OpenAI and its largest financial backer, Microsoft, were sued in California state court on Thursday over claimsthat OpenAI's popular chatbot ChatGPT encouraged a mentally ill man to kill his mother and himself.

The US trade deficit narrowed unexpectedly in September to the smallest since 2020, delayed government data showed Thursday, with imports rising just slightly as President Donald Trump's new tariffs set in.

The email from a US immigration officer presented Kelly and Yerson Vargas with a stark choice: accept deportation to their native Colombia or risk being charged with a crime and separated from their 6-year-old daughter, Maria Paola.

A French mother whose teenage son took his own life is fighting to hold social media platforms accountable, saying their algorithms pushed suicide-related content that sent the 15-year-old into a "downward spiral".

Thai leader Anutin Charnvirakul said late Thursday he "would like to return power to the people", a known signal in the kingdom that a prime minister intends to dissolve parliament, paving the way for fresh elections.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday reaffirmed his support to Venezuela in a phone call with long-time ally President Nicolas Maduro after the United States seized an oil tanker off the country's coast, the Kremlin said.

More than 600 artefacts relating to the history of the British Empire and Commonwealth have been stolen from the collection of Bristol Museum, police said Thursday as they released images of four suspects.

Microsoft Corp's Satya Nadella, a die-hard cricket fan, has been spending his free time coding and designing his own app that he uses to analyse the centuries-old game.

Ivory Coast wants the Trump administration to station US spy planes in the country's north to carry outcross-border operations targeting Al Qaeda-allied jihadists wreaking havoc across the Sahel

Nobel Peace laureate Maria Corina Machado will do her best to return to Venezuela to end the "tyranny" in the country, she said Thursday as she seized the spotlight in Oslo after nearly a year in hiding.

Maria Corina Machado reportedly took three days to make it out of Venezuela and reach Norway, wearing a wig and a disguise, dodging checkpoints and the risk of arrest.

Time magazine named the "Architects of AI" as its Person of the Year on Thursday, highlighting the US tech titans whose work on cutting-edge artificial intelligence is transforming humanity.

Sweeping taxes on imports have cost the average American household nearly $1,200 since Donald Trump returned to the White House this year, according to calculations by Democrats on Congress' Joint Economic Committee.

A Myanmar military air strike killed more than 30 people at a hospital, aid workers said Thursday, as the junta wages a withering offensive ahead of elections beginning this month.

About two dozen people were reported killed in the fighting this week, while hundreds of thousands have been displaced on both sides of the border.

Elections in Bangladesh will be held on February 12, 2026, AMM Nasir Uddin, the country's chief election commissioner, announced through a televised address.

People who file tourist applications to visit the US with an intention to game the American system won't have it easy, according to the US embassy in India.

The former head of Pakistan's spy agency was sentenced to 14 years in prison for violating state secrets and abusing his authority, the army said on Thursday.

Four months after the US imposed 50 per cent tariffs on India for most goods, Mexico has approved levies of up to 50 per cent on the import of select products from Asian countries, including from India and China.

Bangladesh is set to hold a national election in February, its first since a student-led uprising toppled long-time leader Sheikh Hasina in August 2024. Her Awami League, the South Asian nation's largest party, has been barred from contesting.