It has been 110 years since Endurance, often described as the strongest wooden ship ever built, sank after becoming trapped in sea ice near Antarctica. But a reassessment of the evidence reveals that Endurance was actually far weaker than other polar ships of the time , and also suggests that expedition leader Ernest Shackleton was aware of its shortcomings. Shackleton had planned to trek across…
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US President Donald Trump has sent troops from California to Oregon after a court denied his attempt to deploy the National Guard in Portland. The deployment circumvents a judge’s order blocking the deployment by instead using National Guard soldiers already serving in Los Angeles. California Governor Gavin Newsom vowed to file a lawsuit over the move, which he called a “breathtaking abuse of…
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Gary Neville has revealed he removed a union flag from one of his Manchester development sites because it was being “used in a negative fashion”, as he urged his followers to question what it means to be patriotic. In a video posted on Friday, the day after a deadly attack at a Manchester synagogue, the former footballer turned property developer said he believed that “we’re all being turned on…
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Researchers at UNSW have developed a novel fire-resistant spray that could slow the rate at which cotton materials catch fire—and reduce the risk of burning. Designed with everyday materials in mind, like shirts or bedding that most people have at home, this new formula could offer vital protection to those living in bushfire-prone areas or in emergency situations. The water-based spray coats…
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A model of the Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost lander during the company’s initial public offering at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, on Aug. 7, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Firefly Aerospace shares sank nearly 21% after its rocket exploded during a ground test on Monday. The explosion occurred during a first-stage test of the satellite-launching Alpha Flight 7…
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It’s not just you. The internet is getting worse, fast. The services we rely on, that we once loved? They’re all turning into piles of *****, all at once. Ask any Facebook user who has to scroll past 10 screens of engagement-bait, AI slop and surveillance ads just to get to one post by the people they are on the service to communicate with. This is infuriating. Frustrating. And…
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Rob CameronPrague Correspondent Billionaire businessman Andrej Babis has won parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic, although his populist ANO party fell short of an overall majority. ANO received just under 35% of the vote, earning them 80 seats in the 200-seat lower house , up from 72 seats four years ago, according to preliminary results. Babis , who served as prime…
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Police have said that former NFL quarterback and Fox Sports television star Mark Sanchez has been arrested at the hospital he was taken to after being stabbed late Friday night in downtown Indianapolis. The Indianapolis metropolitan police department said in a statement that after investigation and consultation with prosecutors, Sanchez, now a television commentator, was arrested “for battery…
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European missile group MBDA selling parts for bombs that have killed children in Gaza Disclose, The Guardian, Follow the Money The Forever Lobbying Project Le Monde and various media outlets Les forçats du cybercrime (Cyberslaves) Paris Match Wide-angle frame of death (part 1 and part 2) Novosti Dirty Payments Mediapart, European Investigative Collaborations (EIC) and 20 media outlets…
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If you have ever cooked on a gas stove or seen a flame flicker to life with the turn of a knob, you have seen natural gas in action. Supplying that energy at scale, however, is far more complicated. Today, natural gas is mostly stored under high pressure or cooled into liquid at -162°C—both methods that are energy-intensive and costly. An alternative approach, called solidified natural gas…
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Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, shared the below communication with Microsoft employees this morning. We are in the midst of a tectonic AI platform shift, one that requires us to both manage and grow our at-scale commercial business today, while building the new frontier and executing flawlessly across both. History shows that general purpose technologies like AI drive step changes in…
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Strauss/curtis | The Image Bank | Getty Images Early in the fourth quarter is an ideal time to tackle some financial planning tasks that set you up for success for the rest of the year — and into 2026. “It’s absolutely a great time to do that,” said Dan Moisand, a certified financial planner and director at Moisand Fitzgerald Tamayo in Orlando, Florida. The firm is ranked No.
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From $62,000 hotel suites to race packages with six-figure price tags, the Singapore Grand Prix is a windfall for businesses near the Marina Bay track. But the money isn’t staying in Singapore. Data shows travelers are also spending across Asia before and after the three-day Formula One race, which begins Friday. Flight bookings analyzed by marketing platform Sojern indicate that…
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Morocco is currently building what will be the globe’s largest football stadium in preparation for co-hosting the 2030 World Cup. But for the demonstrators who have taken to the streets each night across the country since last Saturday, this 115,000-capacity showpiece and all the other football infrastructure in development, costing a reported $5bn (£3.7bn), are an affront – an example of a…
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Our next First Play video takes a look at Lost Rift, a new first-person survival adventure game. Lost Rift was recently released on Steam Early Access, so I decided to put it through its paces and see how its opening section plays out. The game is split into two main areas, the most notable of which is the player’s own island. You can either play Lost Rift alone or in co-op, with up to five…
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Phosphorus is one of six key elements necessary for life on Earth. When combined with hydrogen, phosphorus forms the molecule phosphine (PH3), an explosive, highly toxic gas. Found in the atmospheres of the gas giant planets Jupiter and Saturn, phosphine has long been recognized as a possible biosignature for anaerobic life, as there are few natural sources of this gas in the atmospheres of…
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Goldman Sachs refreshed its “Director’s Cut” list of buy-rated companies for October, adding four new names to its collection of recommended stocks. The investment firm added Abbott Laboratories , Air Products , Hershey and Madison Square Garden Entertainment to its U.S. Conviction List, according to an analyst note on Wednesday. Goldman analysts removed Pinterest , Uber Technologies and OneStream…
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A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. The top 10% of Americans added $5 trillion to their wealth in the second quarter as the stock market rally continued to benefit the biggest investors, according to new data from the…
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The first day Gisèle Pelicot walked up the steps of the courthouse in Avignon in September 2024, she was an anonymous retired grandmother. Within weeks, this diminutive 72-year-old – the victim at the centre of the largest ***** trial in French history, involving 51 men including her husband – had become a feminist icon. She was last seen in public when the verdicts – all guilty – were handed…
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Accidental Discovery That Forged the Iron Age Revealed at Ancient Workshop A reanalysis of a 3,000-year-old metallurgical workshop in Georgia has revealed how ancient copper smelters may have accidentally discovered the secret to iron production, fundamentally changing our understanding of one of humanity’s most transformative technological leaps. The discovery at Kvemo Bolnisi…
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A Toronto man is thanking the efforts of a Good Samaritan who came to his aid following a heart attack, while he says many others ignored his pleas to call emergency services. The actions of the man who saved his life have recently spread like wildfire across social media platforms, serving as a reminder that small acts of kindness take very little effort, and they can be matters of life or…
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A model of the Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost lander during the company’s initial public offering at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, on Aug. 7, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Firefly Aerospace shares sank nearly 21% after its rocket exploded during a ground test on Monday. The explosion occurred during a first-stage test of the satellite-launching Alpha Flight 7…
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