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Anne D’Innocenzio Jul 31, 2025 – 8.13am Gift this article Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe now Already a subscriber? Login US fashion retailer American Eagle Outfitters wanted to make a splash with its new advertising campaign starring 27-year-old actor Sydney Sweeney. The ad blitz included “clever, even …

Ozzy Osbourne speaks onstage during the 2024 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse on Oct. 19, 2024 in Cleveland, Ohio. Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images North America Rock ‘n’ roll legend and Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne died earlier this week at age 76. He was an …

The US will quit the United Nations’ culture and education agency Unesco, the US state department said on Tuesday, as Donald Trump continues to pull out of international institutions. “Unesco works to advance divisive social and cultural causes and maintains an outsized focus on the UN’s sustainable development goals, a globalist, ideological agenda for international development at odds with our …

It’s as if the smell of burnt plastic from a dollar store has permeated the world. Things are worse: chipboard furniture, T-shirts unrecognizable after a second wash, packaged foods with more preservatives than ingredients. Airplane seats turned into backrests. Automatic restroom lights that turn off at a whim. But also newspaper articles shamelessly written with ChatGPT and its algorithmic prose. …

An illustration of a Neanderthal group preparing food LUIS MONTANYA/MARTA MONTANYA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Neanderthals may have had traditional ways of preparing food that were particular to each group. Discoveries from two caves in what is now northern Israel suggest that the residents there butchered the same kinds of prey in their own distinctive ways. Modern humans, or Homo sapiens, weren’t …

Study shows Neanderthal neighbors split on how to butcher, cooking up caveman culture  The Times of Israel Even Neanderthals had distinct preferences when it came to making dinner, study suggests  The Guardian Did Neanderthals have ‘family recipes’? Study suggests butchery practices in ancient groups  Yahoo Neanderthal groups had their own local food culture  New Scientist Family recipes? Neanderthal neighbors cooked animals differently, study reveals  Interesting …

The annual Tomorrowland festival is set to draw about 100,000 attendees, with many expected to camp on site. A huge fire has engulfed the main stage of Belgium’s globally-renowned Tomorrowland electronic dance music festival, two days before the event was due to open to an expected audience of 100,000. “Due to a serious incident and fire on the Tomorrowland Mainstage, …

AI safety researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other organizations are speaking out publicly against the “reckless” and “completely irresponsible” safety culture at xAI, the billion-dollar AI startup owned by Elon Musk. The criticisms follow weeks of scandals at xAI that have overshadowed the company’s technological advances. Last week, the company’s AI chatbot, Grok, spouted antisemitic comments and repeatedly called itself …

John MacArthur, Firebrand Preacher and Culture Warrior, Dies at 86  The New York Times California pastor John MacArthur hospitalized with life-threatening illness as church community rallies  Fox News John MacArthur, pastor of Grace Community Church in LA, dies at 86  ABC7 Los Angeles Megachurch pastor John MacArthur dead: ‘His faith became sight’  USA Today A lion of the pulpit, now in Christ’s presence  wng.org Source …

Rosie O’Donnell has shrugged off a threat from Donald Trump to revoke her US citizenship on the grounds that she is “a threat to humanity”. The New York-born actor and comedian said on Sunday that she was the latest in a long list of artists, activists and celebrities to be threatened by the US president. “So, I didn’t take it …