Israel charges settler for killing Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen

Awdah Hathaleen, who worked on the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, was killed last July in the occupied West Bank.

Israeli prosecutors have charged a settler with reckless manslaughter over the killing of Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen in the occupied West Bank, in the first such indictment of an Israeli in more than seven years.

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Baby safely delivered 30 minutes after mother died in nine-storey fall

A pregnant woman who died from a nine-storey fall had her baby safely delivered 30 minutes after her death, an inquest has heard.

Emma Atkinson, 38, was seven months pregnant when she fell from the window of her father’s flat in Shakespeare Towers in the Burmantofts area of Leeds, on 22 October 2024.

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Gianni Infantino: Uefa says Fifa's backing of its president 'changes nothing'

European teams could still boycott competitions including the World Cup as Uefa says Fifa's defence of its president Gianni Infantino "changes nothing".

The English FA has sent a letter withdrawing its support for Infantino in reaction to the plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup to private investors.

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Man City transfers: Jeremy Doku signs new deal, Nico Gonzalez wants to stay

Midfielder Nico Gonzalez joined City from Porto for £50m last January but has struggled to hold down a regular first-team place.

The 24-year-old played 41 times in all competitions last season and scored a stunning winner in the FA Cup semi-final victory over Southampton, but he was in and out of the team for much of the campaign.

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‘Gentle Monster’ Scared Most Actors Away. Léa Seydoux Embraced the Challenge

Coming off of the success of Corsage, an irreverent take on the 19th-century costume drama, Marie Kreutzer found that few were even entertaining the pitch for her next movie. The film was Gentle Monster, an examination of the wreckage brought upon a modern middle-class family after its patriarch, Philip, is accused of distributing and possessing child sex abuse material. “I was aware that this was a tough subject, and obviously it was difficult every step of the way with financing,” says the Austrian filmmaker. “Some actors — most of them — just told me directly that it’s too heavy material for them.” 

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First OpenAI, now Meta - why do AI hacks keep happening?

A software engineer, wearing a light brown shirt, looks at a computer monitor in front of him with a concerned expression. A larger screen with computer code on it is on a wall behind him.Image source, Getty Images

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How Aroma-Zone Built A Beauty Business Around Trust Instead Of Trends

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Designed around education rather than transactions, Aroma-Zone’s bright, open stores encourage customers to explore ingredients, ask questions and build routines with guidance from expert advisers.

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Beauty has never been more popular, or indeed confusing.

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Ukraine hits two oil refineries deep in Russian territory

Ukraine said it has hit two oil refineries in multiple strikes deep inside Russia with patrol boats and other vessels in the Black Sea also hit.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said the Bashneft-Novoil and Slavneft-Yanos refineries were struck in the attacks aimed at limiting oil revenues Moscow "uses to finance" its war.

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Saudi Arabia names commander for maritime defence coalition

Rear Admiral Abdullah bin Salem Al-Shehri will lead the multinational coalition’s naval defence to protect trade, energy routes.

Saudi Arabia has announced the appointment of a commander for a multinational maritime defence alliance to protect freedom of navigation through the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

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It is genuinely cheaper for me to fly to QuakeCon and buy a RTX 5090 at the Nvidia booth than pick up the GPU absolutely anywhere else

Nvidia RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics card on different backgrounds
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Take it from me, a gamer rocking the last-gen Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super and still loving life: your rig doesn't need the most bleeding edge graphics card. That's especially true when the 50-series cards can easily set you back many more smackers than Nvidia's MSRP. The RTX 5090 is especially bad for this right now, with the cheapest deal I can find anywhere online still being $4,500/£3,499.

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