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A Southeast Louisiana jury ruled oil company Chevron must pay more than $740 million dollars to restore damage it caused to coastal wetlands following a landmark trial more than a decade in the making.
Up and down the country, volunteers are coming together to plant more of these nature-rich reserves
More than 1,000 women a year with advanced cancer could benefit from capivasertib which can slow the disease.
In trials, in 708 women, when combined with hormone therapy, the drug doubled the time the cancer took to grow, from 3.6 months to 7.3 months, and shrank tumours in 23% of patients.
Menendez case resentencing can go ahead
The ruling potentially paves the way for an early release for Erik and Lyle Menendez, who are serving life sentences for killing their parents.
They've spent decades in jail for a crime with an unjust sentence. Now they could be free
An unreleased song by the late Taiwanese pop singer Teresa Teng, who took East Asia by storm from the 1970s to 1990s, has been discovered in Japan and will be released in June, a source familiar with the matter said Friday.
An unreleased song by the late Taiwanese pop singer Teresa Teng, who took East Asia by storm from the 1970s to 1990s, has been discovered in Japan and will be released in June, a source familiar with the matter said Thursday.
The light pop song, likely recorded in the mid-1980s, was a joint work of composer Takashi Miki and lyricist Toyohisa Araki, the duo behind Teng's hits in Japan, including "Toki no Nagare ni Mi wo Makase" (Give yourself to the flow of time).
File photo taken in February 1984 shows Taiwanese pop singer Teresa Teng. (Kyodo)
The song, with a tone different from Teng's dramatic Japanese melodies, such as "Tsugunai" (Atonement), will be included in a three-CD album of Miki's compositions to be released on June 25, according to the source.
An official of Universal Music LLC found the song recorded on
Towns in Belgium and France have been successfully giving away free chickens for ten years to reduce food waste.
Towns in France and Belgium have been giving out free chickens for years to combat food waste – could the idea catch on elsewhere?
To date, 5,282 hens have been distributed to residents, and not only have the residents received a plentiful supply of free eggs, but food waste has also been averted from landfill as chickens are fed kitchen scraps which would otherwise be thrown away.
In Maharashtra’s parched landscapes, former IRS officer Ujjwal Kumar Chavan initiated a transformative water conservation project. Inspired to combat drought, he constructed reservoirs and check dams, increasing water storage across 204 villages. His efforts boosted farmers’ incomes, rejuvenated riv...
Several really popular tv shows are coming out this month!
This month we've got dystopian futures, cringeworthy comedians, galactic rebellions, traveling serial killers, and more.
Kitten season runs from March to October. Here’s how shelters are buckling in for the huge influx of cats across the country.
Country has pledged to phase out unnecessary plastics by 2025 and recycle or reuse all its plastic waste by 2040
'Modern day magic' reveals hidden Arthurian tales in a 500-year-old ledger.
Cambridge University researchers found a manuscript with rare Arthurian tales bound into a ledger more than 400 years old and used advanced technology to reveal its contents.
A new first-of-its-kind map of the London Underground helps cyclists discover the city’s green spaces.
It’s the first map to connect London’s National Cycle Network, Cycleways and the extended cycle network to parks and waterways.
Global crackdown on Kidflix, a major child sexual exploitation platform with almost two million users
An international operation against child sexual exploitation, supported by Europol and led by the State Criminal Police of Bavaria (Bayerisches Landeskriminalamt) and the Bavarian Central Office for the Prosecution of Cybercrime (ZCB), has resulted in the shutdown of Kidflix, one of the largest paed...
The Europol-supported operation led to 79 arrests and 1.400 identifications
Kidflix, one of the largest paedophile platforms in the world, has been shut down in an international operation against child sexual exploitation. The investigation was supported by Europol and led by the State Criminal Police of Bavaria (Bayerisches Landeskriminalamt) and the Bavarian Central Office for the Prosecution of Cybercrime (ZCB). Over 35 countries worldwide participated in the operation.
A total of 1.8 million users worldwide logged on to the platform between April 2022 and March 2025. On 11 March 2025, the server, which contained around 72 000 videos at the time, was seized by German and Dutch authorities.
The investigation resulted in the identification of almost 1 400 suspects worldwide. So far, 79 of these individuals have been arrested for sharing and distributing child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Some of those arrested not only uploaded and watched videos but also abused children. The inv
Feature length film by autistic people gets great reviews
This docufiction is funny and pregnant with ideas – as a group of young artists on the spectrum examine how their creativity and sense of self is shaped by autism
Yay for diversity 👏
UK - New national forest to see 20 million trees planted across West by 2050
The government says the new Western Forest project will help the UK meet its tree-planting targets.
Breast cancer death rates are set to decrease for European women in all age groups under 80.
Breast cancer death rates are expected to drop across European countries, here’s a look at how different women’s age groups compare.