Author: Elizabeth Jenrola Oso

Elon Musk has threatened to sue Apple on behalf of his artificial intelligence start-up, xAI, accusing the iPhone maker of favouring OpenAI and breaching antitrust regulations in the way it manages rankings in its App Store. The remarks prompted a barbed response from Sam Altman, the OpenAI chief executive, sparking a public spat between the two former business partners on X. “Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach number one in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation. xAI will take immediate legal action,” Musk posted on…

Stricter US border controls are discouraging European tourists from visiting the country, according to Europe’s largest package holiday operator. Tui’s chief executive, Sebastian Ebel, said there had been a “significant decline” in travel to the United States, citing “the atmosphere, what you hear from border control” among the reasons for the drop. He noted that many European travellers were instead choosing Canada or other long-haul destinations such as Africa and Asia. The comments follow multiple reports of foreign nationals, including Europeans with valid US visas, facing interrogation, detention and deportation. Recent incidents have involved a British tourist, three Germans, a…

Football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has proposed to his long-term partner, Georgina Rodríguez, following nearly ten years together. Rodríguez, 31, revealed the engagement on Instagram, sharing a photograph of an enormous diamond ring alongside a caption in Spanish that read: “Yes I do. In this and in all my lives.” Ronaldo, the most-followed person on the platform, has yet to make a public statement. The couple first met in 2016 at a Gucci store in Madrid, where Rodríguez was working at the time, while the Portuguese captian was playing for Real Madrid. Since then, they have built a family together, raising…

The Spanish authorities confirmed the arrival of the seven children, marking the latest in a growing wave of attempts by migrants to enter Ceuta.

Nigeria is one of more than 60 countries facing increased tariffs after US President Donald Trump launched a reciprocal-tariff programme targeting individual products and countries with varying rates.

President Donald Trump has once again delayed the implementation of sweeping tariffs on China, signing an executive order on Monday to extend the deadline for higher tariffs until 10 November. The announcement came just hours before the existing agreement between the world’s two largest economies was set to expire. The move extends a temporary truce between the two nations, which had been due to end on Monday. The Chinese commerce ministry later confirmed that China would suspend additional tariffs on US goods for another 90 days, maintaining its 10% tariffs on US products for the time being. The statement from…

United States consumer prices continued to climb in July, according to key economic data released on Tuesday, as President Donald Trump’s international tariffs started to impact costs for American consumers. The Consumer Price Index (CPI), which tracks the price changes of a basket of goods and services, revealed that prices were up 2.7% in July compared with the same month last year. While inflation had eased in the spring, the annual inflation rate saw an uptick of 0.4% since April. Although inflation remained stable between June and July, core inflation rose by 3.1%, accelerating faster than in June. Food prices…

A leading US medical journal has issued a warning about using ChatGPT for health-related information after a man developed a rare condition following advice from the chatbot. The Annals of Internal Medicine published a case study detailing how a 60-year-old man developed bromism, or bromide toxicity, after consulting ChatGPT about removing table salt from his diet. Bromism was once a well-recognised condition in the early 20th century, thought to have contributed to up to one in 10 psychiatric admissions. In this case, the patient told doctors that after reading about the harmful effects of sodium chloride, or table salt, he…

Paramount has signed a $7.7bn (£5.7bn) agreement to become the exclusive United States broadcaster of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), just days after completing its controversial merger with Skydance Media. Under the seven year deal with UFC’s parent company, TKO Group, all 13 of the sport’s high-profile numbered events and 30 “Fight Nights” per year will be available to stream on the Paramount+ service from next year, with a selection also simulcast on CBS. The agreement will mark the end of UFC’s current pay-per-view arrangement on Disney-owned ESPN+ in the US. Paramount will pay an average of $1.1bn annually for…

Donald Trump has invoked section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to place the city’s Metropolitan Police Department under federal control, ordering the deployment of the national guard and describing Washington DC as “lawless”  despite official figures showing crime at historic lows. Speaking on Monday, the US president vowed to allow officers to “do whatever the hell they want” in the face of what he called provocations. “That’s the only language they understand,” he said. “They like to spit in the face of the police. You spit, and we hit, and they get hit real hard.” Defence…