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On Monday, Apple’s list of finalists for its coveted “iPhone App of the Year” award once again reveals how the iPhone maker is downplaying the impact of AI technology on the mobile app ecosystem. As it did last year, Apple’s 2024 list of top iPhone finalists favors more traditional iOS apps, including those that help…

At least one person has died and three others have been injured after a cargo plane crashed near Vilnius airport in Lithuania in the early hours of Monday. The Boeing 737, operated for DHL by the Spanish cargo airline Swiftair, crashed near a house as it was on its final approach for landing, local authorities…

Authorities in the United Arab Emirates say they have identified three Uzbek nationals as the suspects arrested over the murder of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi and said they were working to determine a motive. The interior ministry published photos of three blindfolded men whom it named as Olimboy Tohirovich, Makhmudjon Abdurakhim and Azizbek Kamilovich. The body…

The bodies of at least eight people, including six children, have been recovered after a migrant boat sank off the Greek island of Samos, the coastguard has said. Around 40 people were rescued by authorities during an operation in the Aegean Sea involving aircraft and vessels, authorities said. Strong winds have been complicating rescue efforts.…

Reuters The Lebanese army would be expected to increase its presence in the ceasefire zone Israel and Lebanon appear to be close to a ceasefire deal, with the Israeli cabinet set to meet on Tuesday to discuss it, Israeli and US officials say. A 60-day truce is being proposed to end fighting between Israel and…

Russia and Ukraine have traded air strikes, after a week of intensifying rhetoric in which Russia tested a new missile on Ukraine. Russia has made close to 1,500 strikes on Ukraine since Sunday evening on about half of the country’s regions causing dozens of injuries, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. Meanwhile Ukraine’s military said it…

Survivors helped ashore after Red Sea tourist boat sinking Egyptian authorities say 16 people are missing, including foreigners, and 28 have been rescued after a tourist boat sank in the Red Sea. Two of those missing are British, the BBC understands. Finland has confirmed one of their nationals is unaccounted for, while authorities say four…

Swatch Authorities took 172 watches from Swatch shops in May 2023 A Malaysian court has ordered the country’s government to return 172 rainbow-coloured watches it seized from watchmaker Swatch last year. The government said it took the timepieces from the Swiss company because they featured “LGBT elements” – homosexuality is illegal in Muslim-majority Malaysia and…

Shutterstock The title of Barbara Taylor Bradford’s most celebrated, and first, novel A Woman of Substance could well have been used to describe the author herself. The 1979 story of a young woman’s journey from rags to riches went from bestseller to super-seller in a year and stayed on the New York Times list for…

Sir Keir Starmer has said he is “not that surprised” that some people who did not vote Labour in the last election want a “re-run” of the poll. A petition on Parliament’s website accusing Labour of breaking promises and calling for a new general election has gathered more than two million signatures – the third…