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Did you solve it? All you need to know about 2025
Musk’s conflicts of interest as Trump adviser could benefit him, experts warn
Elon Musk’s position as Donald Trump’s co-chair of an advisory panel tasked with proposing huge cuts in spending and regulations has sparked criticism from legal experts and watchdogs who warn of conflicts of interest that could benefit the tech billionaire and other Trump backers.
The fledgling panel has a sweeping …
Drinking tea and coffee linked to lower risk of head and neck cancer in study
If the only thing getting you through a mountain of present-wrapping is a mug of tea or coffee, be of good cheer. Researchers have found people who consume those drinks have a slightly lower risk of head and neck cancers.
There are about 12,800 new head and neck cancer cases …
Greece facing refugee ‘children’s emergency’ as arrivals double in 2024
Greece is facing a refugee “children’s emergency” as the number of unaccompanied minors reaching the country rises and concern grows over a lack of “safe zones” to host them.
Large numbers of children arrived in 2024 along a new trafficking route from Libya to Crete, prompting NGOs to urge Greek …
Can you solve it? All you need to know about 2025
As is traditional for the final column of year, we look ahead to all that the following twelve months will bring us.
Numerically speaking, of course.
2025 will be the only time this century that the year is a square number.
44
2
= 193645
2
= 2025 …
Starwatch: Mercury reaches greatest western elongation
Get your Christmas started with a celestial achievement by tracking down the inner planet Mercury early in the morning.
Because of its tight orbit, Mercury never appears far from the sun. This makes it a challenging object to observe because it never appears in a fully dark sky, only close …
Japan relaxes bear-shooting laws amid rise in attacks
How far do Elon Musk and Reform UK share a political vision?
The get-together last week of Elon Musk, Nigel Farage and Reform UK’s treasurer, Nick Candy, wasn’t just a gathering of Donald Trump fans. It was a meeting of minds.
Immigration, culture wars and shrinking the public sector all feature highly on their political agendas, developed under the umbrella of Trump’s …
Generation TikTok: how sportswomen set the bar higher than the men
Lina Nielsen remembers the moment she had the idea. She was sitting around the Olympic Village in Paris with her sprinting teammates – and she was bored. “I said to Yemi Mary John: ‘I’m gonna make this TikTok’,” Nielsen recalls. She took herself to her bedroom, got out the flip …
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It might seem odd to award the number one slot in the best films of 2024 list to a picture I first saw in May 2023, but Jonathan Glazer’s piercing portrait of the family of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf …