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The actor, 88, who has macular degeneration, relies on friends to teach her the script but says, ‘You just deal with it’

Amid a historic heatwave and months of drought, Mexico’s government has launched the latest phase of a cloud seeding project it hopes will increase rainfall....

Hundreds of millions of pounds in British aid spending is returning to the Treasury each year in tax, thanks to the spiralling cost of housing asylum seekers in UK hotels....

Doctors report busy burns units with some patients having passed out and collapsed on superheated outdoor surfaces

Millions of wild birds may have died from bird flu globally in the latest outbreak, researchers have said, as the viral disease ravages South America, with 200,000 deaths recorded in Peru alone....

FTX sues founder Sam Bankman-Fried and three others for $1bn::Lawsuit by cryptocurrency exchange, which collapsed in November, is attempt to recoup assets sought by creditors

cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/125900...

Extremist-friendly tech company closes after fine for securities fraud::Experts say LBRY’s failure casts shadow on future of other ‘alt-tech’ sites as Twitter becomes more receptive to far right

Last year, all of literature’s big prizes went to small publishers. In a risk‑averse climate, edgy debuts and ‘tricky-to-sell’ foreign titles have found a home at the likes of Fitzcarraldo Editions and Sort Of Books – and the gamble has paid off.

Edit: A bit more detail, if you’re interested: ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/…/IP_22_3746

‘I deleted my Twitter account’: eight readers on how they avoid digital burnout...

In a move that seems to clearly violate the (ostensible) three-way division of power, Netanyahu moves to consolidate more power in the legislative that he controls....

Ford’s Mustang Mach-E lets motorists drive hands-free in UK; T&Cs apply: motorways only, don’t look away for too long.

Last November, just weeks into the war in Gaza, Amichai Chikli, a brash, 42-year-old Likud minister in the Israeli government, was called into the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, to brief lawmakers on what could be done about rising anti-war protests from young people across the United States, especially at elite universities....

The landmark judgment, handed down on Thursday, sets an important precedent on whether the “inevitable” future greenhouse gas emissions of a fossil fuel project should be considered....