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537 noticiasCalifornia couple charged with child abuse in surrogacy case involving 21 children
Guojun Xuan, 66, and Silvia Zhang, 39, were arrested Tuesday at their Arcadia, California, home and charged with child abuse, conspiracy to commit child abuse, accessory after the fact and dissuading a witness, Los Angeles County District A…
El Prime Day de octubre de Amazon se celebra del 6 al 8 de octubre mientras los minoristas bajan precios con antelación
El Prime Day de octubre de Amazon, también llamado Prime Big Deal Days, se celebra desde el 6 de octubre a las 3 a. m. ET hasta las 3 a. m. ET del 8 de octubre, con descuentos ya activos, según The Verge, NBC News y Wired. Wired incluyó los…
Abu Dhabi launches AiNative programme to train 20,000 government employees in AI
Abu Dhabi's Department of Government Enablement launched AiNative, an AI training programme, at the Ai Everything conference in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday. The programme aims to train 20,000 government employees by the end of 2026 and is part o…
Abren causa en Syzran, Rusia, por presunta paliza a niños en un campamento
Las autoridades rusas abrieron una causa penal tras informes de que niños fueron golpeados en un campamento en Syzran, según medios oficiales. Publicaciones en redes sociales citadas por TASS indicaron que un monitor golpeó a dos hermanos c…
Reflection AI, respaldada por Nvidia, presenta Beam, un modelo de pesos abiertos para rivalizar con los modelos chinos
Reflection AI presentó Beam, un modelo de IA de pesos abiertos de 501.000 millones de parámetros que, según la startup con sede en Nueva York, iguala a modelos abiertos chinos líderes como GLM-5.2 de Z.ai con un menor coste computacional. L…
Cornell protests grow; faculty push no-confidence vote over rape case handling
Students at Cornell University protested Monday and Tuesday over the school's handling of an alleged 2024 gang rape at the Chi Phi fraternity, after activists vandalized the Day Hall administration building with red-painted messages and a s…
Seoul appeals court to rule in ex-President Yoon's free opinion poll case
A Seoul appeals court is due to deliver its verdict on Oct 7 in the political funds case against former President Yoon Suk Yeol, accused of receiving 58 free opinion polls from political broker Myung Tae-kyun. The first trial sentenced Yoon…
Appeal rejected: 1 year 6 months for driver who dragged police officer 200m
A South Korean appeals court upheld a 1 year 6 month prison sentence for a 53-year-old driver who dragged a police officer on his car for more than 200m during a drunk-driving stop in Jeonju. The Gwangju High Court's Jeonju bench dismissed …
Couple in their 60s found dead in Naju house; police seek suspect
A couple in their 60s were found dead at a house in Naju, in the Jeonnam-Gwangju region, according to police reports carried by several South Korean outlets on Oct 6. Local reports described the bodies as bound and said police believe the c…
Cuatro exdirectivos de Sanko Seika, imputados por el incendio de 2022 que mató a seis personas
La Fiscalía del Distrito de Niigata imputó a cuatro exdirectivos del fabricante de galletas de arroz Sanko Seika, incluido el ex consejero delegado Motoyasu Sato (56), por cargos de negligencia profesional con resultado de muerte en relació…
Pianista Kyohei Sorita, procesado por conducir a 144 km/h; admite el cargo; veredicto el 29 de octubre
El pianista Kyohei Sorita, de 32 años, ha sido procesado en libertad por conducir a 144 km/h en la Shuto Expressway de Tokio el 20 de diciembre del año pasado, 84 km/h por encima del límite de 60 km/h. En una primera audiencia en el Tribuna…
Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan to be executed by firing squad Dec. 3
The U.S. Army has set Dec. 3, 2026, for the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, convicted of killing 13 people in the 2009 shooting at Fort Hood, Texas. Acting Army Secretary Adam Telle said the execution will take place at Fort Hood,…
Christa Pike está consciente y habla tras el fallido intento de ejecución en Tennessee, según sus abogados
Christa Pike, de 50 años, está consciente, habla y recibe atención médica crítica casi una semana después de que fracasara el intento de Tennessee de ejecutarla con la droga pentobarbital, dijeron sus abogados el martes. Señalaron que su pr…
Los republicanos de Tennessee sopesan nuevos métodos de ejecución tras una inyección letal fallida
Algunos de los principales republicanos de Tennessee dijeron que quieren explorar formas alternativas de ejecutar a los condenados tras la ejecución fallida de Christa Pike el 30 de septiembre, en la que una gran dosis de pentobarbital no l…
Former German BND chief August Hanning arrested on espionage suspicion
August Hanning, the former president of Germany's foreign intelligence service (BND), was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of treasonous espionage, spying out state secrets, attempted treason and espionage, the federal prosecutor's office s…
US forces in Okinawa order 48-hour pause and night curfew after Marine arrest
The top US commander in Okinawa, Lt. Gen. Benjamin Watson, ordered a 48-hour suspension of operations for US military personnel in the prefecture from noon on 7 October to noon on 9 October, with off-base outings and drinking on and off bas…
El Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina 2026 se concede por la optogenética
La Fundación Nobel anunció el 5 de octubre que el Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina 2026 se concedió a Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann y Georg Nagel por sus descubrimientos sobre los canales iónicos controlados por luz y la optogenética…
Tokyo court gives lawyer suspended sentence over Momuri referrals
The Tokyo District Court on Oct 7 sentenced Satō Hideki, 49, representative of the Tokyo law firm Miyabi, to two years in prison suspended for three years and fined the firm 2 million yen for accepting paid brokerage of legal affairs in vio…
Japan police rearrest man over murder of woman found dead with daughter in Nara
Mie prefectural police on Oct. 7 rearrested a 37-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of murdering his 44-year-old partner, whose body was found with her 20-year-old daughter's in Nara City in July. Investigators allege he strangled the wom…
Nuri declared a success on fifth flight; five cluster satellites make contact
South Korea's Nuri rocket lifted off at 12:25 p.m. from the Naro Space Center in Goheung and the Korea Aerospace Administration declared the fifth flight a success, saying all 15 satellites were placed in orbit. Officials said 14 of the 15 …