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Le Monde - World News

2026-07-16 03:38:42 (1 week ago)

French firefighter taken into custody over suspicions of starting Fontainebleau fire

In all, six people have been arrested as part of the investigation into the wildfires at the historic forest near Paris.

Times of India

2026-07-16 03:34:00 (1 week ago)

Emperor penguins survive Antarctica's brutal winters by huddling together, but a maths study reveals the hidden system behind their remarkable teamwork

Emperor penguins in Antarctica form huddles to survive extreme cold temperatures. Each penguin moves to reduce its own heat loss, which benefits the entire group. This movement ensures every bird eventually experiences the warmer center of the huddle. The study modeled this behaviour, showing it explains even warmth distribution. Researchers found this natural movement is key to their survival strategy.

ABC News - International News

2026-07-16 03:33:39 (1 week ago)

South Korea's central bank hikes rate for 1st time since 2023 to curb inflation, debt

South Korea’s central bank on Thursday raised its key interest rate for the first time in more than three years, aiming to tighten money supply to combat inflation, worsened by the war in the Middle East, and slow the growth of the country’s high house...

Times of Israel - World News

2026-07-16 03:24:41 (1 week ago)

Welfare activists petition High Court in bid to end live animal shipments

Noting conditions at sea fail to meet minimum legal standards for animal welfare on land, petitioners call for changes in taxation to encourage imports of chilled meat

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The Guardian - World News

2026-07-16 03:22:41 (1 week ago)

More than 500 feared dead after reports of two shipwrecks off Myanmar, UN says

Vessels believed to have departed from Myanmar in late June, with mostly Muslim Rohingya minority onboard

The United Nations has said more than 500 people are feared dead after reports of two large shipwrecks off Myanmar since late June.

The UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) and its refugee agency UNHCR voiced alarm in a joint statement at reports “that two boats carrying more than 500 people may have capsized off the coast of Myanmar in recent days”.

Times of Israel - World News

2026-07-16 03:21:13 (1 week ago)

Opposition bloc led by Eisenkot would win narrow 61-seat majority – poll

Channel 13 survey has Likud with most Knesset seats at 22, Yashar with 21, Bennett with 15; coalition said looking to thwart arrival of anti-Netanyahu voters ahead of election

The post Opposition bloc led by Eisenkot would win narrow 61-seat majority – poll appeared first on The Times of Israel.

Fox News - Video

2026-07-16 03:09:23 (1 week ago)

Hannity - Wednesday, July 15

FNC, Hannity, Sean Hannity, socialism, Iran, peace talks, Trump, Israel, war, blockades, Jack Smith, illegal spying, Canadian assault, Biden memoir

Times of India

2026-07-16 03:03:59 (1 week ago)

Scientists have finally explained why killer whales struggle to hear blue whales, and the answer may have helped the giants survive for millions of years

Some baleen whales use low-frequency songs to avoid killer whales. This acoustic crypsis helps flight species escape predators in open oceans. Blue whales, known for loud calls, sing at frequencies predators cannot hear. Natural selection favored these low-frequency calls over millions of years. This discovery reveals how predation shaped whale communication systems.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-16 03:01:16 (1 week ago)

The Hawk review – Will Ferrell’s dated golf comedy just isn’t that funny

Ferrell’s brash ladies man and loser golfer could have been hilarious. But comedy has sped up over the last two decades, and all the genital gags and dodgy references fall flat

In the 2000s, American comedy had a rude awakening. While the preceding decade had been all attractive sophisticates bantering in big cities, the new millennium arrived in a miasma of crude, cartoonish buffoonery: Austin Powers, American Pie, Dude, Where’s My Car? These were, sadly, the sacred texts of a millennial adolescence.

In comparison, the work of the Frat Pack – a group of comic actors that included Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Seth Rogen and Luke and Owen Wilson, plus writer-director Judd Apatow – seemed almost highbrow. By the middle of the decade, this cohort had funnelled ribald irreverence into much better films, including Zoolander, Dodgeball and Anchorman. Eventually, though, the worm turned; as chin-stroking dramedy and nerdy Marvel wisecracking took hold of the zeitgeist, this PC-needling silliness fell out of fashion.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-16 03:00:17 (1 week ago)

Fleabag at 10: did Phoebe Waller-Bridge usher in a wave of female-fronted series – or straitjacket them?

The confessional classic opened the floodgates for a generation of brilliant female showrunners. But as risk-averse streamers tighten their purse strings, is the industry forcing women’s stories back into a box?

Ten years ago, Phoebe Waller-Bridge locked eyes with the camera and asked her audience: “Do I have a massive arsehole?” An unexpected punchline to a monologue about a booty call that went surprisingly – and literally – south, it announced Waller-Bridge as a new star of British telly. The half-hour comedy series Fleabag broke the fourth wall, and the internet. Its second season was even bigger, spawning countless thinkpieces discussing Andrew Scott as the “hot priest” and the sold-out Topshop jumpsuit worn by Waller-Bridge, which had a keyhole cutout revealing an aspirational slice of boob.

Both Fleabag and Waller-Bridge were praised for blazing a path that female showrunners and their feminist creations could later stomp down. It secured Waller-Bridge an exclusive deal with Amazon worth a reported $20m (£16m) a year. The show’s success certainly changed Waller-Bridge’s life. But, a decade on, as the British television industry has been reshaped by the rise of streamers, budget cuts and dwindling opportunities for new talent, how did it change TV?

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-16 03:00:17 (1 week ago)

‘I felt Holden was talking to me alone’: The Catcher in the Rye at 75

JD Salinger’s wry, subversive classic inspired novelist Joseph O’Connor to be a writer. He reflects on why this story of a disaffected teenager remains as fresh and transgressive as ever

In 1981, when I was 17, my first girlfriend gave me a paperback of her dad’s favourite novel. I’d never heard of it despite living in a home full of books. My parents loved the work of Edna O’Brien, Muriel Spark, John le Carré, Dickens. So did I. But encountering the first sentence of JD Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye made the world burst into colour.

“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-16 03:00:16 (1 week ago)

You be the judge: should my girlfriend stop buying so many flowers?

Damien says plants last longer, but Tolu doesn’t think things have to survive for years to be worthwhile. Who should turn over a new leaf?

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Flowers are a fleeting gesture. Why not buy plants that last years instead?