Former Google executive Matt Brittin has been confirmed as the BBC's new director general.

Radio stations in Zambia have been urged to ensure the responsible and ethical use of artificial intelligence (AI) in their operations, the country's broadcasting regulator said on Friday.

Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov and the newly elected Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Khaled El-Enany, discussed existing cooperation between Azerbaijan and UNESCO over the phone on Tuesday.

"Identification of the first Mpox (monkeypox) clade 1b infection in Sweden underscores the need for affected countries to tackle the virus together," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization wrote in his X account, News.az reports.