Disasters, dancers and a Duke: Photos of the week
A selection of striking images from around the world, taken over the past seven days.
From WhatsApp to Greggs – why is tech going down more?
Experts say tech outages do seem to be happening more often.
Watch: Rio’s Christ the Redeemer statue lit up green
Watch: Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio turns green for indigenous day
Nigerian breaks chess marathon record
The 29-year-old chess master plays for 58 consecutive hours and counting on New York's Times Square.
US Congress close to passing long-awaited Ukraine aid
A huge $61bn support package that could help reshape Kyiv's war effort will go to a vote in coming days.
VW workers vote to unionise in major win for labour
The United Autoworkers Union took a risk in a Republican - and often anti-union - part of the US.
Baby Reindeer star on ‘role of a lifetime’ in disturbing stalker drama
Actress Jessica Gunning plays an obsessive and delusional stalker in Netflix's word-of-mouth hit.
An audible sigh of relief in the Middle East
The latest round in the longstanding, dangerous rivalry between Israel and Iran seems over for now, Lyse Doucet writes.
How Taylor Swift captured modern dating despair
From partners who wasted our time, to comfort-eating after a breakup. We've all been there and so has Swift.
After hunt for impartiality, who are the 12 Trump jurors?
The five women and seven men make up a highly educated group who will deliberate on the case.
Second person charged with rioting outside Sydney church after bishop stabbing
Man charged over alleged involvement in incidents outside Assyrian Christ the Good Shepherd church in Wakeley
A second person has been charged with rioting outside a Sydney church after the stabbing of bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel on Monday.
A man from Fairfield Heights in western Sydney was charged on Friday with riot and “threaten violence, cause fear” after he was allegedly involved in wild scenes outside the Assyrian Christ the Good Shepherd church on Monday night.
Continue reading...Second person charged with rioting outside Sydney church after bishop stabbing
Man charged over alleged involvement in incidents outside Assyrian Christ the Good Shepherd church in Wakeley
A second person has been charged with rioting outside a Sydney church after the stabbing of bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel on Monday.
A man from Fairfield Heights in western Sydney was charged on Friday with riot and “threaten violence, cause fear” after he was allegedly involved in wild scenes outside the Assyrian Christ the Good Shepherd church on Monday night.
Continue reading...Second person charged with rioting outside Sydney church after bishop stabbing
Man charged over alleged involvement in incidents outside Assyrian Christ the Good Shepherd church in Wakeley
A second person has been charged with rioting outside a Sydney church after the stabbing of bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel on Monday.
A man from Fairfield Heights in western Sydney was charged on Friday with riot and “threaten violence, cause fear” after he was allegedly involved in wild scenes outside the Assyrian Christ the Good Shepherd church on Monday night.
Continue reading...Second person charged with rioting outside Sydney church after bishop stabbing
Man charged over alleged involvement in incidents outside Assyrian Christ the Good Shepherd church in Wakeley
A second person has been charged with rioting outside a Sydney church after the stabbing of bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel on Monday.
A man from Fairfield Heights in western Sydney was charged on Friday with riot and “threaten violence, cause fear” after he was allegedly involved in wild scenes outside the Assyrian Christ the Good Shepherd church on Monday night.
Continue reading...California officers charged in killing of man held face-down for five minutes
Three police officers charged with involuntary manslaughter in death of Mario Gonzalez, whom they held down on the ground
Three California police officers have been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the 2021 killing of a man they restrained in a prone position for five minutes until he lost consciousness.
Pamela Price, Alameda county district attorney, announced the charges on Thursday, three years after the asphyxia death of Mario Gonzalez, 26. The officers, Eric McKinley, James Fisher and Cameron Leahy, face up to four years in prison.
Continue reading...What we know about Israel’s missile attack on Iran
There are competing claims about the scale of Friday's attack on the Isfahan region.
Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher
Nick Bostrom’s Future of Humanity Institute closed this week in what Swedish-born philosopher says was ‘death by bureaucracy’
Oxford University this week shut down an academic institute run by one of Elon Musk’s favorite philosophers. The Future of Humanity Institute, dedicated to the long-termism movement and other Silicon Valley-endorsed ideas such as effective altruism, closed this week after 19 years of operation. Musk had donated £1m to the FIH in 2015 through a sister organization to research the threat of artificial intelligence. He had also boosted the ideas of its leader for nearly a decade on X, formerly Twitter.
The center was run by Nick Bostrom, a Swedish-born philosopher whose writings about the long-term threat of AI replacing humanity turned him into a celebrity figure among the tech elite and routinely landed him on lists of top global thinkers. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Tesla chief Musk all wrote blurbs for his 2014 bestselling book Superintelligence.
Continue reading...Chris Pratt draws ire for razing historic 1950 LA home for sprawling mansion
Actor and wife Katherine Schwarzenegger dismantle 1950 Zimmerman house designed by architect Craig Ellwood
Chris Pratt has drawn ire from architecture aficionados after news broke that the actor and his wife, Katherine Schwarzenegger, had razed a historic, mid-century modern home to make way for a sprawling 15,000-sq-ft mansion.
Last year, the couple purchased the 1950 Zimmerman house, designed by the architect Craig Ellwood, in Los Angeles’s Brentwood neighborhood for $12.5m. The residence, with landscaping by Garrett Eckbo – who has been described as the pioneer of modern landscaping – had previously been featured in Progressive Architecture magazine.
Continue reading...Protester sets himself on fire outside Trump trial
Police said the man, who was in a critical condition after the incident, had pamphlets on a "conspiracy theory".
Billionaire Republican donor’s firm brands Trump’s social media CEO ‘loser’
Ken Griffin’s Citadel Securities claimed Devin Nunes would be ‘fired on The Apprentice’ amid stock trading row
The CEO of Donald Trump’s social media empire was branded a “proverbial loser” whom the former president “would have fired on The Apprentice” by a trading firm owned by the billionaire Republican donor Ken Griffin on Friday.
In an extraordinary statement, Citadel Securities accused Devin Nunes, chief executive of Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), of trying to deflect blame for the company’s recent stock market woes. TMTG hit back claiming Citadel was “world famous for screwing over” small investors.
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