In the last fortnight, Friedrich Merz’s party was beaten to first place in Berlin, pummelled in the polls in Saxony-Anhalt and pushed out of parliament altogether in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. A lifeline for Merz is that no-one, within his own centre-right CDU party, is yet willing to challenge the chancellor openly despite persistent rumours of a
Warning: This story contains details some may find distressing A 17-year-old Sudanese girl holds a young child in her arms with a heavy calm that belies her age and the concerns she has for his future. “This son of mine has no father, no birth certificate and no national number,” Amira, whose name has been
Arena’s CEO says his company has encountered job applicants who seem too good to be true — literally. Anastasios Angelopoulos said that the AI-model evaluation company he cofounded has interviewed candidates who turned out to be AI rather than real people. “They’re passing all of our technical interviews,” Angelopoulos said in an interview on the
Physical credentials used to be all that was needed for identity management in an enterprise. But now that humans work alongside machines and AI agents in digital environments, even identity tools built for the cloud era are proving inadequate. That’s the gap that Israeli startup Oak is trying to stealthily fill, he says. Co-founded by
“Any form of child sexual abuse is confronting and horrifying, even more so when the alleged perpetrator is a person entrusted with the care of our youth,” said Australian Federal Police (AFP) Acting Commander Luke Needham. Tait worked or attended 62 early childhood education centers in Sydney between 2009 and 2025, although police say he
