Fire department rescues teen stuck in Chick-Fil-A high chair after dare goes wrong
After her friends dared her to squeeze into a high chair at a Chick-Fil-A, this teenager quickly realized that she was stuck.
After her friends dared her to squeeze into a high chair at a Chick-Fil-A, this teenager quickly realized that she was stuck.
Microsoft announced its most substantial commitment yet to France, pledging on Monday to invest 4 billion euros ($4.3 billion) this year to bolster the country’s burgeoning artificial intelligence sector. The move is part of a broader effort unveiled during President Emmanuel Macron’s pro-business event, Choose France, which aims to attract foreign investment and stimulate economic growth. Microsoft’s vice chair and president, Brad Smith, visited the company’s French headquarters with Macron.
A government research institute in the United Arab Emirates on Monday released a new open source GenAI model, which could rival the ones from big technology companies. Abu Dhabi's Technology Innovation Institute (TII) said it was releasing the Falcon 2 series: Falcon 2 11B, a text-based model, and Falcon 2 11B VLM, a vision-to-language model that can generate a text description of an uploaded image. TII is a research centre within Abu Dhabi's Advanced Technology Research Council.
Serbian Prime Minister Milos Vucevic expressed support for Ukraine in its war against Russia after meeting Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Monday, but stopped short of committing to sanctions against Moscow. Serbia has repeatedly condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, but its refusal to join international sanctions has soured relations with Kyiv. Kuleba's two-day visit to Belgrade with first lady Olena Zelenska is his first trip to Serbia since the war started.
(Reuters) -Zest Protocol, a bitcoin lending startup with just six employees, has secured $3.5 million in a funding round led by billionaire investor Tim Draper. Zest operates differently than the firms targeted by the regulator, its founder Tycho Onnasch said.
Federal Reserve Vice-chair Phillip Jefferson said Monday that while it is important for a central bank to communicate clearly with the public, there are times when those communications can get muddled. “It’s widely accepted” that clear communications enhances how effective central bank policies are “because clear communication can affect the expected path of interest rates and financial conditions more generally,” Jefferson said in comments prepared for delivery before a conference held by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Jefferson did not comment on monetary policy or the economic outlook in his prepared remarks.
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak insisted on Monday that his beleaguered governing Conservative party can win a general election despite polls consistently indicating the opposite, but refused to set a date for the vote.The UK leader said he was "confident" his party would win a fifth consecutive term but conceded that Labour, out of government since 2010, may ultimately inflict defeat.
Cohen, who was Trump's lawyer and self-described "fixer," is expected to face days of questioning over a payment that's at the center of the charges against his former boss.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said it’s up to the federal government to remedy its past infrastructure wrongs that have harmed valuable local communities.
The European Union's executive said Monday it will demand explanations from Eurovision song contest organizers why its flag was banned from the concert hall during the final. In a contest already full of controversy, the European Commission said it plans “a very lively discussion” with the organizers over the ban. EU Commission spokesperson Eric Mamer said it had “no information from the organizers at this point in time about the motivation for refusing the European flag during the event,” but the ban clearly angered EU Vice President Margaritis Schinas enough to hold talks with the Swiss-based European Broadcast Union, which organizes the contest.
Two Chinese-owned solar panel manufacturers have withdrawn from a public procurement tender in Romania after the EU launched an anti-subsidy probe, Brussels said Monday.A fight over solar panels is nothing new for the EU. In 2013, the EU imposed anti-dumping duties after European manufacturers said Chinese panel imports were undercutting their firms, but they were scrapped five years later. raz/cw
Russia on Monday pummelled more than 30 towns and villages in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region after launching a surprise ground offensive over the border last week, the local governor said.Russia began an offensive across the border into the Kharkiv region on Friday and later claimed to have taken several villages.
The former president’s criminal hush money trial resumes Monday in Manhattan, where his former lawyer and fixer is expected to take the stand.
Former President Donald Trump's planned campaign visit to Minnesota on Friday will mark his return to a traditionally Democratic state that he has long argued he could carry. Trump will take a break from his hush money trial in New York to speak at the Minnesota GOP's annual Lincoln Reagan fundraising dinner. Tickets start at $500, ranging up to $100,000 for a VIP table for 10 with three photo opportunities with Trump.
Cohen's prior testimony, and court documents, suggest he'll be the linchpin of DA Alvin Bragg's illegal payments prosecution of former president.
The rescued Afghani children were among eight siblings who were at home with their parents in Folo, in the Bulka district of Baghlan, when the flooding hit.
Striving to ensure kids have everything while under the spotlight of social media, parents face unrealistic expectations and burnout. Here’s how to fight back.
A Chinese citizen journalist who was jailed over her reporting on the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic was due to be released Monday, supporters said.
The events at the center of former President Donald Trump’s hush money case date back almost two decades, with new dates coming to light as the trial plays out in a Manhattan courtroom. January 2005: Trump marries his current wife, Melania. September 2005: Trump is recorded bragging to “Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush about grabbing women’s genitals without asking for permission.
Want to bring extra life to a glass of champagne or soda water? Physicists will tell you to drop in a small object, such as a berry or raisin.
When he heard that devastating floods hit his village in northern Afghanistan last week, farmer Abdul Ghani rushed home from neighboring Kunduz province where he was visiting relatives. “I couldn’t even find the road to my village,” he said, describing how he turned back and went another way to reach his district of Nahrin in Baghlan province. Across Baghlan, others like Ghani and survivors of the disaster were still searching for their missing loved ones and burying their dead on Monday.