After a glacial flood last year, Chinese officials strengthened defences at a border crossing with Nepal. But last week’s ‘cascade of hazards’ overwhelmed them.
Donors, politicians and Jewish leaders questioned the Met’s decision to honor Galliano, a fashion designer who was found guilty of a hate crime for his anti-Semitic outbursts.
Rajan Khatri, 41, a police officer, was working at his station in a mountain village in northern Nepal when a friend rang Wednesday morning to warn that a flash flood was thundering downriver in his direction.
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb general whose actions during the Balkan wars of the 1990s led to him being called the ‘Butcher of Bosnia’, has died in custody in The Hague.
In a dramatic capitulation, the owner of Facebook and Instagram agreed to the financial penalties for violating child privacy and consumer protection laws
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Dozens of people were killed in a massacre in a long-safe Haitian town, raising fears gangs could encroach on a nearby suburb of the capital that is considered a last bastion of peace.
THE NEW YORK TIMES: If financed through a viral YouTube sketch and a virtual-reality poker game, this unlikely horror proves limitations can be a filmmaker’s greatest asset.
A tech startup worked with three giants of artificial intelligence — OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta —to test the safety and security of their AI models. Then the tests went off the rails.