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Viral 'Donald Trump' Buffalo Spared From Eid Sacrifice, Moved To Bangladesh Zoo
Zoo officials reportedly said the move was intended to protect the animal amid the viral attention and to give visitors a chance to see it safely.
How A Google Techie Made Rs 11.5 Crore Betting On D4vd, Accused Murderer Who Topped 2025 Searches
A Google employee has been arrested for $1.2 million (Rs 11.5 crore) fraud after he bet on Polymarket using internal search data.
US To Set Up Ebola Quarantine Facility In Kenya For Americans
Donald Trump's administration is planning to send Americans who are exposed to Ebola while abroad to a new facility in Kenya instead of flying them to the United States, an administration official said Wednesday.
US-Iran War Highlights: US Army Carries Out New Strikes In Iran Against Military Site
Iran War: The US military on Monday carried out strikes on Iranian missile launch sites and boats laying mines.
US Carries Out New Strikes In Iran Against Military Site, Intercepts Drones
US-Iran War Latest News: US Carries Out New Strikes In Iran, Intercepts Iranian Drones, Strait Of Hormuz
Australia politics live: Taylor accuses Labor of misleading public over ‘toxic taxes’ as four MPs kicked out during rowdy question time
Follow updates liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastScams come in all shapes and sizes (and none of them are nice), and the government is considering creating rules that would force banks, telcos and digital platforms to automatically reimburse victims of smaller scams of up to $3,000.Labor is considering a range of options as part of a scam protection framework.For smaller losses, $3,000 and under, what we’re proposing is that there should be automatic payment to consumers where they can verify that there has been a scam.Scams that get into the six figures: some investment scams, some romance scams. And that’s where dispute resolution processes would come into play.What we want to do is to make sure that we don’t have the wrong incentives for perpetrators to see Australia as a soft target. But the balance is that with very small claims we don’t want to have processes that are completely disproportionate to the value of the sum in dispute.Taxpayer funds should never be used for private business, nor were they in this case.When we’re undertaking whether it be community engagement, media engagement, stakeholder meetings, you know, assisting colleagues, there are arrangements in place to assist us to do that work that is right and appropriate, and it is not right and appropriate to bill the taxpayer, as you say, for personal activities. And I did not do that.Yep. Continue reading...
Loss of manual jobs could be driving toxic masculinity, says Sting
Musician says ‘we’ve lost that direction for our energy’ as his play The Last Ship returns to West EndThe fact many men no longer use their hands and physicality on a daily basis may be driving some of the toxic traits in modern masculinity, according to Sting.The singer, who on Wednesday announced that his musical about the last days of a shipyard was coming to the West End this autumn, told the Guardian that one of the byproducts of deindustrialisation was the loss of physical productivity for men.The Last Ship will be at Theatre Royal Drury Lane from 22 Sep to 3 Oct. Tickets go on sale from midday on 28 May. Continue reading...
Rechalking beloved Cerne Giant is a sticky process – and climate crisis is making it worse
Volunteers head to Dorset countryside to restore the figure, but increasing heat means techniques have had to be adaptedFor centuries, the custodians of the Cerne Giant have clambered up the dizzyingly steep hill every decade or so to rechalk the outline, making sure the hulking figure can be seen far and wide across the rolling Dorset countryside.But the painstaking job, which involves hacking out the grubby old chalk by hand and packing in fresh, felt all the more urgent this week because effects put down to the climate emergency are making the giant a little duller and perhaps a touch more fragile. Continue reading...
‘This isn’t freedom’: anger, anxiety and tears as Iran’s internet flickers back
After 88 days of near-total blackout, first reactions to the return of partial connectivity were not celebratoryAfter 88 days of near-total internet blackout in Iran, long-delayed messages, images and poems flooded phones and social media feeds at about 5pm on Tuesday, when still-limited connectivity flickered back to life.The first reactions, however, were not celebratory. Many new posts were threaded with scepticism, anxiety and anger. Continue reading...
Reuters executive Simon Robinson expected to replace Justin Stevens as ABC news director
Hugh Marks refuses to confirm or deny to Senate estimates that he threatened to terminate Stevens if he didn’t resignFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesSign up for Guardian Australia’s free weekly media newsletter hereA top news executive from Reuters, Simon Robinson, is expected to be appointed as news director of the ABC in coming days, Guardian Australia can reveal.He will be the external replacement for Justin Stevens who resigned on Wednesday after four years in the role, citing personal and professional reasons.Sign up to get Guardian Australia’s weekly media diary as a free newsletter Continue reading...
Two killed in US strike on another alleged drug boat in Pacific as campaign’s death toll nears 200
Military claims boat targeted in second deadly attack this week was travelling along a known smuggling routeThe US military attacked what it called a drug trafficking boat on Wednesday in the eastern Pacific, killing two men, officials said.It was the second deadly attack in as many days in the Trump administration offensive that began last September and has now left almost 200 people dead. Rights groups say the attacks could amount to extrajudicial killings. Continue reading...
Meta Launches Paid Subscriptions For Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp
Meta on Wednesday launched paid subscription plans for its flagship apps, marking a major push by the tech giant to diversify beyond its longtime reliance on advertising revenue.
