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Times of Israel - World News

2026-07-21 08:06:29 (1 week ago)

Chickenpox surges in Gaza camps amid overcrowding and poor sanitation

With families packed in tents, there is no space to isolate infected people as officials record 9,300 suspected cases this month; UNICEF warns other ailments spreading too

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The Guardian - World News

2026-07-21 08:04:08 (1 week ago)

Entangled and Woven review – exquisitely spun textiles that cross borders, culture and time

The Whitworth, Manchester
Manchester’s past as a centre of textile production forms the starting point of this seamless showcase of skills

How many hands did it take to make this show? That is to say, how many artisans, craftspeople, weavers and artists’ hands did these pieces pass through? For this is a textile exhibition that doesn’t just celebrate a short list of singular artists, but rather the many highly skilled craftspeople and communities repeating the stitches and specialities of their ancestors. Take Entangled Memories, Interwoven Stories by Péro for example: it was made by 50 artisans and took 18,000 hours to complete. And that’s one piece, in an exhibition that spans three galleries.

These many hands and hours make Entangled and Woven an exquisitely beautiful exhibition. Every slip of fabric is layered with delicate detail and texture. Fabrics are airy and ethereal one moment, and weighty and dipped in deep indigo the next. It is hot, the fabrics sway and flicker in the fans, and hands flicker quickly in the video works capturing the creation of the pieces. I am mesmerised.

Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-07-21 08:03:39 (1 week ago)

How a 64-team World Cup could transform football’s economics

Spain, Portugal and Morocco are the cohosts of the 2030 edition, but we await confirmation of 48 or 64 competitors.

Times of India

2026-07-21 08:01:49 (1 week ago)

53 dolphins stranded in just two days in Massachusetts due to receding tides, now rescuers have safely returned 19 to the sea

Times of India

2026-07-21 08:01:31 (1 week ago)

Why only a handful of cockroach species out of nearly 4,600 chose to live with humans

France 24 - World News

2026-07-21 08:01:08 (1 week ago)

UN says 144 migrants and refugees reported dead or missing off the coast of Mauritania

The UN refugee agency said Tuesday that 144 people were reported dead or missing following "tragic maritime incidents" off the coast of Mauritania last week. Two children who were brought safely ashore from one of the sinking boats had lost all of their families during the journey from Gambia.

New York Times - World News

2026-07-21 08:01:06 (1 week ago)

Burnham, UK’s New Prime Minister, Starts With Electricity Tax Cut

Prime Minister Andy Burnham moved quickly to confront the high cost of living. And President Trump wished him well after a phone call between the two leaders.

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-21 08:00:46 (1 week ago)

101 uses for an empty vanilla pod | Kitchen aide

Those expensive pods will bring their heavenly aroma to syrups, compotes, baked goods, desserts – and even your underwear drawer

Can you do anything with vanilla pods once you’ve scraped out the seeds? They’re so expensive.
Jo, by email
“I put them in my knicker drawer,” says Sarah Lemanski, owner of Nova Bakehouse in Leeds. “They scent it nicely, that’s for sure.” But, culinarily speaking, and beyond custards and the like, Lemanski often uses them in vanilla syrup: “Chop the pod quite small, then dry-toast it with some of the sugar for the syrup – I use a 2:1 sugar-to-water ratio – to give it body.” The Guardian’s own Benjamina Ebuehi is very much in agreement, and keeps a stash of said vanilla syrup in the fridge to fuel her matcha habit: “I can’t be paying £6 for one every day.” (It would work well in iced coffee, too.)

“Even when you’ve scraped out as much as you can from a pod, there are always some seeds left inside,” Ebuehi says, so there’s still so much flavour to be had in there. Perhaps the easiest way to keep the love alive is by sticking a spent pod in a fruit compote: “Once that’s cooled, get it in the fridge, but leave the pod in there, so it continues to seep out that flavour.” You could apply a similar tactic to jam.

Got a culinary dilemma? Email feast@theguardian.com

The Guardian - World News

2026-07-21 08:00:45 (1 week ago)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should run for president | Bhaskar Sunkara

The congresswoman can run a serious national campaign on the left and pull a movement in behind it. She should get in early

In the summer of 2018, almost no one thought Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could beat Joe Crowley. Crowley was a 10-term incumbent, the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House, a man some thought would one day be speaker. A 28-year-old former bartender and democratic socialist was the longest of long shots to succeed him. But ever since she did, the political establishment has been trying to decide whether to take her seriously.

For a while it decided not to. The Missouri representative Emanuel Cleaver said the Democratic caucus did not need her “sniping”, while the then senator Claire McCaskill dismissed her as a “bright and shiny new object”. Ocasio-Cortez seemed to enjoy the response. Asked on 60 Minutes whether she wanted people to underestimate her, she said: “Absolutely. That’s how I won my primary.”

Fox News - Top Stories

2026-07-21 08:00:19 (1 week ago)

Shania Twain says she's finally 'getting it right' in her 60s after starting life ‘on the tough side’

Shania Twain opened up about how childhood poverty, stage fright and a Lyme disease battle shaped her journey to finding peace in her 60s.

Fox News - Top Stories

2026-07-21 08:00:08 (1 week ago)

Startling mystery revealed in centuries-old royal tombs at powerful queen's monastery

Several royal tombs at Pedralbes Monastery contained the wrong people, with 25 remains found in eight tombs and DNA testing planned through 2027.

Fox News - Video

2026-07-21 07:54:47 (1 week ago)

Trump RESPONDS to Mamdani's push to arrest Netanyahu

President Donald Trump stated Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not face arrest in the U.S. following statements from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani regarding an International Criminal Court warrant.