French rail company SNCF has warned that disruption from Friday’s sabotage against the country’s train network could last until the end of the weekend and affect hundreds of thousands more passengers. Coordinated arson attacks on three lines of the high-speed TGV network on Friday caused chaos for travellers, hours before the opening ceremony for the […]
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Strands doesn’t get as much attention as its New York Times game siblings Wordle and Connections, but it can be just as challenging and entertaining. Strands just moved out of beta, so it’s now in the New York Times’ official Games app, which might bring it more fans. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this
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The presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump in June set off a wild month in US politics. From Mr Biden’s re-election campaign falling apart to former President Trump surviving an assassination attempt, the last few weeks have been unprecedented. Relive the last month in a little over two minutes. Video edited by Angélica
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Getty Images Lhakpa Sherpa says: “I want to show my two girls how to be brave, how not to give up” This article contains descriptions of domestic violence which some readers may find distressing. Lhakpa Sherpa has a startling life story – to the outside world she holds the record for climbing Mount Everest a
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Did they just send the Olympic cauldron up into the Paris skies in a hot-air balloon? IS the cauldron a hot-air balloon? Will it just float around there in the sky for two weeks? If you watched the Paris Olympics opening ceremony on Friday, you might have those questions and more. Long story short: The
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Family handout Emirlendris Benítez (centre) was sentenced to a 30-year jail term in 2018 “She’s going to rot in jail. No one is going to get her out.” That was what prison guards told the family of Emirlendris Benítez. She disappeared in Venezuela in August 2018 after she and her partner – a taxi driver
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Getty Images Sabrina Carpenter is one of the new wave of pop girlies taking the internet by storm “It’s so confusing sometimes to be a girl,” sings Charli XCX on her latest album, Brat. The vulnerable lyrics, existential questions and honest exploration of the complexity and contradictions of womanhood has turned Brat into much more
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Getty Images The city of Hiroshima was left in ruins It was early in the day, but already hot. As she wiped sweat from her brow, Chieko Kiriake searched for some shade. As she did so, there was a blinding light – it was like nothing the 15-year-old had ever experienced. It was 08:15 on
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In November 2021, Northwestern University researchers introduced an injectable new therapy, which harnessed fast-moving “dancing molecules,” to repair tissues and reverse paralysis after severe spinal cord injuries. Now, the same research group has applied the therapeutic strategy to damaged human cartilage cells. In the new study, the treatment activated the gene expression necessary to regenerate
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Many of yesterday’s talks were littered with the acronyms you’d expect from this assemblage of high-minded panelists: YC, FTC, AI, LLMs. But threaded throughout the conversations—foundational to them, you might say—was boosterism for open source AI. It was a stark left turn (or return, if you’re a Linux head) from the app-obsessed 2010s, when developers
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