Generation Beta starts now: Babies born in 2025 to 2039

Dale Arasa - @inquirerdotnet 01/02/2025

Babies born in 2025, who will grow up knowing a post pandemic world deeply integrated with artificial intelligence, belong to what is now called Generation Beta. Gen Beta will live in a world where digital and physical…

Montenegro shooting rampage: Armed man kills 10 people, including 2 kids

Associated Press 01/02/2025

PODGORICA, Montenegro — At least 10 people, including two children, were killed and four others were seriously wounded on Wednesday in a shooting rampage that followed a bar brawl in a western Montenegrin city, officials said. The…

New Orleans: FBI probing if deadly attack was a terrorist act

Associated Press 01/02/2025

NEW ORLEANS — An Army veteran driving a pickup truck that bore the flag of the Islamic State group wrought carnage on New Orleans’ raucous New Year’s celebration, killing at least 10 people as he steered around…

Musk confuses internet with ‘Kekius Maximus’ persona

Agence France Presse 01/02/2025

WASHINGTON, United States — Elon Musk adopted the moniker “Kekius Maximus” on X Tuesday, sparking speculation among his 210 million followers about his mysterious new handle that is a mash-up of an alt-right symbol, a memecoin, and…

South Korea investigates ‘wall barrier’ in Jeju Air crash

Agence France Presse 01/01/2025

South Korean authorities said Tuesday they were investigating the role of a wall or concrete barrier at the end of Muan airport runway in the country’s worst air disaster, which killed 179 people as a Jeju Air…

Trump: $5M sex abuse verdict award against him upheld by appeals court

Agence France Presse 12/31/2024

NEW YORK — A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a jury’s finding in a civil case that Donald Trump sexually abused a columnist in an upscale department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. The 2nd U.S.…

‘You’re fired’: Message of voters in 70 countries in 2024

Associated Press 12/31/2024

LONDON — When voters around the globe had their say in 2024, their message was often: “You’re fired.” Some 70 countries that are home to half the world’s population held elections this year, and in many incumbents…

South Korea grieves after deadliest plane crash kills 179

Associated Press 12/30/2024

MUAN, South Korea — South Korea was reeling Monday from the loss of 179 people after a Jeju Air plane crash-landed and burst into flames, with a team of US investigators joining local authorities to probe possible…

Azerbaijan President: Russia unintentionally shot down crashed jetliner

Associated Press 12/30/2024

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev said Sunday that the Azerbaijani airliner that crashed last week was shot down by Russia, albeit unintentionally, and criticized Moscow for trying to “hush up” the issue for days. “We can say with…

Shark kills pastor fishing in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

Agence France Presse 12/30/2024

SYDNEY, Australia — A shark has attacked and killed a 40-year-old pastor who was fishing with his family in the waters of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, officials said. The predator bit him on the neck on Saturday…

Jimmy Carter, the 39th US president, has died at 100

Associated Press 12/30/2024

ATLANTA — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term and then redefined life after the White House as…

Jeju Air plane crash in South Korea: What we know about it

Agence France Presse 12/30/2024

SEOUL, South Korea — A Jeju Air plane flying from Bangkok to South Korea with 181 people on board crashed on landing Sunday, killing 179 with just two people plucked alive from the wreckage. Here’s what we…

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