(Reuters) – The Los Angeles Unified School District on Tuesday will consider banning smartphones for its 429,000 students in an attempt to insulate a generation of kids from distractions and social media that undermine learning and hurt mental health. The proposal was being formulated before U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy …

(Reuters) – In what now has become almost a ritual in any cricket showpiece, Australia have swaggered into the Super Eight stage of the T20 World Cup, while West Indies have revelled in home conditions as the race for the semi-finals begins on Wednesday. Having won the World Test Championship …

RIYADH/MINA (Reuters) – Throngs of tightly packed pilgrims struggled through searing heat which has claimed lives during the annual Haj pilgrimage as temperatures reached 51.8 degrees Celsius (125.2 Fahrenheit) in the shade of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi state TV said on Tuesday. Six Jordanian citizens died of heat …

PARIS (Reuters) – The leader of France’s far-right National Rally (RN), Jordan Bardella, appealed to voters on Tuesday to hand his party an absolute majority in upcoming parliamentary elections so that it is able to govern effectively. Bardella’s eurosceptic, anti-immigration party has its first real chance of winning national power …

SINGAPORE: Shell has agreed to buy Singaporean liquefied natural gas (LNG) company Pavilion Energy from global investment company Temasek in a move the oil major said will strengthen its leadership position in LNG, according to statements on Tuesday. The announcement confirmed a Reuters’ report last Thursday saying Singapore’s Temasek was …

OpenAI just appointed a former director of the National Security Agency (NSA) to its board of directors, and Edward Snowden is not happy. “Do not ever trust OpenAI or its products,” the NSA employee turned whistleblower wrote on X Friday morning, after the company announced retired US Army Gen. Paul …

(Reuters) – Australia’s long-serving opener David Warner says he is looking forward to avoiding “flak” about the Newlands ball-tampering scandal when he retires after the T20 World Cup. Cricket Australia’s investigation into “Sandpaper-gate” in 2018 painted Warner as the chief orchestrator, though former test captain Steve Smith and opener Cameron …

Since dramatically quitting Google last year, Geoffrey Hinton, known better as the “Godfather of AI”, has been a harbinger of doom for how the emerging tech could affect humanity. But more than a year later, the former Googler and AI naysayer is back to betting on the technology’s ability to …

OIL prices edged down in Asian trade on Tuesday, after posting gains in the previous session, as markets remained cautious about global demand growth prospects amid expectations of stronger supplies. Global benchmark Brent crude futures slipped 12 cents, or 0.14%, to $84.13 per barrel at 0615 GMT. U.S. West Texas …

PARIS (Reuters) – France holds a parliamentary election on June 30 and July 7. Opinion polls show the far right could win. Here are some key facts about the election and what comes next. HOW DOES THE VOTE WORK? France has 49 million registered voters. There are 577 constituency contests, …