Asia India Workers and homemakers, with robot-hands and head-mounted cameras record first-person "egocentric data" of manual tasks, precious for tech companies to train physical AI and humanoids, building for free knowledge that will eventually take up their jobs
Europe Serbia Work has begun on a large-scale salvage project to raise and remove a fleet of Nazi ships sunk in the Danube in the last days of World War II
Asia Georgia A team of Georgian archaeologists travelled to Jordan to plan archaeological work on the ruins of the Georgian desert monastery located on Mount Shihan in the town of Karak, the National Agency for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage of Georgia reported
Europe Austria Austrian Leonhard Baumgartner was named winner of Eurovision Young Musicians 2024 in Bodø, Norway
Asia Bahrain Team Bahrain Victorious welcomed three stagiaires for the remainder of the 2024 season, who will then sign their contracts as cycling professional in 2025
America Mexico Heavy rains caused a 700-year-old pyramid in Michoacán to partially collapse, prompting extensive repairs by the National Institute of Anthropology and History; some Purépecha descendants interpret the collapse as a bad omen
Africa Republic of the Congo Jacqueline Lydia Mikolo, the Congolese minister responsible for handicrafts, expressed satisfaction at the good health of this sector, but emphasised the challenges, such as the intellectual protection of handicrafts
Asia Malaysia The country has officially adopted Worldcoin's iris scanning technology as part of its digital transformation strategy, a significant advancement in secure digital identity verification
Africa Ghana A public debate is underway after Savanna Agricultural Research Institute declared the launch of the first genetically modified crop for commercialisation; it is one of the 13 research institutes of the Ghana Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
America Grenada QR codes are being issued to help parents access school supplies and uniforms under the Assistance Programme
Africa eSwatini An initiative to achieve sustainable development by harnessing the power of nuclear technology in areas such as agriculture, healthcare and energy planning has been launched with the support of the International Atomic Energy Agency
Asia United Arab Emirates To inspire the next generation of artificial intelligence experts and problem solvers, the Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge is offering a series of summer camps of varying lengths to 2.400 high school students
Europe Ukraine Ukraine intends to create a 'buffer zone' in the occupied area, which would distance the front line and prevent close Russian attacks on Ukrainian soil
Europe Ireland This year's A-level results in Northern Ireland ‘complete the return’ to pre-Covid levels with similar results to 2019, exam boards said, with 30.3% of students receiving grade A or above, in line with the 29,4% achieved in 2019