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More than 600 dead in Indonesia and Thailand after floods and landslides - and Sri Lanka reporting more than 200 deaths from cyclone

The death toll following flooding and landslides in Indonesia and Thailand has risen to more than 600 - with nearby Sri Lanka also reporting more than 200 deaths after a cyclone.
Bigger than COVID? The graph that explains why AI is going to be so huge

Artificial intelligence is getting very good, very fast. Whether it's music, text, code or imagery, the time when it was reliably possible to tell the difference between AI and human outputs is disappearing at an alarming rate.
'Women are afraid to get pregnant': Fighting mercury poisoning from illegal gold mining in Brazil

"Many women end up losing their children," says Alessandra Korap, a community leader of the Munduruku people from the Brazilian Amazon.
Why prostate cancer is expected to be left as the only major cancer without national screening

Prostate cancer is expected to remain the only major cancer not to have a national screening programme under new recommendations from government advisers.
Genetics testing start-up offers to 'genetically optimise' would-be parents' babies

If a jeans advert hinting at actress Sydney Sweeney's "good genes" sent the internet into a frenzy over eugenics - how about one for a company that's actually selling good genes?

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