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الأربعاء، 22 يناير 2025

Tech titans bicker over $500bn AI investment announced by Trump https://ift.tt/2E5mfPc Blake Montgomery After unveiling of Stargate, Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Satya Nadella of Tesla, OpenAI and Microsoft trade barbs Major tech moguls had their claws out for each other Wednesday, hissing at their rivals over enormous pledges to invest in AI that had been announced by Donald Trump the day before. Trump unveiled Stargate, a $500bn project to be funded jointly by OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank, on Tuesday. During the announcement, the president was flanked by the leaders of those companies: Sam Altman, Larry Ellison and Masayoshi Son, respectively. Son is slated to be the chair of the project. All three are multibillionaires. Absent from the photo op was a representative from MGX, Abu Dhabi’s state AI fund, another principal investor. Continue reading... https://ift.tt/TO6PDB4 January 23, 2025 at 12:32AM

يناير 22, 2025
Tech titans bicker over $500bn AI investment announced by Trump https://ift.tt/2E5mfPc Blake Montgomery 
After unveiling of Stargate, Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Satya Nadella of Tesla, OpenAI and Microsoft trade barbs

Major tech moguls had their claws out for each other Wednesday, hissing at their rivals over enormous pledges to invest in AI that had been announced by Donald Trump the day before.

Trump unveiled Stargate, a $500bn project to be funded jointly by OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank, on Tuesday. During the announcement, the president was flanked by the leaders of those companies: Sam Altman, Larry Ellison and Masayoshi Son, respectively. Son is slated to be the chair of the project. All three are multibillionaires. Absent from the photo op was a representative from MGX, Abu Dhabi’s state AI fund, another principal investor.
 Continue reading... https://ift.tt/TO6PDB4 January 23, 2025 at 12:32AM

After unveiling of Stargate, Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Satya Nadella of Tesla, OpenAI and Microsoft trade barbs

Major tech moguls had their claws out for each other Wednesday, hissing at their rivals over enormous pledges to invest in AI that had been announced by Donald Trump the day before.

Trump unveiled Stargate, a $500bn project to be funded jointly by OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank, on Tuesday. During the announcement, the president was flanked by the leaders of those companies: Sam Altman, Larry Ellison and Masayoshi Son, respectively. Son is slated to be the chair of the project. All three are multibillionaires. Absent from the photo op was a representative from MGX, Abu Dhabi’s state AI fund, another principal investor.

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الثلاثاء، 21 يناير 2025

Iraq passes laws that critics say will allow child marriage https://ift.tt/3Xs2FVR Associated Press in Baghdad Proponents of the amendments – described by activists as ‘disastrous’ – say they align with Islamic principles Iraq’s parliament has passed amendments to the country’s personal status law that opponents say would in effect legalise child marriage. The amendments give Islamic courts increased authority over family matters, including marriage, divorce and inheritance. Activists argue that this undermines Iraq’s 1959 Personal Status Law, which unified family law and established safeguards for women. Continue reading... https://ift.tt/126qF9i January 22, 2025 at 12:30AM

يناير 21, 2025
Iraq passes laws that critics say will allow child marriage https://ift.tt/3Xs2FVR Associated Press in Baghdad 
Proponents of the amendments – described by activists as ‘disastrous’ – say they align with Islamic principles

Iraq’s parliament has passed amendments to the country’s personal status law that opponents say would in effect legalise child marriage.

The amendments give Islamic courts increased authority over family matters, including marriage, divorce and inheritance. Activists argue that this undermines Iraq’s 1959 Personal Status Law, which unified family law and established safeguards for women.
 Continue reading... https://ift.tt/126qF9i January 22, 2025 at 12:30AM

Proponents of the amendments – described by activists as ‘disastrous’ – say they align with Islamic principles

Iraq’s parliament has passed amendments to the country’s personal status law that opponents say would in effect legalise child marriage.

The amendments give Islamic courts increased authority over family matters, including marriage, divorce and inheritance. Activists argue that this undermines Iraq’s 1959 Personal Status Law, which unified family law and established safeguards for women.

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الأحد، 19 يناير 2025

Out There review – Martin Clunes waving a shotgun is an unexpected January treat https://ift.tt/tfvwKHh Rebecca Nicholson A vulnerable son. A hostile takeover. Clunes’ Welsh farmer has quite enough on his plate – and that’s before the drug gangs force him to pick up his firearm Over the last few weeks, ITV has been heavily trailing Out There with a teaser that positions it as a cross between Happy Valley, Countryfile and the Liam Neeson revenge thriller Taken. Martin Clunes plays Nathan Williams, a Welsh farmer whose vulnerable son Johnny is manipulated into becoming part of a county lines drug-running operation. It is soaked in an Ozark-blue wash of colour, and in its opening moments looks set to emerge as a bleak slice of nasty rural noir. But beneath the topsoil, Out There is far more steady-handed than you might have anticipated, if, like me, you had been quite looking forward to watching Doc Martin do his best “I will look for you, I will find you and I will kill you” impersonation. Nathan is a sole parent, following the death of his French wife Sabine a couple of years earlier. Their daughter has already left the family farm to move to Europe, unable to cope in the aftermath of her mother’s death, but Johnny (Louis Ashbourne Serkis) is 15 and still at school, where he is neglecting his usual activities to the extent that Nathan is called in for a chat with the teachers. Instead of being athletic, Johnny now spends most of his time in his bedroom playing video games. During the first episode, the family drama is turned up, while the criminal undercurrents bubble away, biding their time, before they begin to nudge out into the open. Continue reading... https://ift.tt/WuQnfVB January 20, 2025 at 12:00AM

يناير 19, 2025
Out There review – Martin Clunes waving a shotgun is an unexpected January treat https://ift.tt/tfvwKHh Rebecca Nicholson 
A vulnerable son. A hostile takeover. Clunes’ Welsh farmer has quite enough on his plate – and that’s before the drug gangs force him to pick up his firearm

Over the last few weeks, ITV has been heavily trailing Out There with a teaser that positions it as a cross between Happy Valley, Countryfile and the Liam Neeson revenge thriller Taken. Martin Clunes plays Nathan Williams, a Welsh farmer whose vulnerable son Johnny is manipulated into becoming part of a county lines drug-running operation. It is soaked in an Ozark-blue wash of colour, and in its opening moments looks set to emerge as a bleak slice of nasty rural noir.

