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Lily Allen will bring her West End Girl to North American stages in April for the biggest U.S. headlining tour of her career. The tour in support of her acclaimed breakup LP — Number 33 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 100 Best Albums of 2025 — kick off April 3 at Chicago’s the Auditorium and spans nine gigs, concluding April 28 at San Francisco’s The Masonic. The concerts, dubbed Lily Allen Performs West End Girl, will find the British singer doing just that, performing her latest album in its entirety, in the same order as they appear on West…

Watch the moment US president receives the first ever Fifa Peace Prize at the 2026 World Cup draw.

A groundbreaking soil-health measuring technique could help avert famine and drought, scientists have said.At the moment, scientists have to dig lots of holes to study the soil, which is time-consuming and damages its structure, making the sampling less accurate.Soil experts have now convened the Earth Rover programme, which uses seismology – a technology used for measuring down to the Earth’s crust, understanding earthquakes and detecting hydrocarbons – to assess soil for the first time.The team’s geophysicists and soil scientists call this technique “soilsmology” and aim to finely map the world’s living soils. To do it, they place a piece of…

“Traveling to attend protests and support political actions can be a meaningful way to act in support of your values.”The first time I attended a protest on a trip was in January of 2024. I was visiting New York and wanted to stand with those opposing America’s supplying Israel with weapons to attack Palestinians in Gaza. I was back in New York exactly a year later, on January 20, 2025. Inauguration Day. Again, I searched Instagram to find a protest and joined roughly 300 crestfallen New Yorkers and Susan Sarandon for an event approximating a funeral.Since then, I traveled to…

Netflix has agreed to buy Warner Bros Discovery in an $82.7bn (£62bn) deal that will dramatically reshape the established Hollywood film and TV industry.The streaming company will take control of WBD’s prize assets such as Warner Bros, the studio behind franchises including Harry Potter, Superman and Batman, as well as HBO, home to shows including Game of Thrones, The White Lotus and Succession.Netflix will also get hold of an extensive TV archive that includes classics such as Friends, which is scheduled to be removed from Netflix at the end of the year, and The Big Bang Theory.“The combination of Netflix…

Kerry Wan/ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.As a person who covers consumer tech for a living, I get to use a few dozen smartphones every year. While I almost always advise on which is the new best smartphone, the majority of consumers don’t upgrade every year. I have friends and family who tell me they don’t want to upgrade and ask, “How can I make my current phone faster?” I finally have an answer.Also: The best phones to buy in 2025I don’t get to use review devices for long, but I have picked up tips and tricks from…

The journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology has formally retracted a sweeping scientific paper published in 2000 that became a key defense for Monsanto’s claim that Roundup herbicide and its active ingredient glyphosate don’t cause cancer.Martin van den Berg, the journal’s editor in chief, said in a note accompanying the retraction that he had taken the step because of “serious ethical concerns regarding the independence and accountability of the authors of this article and the academic integrity of the carcinogenicity studies presented”.The paper, titled Safety Evaluation and Risk Assessment of the Herbicide Roundup and Its Active Ingredient, Glyphosate, for Humans, concluded…

It’s time!The eyes and fate of several nations will be focused on the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., for the 2026 FIFA World Cup group stage draw.Follow along for live updates, key statistics and instant reaction as we discover how the 48 teams will be placed across the United States, Mexico and Canada.Twelve groups of four will shape the road toward lifting soccer’s biggest prize next summer in North America.Jump to: Live updates

One of Britain’s most distinguished scientists, Prof Sir Paul Nurse, says the government is “shooting itself in the foot” with its visa system for science researchers.Sir Paul told BBC News that high visa fees are deterring early-career researchers, who are instead being welcomed by the UK’s economic rivals.Supporters of the current system say higher visa costs help to fund the NHS and reflect wider public concerns about immigration.But the Nobel prize winning scientist says the UK’s scientific future is being put at risk.”Having expensive visa costs is shooting yourself in the foot. It absolutely doesn’t help in attracting these sorts…