The summit comes as worries about the artificial intelligence's global impact mount and Europe seeks a role in its development and regulation.
It is the recurring theme of every speech at the COP summits: the urgent need to act in the face of increasingly frequent climate disasters. Yet this year’s conference in Turkey seems to have little ambition, as reflected in the low turnout and the host country’s own contradictions. Morgan Ayre has the story.
What began as an investigation into the now former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is turning into what could be shaping up to be a "national security crisis", says France 24's correspondent in Los Angeles Wassim Cornet, after US lawmakers called on Huang to face their questions in December. Huang resigned as head of the chip giant over extramarital affairs, including one with a suspected Chinese spy. The scandal has wiped almost half a trillion dollars off Nvidia's market valuation.
An outage of Microsoft services such as Outlook, Teams and Copilot that began on Thursday continued to cause disruption to users around the world on Friday as the tech giant struggled to fix server problems it blamed for the problems. France 24’s tech correspondent Peter O’Brien takes a look at what we know about the outage which, given its scale and duration, makes it one of the “biggest ever”, he says.
Discussions will look at how AI in Europe can compete with the US and China, as well as other key issues such as funding, security and red tape. Read more: EU leaders set for Dublin artificial intelligence summit
Heavy rain and strong winds have also caused disruption across British Columbia, Canada, over the last week Storm Charles has brought destructive weather to the Iberian peninusla this week, particularly in Portugal and the far south of Spain. Heavy rain and strong south-westerly winds arrived first in the Portuguese island of Madeira, before the system headed towards the mainland on 11 November. A wind gust of 84.5mph (136 km/h) was recorded at Funchal airport, alongside rainfall totals reach...
Dancing humanoid robots and robotic dogs stole the show at Web Summit 2026 in Lisbon. The technology conference has generated nearly €2.5 billion for Portugal's economy over the past decade, according to a study.
After Microsoft 365 services went down on 12 November, affecting millions of users worldwide, here is how you can keep using Outlook while the issue is fixed.
Air France-KLM's Flying Blue was crowned the best frequent flyer scheme globally thanks to how easy it is to earn and spend miles. The British Airways Club and Virgin Atlantic Flying Club also ranked high.
Equity markets mostly fell on Friday, following losses on Wall Street as investors weighed what Jensen Huang’s resignation from Nvidia could mean for the AI industry. Oil prices rose after US President Donald Trump said Washington did not need a deal with Iran.
The TFFF rainforest fund aims to make forest conservation more profitable than deforestation. But a lack of money may prevent it from getting off the ground.
In this week’s newsletter: The climate summit has a new floor-filler to ‘bring down the heat’, but it may struggle to get countries to sing a different environmental tune • Don’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up here The UN’s annual climate summit is known for being arcane, long-winded and frustrating. On Wednesday, however, Turkey brought a dash of Eurovision-style glamour to proceedings. The hosts of the talks, held in the historic Mediterranean city of Antalya, decided to...
“Solar is the fuel, the battery is the power plant. The whole system only becomes cheaper if these work in harmony with one another.”
EU leaders meet in Dublin on Friday for their first AI discussion, with Mistral’s Arthur Mensch and Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton as guests. But the row over who should speak for Europe in Ukraine peace talks is set to dominate.
Boycott, or speak to a wider audience? French politicians from the left, center, and even the right have debated for years about how to deal with the channel owned by ultra-conservative billionaire Vincent Bolloré.
Microsoft services including Outlook, Teams and Copilot suffered a worldwide outage on Thursday, disrupting access for tens of thousands of users across 74 countries and territories. The company blamed elevated infrastructure loads and said it was working to restore services, but recovery remained limited hours later.
Jared Kushner says move will allow talks to address ‘broader postwar European security arrangements’; Putin refuses to soften territorial demands. What we know on day 1,724 Ukraine and Russia have agreed to expand the next round of peace negotiations to include European countries , Donald Trump’s envoy and son-in-law Jared Kushner said late on Thursday, after meeting Russian president Vladimir Putin. “This will allow us to address the broader postwar European security arrangements alongside t...
For 30 years, Apaçik Radyo has broadcast climate change awareness programs from Istanbul. Stripped of its FM frequency, the station is working harder than ever to amplify the voices of environmental activists as COP31 takes place in Antalya.
Jensen Huang's resignation as Nvidia CEO, the risk of an AI bubble and soaring US debt were in focus on a packed last day of the Web Summit in Lisbon, as speakers on a panel moderated by Euronews warned that public debt markets could trigger the next financial crisis.
