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Several runaway military horses galloped through the streets of London on Wednesday morning, alarming pedestrians, swerving cars and buses and turning a normal rush hour into a frightening, almost surreal spectacle.According to the London Ambulance Service, one person was being treated for injuries after being thrown from a horse in Buckingham Palace Road. Media reported that the horses belonged to the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, a ceremonial unit that parades in royal processions.The ambulance service later reported that at least five people had been injured in three locations, from Victoria to Belgrave Square and Fleet Street. At 10.30am the Metropolitan Police said all the horses had been recovered.The drama began shortly after 8am, when the horses were apparently frightened a...

In the run-up to Meta's first-quarter earnings report this week, a video image of Mark Zuckerberg suddenly started to go viral.Not for the AI ​​assistant it advertised or the projected growth in ad revenue, but for the silver chain around its neck.“Mark Zuckerberg made an announcement about something Meta is doing with AI, but I couldn't listen or hold it for a second because when I watch the reel of him talking, all I see is a necklace,” Amy wrote Odell in his Substack. , Last row.Later, an edited version of the same image with Mr. Zuckerberg sporting scruffy facial hair wowed people even more. Among the more than 4,000 mostly drooling comments under an Instagram post from the celebrity account The Shade Room, included one from Gwyneth Paltrow, who compared Mr. Zuckerberg to her...

The United Nations human rights office on Tuesday called for an independent investigation into two mass graves found after Israeli forces withdrew from hospitals in Gaza, including one discovery days ago about which Israeli and Palestinian authorities have offered differing accounts.The Palestinian Civil Defense said over the weekend that it had found a mass grave containing 283 bodies on the grounds of Nasser Hospital in the southern town of Khan Younis, two weeks after a similar mass grave was found at Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital City.Mahmoud Basal, spokesman for the Palestinian Civil Defense, an emergency services organization, said some of the bodies found in Khan Younis were handcuffed, shot in the head or wearing detainee uniforms. He accused Israeli forces of killing and burying t...

Federal regulators said Tuesday that pasteurized milk samples from across the country tested positive for inactive residues of the avian influenza virus that has infected dairy cows.The viral fragments pose no threat to consumers, officials said. “To date, we have seen nothing that would change our assessment that the commercial supply of milk is safe,” the Food and Drug Administration said in a statement.Over the past month, the avian influenza virus known as H5N1 has been detected on more than 30 dairy farms in eight states. The virus is also known to have infected a farmer, whose only symptom was pink eye.Scientists have been critical of the federal response, saying the Agriculture Department has been too slow to share important data and has not adequately pursued testing cattle for t...

A Russian deputy defense minister has been arrested on charges of accepting a “large-scale” bribe, the country's top law enforcement investigators announced Tuesday.The investigative committee's brief announcement revealed few details about what led to the detention of Timur Ivanov, the deputy minister. But the legal statute he is accused of violating involves accepting bribes “on a particularly large scale,” more than a million rubles, or more than $10,000.The Ministry of Defense did not comment on the investigation.Ivanov, deputy defense minister since 2016, has long been responsible for military construction projects, including most recently the huge contracts awarded to rebuild the Russian-occupied city of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine, which was devastated by Russian attacks so...

Lori and George Schappell, conjoined twins whose skulls were partially fused but who managed to lead independent lives, died April 7 in Philadelphia. There were 62 of them.Their deaths, which occurred in hospital, were announced by a funeral home, which cited no cause.Dr. Christopher Moir, a professor of surgery at the Mayo Clinic, who was part of teams that separated six pairs of conjoined twins - although none of them were joined at the head - said that when one of the Schappells died, the other would have to almost certainly followed quickly.“Conjoined twins share circulation,” he said, “so unless you somehow emergently split their connection, it's absolutely a fatal process and not viable.”The Schappells lived much longer than expected when they were born as craniopagus twins, joi...

At least five people, including a young girl, died at sea off the coast of northern France on Tuesday during an attempt to cross the Channel, French authorities said, as governments on both sides of the waterway struggle to dissuade the migrants from making the journey. dangerous trip to Great Britain.According to French authorities, the deceased were on board a heavily overloaded dinghy with more than 100 people. The boat was one of several vessels spotted by the French coast guard near the town of Wimereux on Tuesday morning.The deaths came just hours after Britain's Parliament passed highly controversial legislation to allow the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda, a measure that British authorities have presented as a way to dissuade people from attempting the dangerous Chann...

The idea triggered a full-scale revolt on the Google campus.Six years ago, the Silicon Valley giant signed a small, $9 million contract to put the skills of a few of its most innovative developers to the task of building an artificial intelligence tool that would help the military detect potential targets on the battlefield using drone footage.Engineers and other Google employees argued that the company should have nothing to do with Project Maven, even if it was designed to help the military discern between civilians and militants.The uproar forced the company to back out, but Project Maven didn’t die — it just moved to other contractors. Now, it has grown into an ambitious experiment being tested on the front lines in Ukraine, forming a key component of the U.S. military’s effort to funn...

“Everyone risks their lives for a bag of flour,” he recalled. In those moments, he said, he felt as if he were doomed to be crushed under the wheels of trucks or killed by Israeli forces.At one point during the winter, Mr. Barda said he managed to get two bags of flour from a convoy. Then someone threatened him, saying that if he did not give up one, the stranger would take them both by force.In February, Mr. Barda was dashing to get a sack of flour from a United Nations truck when he collided with another man who was cutting the ropes holding the aid. In the chaos, the blade cut off Mr. Barda's finger, splattering his prize with blood. But it was a beautiful day. His family managed to make the 25 kilogram bag last for two months.Before the war, Mr. Barda worked as a baker in a ch...

Dr. Joel Breman, an infectious disease specialist who was part of the original team that helped fight the Ebola virus in 1976, died April 6 at his home in Chevy Chase, Maryland, at age 87.His death was confirmed by his son, Matthew, who said his father died of complications from kidney cancer.“We were scared to death,” Dr. Breman, recalling his pioneering mission, told a National Institutes of Health newsletter in 2014, as a new and even deadlier Ebola epidemic raged that year.Nearly 40 years earlier, his team of five had just landed in the interior of what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, at a remote Roman Catholic mission hospital. They were faced with an unnamed viral infection, the origin of which was unknown, and which was accompanied by high fever and bleeding that led to a ...