Stockholm announces British author Kazuo Ishiguro, best known for his novel "The Remains of the Day" , has won the 2017 Nobel Literature Prize. The 69-year-old author reacts to the news in London.

From a working-class childhood on the southern English coast to the top foreign-born monk in Thailand, Shaun Chiverton's quest for a better life has taken him further than most. Five decades after he travelled to India to follow the Buddha's teachings, the 68-year-old this summer became the first non-Thai to be elevated to rank of Somdet Phra Rachakhana, or royal monastic leader -- the second-highest level in Thailand's monkhood.

Images released by Olaf Meynecke of Griffith University's Whales and Climate Research Program appears to show a humpback whale mother grieving her stillborn calf. The new research released Thursday offers rare insights into the complex emotions of the sea-dwelling mammals. The footage was taken off Australia's Gold Coast last year, and shows the female humpback whale staying close to the dead calf as it lies motionless on the sea floor.

An area roughly a third of Hong Kong including villages, natural wetlands and farmland is being converted into the "Northern Metropolis", a US$28-billion high-tech hub aimed at deepening integration with the mainland, diversifying the economy and providing new homes.

Senator Bernie Sanders and Stever Bannon, former advisor to US President Donald Trump, warn against the dangers of artificial intelligence in a rare instance of left-right political alignment. “We’re trying to raise above partisanship, and we have to,” says Bannon, at a conference hosted by the Future of Life Institute. “The people of this country must make the decisions about AI,” Sanders says, “and not just a handful of oligarchs.”

AFP asks citizens around the world for their thoughts on artificial intelligence, as the rapid rise of AI and the risks that it poses to humanity explode into national conversations. US tech leaders have broadly agreed on the need to slow the technology's development to allow a better understanding of the risks, while US President Donald Trump and key allies are opposed to drastically curbing AI growth.