Facebook chatbot offers to answer tricky questions
Facebook has created a chatbot to help its own employees answer tricky questions from friends and family over the holiday season. The Liam bot answers queries about how the social network handles hate speech and disinformation and can even offer advice about helping locked-out users. Facebook said it was responding to requests from its staff. […]
Access Bank PLC aims to support obstetric fistula surgeries
About one thousand women living with obstetric fistula are unable to get treatment due to lack of funds. Obstetric Fistula is a hole that develops between the vaginal rectum or bladder as a result of protracted labour. The condition causes women to leak urine and faeces or both. Every year, 1,300 cases of the condition […]
Eggs thrown at Malta PM Muscat as MEPs demand his resignation
Malta’s prime minister was pelted with eggs and insults by protesters on Tuesday as he met a delegation from the European Parliament that told him to stand down immediately over his handling of the Daphne Caruana Galizia murder investigation. There were shouts of “shame on you” at Joseph Muscat and Justice Minister Owen Bonnici as […]
Vatican postpones beatification of first US ‘televangelist’
In a highly unusual move, the Vatican has postponed the beatification of the late Archbishop Fulton Sheen, a charismatic figure of US Roman Catholicism in the 20th century and pioneer in religious media. Sheen, who died in 1979 and was sometimes called the first “televangelist,” was to have been beatified at a ceremony led by […]
