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The number of shoplifting offences recorded in England and Wales in 2025-26 is still above pre-pandemic levels.

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WEF Managing Director Saadia Zahidi speaks to Francine Lacqua after their latest annual report on gender found that global gender parity remains more than a lifetime away for women, with current progress meaning it will still take 120 years to reach full equality. She observes that during times of global crisis such as the pandemic, society seems to shift towards more traditional leadership patterns, and also notes this pattern already emerging in AI. (Source: Bloomberg)

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The deadliest Ebola outbreak on record in the Democratic Republic of Congo may have begun months before it was declared in May.

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Captain looking forward to intimidating atmosphere when Wearsiders host AZ, after 53 years away When Sunderland last played European football, club directors viewed it as a useful means of raising the cash necessary to fund floodlight upgrades at Roker Park necessitated by England’s widespread adoption of colour television. Back in the autumn of 1973 a lighting system compatible with the demands of broadcasting in black and white was proving increasingly outdated and Sunderland responded by doubling admission prices for the second leg of their opening European Cup Winners’ Cup tie against Vasas of Budapest. Coming at a moment when miners and railway workers were engaged in long-running industrial action and north-easterners’ finances were duly tight, it dictated that a disappointing crowd of under 23,000 turned out to watch Dennis Tueart’s penalty secure a 3-0 aggregate win. Continue reading...

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Ultra-wealthy overwhelmingly back Donald Trump’s party over Democrats as money floods into midterm races

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Ultra-wealthy overwhelmingly back Donald Trump’s party over Democrats as money floods into midterms race

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The lawmaker cousin of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. pleaded not guilty to a plunder charge in a corruption scandal involving flood control projects.

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Somalia is ramping up emergency preparations ahead of the October-December rainy season to mitigate potential flood impacts, as climate experts warn that a strengthening El Nino could bring unusually heavy rainfall.

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Rights group warns Algeria could exploit proposed death penalty laws to suppress domestic political opposition.

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Three weeks after the devastating flash floods in Nepal, about 17,000 children require urgent mental health and psychosocial support in the country, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.

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The deadly Ebola virus outbreak in DR Congo continues to spread across the vast country despite some success in containing it, aid officials said on Tuesday, in a renewed call for international support to help responders on the ground.

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Most of the missing, 189, are Indian nationals

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The outbreak has affected seven of the country’s 26 provinces

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Forecasters say the Pacific Ocean warming pattern could be the strongest on record. Here is what that means for you.

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But there may be a price to pay for a quiet Atlantic hurricane season.

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Following mass layoffs in 2022 and 2023, many tech workers turned against their employers. When liberal politicians also rallied against Silicon Valley, their backers turned to Donald Trump.

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Malaysia’s former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin won a significant court victory on Tuesday after he was acquitted of four charges linked to a government programme set up to help contractors during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Kuala Lumpur High Court cleared Muhyiddin of three money-laundering charges and one of abuse of power involving 200 million ringgit (US$49.1 million), after prosecutors said they no longer wanted to pursue those counts in his Jana Wibawa trial. The ruling removes four of...

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Emily St. John Mandel’s 2014 novel, Station Eleven, turned her into something of a pandemic prophet. Her new novel, Exit Party, imagines two possible American futures—totalitarian state and post-civil-war chaos.

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Hong Kong has recorded its highest monthly number of visitors since the Covid-19 pandemic, provisional official figures show, with authorities attributing August’s total to a series of international conferences and mega-events. The Hong Kong Tourism Board said on Tuesday that the city received 5.46 million visitors across the month, up 6 per cent from a year earlier and the highest monthly total since the pandemic. Tourist numbers in the first eight months of the year also rose 11 per cent year...

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Singapore is shrouded in haze, with smoke from wildfires in neighboring Indonesia raising islandwide pollution to levels that pose a health risk. Gabrielle Ng has more. (Source: Bloomberg)

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A Chinese woman’s quest to reconnect with a former foreign teacher who profoundly influenced her outlook on life has sparked a collective online effort to locate him. Wang Yu, a community worker in Shanghai, graduated from East China Normal University in 2005 with a degree in tourism management. Wang informed the SCMP that the teacher, known only as Evans, was an American who taught her an elective English course during her university years. For three years, he selflessly supported her academic...

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Greenwich House Theater, New York The Oscar-winning actor transfixes in a Marin Ireland’s masterfully nuanced play about a woman reeling from a toxic relationship Paradoxically, the more stars step into the lead role in Pre-Existing Condition, the more the brilliance of Marin Ireland’s domestic abuse play takes center stage. Not that it ever suffered from a lack of acting talent – when it premiered in 2024, at New York’s tiny Connelly Theater Upstairs, it counted Tatiana Maslany, Edie Falco and Deirdre O’Connell among the actors who played its central character in quick succession, for only a few weeks each. And this return engagement, at the larger Greenwich House Theater across town, kicks off with Lupita Nyong’o, before making way for Phillipa Soo, Susannah Flood, Hari Nef, Falco again and Whitney White. It’s a straightforward conceit, perfectly calibrated for a 75-minute run time. A woman (whom the script refers to as A, currently played by Nyong’o) is dealing with the aftermath of a breakup triggered by her partner hitting her. When we meet her, someone (perhaps a lawyer, or a therapist) is laying out the reality of her situation: even with the deep pockets required to go to court, it’s been seven months since the incident, it happened across state lines and she never called the police. “You have to be ready for a fight,” she tells A. “Which, just from our short time with each other, I can already tell that you’re not. ” Continue reading...

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International flows into American equities exceed government debt for first time this century outside pandemic and aftermath of global financial crisis

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Singapore was shrouded in haze on Tuesday, with smoke from wildfires in neighbouring Indonesia raising island-wide pollution to levels that pose a health risk. All five regions of the city state recorded unhealthy air quality levels, the first time that has happened since September 2019, according to the National Environment Agency. Singapore’s air currently ranks among the 10 most polluted cities in the world, according to IQAir data, with the capitals of Malaysia and Indonesia also among the...

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Researchers say early warnings must be matched with financial and practical support to help vulnerable pastoralists prepare for drought.

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More than 5,100 people remain missing

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Nickel Industries Ltd. halted the ramp-up of one of its Indonesian processing plants due to water shortages, a sign of how an El-Niño linked drought is hurting output in the world’s top producer.

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Republican Greg Abbott says datacenters must help ‘protect’ drought-prone state and disclose water use Greg Abbott, the Texas governor, has directed state regulators to penalize datacenters that fail to comply with state laws requiring them to disclose their water use. “Data centers must share the duty to protect Texas water,” the Republican governor said on Monday. “The Texas Water Code requires a complete and accurate water use survey. I direct the Texas Water Development Board to use its enforcement authority to penalize past failures and to impose legal consequences for any future failure to comply,” he added. Continue reading...

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The Lincoln Center in NYC has welcomed 600,000 new audience members in the years since the COVID-19 pandemic, offering free of low-cost performances to attract new audiences. Chief Artistic Officer Shanta Thake shares what is on schedule for the Lincoln Center's fall programming, and why she thinks the institution has thrived in the live performance and arts space for so many decades. (Source: Bloomberg)