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Australian Jay Vine secured his second stage win of this year’s Vuelta a Espana on Tuesday as Jonas Vingegaard regained the overall lead.After Movistar’s Pablo Castrillo had attacked the remaining members of the breakaway on the final climb, he was reeled in by Vine.The 29-year-old UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider pulled clear of Spaniard Castrillo to win by 35 seconds in the Larra-Belagua ski resort near Spain’s border with France to secure the fourth Vuelta stage win of his career.Team Visma-Lease a Bike’s Vingegaard finished with a small group of leading contenders just over a minute behind the winner to regain…

September 2, 20253 min readNew ‘Glass Straw’ Fibers Could Speed Up the InternetA cable design that sends light through air rather than solid glass could cut signal loss and make long-distance transmissions cheaperBy Davide Castelvecchi & Nature magazine Typical optical fibres consist of thin, solid glass wires. Tweaking the design could allow them to carry more data over longer distances. Phillip Hayson/Science SourceA new type of hollow optical fibre promises to boost the amount of data that can be carried in each glass strand, and to do so over longer distances. This could help to make telecommunications systems faster and…

new video loaded: Antigovernment Protests Continue in IndonesiaIndonesian soldiers patrolled Jakarta, the capital, as protesters in several cities continued demonstrating against the government’s lavish spending at a time of economic hardship.Recent episodes in InternationalInternational video coverage from The New York Times.International video coverage from The New York Times.Show more videos from International

The biggest job in fashion has finally been filled.Following news that Anna Wintour was stepping back as editor of American Vogue in July, Condé Nast have appointed 39-year-old journalist and Vogue staffer Chloe Malle as head of editorial content at the American fashion magazine. Her role is effective immediately.“Fashion and media are both evolving at breakneck speed, and I am so thrilled, and awed, to be part of that,” said Malle in a statement. “I also feel incredibly fortunate to still have Anna just down the hall as my mentor.”One of the most powerful roles in the fashion industry, her…

Graham FraserTechnology ReporterGetty ImagesParents of teenage ChatGPT users will soon be able to receive a notification if the platform thinks their child is in “acute distress”.It is among a number of parental controls announced by the chatbot’s maker, OpenAI.Its safety for young users was put in the spotlight last week when a couple in California sued OpenAI over the death of their 16-year-old son, alleging ChatGPT encouraged him to take his own life.OpenAI said it would introduce what it called “strengthened protections for teens” within the next month.When news of the lawsuit emerged last week, OpenAI published a note on…

Getty ImagesPeople with learning disabilities and autism in England are dying almost 20 years younger than the rest of the population, a long-awaited report has said.The annual mortality review commissioned by NHS England was originally meant to be published last year but faced repeated delays.It found 39% of deaths of people with learning disabilities and autism were classed as avoidable in 2023, almost twice as high as the general population. NHS England said it was rolling out more training for staff and identifying patients with learning disabilities earlier so they can be given more appropriate care.The charity Mencap says about…

The Please Don’t Destroy era at Saturday Night Live is coming to an end. Ben Marshall, John Higgins and Martin Herlihy have starred in a series of Please Don’t Destroy filmed sketches since they joined the SNL writing staff in 2021. NBC announced Tuesday that Marshall is joining the show’s cast as a featured player for the coming 51st season; with that came news that Higgins is leaving the show to pursue other opportunities, while Herlihy will remain a writer. Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that with the trio splitting up, no more Please Don’t Destroy sketches are planned. Marshall,…

Michael VoepelSep 2, 2025, 09:00 AM ETCloseMichael Voepel is a senior writer who covers the WNBA, women’s college basketball and other college sports. Voepel began covering women’s basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996.With 10 days left in the WNBA’s 2025 regular season, we already know the No. 1 seed — the Minnesota Lynx — and four of the five teams that won’t make the playoffs. But there are more important developments still to come.Which teams will secure home-court advantage in the opening round as the 2-seed, the 3-seed and the 4-seed. And which opponents will they…

And other travel news you may have missed.This week in travel, we’ve uncovered several stories that might have flown under your radar. Among them: Japan has released an AI-generated video of a Mount Fuji eruption; Southwest has added a new security feature to its planes; and a Spanish tourist has outraged the internet after posting a video of himself feeding beer to an elephant.​​Dive into these and more as we examine the latest in travel news.NO.1JAPAN RELEASES AI-GENERATED MOUNT FUJI ERUPTION VIDEOLast week, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s Disaster Prevention Division released an AI-generated video depicting what a volcanic eruption of…

Watch: Moment Kim Jong Un’s daughter arrives in BeijingNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un has arrived in the Chinese capital Beijing along with his daughter, Kim Ju Ae, to attend China’s largest-ever military parade.The “Victory Day” parade on Wednesday will see him rub shoulders with China’s Xi Jinping, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and other world leaders.Photos showed Kim stepping off his armoured train at Beijing Railway Station accompanied by his daughter. South Korea’s spy agency has previously said she was Kim’s “most likely” successor.Xi is hosting the parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the formal surrender of the Japanese at…