But beneath the topsoil, Out There is far more steady-handed than you might have anticipated, if, like me, you had been quite looking forward to watching Doc Martin do his best “I will look for you, I will find you and I will kill you” impersonation. Nathan is a sole parent, following the death of his French wife Sabine a couple of years earlier. Their daughter has already left the family farm to move to Europe, unable to cope in the aftermath of her mother’s death, but Johnny (Louis Ashbourne Serkis) is 15 and still at school, where he is neglecting his usual activities to the extent that Nathan is called in for a chat with the teachers. Instead of being athletic, Johnny now spends most of his time in his bedroom playing video games. During the first episode, the family drama is turned up, while the criminal undercurrents bubble away, biding their time, before they begin to nudge out into the open.
 Continue reading... https://ift.tt/WuQnfVB January 20, 2025 at 12:00AM

A vulnerable son. A hostile takeover. Clunes’ Welsh farmer has quite enough on his plate – and that’s before the drug gangs force him to pick up his firearm

Over the last few weeks, ITV has been heavily trailing Out There with a teaser that positions it as a cross between Happy Valley, Countryfile and the Liam Neeson revenge thriller Taken. Martin Clunes plays Nathan Williams, a Welsh farmer whose vulnerable son Johnny is manipulated into becoming part of a county lines drug-running operation. It is soaked in an Ozark-blue wash of colour, and in its opening moments looks set to emerge as a bleak slice of nasty rural noir.

But beneath the topsoil, Out There is far more steady-handed than you might have anticipated, if, like me, you had been quite looking forward to watching Doc Martin do his best “I will look for you, I will find you and I will kill you” impersonation. Nathan is a sole parent, following the death of his French wife Sabine a couple of years earlier. Their daughter has already left the family farm to move to Europe, unable to cope in the aftermath of her mother’s death, but Johnny (Louis Ashbourne Serkis) is 15 and still at school, where he is neglecting his usual activities to the extent that Nathan is called in for a chat with the teachers. Instead of being athletic, Johnny now spends most of his time in his bedroom playing video games. During the first episode, the family drama is turned up, while the criminal undercurrents bubble away, biding their time, before they begin to nudge out into the open.

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السبت، 18 يناير 2025

Arsenal’s scrambled brains and missed chances will really hurt Mikel Arteta | Jonathan Wilson https://ift.tt/luN4sKz Jonathan Wilson at the Emirates Stadium Eight minutes of nonsense have all but put paid to manager’s title dreams after draw with Aston Villa Mikel Arteta dropped to his haunches, laid his hand on his brow and let his head slump. When he looked up again, he had his thumb and forefinger to his eyes. It was the fifth minute of injury time, Leandro Trossard had just rolled a shot wide and Arsenal’s final chance had vanished. With it, perhaps, so had their hopes of winning the league. At the very least, the gains of Wednesday were handed back. As it turned out Trossard, who had been Arsenal’s most dangerous forward, may have been a fraction offside anyway, which perhaps would have been the most fitting conclusion. In the previous eight minutes, Mikel Merino had seen a goalbound shot deflected in off Kai Havertz’s hand and hit the inside of a post. There was a sense in those closing stages of the fates, or at least Arsenal’s chronic inability to seize the moment, being against them. Continue reading... https://ift.tt/QZNLvet January 18, 2025 at 11:36PM

يناير 18, 2025
Arsenal’s scrambled brains and missed chances will really hurt Mikel Arteta | Jonathan Wilson https://ift.tt/luN4sKz Jonathan Wilson at the Emirates Stadium 
Eight minutes of nonsense have all but put paid to manager’s title dreams after draw with Aston Villa

Mikel Arteta dropped to his haunches, laid his hand on his brow and let his head slump. When he looked up again, he had his thumb and forefinger to his eyes. It was the fifth minute of injury time, Leandro Trossard had just rolled a shot wide and Arsenal’s final chance had vanished. With it, perhaps, so had their hopes of winning the league. At the very least, the gains of Wednesday were handed back.

As it turned out Trossard, who had been Arsenal’s most dangerous forward, may have been a fraction offside anyway, which perhaps would have been the most fitting conclusion. In the previous eight minutes, Mikel Merino had seen a goalbound shot deflected in off Kai Havertz’s hand and hit the inside of a post. There was a sense in those closing stages of the fates, or at least Arsenal’s chronic inability to seize the moment, being against them.
 Continue reading... https://ift.tt/QZNLvet January 18, 2025 at 11:36PM

Eight minutes of nonsense have all but put paid to manager’s title dreams after draw with Aston Villa

Mikel Arteta dropped to his haunches, laid his hand on his brow and let his head slump. When he looked up again, he had his thumb and forefinger to his eyes. It was the fifth minute of injury time, Leandro Trossard had just rolled a shot wide and Arsenal’s final chance had vanished. With it, perhaps, so had their hopes of winning the league. At the very least, the gains of Wednesday were handed back.

As it turned out Trossard, who had been Arsenal’s most dangerous forward, may have been a fraction offside anyway, which perhaps would have been the most fitting conclusion. In the previous eight minutes, Mikel Merino had seen a goalbound shot deflected in off Kai Havertz’s hand and hit the inside of a post. There was a sense in those closing stages of the fates, or at least Arsenal’s chronic inability to seize the moment, being against them.

