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US daily apologizes for decades of racist coverage

Washington (AFP) - The editor of the Kansas City Star apologized Monday on behalf of the American daily newspaper for decades of racist and discriminatory coverage of the Black minority. The police killing of Black man George Floyd in May, which sparked protests across the US, had forced the paper to grapple with its historic coverage, editor in chief Mike Fannin told CNN. "We never put ourselves under the microscope to better understand how the Star had covered the Black community for years," he said. Fannin on Sunday published a long editorial in which he called the influential Midwestern pa...

Eight hurt in shooting at US mall, gunman still at large

Washington (AFP) - Eight people were injured in a shooting at a US mall in Wisconsin on Friday according to police, who said they were still hunting for the shooter.The FBI and the Milwaukee County Sheriff's office tweeted that their officers were on the scene at the Mayfair Mall in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, supporting the "active" response by local police."When emergency personnel arrived, the shooter was no longer at the scene," the Wauwatosa Police Department said in a statement.It said the wounded included seven adults and one teenager who had been rushed to hospital. The seriousness of their ...

Google's war on all fronts over media, competition and tax

Paris (AFP) - Californian internet giant Google faces a growing list of battles around the world, from tussles in Europe and Australia over fair compensation for media outlets to competition probes on both sides of the Atlantic.Department of Justice strikesWashington's powerful justice department is the latest to announce a probe into Google on suspicion of an "illegal monopoly".US authorities have had the digital giant in their sights for years, and now accuse it of breaching competition law to maintain its iron grip on search and online advertising.The government has called for "structural" ...

'I selfie, therefore I am': Instagram 10 years on

Paris (AFP) - #Foodporn, #nofilter and #TBT: Little known to the general public a decade ago, Instagram has weaved its way into the daily lives of a billion people, changing the way we eat, travel and consume.On October 6, 2010 two Americans, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, launched Instagram as a social network dedicated to photo sharing. The novelty? The app offered filters to adjust brightness, contrast and colour to create the perfect photo in an instant.It had immediate success. The app was bought by Facebook two years after its launch, and by that time it had become the world's most popu...