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Mackie, whose visually provocative Hollywood style defined glamour for the 1970s, designed gowns for Madonna, Streisand, Sharon Stone, Diana Ross and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and concert costumes for Pink. He died on Monday in Palm Springs, California.
Vistry, Labour's favourite housebuilder, has made severe strategic missteps over the past three years. Can it make a […]
The Williams Northeast Supply Enhancement pipeline has been fought, defeated, and revived multiple times.
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U.S. stocks were mostly lower, with the Nasdaq leading declines as makers of AI infrastructure suffered steep falls, many in the double digits. Nvidia was down 16%. [...]
Gold settled 1.4% lower, down two of the past three sessions, and silver fell 2.5%, down three of the past four sessions. [...]
Panic fueling the selloff of Nvidia, Broadcom and other tech giants is overblown. [...]
Gain insight on Experian, SoFi Technologies and more in the latest Market Talks covering Financial Services. [...]
Arabica coffee prices hit a record level, as traders digested the withdrawal of President Trump’s threats to impose tariffs and economic sanctions on Colombia. [...]
The Yen and Swiss Franc were stronger against the dollar as investors sought safe havens after Chinese start-up DeepSeek’s new AI model hit U.S. tech stocks. [...]
U.S. natural gas futures fell after weekend updates took some of the chill out of early February weather forecasts. [...]
QXO is taking its offer directly to shareholders after being rebuffed on several occasions. [...]
CDT presents a monthly series of censored content that has been added to our “404 Deleted Content Archive.” Each month, we publish a summary of content blocked or deleted (often yielding the message “404: content not found”) from Chinese platforms such as WeChat, Weibo, Douyin [...]
On Monday, the Wuhan Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism announced the conclusion of its investigation into an operatic performance by comedian Guo Degang back in July, and said that it would levy hefty fines on the organizers and theatrical venue involved. The investigation purportedly [...]
At The New York Times, Li Yuan writes that Beijing’s efforts to cultivate an air of uniform "positive energy" online have been looking increasingly strained: Discontent has occasionally erupted after disasters, scandals or particularly brutal government actions. But something feels different lately. The pessimism is [...]
Chinese cyberspace authorities announced that ten people from Tibet and several other provinces have been hit with unspecified administrative punishments (likely fines) for “spreading rumors” online about the death toll and scale of the massive debris-flow that destroyed the Gyirong checkpoint on the China-Nepal border [...]
All platforms, please find, delete, and block video that fully or partially matches the attached samples. Use OCR to extract text for automatic deletion and blocking, and supplement with ASR [Automatic Speech Recognition] [Chinese] This directive, which emerged last week via the X account Teacher [...]
AI analysis of 400,000 Reddit posts found that users of drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound reported unexpected symptoms including menstrual changes, chills, hot flashes, and fatigue. Researchers cannot say the medications caused these problems, but the patterns may reveal overlooked signals worth [...]
Scientists found that the 3D organization of DNA is disrupted in several types of brain cells affected by Alzheimer’s disease, altering how important genes are switched on and off. The discovery reveals a previously underexplored layer of the disease that could open new paths for [...]
A massive worldwide survey of physicists has revealed surprisingly little agreement about some of the universe’s biggest mysteries. No majority backed the standard cosmological model, a leading explanation for dark matter, or any single theory of quantum gravity. One area of stronger agreement stood out: [...]
Scientists are combining an electron microscope with a quantum computer to squeeze far more information from each electron. The approach could reveal faint details with fewer electrons, helping protect fragile samples that conventional microscopy can damage. [...]
Scientists have engineered yeast to turn PET plastic and agricultural waste into ingredients for protein-rich, 3D-printed cookies called µBites. Developed partly for NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge, the system can produce proteins, fats, vitamins, and even vanilla flavoring from waste materials. Researchers hope the unusual [...]
The Indian and Pacific oceans have been climatically linked for centuries, but scientists say that connection is now breaking down in an exceptional way. Ancient climate records suggest volcanoes disrupted the relationship in the past, while today human-caused warming appears to be driving a much [...]
Researchers have experimentally demonstrated the optical Magnus effect for the first time, revealing that a tightly focused laser interacts most strongly with an atom slightly away from the beam’s center. The unexpected shift is similar to the physics that makes a spinning table tennis ball [...]
A century-old mystery in Venus’s clouds just became more intriguing, as scientists calculated how strongly the unidentified material behind its dark ultraviolet patterns must absorb light. The results sharply narrow the possibilities and could help future spacecraft determine whether the mysterious substance is organic, inorganic, [...]
The April rescue operation to recover the downed aircrew saw the first US boots on the ground in Iran in 46 years, American officials say. [...]
Iraq removes a military commander and opens investigations into the attack that came from an area bordering Iran. [...]
The capture by the rebels of a stretch of Yemen's strategic coastline is the group's most impressive military coup for several years. [...]
The Iran-backed Houthis are also reported to have seized Perim - a strategic island on the major shipping route. [...]
The powerful blast registered as the equivalent of a magnitude 4.1 earthquake, according to the US Geological Survey. [...]
Mokha's capture brings the Iran-backed group closer to controlling a key international shipping route. [...]
The paper said it stood by its reporting, after publishing extracts from a book where the claim appears. [...]
The Algerian foreign ministry did not give a reason for the move but said it had exhausted all means. [...]
FP’s editor in chief on the mood in Ukraine—and what it means for the future of war. [...]
Hunting civilians from the sky is growing disturbingly common. [...]
It was once unclear how Washington would defend Taipei—now it’s doubtful it will help at all. [...]
Its effects continue to shape national security policy today. [...]
Test yourself on the week of Sept. 5: A German state votes, Philippine police make a high-profile arrest, and Nigeria appoints a new military commander. [...]
Few Americans have the vocabulary to describe what’s making them miserable. [...]
[allAfrica] Mali built a cotton sector capable of producing, ginning and exporting at scale. Mossadeck Bally argues that this success must now support a more demanding ambition: retain more fibre, begin with spinning and finance industry for the long term. [...]
[allAfrica] Kenya is growing cotton again. But the bigger question is whether it can turn the crop into an industrial engine and keep more of the value at home. [...]
[Premium Times] "By doing so, because the company will be very, very large, we will be having 10 per cent of the total America's capacity," Mr Dangote added. [...]
[UN News] The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and partners have delivered lifesaving assistance to families in conflict-affected communities in South Sudan's Jonglei state, many of whom had gone months without humanitarian support. [...]
[Namibian] The government is exploring the possibility of introducing compulsory national service for young Namibians, particularly those leaving school, a proposal that South Africa has also considered [...]
[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala, Uganda -- Uganda's long-awaited first commercial oil production is now expected by June 2027, after the government again revised its production timeline, raising fresh questions about a project whose delivery dates have shifted repeatedly over the past two decades. [...]
[allAfrica] In South Africa, the debate about protecting young people from drugs is increasingly raising a different question: are current policies actually helping those who need support most? [...]
[allAfrica] For Africa's smallholder farmers, the next climate shock will not only test what they grow, but whether they have the resources to withstand a failed season. [...]