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Harlequins see off Glasgow to reach Champions Cup knockout stages https://ift.tt/hCPrnqZ Michael Aylwin at the Twickenham Stoop Harlequins 24-7 Glasgow Cunningham-South scores first of three Quins tries A Champions Cup of modest returns for the English was at least given a fillip by Quins. This reasonably comfortable win over Glasgow across the road from where the Calcutta Cup will be contested next month put the home team through to the last 16. No one will particularly relish a visit from one of the game’s more waspish teams, but it is fair to say any further progress will require an improvement on this. Glasgow, champions of the United Rugby Championship, no less, were not quite there all evening. Perhaps they were thrown by loss of Sione Tuipulotu to an injury this week in training, which threatens his participation in Scotland’s Six Nations campaign. They scored an absolute beauty in the first half, as waspish a side as Quins, but they could not rouse themselves to score again. Continue reading... https://ift.tt/LvorwFf January 19, 2025 at 12:16AM

يناير 18, 2025
Harlequins see off Glasgow to reach Champions Cup knockout stages https://ift.tt/hCPrnqZ Michael Aylwin at the Twickenham Stoop 

Harlequins 24-7 Glasgow

Cunningham-South scores first of three Quins tries

A Champions Cup of modest returns for the English was at least given a fillip by Quins. This reasonably comfortable win over Glasgow across the road from where the Calcutta Cup will be contested next month put the home team through to the last 16. No one will particularly relish a visit from one of the game’s more waspish teams, but it is fair to say any further progress will require an improvement on this.

Glasgow, champions of the United Rugby Championship, no less, were not quite there all evening. Perhaps they were thrown by loss of Sione Tuipulotu to an injury this week in training, which threatens his participation in Scotland’s Six Nations campaign. They scored an absolute beauty in the first half, as waspish a side as Quins, but they could not rouse themselves to score again.
 Continue reading... https://ift.tt/LvorwFf January 19, 2025 at 12:16AM
  • Harlequins 24-7 Glasgow
  • Cunningham-South scores first of three Quins tries

A Champions Cup of modest returns for the English was at least given a fillip by Quins. This reasonably comfortable win over Glasgow across the road from where the Calcutta Cup will be contested next month put the home team through to the last 16. No one will particularly relish a visit from one of the game’s more waspish teams, but it is fair to say any further progress will require an improvement on this.

Glasgow, champions of the United Rugby Championship, no less, were not quite there all evening. Perhaps they were thrown by loss of Sione Tuipulotu to an injury this week in training, which threatens his participation in Scotland’s Six Nations campaign. They scored an absolute beauty in the first half, as waspish a side as Quins, but they could not rouse themselves to score again.

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Jonbon too good for Energumene with convincing Clarence House win https://ift.tt/SMk23JN Greg Wood at Ascot Nicky Henderson’s Festival squad looking strong Jonbon now 5-4 for Champion Chase at Cheltenham Nicky Henderson brushed off talk of a late run at the trainers’ title after Jonbon’s convincing six-and-a-half length defeat of Energumene in the Clarence House Chase on Saturday. There was the glint in his eye, though, of a fierce, inveterate competitor who can sense a tide may be starting to turn. Henderson left with two more firm favourites for Grade One races at Cheltenham in March, as Jonbon’s win followed an easy success for Lulamba, Henderson’s main Triumph Hurdle contender, in the opener. If all goes to plan with Constitution Hill, the Champion Hurdle favourite, and Sir Gino, who heads the market for the Arkle Trophy, his Cheltenham squad promises to be the strongest from a British stable for several seasons. Continue reading... https://ift.tt/5IQM9VU January 18, 2025 at 06:20PM

يناير 18, 2025
Jonbon too good for Energumene with convincing Clarence House win https://ift.tt/SMk23JN Greg Wood at Ascot 

Nicky Henderson’s Festival squad looking strong

Jonbon now 5-4 for Champion Chase at Cheltenham 

Nicky Henderson brushed off talk of a late run at the trainers’ title after Jonbon’s convincing six-and-a-half length defeat of Energumene in the Clarence House Chase on Saturday. There was the glint in his eye, though, of a fierce, inveterate competitor who can sense a tide may be starting to turn.

Henderson left with two more firm favourites for Grade One races at Cheltenham in March, as Jonbon’s win followed an easy success for Lulamba, Henderson’s main Triumph Hurdle contender, in the opener. If all goes to plan with Constitution Hill, the Champion Hurdle favourite, and Sir Gino, who heads the market for the Arkle Trophy, his Cheltenham squad promises to be the strongest from a British stable for several seasons.
 Continue reading... https://ift.tt/5IQM9VU January 18, 2025 at 06:20PM
  • Nicky Henderson’s Festival squad looking strong
  • Jonbon now 5-4 for Champion Chase at Cheltenham

Nicky Henderson brushed off talk of a late run at the trainers’ title after Jonbon’s convincing six-and-a-half length defeat of Energumene in the Clarence House Chase on Saturday. There was the glint in his eye, though, of a fierce, inveterate competitor who can sense a tide may be starting to turn.

Henderson left with two more firm favourites for Grade One races at Cheltenham in March, as Jonbon’s win followed an easy success for Lulamba, Henderson’s main Triumph Hurdle contender, in the opener. If all goes to plan with Constitution Hill, the Champion Hurdle favourite, and Sir Gino, who heads the market for the Arkle Trophy, his Cheltenham squad promises to be the strongest from a British stable for several seasons.

