The technology could help Facebook stop being so centralised, he suggested   The technology powering bitcoin could help improve Facebook in the future, Mark Zuckerberg has said. As part of a commitment to help fix the site over 2018, its founder said that he would look into the use of ...

  SEOUL – North and South Korea will hold official talks next week for the first time in more than two years after Pyongyang accepted Seoul’s offer for dialogue, just hours after the United States and South Korea delayed a joint military exercise. The South’s unification ministry said North Korea ...

Failure to act risks leaving generation of youngsters growing up chasing ‘likes’ and increasingly anxious due to constant demands of social media, warns Children’s Commissioner   Children are being exposed to “significant emotional risk” on social media, particularly as they transition into secondary school, a report has warned. The Children’s Commissioner has issued a stark ...

    The hieroglyphics that adorn the walls of ancient Egyptian tombs are pure propaganda, designed to present the pharaoh or noble person in the best light possible. But scraps of papyrus paper used with plaster to create the decorated boxes that were used for placing mummies tell a different ...

  A little over four years ago, I drove to the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh to spend a day with a 12-year-old girl. Her name was Ahed Tamimi, and I was interviewing her for a magazine article, Children of the Occupation: Growing up in Palestine. We talked about ...

  US President Donald Trump, whose controversial decision last month to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital prompted global condemnation and widespread protests, has threatened to cut off aid to Palestinians. Trump said in a pair of Twitter posts on Tuesday that “we pay the Palestinians HUNDRED OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ...

  MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) – Libya put 142 illegal migrants on a flight back to Guinea on Wednesday with the help of the U.N. migration agency, officials said, as the North African country steps up deportations to ease severe overcrowding in its detention centers. The number of people stuck in ...

  MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Wednesday the failed launch of a 2.6 billion-rouble ($44.95 million) satellite last month was due to an embarrassing programming error. Russian space agency Roscosmos said last month it had lost contact with the newly-launched weather satellite – the ...

  A protein molecule which increases with exercise appears to prevent the advance of Parkinson’s symptoms and may be the key to future treatments, experts say. Doctors from the Colorado University School of Medicine believe vigorous exercise could be linked to increased production of a brain-protecting protein molecule, DJ-1. The researchers believe that ...

ISLAMABAD: China hosted the foreign ministers of Pakistan and Afghanistan on Tuesday, in a bid to improve the neighbors’ historically fractious relationship. Foreign Minister Wang Yi of China, Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani of Afghanistan and Pakistani Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif led delegations from their respective countries. According to a joint ...