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Nearly 80% of Texas' floating border barrier is technically in Mexico, survey finds (www.cbsnews.com)
A joint U.S.-Mexico topographical survey found that 787 feet of the 995-feet-long buoy line set up by Texas are in Mexico.
‘Oh my god’: live worm found in Australian woman’s brain in world-first discovery (www.theguardian.com)
Woman complained of forgetfulness and depression before doctors pulled out an 8cm roundworm normally found in pythons
Steven Spielberg denounces antisemitism and makes first comments on Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
Schindler’s List director says in speech marking 30th anniversary of the USC Shoah Foundation that he is alarmed that ‘we may … once again have to fight for the very right to be Jewish’....
Reddit stock is falling back to Earth because the short-sellers have arrived (qz.com)
Some 7% of Reddit’s free share float (or more) has been sold short so far, according to an estimate from the analytics company Ortex cited by Reuters. That’s something the social platform was worried would happen, noting in its prospectus that retail traders in its subreddits (and particularly on r/WallStreetBets) could...
Report shows Ethiopian civil war more lethal than Ukraine war (www.thereporterethiopia.com)
The two-year war in northern Ethiopia resulted in approximately 100,200 deaths before an African Union-brokered ceasefire was reached in November 2021, a new report reveals. In comparison, the Ukraine-Russia war that began in February led to 81,500 deaths, the same source added.
Aspartame a possible carcinogen, WHO cancer research agency expected to say (www.rnz.co.nz)
One of the world's most common artificial sweeteners is set to be declared a possible carcinogen....
A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco (www.theverge.com)
A person jumped on the hood of a Waymo driverless taxi and smashed its windshield in San Francisco’s Chinatown last night around 9PM PT, generating applause before a crowd formed around the car and covered it in spray paint, breaking its windows, and ultimately set it on fire. The fire department arrived minutes later,...
UK teachers want cash skills to replace religious studies lessons, study finds (uk.news.yahoo.com)
BRITAIN wants personal finance lessons to replace religious studies on the school curriculum, new national research reveals.
'Who will call me Dad?' Tears of Gaza father who lost 103 relatives (www.bbc.com)
Ahmad al-Ghuferi's wife, mother and daughters were killed when a strike hit the home where they sheltered.
Darren Aronofsky To Adapt Elon Musk Biopic For A24 (www.empireonline.com)
by Ben Travis | Published on11 11 2023. Darren Aronofsky has always been attracted to stories of extremity – whether it’s the bodily intensity of The Wrestler and The Whale, the psychological torment of Mother! and Black Swan, the religious endurance of Noah, or the actual endurance test that is Requiem For A Dream. And for...
Police called to yoga class mistaken for ‘mass killing’ (www.theguardian.com)
A member of the public in Chapel St Leonards, Lincolnshire, called emergency services to report people lying on the floor
More than 200 scientists from 19 countries want to tell us the Southern Ocean is in trouble (theconversation.com)
The first comprehensive assessment of trends in Southern Ocean ecosystems reveals an urgent need to address climate change. The summary for policymakers can guide decision-makers.
Thailand's LGBTQ+ community draws tourists from China looking to be themselves (apnews.com)
Xinyu Wen traveled to Thailand in June, planning a two-week vacation around Bangkok’s Pride parade. But the 28-year-old ended up staying a month and a half, soaking up the Thai capital’s thriving LBGTQ+ community.
Hunger kills hundreds after US and UN pause food aid to Ethiopia's Tigray region, officials say (apnews.com)
Local officials and researchers say hunger has killed at least 700 people in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region in recent weeks after the United States and United Nations suspended food aid.
Condemned inmate Brian Dorsey could face surgery without anaesthesia if vein is elusive (www.nzherald.co.nz)
Execution protocol in the US state of Missouri allows for “surgery without anaesthesia” if the typical process of finding a suitable vein to inject the lethal drug doesn’t work, lawyers for a death row inmate say in an appeal aimed at sparing his life....
Humans pump so much groundwater that Earth’s axis has shifted, study finds (edition.cnn.com)
New research shows that persistent groundwater extraction over more than a decade has shifted the axis on which our planet rotates.
Three-and-a-half hour Scorsese blockbuster prompts pitch for movie intermissions (9now.nine.com.au)
Critics say it's not a trend but a fad. Whatever the case, one thing's for sure: if you go to the movies this summer, chances are you're going to be there for a while....
Israel's restrictions to Gaza aid may be war crime, says UN rights office (www.reuters.com)
Israel's restrictions on humanitarian aid for Gaza may amount to a starvation tactic that could be a war crime, the United Nations human rights chief said on Tuesday. The stark appraisal followed a U.N.-backed report on Monday saying famine is likely by May without an end to fighting in the more than five-month war between...
‘I was told not to make eye contact with Tom Cruise’: meet the world’s most prolific film extra (www.theguardian.com)
As a new film spotlights her 60-year career, record-breaking film extra Jill Goldston discusses turning down Warren Beatty’s indecent proposal and hanging out with David Bowie
Every two hours, a child dies in Sudan. Our global silence is deafening. (www.usatoday.com)
The suffering of the Sudanese may be off camera now, but it won't be in a few months when babies are starving en masse.
Scientists aghast at bizarre AI rat with huge genitals in peer-reviewed article (arstechnica.com)
It's unclear how such egregiously bad images made it through peer-review.
Tech firms sign ‘reasonable precautions’ to stop AI-generated US election chaos (www.theguardian.com)
Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and TikTok outline methods they will use to try to detect and label deceptive AI content
We have seen 20 minutes of 'Dune II' with Villeneuve and we have good news: the expectation is more than justified (www.ruetir.com)
Last November we had the opportunity to attend an exclusive twenty-minute screening of ‘Dune: Part II’, the highly anticipated second installment of the monumental adaptation of Frank Herbert’s science fiction classic that Denis Villeneuve is carrying out. Of course, it is early to give an opinion, but we can assure that...
Ireland: Riots erupt in Dublin after children stabbed (www.reuters.com)
Three young children were among five people injured in a knife attack in Dublin on Thursday that sparked riots in the city centre and which police have not yet ruled out any motive over, including whether it could be terror-related....
European Union must face legacy of colonialism and support reparations, say MEPs (Members of the European Parliament) (www.theguardian.com)
The European Union should urgently address and reverse the lasting impacts of European colonialism and support a reparations programme to rectify continuing injustices, according to a draft resolution to be presented to the European parliament’s development committee....