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الجمعة، 17 يناير 2025

Jason Tindall, king of touchline chaos, has Newcastle barking up right tree https://ift.tt/49U7fZJ Louise Taylor Newcastle are benefitting from Mad Dog’s odd-couple relationship with Eddie Howe and his attention to detail Name the assistant manager noted for clashing with, among several others, Mikel Arteta, Jürgen Klopp and Unai Emery on Premier League touchlines and, occasionally, in stadium tunnels? Given quiz questions rarely come much easier there are no prizes for supplying the correct answer: Newcastle’s Jason Tindall. Continue reading... https://ift.tt/khmaJMp January 17, 2025 at 08:00PM

يناير 17, 2025
Jason Tindall, king of touchline chaos, has Newcastle barking up right tree https://ift.tt/49U7fZJ Louise Taylor 
Newcastle are benefitting from Mad Dog’s odd-couple relationship with Eddie Howe and his attention to detail

Name the assistant manager noted for clashing with, among several others, Mikel Arteta, Jürgen Klopp and Unai Emery on Premier League touchlines and, occasionally, in stadium tunnels?

Given quiz questions rarely come much easier there are no prizes for supplying the correct answer: Newcastle’s Jason Tindall.
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Newcastle are benefitting from Mad Dog’s odd-couple relationship with Eddie Howe and his attention to detail

Name the assistant manager noted for clashing with, among several others, Mikel Arteta, Jürgen Klopp and Unai Emery on Premier League touchlines and, occasionally, in stadium tunnels?

Given quiz questions rarely come much easier there are no prizes for supplying the correct answer: Newcastle’s Jason Tindall.

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الخميس، 16 يناير 2025

Looking for Giants review – beautifully written erotic tales of fantasy and projection https://ift.tt/S0iA5bN Arifa Akbar King’s Head theatre, London Cesca Echlin’s debut of three vignettes explores sadomasochistic dynamics, virtual romance and masturbatory pleasure Some people leave “invisible marks on your body which only you know are there,” the narrator tells us. She is speaking about men she meets and to whom she gives a fantasy life, to give an erotic charge to her own existence. They “stride across your mental landscape” and you puff them up “like balloons”. You wish they weren’t so big, but they keep you company. There are so many elegant lines in Cesca Echlin’s debut play, which was staged at the Edinburgh fringe in 2023. Directed by Echlin, it comprises three vignettes about the erotic potential of solo fantasy and projection. The first part is about a university student and her arrogant tutor, whose indifference and harsh words enact a psychic violence. But rather than heading into Oleanna territory, the student tells us she likes it. That sadomasochistic dynamic continues into the next story, in which she confesses to a man on a dating app her desire to be demeaned. He stays virtual in her life but provides masturbatory pleasure for her nonetheless. The final tale is of a romantic attraction that again does not materialise into physical reality but takes up enormous space in her imagination. At King’s Head theatre, London, until 26 January Continue reading... https://ift.tt/ROJIl5o January 17, 2025 at 12:00AM

يناير 16, 2025
Looking for Giants review – beautifully written erotic tales of fantasy and projection https://ift.tt/S0iA5bN Arifa Akbar 
King’s Head theatre, London
Cesca Echlin’s debut of three vignettes explores sadomasochistic dynamics, virtual romance and masturbatory pleasure

Some people leave “invisible marks on your body which only you know are there,” the narrator tells us. She is speaking about men she meets and to whom she gives a fantasy life, to give an erotic charge to her own existence. They “stride across your mental landscape” and you puff them up “like balloons”. You wish they weren’t so big, but they keep you company. There are so many elegant lines in Cesca Echlin’s debut play, which was staged at the Edinburgh fringe in 2023.

Directed by Echlin, it comprises three vignettes about the erotic potential of solo fantasy and projection. The first part is about a university student and her arrogant tutor, whose indifference and harsh words enact a psychic violence. But rather than heading into Oleanna territory, the student tells us she likes it. That sadomasochistic dynamic continues into the next story, in which she confesses to a man on a dating app her desire to be demeaned. He stays virtual in her life but provides masturbatory pleasure for her nonetheless. The final tale is of a romantic attraction that again does not materialise into physical reality but takes up enormous space in her imagination.

At King’s Head theatre, London, until 26 January
 Continue reading... https://ift.tt/ROJIl5o January 17, 2025 at 12:00AM

King’s Head theatre, London
Cesca Echlin’s debut of three vignettes explores sadomasochistic dynamics, virtual romance and masturbatory pleasure

Some people leave “invisible marks on your body which only you know are there,” the narrator tells us. She is speaking about men she meets and to whom she gives a fantasy life, to give an erotic charge to her own existence. They “stride across your mental landscape” and you puff them up “like balloons”. You wish they weren’t so big, but they keep you company. There are so many elegant lines in Cesca Echlin’s debut play, which was staged at the Edinburgh fringe in 2023.

Directed by Echlin, it comprises three vignettes about the erotic potential of solo fantasy and projection. The first part is about a university student and her arrogant tutor, whose indifference and harsh words enact a psychic violence. But rather than heading into Oleanna territory, the student tells us she likes it. That sadomasochistic dynamic continues into the next story, in which she confesses to a man on a dating app her desire to be demeaned. He stays virtual in her life but provides masturbatory pleasure for her nonetheless. The final tale is of a romantic attraction that again does not materialise into physical reality but takes up enormous space in her imagination.

At King’s Head theatre, London, until 26 January

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الأربعاء، 15 يناير 2025

الاثنين، 13 يناير 2025

Spain proposes 100% tax on homes bought by non-EU residents https://ift.tt/f6RUE2k Ashifa Kassam in Madrid Pedro Sánchez announces measure in response to anger over rising housing costs Spain has announced plans to impose a tax of up to 100% on real estate bought by non-residents from countries outside the EU, such as the UK, in an aim to tackle the country’s housing crisis. The measure was one of a dozen unveiled Monday by the country’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, as the government seeks to quell mounting anger over housing costs that have soared far beyond the reach of many in Spain. Continue reading... https://ift.tt/GWsEuNk January 13, 2025 at 11:39PM

يناير 13, 2025
Spain proposes 100% tax on homes bought by non-EU residents https://ift.tt/f6RUE2k Ashifa Kassam in Madrid 
Pedro Sánchez announces measure in response to anger over rising housing costs

Spain has announced plans to impose a tax of up to 100% on real estate bought by non-residents from countries outside the EU, such as the UK, in an aim to tackle the country’s housing crisis.

