Emily Hand's family believed she had been killed by Hamas but it is now thought she is a hostage

The tech giant confirms it will introduce support for a new messaging standard on iPhones from 2024.

Apple will stop using leather, it has announced. It will offer no new products using materials taken from animals, it said. That includes iPhone cases and Watch bands, both of which make heavy use of leather. Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vice president of environment, policy and social initiatives, noted that leather is a popular material for accessories. But it has considerable environmental impact, she noted, especially at the scale that Apple uses it. As such, it has committed to phasing out those materials. Instead, it will rely on new materials that have been especially developed. For the Apple Watch’s sport loop, for instance, it has changed the material to use 82 per cent recycled yarn. For the straps that are currently made out of leather, it will rely on a new seemingly custom developed material called “FineWoven”. That will presumably also be used for the cases made for the new iPhone 15. And Apple has developed new straps with Nike and Hermès. The latter collaboration has relied heavily on leather – but recently Apple has been rumoured to be selling off those products cheaply. The new materials will help make the new Apple Watch Series 9 the first carbon neutral product the company has made. Read More Apple to stop using leather in all new products Apple is changing the plug on the bottom of your iPhone Here’s the new iPhone Pro, made out of an entirely new material

Wisconsin elections officials would be able to process absentee ballots the day before an election under a bill scheduled for a vote in the state Assembly on Tuesday

One year on from the Kanjuruhan football stadium disaster that killed more than 130 people in Indonesia, families of the victims are calling on authorities to reopen investigations and declare the incident "a serious human rights violation."

John Warnock worked at Xerox before founding a company in 1982 with his colleague, Charles Geschke

Every morning, some of the world’s top chip engineers can be found stuck in traffic on Kumamoto Prefecture’s

The service members died in a helicopter crash in a region where the US has boosted operations.

By Richard Cowan, David Morgan and Moira Warburton WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives was leaderless on Wednesday,

The chants were drowned out as Trump supporters gathered around him, eager to express their unwavering support

Haiti has declined to join neighboring Dominican Republic in reopening a key border crossing for trade

Kim Jong Un was "deeply impressed" by a visit to a Russian aircraft manufacturing plant on Friday, according to North Korean state media.