Instagram rolls out teen accounts with privacy, parental controls as scrutiny mounts (Reuters) – Meta Platforms META.O is rolling out enhanced privacy and parental controls for Instagram accounts of users under 18 in a significant overhaul aimed at addressing growing concerns around the negative effects of social media. Meta will port all designated Instagram accounts […]
Umar Mahmood, a teen who starred in former England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff’s “Field of Dreams” has died in a car crash. The 18-year-old suffered critical injuries after his Audi A3 Sport car left the road and hit trees along Chain Caul Way, Preston on September 10, according to The Sun. Rescue and medical workers arrived […]
NEW DELHI: Indian police on Thursday said they were compiling lists of right-wing Hindu “cow vigilantes” after a young man falsely accused of smuggling beef was shot dead. The killing last month of 19-year-old Aryan Mishra in northern Haryana state has sparked unusual outrage — much of it because the young man was a Hindu. […]
israeli forces shot and killed a 16-year-old Palestinian boy in the Far’a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, according to reports from the Wafa news agency. The incident occurred after Israeli soldiers reportedly fired multiple shots at the boy, prevented medical personnel from providing assistance, and subjected him to physical abuse. Hamas has accused […]
Listen to article A 16-year-old sprinter from Australia has become a viral sensation after fan footage of his 100m race at the Queensland Athletics Championships surfaced online. Gout Gout, born in Brisbane in 2007 to South Sudanese parents who migrated to Australia two years prior, is now being hailed as the next Usain Bolt by many. Gout’s […]
At just 15, Heman Bekele, a high school sophomore from Virginia, has achieved a feat many seasoned scientists only dream of – a potential breakthrough in skin cancer treatment. Named TIME magazine’s 2024 Kid of the Year, Bekele’s groundbreaking invention, a soap designed to deliver medication for treating skin cancers, including melanoma, could change countless […]
ANKARA: A Palestinian teenager was fatally shot by Israeli forces on Tuesday night in Anata, east of occupied East Jerusalem. The Palestinian Authority-run Jerusalem Governorate identified the victim as 16-year-old Shadi Sheha, who was working at his privately owned car wash shop when he was shot. According to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, local […]
Amid growing concerns over the mental health crisis among children in the United States, Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org, has announced a significant investment in high school wellbeing projects. On Monday, Google.org funded all mental health-related listings on DonorsChoose, a classroom crowdfunding platform where public school teachers request supplies. The initiative, backed by $10 million in […]
An 18-year-old Iraqi national was detained in Vienna in connection with investigations into an alleged plot to attack a Taylor Swift concert in the Austrian capital, Austria’s interior minister said on Friday. Watch ARY News live on live.arynews.tv The Iraqi comes from the same circle as the main suspect, a 19-year-old Austrian with North Macedonian roots, […]
A 21-year-old man has come forward, alleging that former BBC anchor Huw Edwards paid him $45,000 for pornographic images of himself as a teenager. Edwards, 62, pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children in a London court on Wednesday. According to the Daily Mirror, the victim, who was in a vulnerable […]