The measure was one of a dozen unveiled Monday by the country’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, as the government seeks to quell mounting anger over housing costs that have soared far beyond the reach of many in Spain.
 Continue reading... https://ift.tt/GWsEuNk January 13, 2025 at 11:39PM

Pedro Sánchez announces measure in response to anger over rising housing costs

Spain has announced plans to impose a tax of up to 100% on real estate bought by non-residents from countries outside the EU, such as the UK, in an aim to tackle the country’s housing crisis.

The measure was one of a dozen unveiled Monday by the country’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, as the government seeks to quell mounting anger over housing costs that have soared far beyond the reach of many in Spain.

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Where there’s fire, there’s smoke: Los Angeles blazes raise fears of ‘super toxic’ lung damage https://ift.tt/KkIb5si Marina Dunbar Concerns that dangerous fine particle pollution can become embedded in bloodstream and lungs Los Angeles wildfires – live updates Los Angeles wildfires: full report The Los Angeles wildfires have claimed the lives of at least 24 people and have burned more than 100,000 structures. While the focus is understandably on avoiding the flames, another immediate danger lurks across the county and beyond, one more difficult to escape: smoke. The most dangerous component of wildfire smoke is fine particle pollution, also known as PM2.5 or soot. These tiny particles, smaller than one 20th the width of a human hair, can, if inhaled, become embedded in the bloodstream and lungs. It is estimated that about one-third of all particulate matter pollution in the US now comes from wildfire smoke. Continue reading... https://ift.tt/08jd2aY January 14, 2025 at 12:16AM

يناير 13, 2025
Where there’s fire, there’s smoke: Los Angeles blazes raise fears of ‘super toxic’ lung damage https://ift.tt/KkIb5si Marina Dunbar 
Concerns that dangerous fine particle pollution can become embedded in bloodstream and lungs

Los Angeles wildfires – live updates

Los Angeles wildfires: full report

The Los Angeles wildfires have claimed the lives of at least 24 people and have burned more than 100,000 structures. While the focus is understandably on avoiding the flames, another immediate danger lurks across the county and beyond, one more difficult to escape: smoke.

The most dangerous component of wildfire smoke is fine particle pollution, also known as PM2.5 or soot. These tiny particles, smaller than one 20th the width of a human hair, can, if inhaled, become embedded in the bloodstream and lungs. It is estimated that about one-third of all particulate matter pollution in the US now comes from wildfire smoke.
 Continue reading... https://ift.tt/08jd2aY January 14, 2025 at 12:16AM

Concerns that dangerous fine particle pollution can become embedded in bloodstream and lungs

The Los Angeles wildfires have claimed the lives of at least 24 people and have burned more than 100,000 structures. While the focus is understandably on avoiding the flames, another immediate danger lurks across the county and beyond, one more difficult to escape: smoke.

The most dangerous component of wildfire smoke is fine particle pollution, also known as PM2.5 or soot. These tiny particles, smaller than one 20th the width of a human hair, can, if inhaled, become embedded in the bloodstream and lungs. It is estimated that about one-third of all particulate matter pollution in the US now comes from wildfire smoke.

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السبت، 11 يناير 2025

How Elon Musk has meddled in European affairs https://ift.tt/5LFMuW6 Jon Henley Europe correspondent From bashing Keir Starmer to promoting the AfD, the X owner is not shy about intervening A limited – at best – understanding of the continent of Europe and its component countries has not prevented the world’s richest man from intervening in the domestic politics of several of them, as well as attacking the EU itself. Here we take a brief look at some of the occasions on which X owner Elon Musk has used his position as proprietor of one of the world’s largest social media platforms to meddle in the internal affairs of sovereign democratic states outside the US. Continue reading... https://ift.tt/ESoeWF2 January 11, 2025 at 07:35PM

يناير 11, 2025
How Elon Musk has meddled in European affairs https://ift.tt/5LFMuW6 Jon Henley Europe correspondent 
From bashing Keir Starmer to promoting the AfD, the X owner is not shy about intervening

A limited – at best – understanding of the continent of Europe and its component countries has not prevented the world’s richest man from intervening in the domestic politics of several of them, as well as attacking the EU itself.

Here we take a brief look at some of the occasions on which X owner Elon Musk has used his position as proprietor of one of the world’s largest social media platforms to meddle in the internal affairs of sovereign democratic states outside the US.
 Continue reading... https://ift.tt/ESoeWF2 January 11, 2025 at 07:35PM

From bashing Keir Starmer to promoting the AfD, the X owner is not shy about intervening

A limited – at best – understanding of the continent of Europe and its component countries has not prevented the world’s richest man from intervening in the domestic politics of several of them, as well as attacking the EU itself.

Here we take a brief look at some of the occasions on which X owner Elon Musk has used his position as proprietor of one of the world’s largest social media platforms to meddle in the internal affairs of sovereign democratic states outside the US.

