ChatGPT Begins Showing Ads to US Users for the First TimeAfter weeks of teasing, OpenAI has begun testing advertisements inside ChatGPT in the US, marking a major evolution in the product's business model and user experience. The rollout affects those with Free tier plans and the new lower-cost ChatGPT Go plan. People on paid tiers such as Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise will remain free of...

'Durian tsunami': Prices plunge as oversupply hits MalaysiaWhy $20 durians are now being sold at half price - or given away for freeImage source, Kelly Ng/ BBCImage caption, Durian prices have plunged because of oversupply ByKoh Ewe and Kelly NgReporting fromSingaporeFor days now, a long line has been snaking around the two blocks leading up to the Durian Ninja fruit stall in...

US and Iran exchange strikes in Gulf in latest test of ceasefireWatch: The US military released this video said to show strikes on Iranian sitesThe shaky ceasefire between the US and Iran has been tested further, with American forces targeting Iranian drones and radar sites, and Iran firing missiles at US bases in the Gulf.The US military said it had shot down four Iranian "one-way attack...

Morocco boosting tourism to tighten its control of Western SaharaMorocco wants tourists to visit Western Sahara. Some say it's tightening its control4 hours agoJacob EvansBBC World ServiceAFP via Getty ImagesRyanair and other European airlines now fly to Western Sahara, with some calling it Morocco Back in March, an email landed in my inbox from Irish airline Ryanair asking me if I was ready...

UN human rights chief calls on US to conclude probe into Iran school strikeAnadolu via Getty ImagesA reported 168 people were killed in the strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, southern IranThe UN's human rights chief has urged the US to conclude its investigation and publish its findings into a deadly strike on an Iranian primary school that happened on the first day of the war last...