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Olivia Rodrigo performs as part of the inaugural Daisy Chain Fields, a sold-out, one-day festival in California.

Olivia Rodrigo reinvents the feminist music festival

At the first Daisy Chain Fields festival, the 23-year-old pop star presented a cross-generational vision of female empowerment.

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Dark Matter season 2 has dropped on Apple TV.

Could the Dark Matter multiverse actually exist?

The mind-bending Apple TV series pushes quantum physics into new world.

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An army soldier stands by in a hazmat suit as unidentified bodies recovered from the flash floods are buried at a mass burial site in Nepal.

Why Nepal’s floods took a well-prepared China by surprise

After a glacial flood last year, Chinese officials strengthened defences at a border crossing with Nepal. But last week’s ‘cascade of hazards’ overwhelmed them.

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Designer John Galliano has bowed out of an upcoming Met Museum Show amid mounting criticism over past anti-Semitic remarks.

Galliano quits Met show amid outrage on anti-Semitic remarks

Donors, politicians and Jewish leaders questioned the Met’s decision to honor Galliano, a fashion designer who was found guilty of a hate crime for his anti-Semitic outbursts.

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A resident surveys houses destroyed by the flash flood next to the river in Devighat, Nepal.

What we know about the cause of Himalayan disaster

THE NEW YORK TIMES: More than 3000 people remain missing after floodwaters and mud crashed through Himalayan river valleys in Nepal and Tibet.

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President Donald Trump and the Democratic Socialists of America rarely find areas of agreement, but Dolly Parton is one of them.

Iconic Dolly a rare figure who united all sides of spectrum

President Donald Trump and the Democratic Socialists of America rarely find areas of agreement, but Dolly Parton is one of them.

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Dolly Parton’s biggest hits were 9 to 5 and Steel Magnolias.

Dolly Parton’s best big-screen performances

THE NEW YORK TIMES: In movies like 9 to 5 and Steel Magnolias, Dolly Parton shined as a version of herself.

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Children are carried to a rescue helicopter by military personnel in the disaster-stricken Rasuwa district near Nepal’s border with Tibet.

‘I cannot explain how big the waves were’: Nepal survivor

Rajan Khatri, 41, a police officer, was working at his station in a mountain village in northern Nepal when a friend rang Wednesday morning to warn that a flash flood was thundering downriver in his direction.

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Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb general whose actions during the Balkan wars of the 1990s led to him being called the ‘Butcher of Bosnia’, has died in custody in The Hague. 

Murderous war crimes of Ratko Mladic who died in custody

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb general whose actions during the Balkan wars of the 1990s led to him being called the ‘Butcher of Bosnia’, has died in custody in The Hague. 

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Prince Harry and Prince William

Prince William is still silent about Harry. Can that last?

Years of long-distance division between Prince William and his younger brother will be tested now that Harry has returned to Britain.

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Houses lie partially submerged in muddy water along a riverside after flash floods at Trishuli Bazar in Nepal's Nuwakot district.

Huge landslide in Nepal engulfs crowds and sparks quake

The devastating torrent was unleashed after a 600m-wide chunk of Himalayan ice snapped off. 

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta agreed to overhaul its social media platforms in a landmark agreement.

Meta agrees to pay $23.8b in penalties & overhaul platforms

In a dramatic capitulation, the owner of Facebook and Instagram agreed to the financial penalties for violating child privacy and consumer protection laws

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While the President remains the most dominant figure in the world, other leaders and institutions are pushing back more vigorously.

Why the world is no longer buckling to Trump

THE NEW YORK TIMES: For months, threats and ultimatums delivered results. Now world leaders are testing what happens when they simply say no.

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 A body lies on the ground as people react following overnight violence in Kenscoff, a neighbourhood near Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Dozens killed in once-safe suburb of Haiti’s capital

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Dozens of people were killed in a massacre in a long-safe Haitian town, raising fears gangs could encroach on a nearby suburb of the capital that is considered a last bastion of peace.

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Akira Jackson and Noah Toth in It Ends.

Road trip from hell that became an unlikely indie success

THE NEW YORK TIMES: If financed through a viral YouTube sketch and a virtual-reality poker game, this unlikely horror proves limitations can be a filmmaker’s greatest asset.

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Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze: The original bromance.

Why the gloriously ridiculous Point Break still holds up

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The plot barely holds water, the dialogue is bonkers and the undercover work is appalling. Somehow it all works.

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OpenAI recently discovered that a new artificial intelligence model it was testing had gone rogue and hacked another company.

How do you safely test ‘superhuman’ AI models? No one knows

A tech startup worked with three giants of artificial intelligence — OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta —to test the safety and security of their AI models. Then the tests went off the rails.

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Analysts say humanoid robots are still mostly used for demonstrations, performances and research. (EPA PHOTO)

Should the robot that beat Bolt’s 100m record impress us?

On Saturday, a humanoid robot developed by Chinese company X-Humanoid beat Usain Bolt’s 2009 record by 0.19 seconds.

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