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الخميس، 9 يناير 2025

Titanique review – camp musical sails into silliness with Céline Dion onboard https://ift.tt/3L2W1yC Arifa Akbar Criterion theatre, London It goes on and on but this madcap spoof of the blockbuster film has a sparkling cast, including Lauren Drew as Dion and Layton Williams as the iceberg Imagine James Cameron’s 1997 disaster film romance Titanic as a camp musical spoof narrated by Céline Dion, who famously sang its signature number. Every character onboard this ill-fated liner is a closet-door short of coming out – including Jack and Rose. Then add enough smutty double entendres and rapid cultural references to bedazzle a pantomime dame, alongside a score of mainly Dion songs (My Heart Will Go On is set to electric guitar). You might come close to preparing yourself for this madcap musical fantasia which has fetched up from off-Broadway to reprise (ruin?) the love story between Rose (Kat Ronney) – who is engaged to rich Cal (Jordan Luke Gage), with Grindr on his phone – and the poor artist Jack (Rob Houchen). Continue reading... https://ift.tt/LibrMK1 January 10, 2025 at 01:30AM

يناير 09, 2025
Titanique review – camp musical sails into silliness with Céline Dion onboard https://ift.tt/3L2W1yC Arifa Akbar 
Criterion theatre, London
It goes on and on but this madcap spoof of the blockbuster film has a sparkling cast, including Lauren Drew as Dion and Layton Williams as the iceberg

Imagine James Cameron’s 1997 disaster film romance Titanic as a camp musical spoof narrated by Céline Dion, who famously sang its signature number. Every character onboard this ill-fated liner is a closet-door short of coming out – including Jack and Rose. Then add enough smutty double entendres and rapid cultural references to bedazzle a pantomime dame, alongside a score of mainly Dion songs (My Heart Will Go On is set to electric guitar).

You might come close to preparing yourself for this madcap musical fantasia which has fetched up from off-Broadway to reprise (ruin?) the love story between Rose (Kat Ronney) – who is engaged to rich Cal (Jordan Luke Gage), with Grindr on his phone – and the poor artist Jack (Rob Houchen).
 Continue reading... https://ift.tt/LibrMK1 January 10, 2025 at 01:30AM

Criterion theatre, London
It goes on and on but this madcap spoof of the blockbuster film has a sparkling cast, including Lauren Drew as Dion and Layton Williams as the iceberg

Imagine James Cameron’s 1997 disaster film romance Titanic as a camp musical spoof narrated by Céline Dion, who famously sang its signature number. Every character onboard this ill-fated liner is a closet-door short of coming out – including Jack and Rose. Then add enough smutty double entendres and rapid cultural references to bedazzle a pantomime dame, alongside a score of mainly Dion songs (My Heart Will Go On is set to electric guitar).

You might come close to preparing yourself for this madcap musical fantasia which has fetched up from off-Broadway to reprise (ruin?) the love story between Rose (Kat Ronney) – who is engaged to rich Cal (Jordan Luke Gage), with Grindr on his phone – and the poor artist Jack (Rob Houchen).

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Home Office says record number of refused asylum seekers deported since July https://ift.tt/ONoqzrc Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor Labour’s description of 16,400 ‘immigration offenders and foreign criminals’ angers campaigners Keir Starmer has boasted of deporting a record number of refused asylum seekers and overseas criminals since scrapping the Rwanda scheme, using language that has dismayed human rights campaigners. The Home Office said on Thursday it had returned more than 16,400 “immigration offenders and foreign criminals” since the election in July, the highest six-month total since 2018. Continue reading... https://ift.tt/6YQLwfD January 09, 2025 at 09:24PM

يناير 09, 2025
Home Office says record number of refused asylum seekers deported since July https://ift.tt/ONoqzrc Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor 
Labour’s description of 16,400 ‘immigration offenders and foreign criminals’ angers campaigners

Keir Starmer has boasted of deporting a record number of refused asylum seekers and overseas criminals since scrapping the Rwanda scheme, using language that has dismayed human rights campaigners.

The Home Office said on Thursday it had returned more than 16,400 “immigration offenders and foreign criminals” since the election in July, the highest six-month total since 2018.
 Continue reading... https://ift.tt/6YQLwfD January 09, 2025 at 09:24PM

Labour’s description of 16,400 ‘immigration offenders and foreign criminals’ angers campaigners

Keir Starmer has boasted of deporting a record number of refused asylum seekers and overseas criminals since scrapping the Rwanda scheme, using language that has dismayed human rights campaigners.

The Home Office said on Thursday it had returned more than 16,400 “immigration offenders and foreign criminals” since the election in July, the highest six-month total since 2018.

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الأحد، 5 يناير 2025

7/7: The London Bombings review – revisiting this nightmare is agony for these survivors https://ift.tt/BnsRzXH Phil Harrison This distressing documentary looks back at the terrorist attacks of 7 July 2005 through the eyes of victims and first responders. Two decades on, they remain visibly traumatised There was a lovely mood in London on the evening of 6 July 2005: like the heady fizz of a midsummer glass of champagne. The sun was out and the news was good. Earlier that day, the city had been announced as host of the 2012 Olympic Games. The streets and bars were buzzing. Martine Wright was among the people out celebrating. Accordingly, on the morning of 7 July, she was mildly hungover and making her way to work slightly later than usual. She jumped on to a Circle Line train and remembers being surprised and delighted to get a seat. And then everything changed for ever. She has very few memories of the minutes and hours that followed the initial blast although she was, apparently, conscious for most of it. She seems to have blanked it out. She can only speculate: “Maybe my brain just decided I couldn’t take any more?” Continue reading... https://ift.tt/PMVcnxZ January 06, 2025 at 12:00AM

يناير 05, 2025
7/7: The London Bombings review – revisiting this nightmare is agony for these survivors https://ift.tt/BnsRzXH Phil Harrison 
This distressing documentary looks back at the terrorist attacks of 7 July 2005 through the eyes of victims and first responders. Two decades on, they remain visibly traumatised

There was a lovely mood in London on the evening of 6 July 2005: like the heady fizz of a midsummer glass of champagne. The sun was out and the news was good. Earlier that day, the city had been announced as host of the 2012 Olympic Games. The streets and bars were buzzing. Martine Wright was among the people out celebrating. Accordingly, on the morning of 7 July, she was mildly hungover and making her way to work slightly later than usual.

