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A ChatGPT adult mode that OpenAI is aiming to make available early next year is expected to allow for erotic conversations between users and the chatbot

'For logged-in adult users'

OpenAI starts testing ads in ChatGPT

Australia's Great Barrier Reef experienced rising heat stress between 2014 and 2017

'Reefs don't have time to recover'

Three-year heatwave bleached half the planet's coral reefs: study

These images taken on January 4, 2026 and released as a combo image by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) via KNS on January 10, 2026 shows wreckage of a drone that North Korea claims originated from South Korea, and brought down by specialised electronic warfare assets after violating North Korean airspace.

Provocation and propoganda

South Korea police raid spy agency over drone flight into North

Georgia's Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said Tbilisi remained open to restoring the relationship

Following visits to Armenia and Azerbaijan

Georgia waiting 'patiently' for US reset after Vance snub

Just a small fraction of wind and solar growth came from rich G7 countries, the Global Energy Monitor found

Facing opposition

Solar, wind capacity growth slowed last year, analysis shows

The Women's Asian Cup trophy is seen opposite the Sydney Opera House. The tournament, hosted by Australia, beginson March 1

'Discriminatory conditions'

South Korea avert boycott of Women's Asian Cup weeks before kickoff

Barcelona's eternally unfinished Sagrada Familia has grown to become the world's tallest church

Residents in uproar

Barcelona's unfinished basilica hits new heights despite delays

Pakistani and Indian cricket fans

Amid government standoff

'Good sense' hailed as blockbuster Pakistan-India match to go ahead

Morning Roundup

Luxair flight diverted to Madrid, possible wage indexation, and Olympic gold for German ski jumper

This handout photo taken on February 9, 2026 and released on February 10, 2026 by Thailand's Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) shows rhino horns confiscated by customs from a Vietnamese traveler at Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok. Thai authorities have arrested a man for allegedly smuggling more than 11 kilograms of rhino horns inside wrapped meat, in a case officials on February 10, linked to an international wildlife trafficking network.

Wildlife trafficking

Man arrested in Thailand for smuggling rhino horn inside meat

Israeli President Isaac Herzog meets students at Moriah War Memorial College during his state visit to Australia in Sydney on February 10

Following Bondi Beach attack

Australian PM 'devastated' by violence at rally against Israel president's visit

Simba lives at a bodega in Manhattan and is popular with the shop's customers

Fuzzy shop helpers

New York seeks rights for beloved but illegal 'bodega cats'

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), speaks during a press conference at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo on February 9, 2026

Gamble pays off

Japan election results confirm super-majority for Takaichi's party

Manchester City beat Liverpool 2-1 to cut Arsenal's lead to six points

Cutting the gap

Man City eye Premier League title twist as pressure mounts on Frank and Howe

Musher Nukaaraq Lennert Olsen rides with his sled dogs near the 'dog town' of Sisimiut, Greenland

Warming climate threatens Greenland's ancestral way of life

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, the only former Epstein associate convicted in connection with his activities

Invoked Fifth Amendment

Epstein accomplice Maxwell seeks clemency from Trump before testimony

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is expected to testify in a landmark trial from a lawsuit alleging that social media firms designed their platforms to be addictive to children

Bellwether proceeding

Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial

Bad Bunny sang entirely in Spanish for the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show

Despite Trump, Bad Bunny reflects importance of Latinos in US politics

Have you ditched Dr Google for Dr ChatGPT? New research advises you to rethink

Only trust medical information from reliable sources

AI chatbots give bad health advice, research finds

Cuba has been cut off from critical oil supplies from Venezuela -- whose leader Nicolas Maduro was toppled in a deadly US military strike last month -- and from Mexico under the threat of US tariffs

Emergency measures hobble Cuba as fuel supplies dwindle under US pressure

Team figure skating gold medallist Amber Glenn defended her right to speak out, saying politics affects everyone

US athletes using Winter Olympics to express Trump criticism

Security in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa has been reinforced after ten workers, three of whom have since been found dead, were abducted from a Canadian-owned silver mining project

State of Sinaloa

Five employees of Canadian mining company confirmed dead in Mexico

This undated photo provided by the US Justice Department on December 19, 2025 shows Jeffrey Epstein (L), who died in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking, and his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, aboard a jet

'Likely incriminated'

US lawmakers reviewing unredacted Epstein files

Savannah Guthrie is one of America's best-loved journalists, and the apparent kidnapping of her mother has dominated US news

Suspected kidnapping

US news anchor says 'hour of desperation' in search for missing mother

Actress Catherine O'Hara, star of comedies like 'Schitt's Creek' and 'The Studio,' has died

Pulmonary embolism

'Schitt's Creek' star Catherine O'Hara died of blood clot in lung: death certificate

Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai, seen in 2020, has already been jailed for over five years as his trial progressed

National security crimes alleged

Hong Kong sentences pro-democracy mogul Jimmy Lai to 20 years in jail

Venezuelan opposition politian leader Juan Pablo Guanipa waves a national flag after his release from Helicoide prison in Caracas on February 8, 2026, before he was detained again

Under house arrest

Venezuela opposition figure freed, then rearrested after calling for elections

Photographs, of including Bill Clinton, Mick Jagger Richard Branson and Ghislaine Maxwell, after the US Justice Department began releasing the long-awaited Epstein files

Epstein taints European governments and royalty, US corporate elite

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