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France is banning Osama bin Laden’s son Omar from returning to the country “for any reason”, the French interior minister said on Tuesday. Omar lived in France with his British wife for several years, working as an artist in Normandy. He was ordered to leave the country last year and banned from returning for two…

The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded on Tuesday to John Hopfield of Princeton University and Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto for their “fundamental discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.” Source link

Interpol has launched a new European campaign to try to solve a series of “cold cases” by asking the public to help them locate the remains of 46 women found murdered or who appear to have died under suspicious circumstances. “Whether it’s a memory, a tip or a shared story, the smallest detail could help…

France’s new government, led by conservative Prime Minister Michel Barnier, will have to rely on far-right support as it faces a no-confidence vote in parliament on Tuesday. The movement, named by the leftist New People’s Front alliance, won the most votes in June-July parliamentary elections but fell short of an outright majority, and was subsequently…

The queue outside Istanbul’s Panagia Vefa Church stretched over 200 metres, made up of Christians and Muslims chatting animatedly as they waited to make a wish inside this Greek Orthodox shrine. Source link

The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft set off on Monday for its two-year journey to a small asteroid already seeded by NASA to test whether potentially planet-threatening asteroids can be knocked off course by a timely launch. Source link

A Russian court has sentenced 72-year-old American citizen Steven Hubbard to nearly seven years in prison on charges of fighting as a mercenary for Ukraine, following a largely closed-door trial. This conviction comes amid a series of recent arrests of Westerners in Russia, including another American who was sentenced to a longer prison term for…

The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to the Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the pioneering discovery of microRNA, which plays a critical role in the regulation of gene activity. Their research, conducted at prestigious institutions such as Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital, has provided fundamental insights into how organisms develop and…

Research into cancer or cardiovascular drugs could be in the running for the Nobel Prize in Medicine, to be announced on Monday. As global crises continue, the award seeks to inspire optimism. The potential laureates are American biologist Kevan Shokat, known for his work on the KRAS cancer gene, which offers hope for the treatment…

A 15-year-old boy was “stabbed 50 times” and burned alive this week in the southern French city of Marseille. A prosecutor in Marseille told the press on Sunday that the victims and perpetrators of drug-related violence were getting younger and younger. Source link