She jumped on to a Circle Line train and remembers being surprised and delighted to get a seat. And then everything changed for ever. She has very few memories of the minutes and hours that followed the initial blast although she was, apparently, conscious for most of it. She seems to have blanked it out. She can only speculate: “Maybe my brain just decided I couldn’t take any more?”
 Continue reading... https://ift.tt/PMVcnxZ January 06, 2025 at 12:00AM

This distressing documentary looks back at the terrorist attacks of 7 July 2005 through the eyes of victims and first responders. Two decades on, they remain visibly traumatised

There was a lovely mood in London on the evening of 6 July 2005: like the heady fizz of a midsummer glass of champagne. The sun was out and the news was good. Earlier that day, the city had been announced as host of the 2012 Olympic Games. The streets and bars were buzzing. Martine Wright was among the people out celebrating. Accordingly, on the morning of 7 July, she was mildly hungover and making her way to work slightly later than usual.

She jumped on to a Circle Line train and remembers being surprised and delighted to get a seat. And then everything changed for ever. She has very few memories of the minutes and hours that followed the initial blast although she was, apparently, conscious for most of it. She seems to have blanked it out. She can only speculate: “Maybe my brain just decided I couldn’t take any more?”

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السبت، 4 يناير 2025

Australia v India: fifth men’s cricket Test, day three – live https://ift.tt/MX1NP2Y Geoff Lemon (now) and Rob Smyth (later) Updates from the New Year’s Test at the SCG Play starts in Sydney at 10.30am AEDT Any thoughts? Email our writers 35th over: India 148-7 (Washington 7, Siraj 1) Mohammed Siraj at No9 is not a comforting prospect for India. So presumably Bumrah will bat last, if he must, to make sure that warm-up is next to his bowling warm-up? The Indian camp said he had back spasms, which might be manageable. Siraj gets a run first ball though, to fine leg, and Washington has a big square drive to end the over but misses out. Siraj on strike in Boland’s second over. Not good for India. The lead is 152. Continue reading... https://ift.tt/rl7vnbH January 05, 2025 at 01:45AM

يناير 04, 2025
Australia v India: fifth men’s cricket Test, day three – live https://ift.tt/MX1NP2Y Geoff Lemon (now) and Rob Smyth (later) 

Updates from the New Year’s Test at the SCG

Play starts in Sydney at 10.30am AEDT

Any thoughts? Email our writers

35th over: India 148-7 (Washington 7, Siraj 1) Mohammed Siraj at No9 is not a comforting prospect for India. So presumably Bumrah will bat last, if he must, to make sure that warm-up is next to his bowling warm-up? The Indian camp said he had back spasms, which might be manageable. Siraj gets a run first ball though, to fine leg, and Washington has a big square drive to end the over but misses out. Siraj on strike in Boland’s second over. Not good for India.

The lead is 152.
 Continue reading... https://ift.tt/rl7vnbH January 05, 2025 at 01:45AM
  • Updates from the New Year’s Test at the SCG
  • Play starts in Sydney at 10.30am AEDT
  • Any thoughts? Email our writers

35th over: India 148-7 (Washington 7, Siraj 1) Mohammed Siraj at No9 is not a comforting prospect for India. So presumably Bumrah will bat last, if he must, to make sure that warm-up is next to his bowling warm-up? The Indian camp said he had back spasms, which might be manageable. Siraj gets a run first ball though, to fine leg, and Washington has a big square drive to end the over but misses out. Siraj on strike in Boland’s second over. Not good for India.

The lead is 152.

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Lionesses approach Euro 2025 defence with more questions than answers https://ift.tt/ovHBLfV Suzanne Wrack Wiegman’s England tread a very different road this year, with squad berths and even the side’s system up for debate How do you prepare to scale Everest three years after reaching the summit? You are a different person, your guide may have changed, your equipment may be different, and the route may be weathered, more hazardous and overcrowded. This time, luck may not be on your side. There is no single answer as to why Sarina Wiegman’s England triumphed at Wembley in 2022. No easily replicable blueprint for ­success. There were so many variables that could have changed the course of the Euros victory, but everything came together, a perfectly balanced melting pot. Now, all those variables have changed: ­personnel, opposition, preparation. Continue reading... https://ift.tt/mqh10c6 January 04, 2025 at 01:00PM

يناير 04, 2025
Lionesses approach Euro 2025 defence with more questions than answers https://ift.tt/ovHBLfV Suzanne Wrack 
Wiegman’s England tread a very different road this year, with squad berths and even the side’s system up for debate

How do you prepare to scale Everest three years after reaching the summit? You are a different person, your guide may have changed, your equipment may be different, and the route may be weathered, more hazardous and overcrowded. This time, luck may not be on your side.

There is no single answer as to why Sarina Wiegman’s England triumphed at Wembley in 2022. No easily replicable blueprint for ­success. There were so many variables that could have changed the course of the Euros victory, but everything came together, a perfectly balanced melting pot. Now, all those variables have changed: ­personnel, opposition, preparation.
 Continue reading... https://ift.tt/mqh10c6 January 04, 2025 at 01:00PM

Wiegman’s England tread a very different road this year, with squad berths and even the side’s system up for debate

How do you prepare to scale Everest three years after reaching the summit? You are a different person, your guide may have changed, your equipment may be different, and the route may be weathered, more hazardous and overcrowded. This time, luck may not be on your side.

There is no single answer as to why Sarina Wiegman’s England triumphed at Wembley in 2022. No easily replicable blueprint for ­success. There were so many variables that could have changed the course of the Euros victory, but everything came together, a perfectly balanced melting pot. Now, all those variables have changed: ­personnel, opposition, preparation.

