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The world’s leading authority on hunger, backed by the UN, said Friday that Gaza’s largest city is gripped by famine. While experts say half a million people face catastrophic hunger, Israel’s foreign ministry said there was no famine in Gaza, and claimed that the UN declaration was based on Hamas lies. Gazans themselves testified to the reality of severe food shortages. 

ShutterstockLondon Underground staff will strike from 5 September for seven daysThere will be rolling strike action across the London Underground (LU) beginning on Friday 5 September for seven days, the RMT union has announced.The union claimed transport bosses refused to engage with them over pay, fatigue management, extreme shift patterns and a reduction in the working week.RMT General Secretary Eddie Dempsey said: “Fatigue and extreme shift rotations are serious issues impacting on our members health and wellbeing- all of which have not been adequately addressed for years by LU management.”A Transport for London (TfL) spokesperson said: “We urge the RMT…

Liv McMahonTechnology reporterGetty ImagesHundreds of thousands of user conversations with Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok have been exposed in search engine results – seemingly without users’ knowledge.Unique links are created when Grok users press a button to share a transcript of their conversation – but as well as sharing the chat with the intended recipient, the button also appears to have made the chats searchable online.A Google search on Thursday revealed it had indexed nearly 300,000 Grok conversations.It has led one expert to describe AI chatbots as a “privacy disaster in progress”.The BBC has approached X for comment.The…

Malin Akerman is clearing up a major mystery surrounding her viral wig on The Hunting Wives, Netflix’s wildly popular murder mystery set in a fictional far-right Texas town. Akerman plays Margo Banks, a wealthy socialite and leader of a clique of gun-toting, anti-abortion housewives with deadly secrets. Based on May Cobb’s novel of the same name, the debut season premiered last month and captured the zeitgeist for its sleazy, twisty fun, eliciting a ton of buzz online — none the more so than for Akerman’s questionable wig. During an appearance on the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast this week,…

A’ja Wilson and the Las Vegas Aces cannot be stopped right now. Wilson poured in 36 points on Saturday afternoon to lead the Aces past the Washington Mystics, 91-81, for their 10th consecutive win. Less than a month ago, the Aces were below .500, and on Aug. 2 they lost by 53 points to the Minnesota Lynx — the second-largest defeat in league history. They haven’t lost since then. Their 10-game winning streak, which is the Aces’ longest since they moved to Las Vegas and the longest in the WNBA since 2021, has vaulted them into third place at 24-14. Instead of…

The Earth is constantly receiving space signals that contain vital information about extremely energetic phenomena. Among the most peculiar are brief pulses of extremely high-energy radio waves, known as fast radio bursts (FRB). Astronomers compare them to a powerful lighthouse that shines for milliseconds in the middle of a rough, distant sea. Detecting one of these signals is an achievement in itself, but identifying its origin and understanding the nature of its source remains one of the great challenges of science.That is why recent research led by Northwestern University in the United States has captured the attention of the astronomical…

A warehouse worker uses a scanner to identify cartons of parcels of goods on a conveyor belt in a hangar at DHL’s parcel distribution and express freight warehouse in Valence, France, on December 12, 2024. Nicolas Guyannet/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Nicolas Guyannet/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images Many European parcel companies — including DHL, the Royal Mail, and the French and Spanish national post offices — are temporarily suspending some shipments to the U.S., citing new U.S. tariff policies that kick in this week. And while the financial costs of tariffs have dominated trade news this…

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles.Today’s Connections: Sports Edition is tough. I played some darts in bars back in the day, but I didn’t know very much about the game, apparently. Read on for hints and the answers.Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That’s a sign that the game has earned enough loyal players that The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journalism site owned by the Times,…

Mark SavageMusic correspondentBBCReading Festival marked the star’s first UK festival headline setWhen Chappell Roan toured the UK last autumn, she was playing small, club-level shows.On Friday, she headlined the Reading Festival, taking no prisoners with a dazzling, jubilant set that capped her incredible rise to fame over the past 18 months.Backed by a gothic fairytale castle and a powerful all-female band, she added a crunchy rock edge to hits like Hot To Go and Casual, bringing her debut album to stadium-sized life.”Thank you for loving me and standing with me,” she told the 90,000-strong audience. “This is a dream come…

Keegan Bradley, Scottie Scheffler, Patrick Cantlay? Just when Tommy Fleetwood looked to have a firm grip on this Tour Championship, Cantlay emerged from the shadows in a bid to become the third member of the US Ryder Cup contingent in the course of this season to deny Fleetwood the win he is long overdue on American soil. It feels poetic that Cantlay was front and centre as Fleetwood and Europe triumphed over the US in Rome two years ago. If it is to be Tommy’s time, he will have to scrap for it. Cantlay might be in his home country…