The Trump administration will limit the number of refugees admitted to the US to 7,500 over the next year, and give priority to white South Africans. The move, announced in a notice published on Thursday, marks a dramatic cut from the previous limit of 125,000 set by former President Joe Biden and will bring the…
Five people have been charged in connection with the 2023 overdose death of Robert De Niro’s grandson and two other 19 year olds. New York authorities accuse the suspects, Bruce Epperson, Eddie Barreto, Grant McIver, John Nicolas, and Roy Nicolas, of running a fentanyl distribution network that sold counterfeit prescription opioid pills through social media…
12 hours ago Steve RosenbergRussia Editor in St Petersburg BBC Tens of thousands of Stalin’s victims are buried in this wood outside St Petersburg In a wood on the edge of St Petersburg they’re reading out a list of names. Each name is a victim of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s Great Terror. In this…
14 hours ago Barbara Plett UsherAfrica correspondent BBC Ezzeldin Hassan Musa was beaten with sticks before he managed to flee Shaken, scratched and left with just the clothes he is wearing, Ezzeldin Hassan Musa describes the brutality of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the wake of the paramilitary group taking control of el-Fasher city…
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as seen by the Gemini South telescope in Chile International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Shadow the Scientist; J. Miller & M. Rodriguez (Intl Gemini Observatory/NSF NOIRLab), T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab) The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is, once again, doing something strange. This interloper from another star is currently concealed…
Kidney stones are a common and painful complaint wildpixel/Getty Images A magnetic device may be able to remove kidney stones more efficiently than standard approaches, avoiding the need for repeated surgical procedures. Kidney stones occur when minerals in urine crystallise. They can be painful when they become lodged inside the kidneys or enter the ureters,…
A Cornish Rex cat named Stella Tim Flach Cats are distinctive animals: domesticated for centuries, revered and reviled in equal measure throughout history and bred to match our own aesthetic tastes and whims. From a sensational internet fluffball to his own domestic longhair Loki, renowned animal photographer Tim Flach explores the world of cats in…
Does your phone seem less functional than it once was? It may be due to enshittification HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images EnshittificationCory Doctorow (MCD Books) “Enshittification” is one of those rare new words that so perfectly sums up a prevailing but innominate concept that it feels like it has existed forever, like “shrinkflation” or “greenwash”…
“At first, Ishiguro’s English boarding school setting seems so familiar…” This year is the 20th anniversary of the publication of Kazuo Ishiguro’s renowned novel Never Let Me Go and I have finally got round to reading it. I can hardly believe that such a haunting story has been sitting on my shelf all that time,…
piranka/Getty Images It is a familiar pattern. A new website or app arrives that is so good you just have to try it. It’s free, so why not? You and millions of others quickly become hooked, using it every day. But then it starts to change. Some of your favourite features can now only be…