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الخميس، 2 يناير 2025

Lockerbie: A Search for Truth review – Colin Firth’s disaster drama is worryingly close to a Casualty episode https://ift.tt/b7hiNxJ Lucy Mangan This dramatisation about a bereaved father’s heroic hunt for truth gets far too bogged down in detail – and fails to spark any emotion at all There have been several documentaries about the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, most of them very good: sober, un-sensationalist but deeply moving. It remains the deadliest terrorist attack in UK history. A bomb exploded on Pan Am flight 103 as it flew over the small Scottish town. All 243 passengers and 16 crew were killed. Eleven people were killed on the ground by the debris that suddenly fell out of the night sky. Lockerbie: A Search for Truth dramatises the story of one bereaved father’s efforts to uncover what actually happened – how the bomb got on board the flight, who put it there, which organisation was behind it, and why the UK government seemed to be obstructing his pursuit at every turn. Jim Swire (here played by Colin Firth) was a GP living with his wife, Jane, and their children in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, when the flight exploded with his about-to-be-24-year-old daughter Flora onboard. The drama is based on the book Swire co-wrote with Peter Biddulph, The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father’s Search for Justice, which is the distillation of the years of investigation and involvement he had with the case, including the eventual trial of two Libyan suspects and Swire’s work thereafter to convince the courts and the public that the one convicted man, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi (played by Ardalan Esmaili), was innocent of the crime. Continue reading... https://ift.tt/pStCu56 January 03, 2025 at 12:15AM

يناير 02, 2025
Lockerbie: A Search for Truth review – Colin Firth’s disaster drama is worryingly close to a Casualty episode https://ift.tt/b7hiNxJ Lucy Mangan 
This dramatisation about a bereaved father’s heroic hunt for truth gets far too bogged down in detail – and fails to spark any emotion at all

There have been several documentaries about the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, most of them very good: sober, un-sensationalist but deeply moving. It remains the deadliest terrorist attack in UK history. A bomb exploded on Pan Am flight 103 as it flew over the small Scottish town. All 243 passengers and 16 crew were killed. Eleven people were killed on the ground by the debris that suddenly fell out of the night sky.

Lockerbie: A Search for Truth dramatises the story of one bereaved father’s efforts to uncover what actually happened – how the bomb got on board the flight, who put it there, which organisation was behind it, and why the UK government seemed to be obstructing his pursuit at every turn. Jim Swire (here played by Colin Firth) was a GP living with his wife, Jane, and their children in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, when the flight exploded with his about-to-be-24-year-old daughter Flora onboard. The drama is based on the book Swire co-wrote with Peter Biddulph, The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father’s Search for Justice, which is the distillation of the years of investigation and involvement he had with the case, including the eventual trial of two Libyan suspects and Swire’s work thereafter to convince the courts and the public that the one convicted man, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi (played by Ardalan Esmaili), was innocent of the crime.
 Continue reading... https://ift.tt/pStCu56 January 03, 2025 at 12:15AM

This dramatisation about a bereaved father’s heroic hunt for truth gets far too bogged down in detail – and fails to spark any emotion at all

There have been several documentaries about the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, most of them very good: sober, un-sensationalist but deeply moving. It remains the deadliest terrorist attack in UK history. A bomb exploded on Pan Am flight 103 as it flew over the small Scottish town. All 243 passengers and 16 crew were killed. Eleven people were killed on the ground by the debris that suddenly fell out of the night sky.

Lockerbie: A Search for Truth dramatises the story of one bereaved father’s efforts to uncover what actually happened – how the bomb got on board the flight, who put it there, which organisation was behind it, and why the UK government seemed to be obstructing his pursuit at every turn. Jim Swire (here played by Colin Firth) was a GP living with his wife, Jane, and their children in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, when the flight exploded with his about-to-be-24-year-old daughter Flora onboard. The drama is based on the book Swire co-wrote with Peter Biddulph, The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father’s Search for Justice, which is the distillation of the years of investigation and involvement he had with the case, including the eventual trial of two Libyan suspects and Swire’s work thereafter to convince the courts and the public that the one convicted man, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi (played by Ardalan Esmaili), was innocent of the crime.

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الثلاثاء، 31 ديسمبر 2024

Sharp and curious, my 85-year-old neighbour wades into conversations with a joyful openness | Nova Weetman https://ift.tt/kAMwDRm Nova Weetman She isn’t young, and yet she remains outspoken, passionate, and alive to the world in ways that many aren’t My friendships have mostly been with people of a similar age, but that all changed when my 85-year-old neighbour left a CD in my letterbox after hearing my young son drumming wildly in our garage. She wrapped the CD in a note written in her finest hand, explaining that she thought he might enjoy the sounds of her friend’s band, The Necks. Others in our street had understandably complained about the endless noise because the sound reverberated through their walls, creeping into their quiet spaces, and ruining their days. Continue reading... https://ift.tt/QLg2mcj January 01, 2025 at 01:00AM

ديسمبر 31, 2024
Sharp and curious, my 85-year-old neighbour wades into conversations with a joyful openness | Nova Weetman https://ift.tt/kAMwDRm Nova Weetman 
She isn’t young, and yet she remains outspoken, passionate, and alive to the world in ways that many aren’t

My friendships have mostly been with people of a similar age, but that all changed when my 85-year-old neighbour left a CD in my letterbox after hearing my young son drumming wildly in our garage. She wrapped the CD in a note written in her finest hand, explaining that she thought he might enjoy the sounds of her friend’s band, The Necks.

Others in our street had understandably complained about the endless noise because the sound reverberated through their walls, creeping into their quiet spaces, and ruining their days.
 Continue reading... https://ift.tt/QLg2mcj January 01, 2025 at 01:00AM

She isn’t young, and yet she remains outspoken, passionate, and alive to the world in ways that many aren’t

My friendships have mostly been with people of a similar age, but that all changed when my 85-year-old neighbour left a CD in my letterbox after hearing my young son drumming wildly in our garage. She wrapped the CD in a note written in her finest hand, explaining that she thought he might enjoy the sounds of her friend’s band, The Necks.

Others in our street had understandably complained about the endless noise because the sound reverberated through their walls, creeping into their quiet spaces, and ruining their days.

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