blood-soaked sagas that chronicle the deeds of (actual) Vikings. They love what Barraclough calls the "soap opera lives" of Norse gods

Artificial intelligence euphoria likely to fizzle out over lack of data

Tech giants are running out of data used to train AI systems. To overcome the problem, some companies are exploring new methods powered by 'synthetic data', write Cade Metz & Tripp Mickle

Big rockets, a big telescope and big changes in space await in 2025

The space firm founded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos has a powerful rocket called New Glenn that may at last get off the ground in 2025

Social media companies face global tug-of-war over free speech

"The censorship and advertising boycott cartel must end now!" Elon Musk, the owner of X, whom Trump has appointed to cut the federal budget, posted on his site last month

Behind the dismantling of Hezbollah: Decades of Israeli intelligence

Worried that the operation would be exposed, top intelligence officials persuaded Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to give the order to detonate them

Boeing 737-800 involved in Jeju Air crash, used in 15% of global fleet

There are about 28,000 passenger planes in service globally, according to Cirium, an aviation data provider. About 15 per cent, or 4,400, are Boeing 737-800s

2004 Indian Ocean tsunami set off work to be ready for the next big wave

That changed the day after Christmas in 2004, when a 9.1-magnitude earthquake west of the Indonesian island of Sumatra set off a mammoth wave that was recorded as high as 16 stories

Spending fight shows limits of Trump's power to change fiscal path

Trump has pledged not to cut entitlement programs and Republicans are loath to slash military spending. That leaves scant space to scale back the biggest drivers of the debt

Shift and diverge: Why mergers of carmakers like Honda-Nissan often crash

Combining two large, global manufacturing operations is an incredibly difficult feat that involves reconciling different technologies, models, and approaches to doing business

Scrubbing carbon from atmosphere could be the next climate gold rush

The group assembled by Gates, known as Breakthrough Energy Ventures, is among the biggest backers of over 800 carbon removal firms that have been started in recent years

Deceit, betrayal marked final days of President Assad's regime in Syria

After dusk, the president slipped out of the capital, flying covertly to a Russian military base in northern Syria and then on a Russian jet to Moscow, as per reports

The Troublemaker: A tale of courage, capitalism, and contradictions

Mark L Clifford writes in The Troublemaker, a brisk account of Lai's life and work, the gravity of his predicament began to set in, and Lai sent a laconic WhatsApp message to his associates

Iran's regime in 'dire straits' as it faces energy crisis due to sanctions

Industries are forced to shut down due to the grim situation

Elites' capitulation: Trump's second term reshapes America's power dynamics

With tech CEOs and other elites bowing to Mr Trump, the air is going out of the old liberal order

In post-coup Myanmar, doctors, nurses turn to prostitution to survive

In February 2021, Myanmar's military seized power in a coup, and the country's economy, already hammered by the pandemic, started to buckle

Big Tech and Trump: Two books explore their turbulent relationship, future

Mr Musk, after spending more than $250 million on Trump's re-election, has signed on to help slash the federal budget as co-leader

US colleges ask foreign students to get to campus before Trump takes office

"A travel ban is likely to go into effect soon after inauguration," Cornell's Office of Global Learning warned students on its website late last month, advising them to be back in the United States

Quantum computing is closer to reality after another Google breakthrough

Some scientists disputed the claim. In the years since, as traditional supercomputers grew more powerful, they matched the feats of Google's quantum computer