Discussing the issue of contact sports and the threat to sports men and women of all ages, particularly in the light of the recent death, just last month, of a 17-year-old French woman after a head collision on the rugby field, FRANCE 24's Mark Owen speaks with Dr Daniel H Daneshvar, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. He says that "there's not such thing as safe" in contact sports, explaining that "if you get a lot of repeated hits to the head, then you're at risk for problems lat...
Speaking at Web Summit Lisbon, one economist calls founder Jensen Huang’s exit “a critical mistake” and a “significant loss” for the industry, while another says large corporations are built to outlast the people who run them.
It’s sweater weather in Paris. But even though November brings brisk temperatures and fall foliage, it doesn’t mean last summer’s record heat should fade from our memories. One of the suggested reasons why students are so boiling mad is the hell they endured back in June in overheated classrooms and baking shoebox apartments.
The centre will be based the northwestern French city of Rennes and aims to gain NATO recognition, according to France's Ministry of Armed Forces.
The EU wants to curb subscription traps, misleading sales tactics and features that keep people scrolling. What would the proposed Digital Fairness Act change, and does it go far enough?
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Le président Lula a été accueilli sous les applaudissements à son arrivée, mercredi, à la COP 31 qui se tient à Antalya, en Turquie. Mais mis à part le Brésilien et quelques autres, de nombreux chefs d’Etats et de gouvernement, dont ceux de la France, de l’Allemagne ou de l’Inde ont fait l’impasse sur cette […]
Swedish activist criticised world governments for their failure to prevent environmental breakdown The planet is “not dying, it is being killed and we know by who”, said Greta Thunberg, who excoriated world governments for their failure to prevent environmental breakdown in her first appearance at the annual UN climate talks in five years. Thunberg , 23, the Swedish activist who became famous for heading the school climate strike movement, delivered her stark message to those gathered at the...
A passport photo, a selfie, an award-winning film and even the evening news: all of them were made possible thanks to a "fantastic machine", the camera. As France celebrates the bicentenary of the first fixed photographic image, we discuss the image-obsessed society we live in with filmmaker Maximilien Van Aertryck and artist Alina Frieske.
AI demand remains strong even as data-center construction slows. Ardian’s Executive President Vladimir Colas joins Bloomberg Open Interest to explain why Europe’s digital infrastructure and secondaries could offer opportunities and why existing data centers may become more valuable. (Source: Bloomberg)
Flighty will keep track of traffic conditions and public holidays that might affect your travel times, sending an alert 20 minutes before you need to leave.
The OECD's annual report, published Thursday, highlights diverging trends across countries. The significant increase in legal immigration to Portugal, Italy and Spain contrasted with sharp declines in Canada, the US and the UK.
Plans on show at Cityscape Qatar in Doha included more than 600 apartments at Lusail Marina and a waterfront street designed for pedestrians. Developers and architects discussed how to keep building costs down and make it easier for residents to get around on foot in summer.
Europe's rearmament ambitions face another hurdle after MEPs overwhelmingly backed a damning report exposing two major obstacles holding back defence start-ups and SMEs from bringing new technologies to market.
World leaders including UK prime minister Andy Burnham are addressing the summit today, as talks head into the third day Zack Polanski , leader of the Green party in the UK, criticised Andy Burnham’s Cop31 speech on Radio 4’s Today programme. Saying he was “not at all reassured” by the prime minister’s words, he described it as a “bizarre” speech. Polanski said climate action is about what you do, not what you say, referring to the recent decision by the energy secretary, Miatta Fahnbulleh ,...
A new study has found that reduced winter sea ice in the Barents and Kara seas could be linked to more summer drought across a wide area of Eurasia.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg delivers a stark warning at COP31.
They are in our shampoo bottles, power our cars and heat our homes. But what actually are fossil fuels, and why do they matter?
Leaders from more than 40 European countries gathered in Dublin on Thursday, November 12, for a summit focused on the continent’s fragile security, amid a new US-backed effort to revive talks on ending the Russia-Ukraine war. The meeting of the European Political Community brought together heads of state and government from European countries and the UK, as well as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.
Unprecedented view of cosmos provided by Euclid mission throws up many more cases of gravitational lensing A mission to create the largest ever 3D map of the universe has revealed more than 900m galaxies in its first major data release together with about 15,000 potential cases of a phenomenon that could help unlock the secrets of the “dark universe”. Launched in July 2023, the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission promised to create the largest cosmic map ever made, encompassing a third of...
As delegates gather in Turkey for the COP31 climate conference, discussions are focusing on emissions and climate targets. But humanitarian agencies are highlighting another urgent consequence of climate disruption: growing food insecurity. With the return of El Niño adding to concerns over extreme weather and its impact on food production, the Food and Agriculture Organisation is calling for food systems to be placed at the heart of climate action.
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