Artificial intelligence challenges what it means to be creative
When British artist Harold Cohen met his first computer in 1968, he wondered if the machine might help solve a mystery that had long...
Richard Moss
Counter-terrorism, Afghanistan, top priorities for UN cooperation with Eurasian security body
Conflict prevention, counter-terrorism and support to Afghanistan, top the list of issues on which the UN and the Collective Security Treaty Organization – a Eurasian regional...
Africa’s Sahel region facing ‘horrendous food crisis’
As the Sahel region “stares down a horrendous food crisis”, the UN emergency food relief chief warned on Wednesday that the number of people...
Haiti at ‘crossroads’ entering post-earthquake reconstruction
Haiti is once more at a ‘crossroads’, six months after a devastating earthquake hit the south-west of the country, according to the UN Deputy...
A Step Toward Africa’s First Covid-19 Vaccine of Its Own
NEW YORK, Feb 16 (IPS) – Akshaya Kumar is the crisis advocacy director at Human Rights Watch.Efforts to combat the vast global inequity in...
Fierce Urgency Required to Include Children with Disabilities in Education – ECW’s Yasmine Sherif says
Nairobi, Kenya, Feb 16 (IPS) – Unable to walk, see or hear, and without assistance, the multiple barriers between 240 million children with disabilities...
Sunlight helps clean up oil spills in the ocean more than previously thought
Sunlight may have helped remove as much as 17 percent of the oil slicking the surface of the Gulf of Mexico following the 2010...
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in South Sudan on Wednesday strongly condemned the continued violence across the country, which is affecting the safety of civilians...
‘Strengthened international cooperation’ needed for safe, regular migration
Migration is a “a defining feature of humanity and our world”, the UN chief told the General Assembly on Wednesday, launching his second report...
Guterres opens Global Disability Summit with inclusivity call
The Global Disability Summit began on Wednesday in Oslo, where UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged all countries to do more to put people living with disabilities...
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This robot automatically tucks its limbs to squeeze through spaces 
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