'It's safe now': See students pulled from rubble of collapsed Indonesian school Dramatic rescue footage shows the boys in Indonesia pulled to safety after their school building collapsed on Monday. The three students, Yusuf, Haikal and Dani were all trapped under the rubble for several hours. It is thought around 38 people are still stuck and unaccounted for. Six students have died so far. Watch: Moments as 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit Philippines At least 69 people are killed after it struck on Tuesday night with officials declaring a state of calamity.

Four students have died after a school building collapsed in Indonesia on Monday, 99 others were taken to hospital but it is thought 38 people are still trapped. The BBC reports from a nearby centre where relatives face an anxious wait for any updates. Rescuers say they have been able to communicate with seven students and give them oxygen. Watch: Moments as 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit Philippines At least 69 people are killed after it struck on Tuesday night with officials declaring a state of calamity. Social media footage showed the massive crater in Thailand's capital leaving cars teetering on the edge.

Harry Jackson went into Kathmandu as a tourist. He ended up being one of the main international sources of news on Nepal's Gen Z protests. When Harry Jackson pulled his small motorcycle into Kathmandu on September 8, he had no idea the city was exploding in protests. He didn't even know there was a curfew. People in Nepal, largely driven by Gen Z youth, had taken to the streets, and that day riots broke out when nearly two dozen people were shot and killed by authorities.

A large fire broke out in two buildings in the Tondo district of Philippines capital, Manila on Saturday night, affecting around 700 families, according to local media reports. Footage of the scale of the fire was shared by the Manila Public Information Office, which said that the fire had been brought under control. Three people are said to have been injured. The cause of the fire remains under investigation. See Kathmandu's destroyed and barricaded streets after violence From'nepo kids' to PM resignation: How the Nepal protests unfolded The BBC's Charlotte Scarr explains how the use of two slogans sparked a wave of protests in Kathmandu.

See Kathmandu's destroyed and barricaded streets after violence There's a real sense of tension in Kathmandu, the BBC's Samira Hussain says, after protests against corruption spiralled into arson and violence. Nepal's army deployed patrols on the streets, as the Himalayan nation reeled from its worst unrest in decades. The prime minister quit and politicians' homes were vandalised, and government buildings and parliament were torched. The streets of Nepal's capital have a heavy military presence, with barricades erected outside parliament and the supreme court. The military parade was attended by world leaders including Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un and showcased China's new weapons.

In order to respond effectively in the aftermath of a disaster, emergency services and relief organizations rely on timely and accurate information about the affected areas. Remote sensing has the potential to significantly reduce the time and effort required to collect such information by enabling a rapid survey of large areas. To achieve this, the main challenge is the automatic extraction of relevant information from remotely sensed data. In this work, we show how the combination of drone-based data with deep learning methods enables automated and large-scale situation assessment. In addition, we demonstrate the integration of onboard image processing techniques for the deployment of autonomous drone-based aid delivery. The results show the feasibility of a rapid and large-scale image analysis in the field, and that onboard image processing can increase the safety of drone-based aid deliveries.

Cocktail party problem is the scenario where it is difficult to separate or distinguish individual speaker from a mixed speech from several speakers. There have been several researches going on in this field but the size and complexity of the model is being traded off with the accuracy and robustness of speech separation. "Monaural multi-speaker speech separation" presents a speech-separation model based on the Transformer architecture and its efficient forms. The model has been trained with the LibriMix dataset containing diverse speakers' utterances. The model separates 2 distinct speaker sources from a mixed audio input. The developed model approaches the reduction in computational complexity of the speech separation model, with minimum tradeoff with the performance of prevalent speech separation model and it has shown significant movement towards that goal. This project foresees, a rise in contribution towards the ongoing research in the field of speech separation with computational efficiency at its core.

In this article, we'll learn about LUIS – Language Understanding Intelligent Service provided by Azure. We'll get into the details of how LUIS understands our natural language and then go ahead to build an app that can detect the intention of our text. We'll go through a step-by-step process to create a weather app that can identify if we are asking about the weather situation of any city and country. LUIS is a cloud-based service for understanding text which basically solves problems in the domain of Natural Language Processing and is simple to use. Moreover, it can easily be integrated with our software development processes.

Sophia, a humanoid robot with Saudi Arabian citizenship, speaks during the United Nation's innovation conference in Kathmandu, Nepal, on March 21, 2018. Sophia, who is now a citizen of Saudi Arabia, is the most advanced robot with artificial intelligence developed by a Hong Kong based company Hanson Robotics. Sophia, a social humanoid robot developed by Hong Kong-based company Hanson Robotics, addressed a conference on the theme'Public Services and Development' organised by the United Nations Development Programme, at Hotel Yak & Yeti, in Durbarmarg, Kathmandu, on Wednesday. Sophia started the speech with a joke on how the moderator was not like Nepali actor Anmol KC and when asked about her view on how artificial intelligence can help better public services in Nepal, she said, "the opportunities are endless," adding that AI can help improve the education sector, develop medicine, connect remote areas of Nepal to the centre, and help develop Nepal fulfill the Sustainable Development Goals. Similarly, in an answer to what she, as an AI can do, she claims that maybe she will be the first non-human to climb the Mount Everest.

Patrick Meier (center, in cap) flies a drone in Nepal after the earthquake in 2015. Meier and his team were able to to capture detailed images of damage around the capital, Kathmandu. He believes using this technology will make crisis mapping even more effective for disaster response. Patrick Meier (center, in cap) flies a drone in Nepal after the earthquake in 2015. Meier and his team were able to to capture detailed images of damage around the capital, Kathmandu. He believes using this technology will make crisis mapping even more effective for disaster response.