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You “may want to keep your head down” on 22 December 2032, said Time. That’s the day an asteroid may strike our planet. The chances of 2024 YR4 striking Earth increased this week to 1 in 32 but then dramatically […]

In “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”, Joseph recalls his dreams in extraordinary (musical) detail, but many of us wake up each morning to find not a single dream memory will do. Now, scientists have discovered a string of factors

The president of Argentina is facing legal action and calls for his impeachment after he promoted cryptocurrency on social media. Javier Milei’s controversial post “caused a political firestorm”, said The New York Times, with opponents describing him as a “crypto

Ukraine is targeting 18 to 24-year-olds with a military recruitment campaign to address a manpower crisis on the front lines. The scheme dangles lucrative benefits for would-be recruits but this has already “angered” some long-serving troops, said Politico. ‘Social benefits’

As many people know, after-work drinks can occasionally get embarrassingly out of hand. But for two government employees in Japan, a night on the tiles resulted in the loss of files containing information about an ongoing drug-smuggling investigation. Booze-fuelled blunders

The Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, has condemned Hamas for its “despicable and cynical” exploitation of hostages, after three men freed in this weekend’s prisoner swap were forced to mount a stage and answer questions before their release. While the men

Ukraine has pledged its support for the interim government in Syria after Kyiv’s foreign minister met with his new Syrian counterpart during a visit to Damascus. The talks between Ukraine’s Andrii Sybiha and Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani (pictured

Fifteen people were killed, and more than 30 injured, when a man drove a pick-up truck at high speed through crowds of people in the streets of New Orleans in the early hours of New Year’s Day. The attack in

To converts sharing the gospel online, “microdosing” Ozempic is a crafty way to lose pounds without enduring the weight-loss drug’s “eggy burps”, constipation and other suboptimal side effects, said Harriet Walker in The Times. But some experts are warning that

Hollywood is reeling after Blake Lively filed a sexual harassment complaint against her “It Ends With Us” co-star and director Justin Baldoni. The glossy screen adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s novel divided critics with its portrayal of domestic abuse, but the