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The recent announcement that Syrian tertiary institutes will not allow women into some courses has triggered debate. Critics worry it may be a sign that the new Syrian government is restricting women's rights.
The BBC's Madeline Halpert spoke to city tourists, residents and horse carriage workers about the industry and their opinion on the ban.
Etsy also laid out clearer rules around AI usage on its platform, including barring sellers from creating bot-generated listings without any human involvement.
French authorities have banned or curbed protests across the country ahead of the weekend in a bid to prevent another wave of the violence and looting that plagued last week’s demonstrations. In Paris alone, hundreds of shops and other small businesses were destroyed on the sidelines of the protests over the cost of living and education funding shortfalls.
More than 200 people have been sentenced to prison and started serving their terms over the unrest that shook France last weekend, Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin said Thursday. In all, some 2,700 people have been taken into police custody, he said. Follow our liveblog for the latest updates.
French President Emmanuel Macron railed against "stupid" comments made by foreign leaders for their political purposes. Plus, Paris police are set to extend restrictions on gatherings in parts of the city on Thursday.
Trabzonspor president Ertugrul Dogan is among 147 club officials given a 45-day ban by the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) for breaching betting rules.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security has banned DeepSeek-related technology from federal civilian agency IT systems.
The Chinese technology is removed from most US government agencies as race for AI dominance steps up.
Parts of southern England have entered "severe drought", while about 30 million people are under hosepipe ban.
The school has faced an uproar over how it handled assault allegations brought by a woman known as Jane Doe.
The firm said users can no longer engage in "sustained and needless" abusive behaviour towards the tech.
OpenAI said Thursday it shut down Russian and Iranian influence operations that used ChatGPT to create fake journalist personas and support a purported think tank spreading anti-Ukraine propaganda. The Iranian operation involved seven profiles posing as Western journalists to place lengthy articles in media outlets worldwide, the AI company said.
A new law in the Comoros bans foreign nationals from running certain small-scale businesses, threatening the livelihoods of thousands of people, most of them Malagasy. A measure that mirrors a growing wave of economic protectionism targeting migrant workers across the continent.
Fans forced their way through entrances, damaging a gate at the teams' CONCACAF Nations League match in Santo Domingo.
Gov Gavin Newsom called it a "long overdue measure to protect young Californians".
California Governor Gavin Newsom has banned 'robo-bosses' from firing workers, the first U.S. state with such a law.
Israel's push to ban Arab parties from standing in the upcoming election has been called "another nail in the coffin of democracy." Is there a legal basis for doing this, and what could it mean for Arab voters?
Germany's education minister has branded the ban on the small brass memorial plaques a "scandal".
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Friday signed an order banning fixed-odds betting just over a week ahead of the first round of the presidential election, in a move he said was designed to tackle the pervasive problem of families falling into debt.
