Chinese e-commerce and technology giant Alibaba has launched a high-stakes legal challenge against the US government, suing to get off a Pentagon blacklist that claims it is linked to the Chinese military.

The US Department of Defense (DoD) has said that because Alibaba complies with Chinese technology regulators, it is effectively an arm of the military.

In the lawsuit filed in a California federal court Alibaba pushed back, claiming the determinations "have no basis in fact or law".

The challenge comes after the Pentagon recently expanded

Stanford has laid claim to innovations ranging from computer time-sharing to the synthesis of biologically active DNA.

It's home to the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory where the first website in North America went online in 1991.

Alums include Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the co-founders of Google, which began as a research project while both were PhD students at the university. Brin could be spotted strolling around the campus in track pants years after he started the search giant here.

Over many decades, researchers

German rail company Deutsche Bahn had to pause its train services across the country due to a nationwide IT disruption on Tuesday night.

All its trains were held at stations following a malfunction with the country's digital railway radio network, causing widespread disruption.

Deutsche Bahn later said the disruption had been fixed after trains were at a complete standstill for more than two-and-a-half hours.

"Our IT experts worked tirelessly to resolve the issue – successfully. The disruption was quickly fixed, and service is now gradually

Until recently, Kunal Shah was a familiar name mainly within India's startup and investor circles.

The founder of fintech company Cred had steadily built a following beyond the businesses he created. His podcast appearances often ventured into topics such as trust, incentives, wealth creation and human behaviour. His social media posts ranged from artificial intelligence to philosophy.

Now, with Meta appointing him to lead WhatsApp, he has been propelled into the global spotlight.

The appointment follows Meta's $900m (£67

Dr Cherti says footballers' choices can be shaped by "professional, emotional and political considerations", including family expectations or international opportunities they might not otherwise have had.

For example, Ibrahim Mbaye had played for France at all youth levels, but made the surprise announcement last year, aged 17, that he would play for Senegal, his mother's birth country.

"I will never regret choosing to play for Senegal because it was a decision from the heart," he told Senegalese broadcaster RTS at the time

The UN's International Maritime Organization (IMO) is set to evacuate more than 11,000 sailors who have been stranded in the Gulf because of the US-Israel war against Iran.

IMO secretary-general Arsenio Dominguez said the "large-scale operation" would be carried out in cooperation with Iran, Oman, the US, other coastal states in the region and the maritime industry.

"We have secured the necessary safety guarantees and have thoroughly verified the conditions for safe navigation to support these operations

The ceasefire has largely held since Sunday, marking the longest lull in weeks of escalating hostilities that spilled over from the US-Israeli war with Iran.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday night that Israeli troops had full freedom of action against any Hezbollah threat and would remain in Lebanon "as long as is necessary".

Tuesday's deaths came as Lebanese and Israeli officials opened talks in Washington aimed at advancing what the US state department described as "a comprehensive peace and security agreement between the two countries".