Former US Vice President Kamala Harris urged governments and technology companies on Wednesday to urgently put safeguards in place for artificial intelligence, warning that the window for containing its gravest risks was ​closing.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said on Tuesday six people had ​been confirmed dead in the ‌state from Hurricane Isaias, which made landfall last week.

Around 400 scientists, including AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, on Tuesday called for an international body ​to oversee containment standards and incident reporting for advanced cyber-capable ‌AI systems.

Pope Leo was diagnosed with lung cancer after surgeons removed a part of his right lung on ​Tuesday, the Vatican said in a medical bulletin, marking a significant health setback for the 71-year-old pontiff.

Police fired tear gas and live rounds at supporters of jailed former ​Prime Minister Imran Khan in northwestern Pakistan.

South Korean police said they had detained a man suspected of stabbing eight people on Tuesday at a shopping mall in the ​city of Incheon, and the Yonhap news agency said one of the ‌victims was in a life-threatening condition.

A Democratic victory in one or both chambers of Congress would not stop President Donald Trump’s administration from handing regulatory breaks to Wall ​Street banks, prediction markets and crypto firms, but it would give Democrats powerful tools to probe the industries and their watchdogs.

Homes are likely to keep getting cheaper for about a year, but the downturn in house prices has not been replicated in rentals.

NASA’s robotic Perseverance rover has now driven farther than any other vehicle on the surface of any world ​other than Earth,.

US authorities conducted a predawn raid on Monday on the Washington, DC, home of Democratic US Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, an outspoken critic of Donald Trump who has been the ​target of political insults by the Republican president, as part of an ongoing investigation, the Justice Department said.

More than 100 foreign trekkers are stranded at different locations in Nepal.

Police used excessive and targeted force on journalists covering youth-led protests in India, local press groups and international media rights bodies said, and warned that ​press freedom in the country was under threat.