APPLE: US tech company Apple is fixing a bug within the dictation feature on some iPhones that briefly suggests the word “Trump” when a word with an R consonant is spoken, including “racist.”

When some users activated the dictation feature and said the word “racist,” the word “Trump” appears in the text window before quickly being replaced by the correct word, according to various videos posted online.

ROMANIA: A far-right politician who won the first round in Romania’s cancelled presidential election last year was stopped in traffic by police on Wednesday and taken for questioning by prosecutors, his communication team said.

“Calin Georgescu was about to submit his new candidacy for the presidency,” his team said on Facebook. “He was taken in for questioning at the General Prosecutor’s Office.”

It wasn’t immediately clear why prosecutors were questioning Mr Georgescu.

IRAN: Tehran has accelerated its production of near weapons-grade uranium as tensions with Washington rise after the election of US President Donald Trump, a report by the UN nuclear watchdog showed today.

The report by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency said that as of February 8, Iran has 605.8 pounds of uranium enriched up to 60 per cent. 

GERMANY: At least two people were injured when several shots were fired near a courthouse in the city of Bielefeld in western Germany today, local police reported.

Police say they can’t rule out a connection with a trial taking place at the court where a suspect is being tried on murder charges over the death nearly a year ago of a former boxer, Besar Nimani.