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Do you stay up at night wondering what would happen if bats got drunk and decided to carry on with their flight path? Ever lost sleep over whether cows could be shielded from fly bites if they were painted with zebra-like stripes? Are you constantly rattled by the physics of pasta sauce – specifically that annoying phase transition which can lead to clumping in your favourite Italian dish? Well, amid all the bad news right now, at least this year’s Ig Nobel Prizes have provided a soothing balm. We know we’ll be sleeping soundly tonight – especially when it comes…

Listen on Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music Sky News Reform UK announce that they would scrap indefinite leave to remain within 100 days of government – but what impact will this have? Sam and Anne discuss the practicalities of the policy and whether Nigel Farage is trying to force the hand of other parties on immigration policy. Elsewhere, the UK follows other nations in formally recognising a Palestinian state, to the dismay of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister. Anne has some intel on the whereabouts of Peter Mandelson and whether he got an invite to the state visit last…

European rulemakers in 2009 revised a law called the e-Privacy Directive to require websites to get consent from users before loading cookies on their devices, unless the cookies are “strictly necessary” to provide a service. Fast forward to 2025 and the internet is full of consent banners that users have long learned to click away without thinking twice. “Too much consent basically kills consent. People are used to giving consent for everything, so they might stop reading things in as much detail, and if consent is the default for everything, it’s no longer perceived in the same way by users,”…

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Die UN-Generalversammlung startet – ohne Friedrich Merz. Während Kanzler und Koalition in Berlin mit Haushalt und Richterwahl beschäftigt sind, verschärft sich der Nahostkonflikt: Großbritannien, Kanada, Australien sowie Portugal haben Palästina als Staat anerkannt, weitere westliche Länder wollen folgen. Deutschland steht plötzlich isoliert – zwischen transatlantischer Treue und europäischem Druck. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview erklärt Johannes Volkmann (CDU) die Position der Union zwischen Zweistaatenlösung und dem Wunsch europäisch geeint zu sprechen. Hans von der Burchard berichtet vor seiner Abreise nach New York über die Abwesenheit von Merz dort – und warum es für Deutschland bei der Vollversammlung um Palästina geht, aber auch die…

These costs include agency fees, production fees, including creating a “hero” film to promote savers owning a slice of British companies, social media content, the purchase of TV slots and digital ads. There are also variable costs such as the number of delivery channels used and how many “bursts” of advertisement activity the group decides to do throughout the year to make savers aware of the benefits of retail investing, the documents show.  These core campaign costs will be funded entirely by firms that are steering group members which will have to sign a three-year commitment, the IA wrote in…

The 3000 square meter museum complex is now the largest in all of the Baltic states.  Until Nazi occupation in 1941, much of the country’s Jewish population lived in “shtetls”, small towns where they often resided side-by-side with other Lithuanians. One of these towns, Šeduva, was once home to 700 Jewish Lithuanians, all of whom were killed or had to escape during the Holocaust. The Šeduva shtetl was destroyed in August of 1941, when its residents were driven into the nearby Pakuteniai and Liaudiškiai forests and murdered. Only a handful, those who had escaped earlier and those who had been…

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney also announced on Sunday that his government will recognize a Palestinian state. In a social media post, Carney said: “Canada recognizes the State of Palestine and offers our partnership in building the promise of a peaceful future for both the State of Palestine and the State of Israel.” Ahead of the announcements made by Britain and others, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would not “commit suicide” by welcoming a Palestinian state “because of Europe’s political needs.” A spokesperson quoted Netanyahu as calling the recognition “absurd” and a “reward for terrorism.” British Foreign Secretary…

“We must cut off all possible supply routes and means of evading sanctions,” Zelenskyy said. The Ukrainian leader is expecting to meet with Trump on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week, where he will seek clarifications on what security guarantees the U.S. is willing to provide as part of a peace settlement. The call for stronger sanctions comes after EU and NATO countries saw their national airspace violated by Moscow. At least 20 Russian drones made it into Poland earlier this month, in what the country called a Russian provocation. Three Russian fighter jets…

Other topics addressed in the interview ranged from defense, the EU-U.S. trade deal and the situation in Gaza. Von der Leyen repeated that “true security” needed to be found for Israel while all Palestinians deserve “a secure present and future.” The president said that the two-state solution is “the only prospect for lasting peace in the region.” The Israeli government’s actions in the last month are “a clear attempt to undermine” this solution, she said. This is the reason why the Commission decided to propose a set of “targeted and proportionate measures” against Israel over findings of human rights abuses…