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There can be no doubt about which movie has set the Venice film festival ablaze – it is this one, from Tunisian film-maker Kaouther Ben Hania. The Voice of Hind Rajab is about the horrifying ordeal of the five-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab, who was killed in 2024 by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in Gaza in her uncle’s car along with six family members, and two paramedics who tried to come to her rescue. Rajab herself, who survived the original assault by the IDF which killed those around her, stayed on the phone for hours to the Palestine Red…

The bodies of 370 people have been recovered and buried after a landslide struck the remote Sudanese village of Tarasin after heavy rain.Published On 4 Sep 20254 Sep 2025Authorities have recovered the bodies of hundreds of people killed in a landslide at a remote mountainous village over the weekend in the western Sudanese region of Darfur, which is controlled by rebels.Ibrahim Suleiman, a senior official in the civilian administration of Daramo locality, where the village of Tarasin is located, reported in a video released by the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) on Thursday that 370 bodies had been recovered and buried.Recommended…

Liv McMahonTechnology reporterTeam CherryThe biggest online video game stores crashed on Thursday as they struggled to deal with high demand for Hollow Knight: Silksong – one of the most-anticipated games of the year.Thousands of users reported they were unable to buy the game on PC store Steam after its release at 15:00 BST, with errors persisting until around 17:30.Social media users also shared their difficulties trying to purchase Silksong on other platforms, including the Nintendo, PlayStation and Xbox game stores.Fans of Hollow Knight have been eagerly awaiting the sequel after the first game’s release in 2017, which has sold more…

Source: Google Earth (background image) The New York Times The vintage Lisbon funicular that crashed on Wednesday, killing at least 16 people, lost control when one of its two yellow-and-white carriages hurtled into a building.The funicular, one of Lisbon’s most popular tourist attractions, transports passengers to and from the scenic Bairro Alto neighborhood.The funicular has two interconnected carriages powered by overhead electric cables. The carriages run in opposite directions and are attached by an underground cable system that runs through a pulley at the top of the hill. The weight of the carriage that travels downhill helps lift the other,…

One of the great lost albums in rock history is to finally see the light of day, as Bruce Springsteen announces the release of the electric version of his 1982 album Nebraska.The original was famously recorded in the bedroom of his New Jersey home, unaccompanied, on a four-track tape recorder rather than a multitrack studio setup. Springsteen attempted to work the songs up into more fleshed-out versions but felt the studio versions lacked the ghostly drama of the originals, and – to some confusion in his fanbase and record label – insisted on releasing the stark four-track takes.Despite the move…

In January 2024, Ahmed Abubakr Imam picked up a rifle to defend his community.The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) had just captured four of the five provinces in Sudan’s sprawling western region of Darfur – South, East, Central and West – in a lightning attack as it advanced in its war against the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and its allies.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listIt was now threatening to capture North Darfur, leaving thousands of people like Imam terrified.He knew that the largely nomadic – often referred to as “Arab” – RSF was notorious for abducting and raping…

30 A United States federal court has ordered Google to pay $425 million (about £316.3m) for secretly collecting data from millions of users even after they had switched off a tracking feature in their accounts. The judgment came after a group of users dragged the technology giant to court, accusing it of accessing mobile devices and harvesting private information despite privacy assurances on its Web & App Activity setting. The lawsuit, filed as a class action in July 2020, covered about 98 million Google users and 174 million devices. The plaintiffs argued that the company’s collection extended to hundreds of…

Jonathan MorrisBBC News, South West andTamsin MelvilleBBC News, CornwallBBCNeil Hopper was motivated by sexual interest in amputation, the court heardAn NHS vascular surgeon who had his own legs removed has been jailed for two years and eight months for insurance fraud and possessing extreme pornography.Neil Hopper, 49, of Truro, Cornwall, carried out hundreds of amputation operations before having his own legs removed in 2019.Truro Crown Court heard he lied to insurers by claiming that injuries to his legs were the result of sepsis and not self-inflicted.It heard that in May 2019 Hopper had below knee amputations after a “mysterious illness”.…

Tim McManusSep 3, 2025, 06:00 AM ETCloseTim McManus covers the Philadelphia Eagles for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2016 after covering the Eagles for Philadelphia Magazine’s Birds 24/7, a site he helped create, since 2010.A.J. Brown pulled up to the “most dangerous gym in America” on a Friday in May, alone in his Honda Accord.It was just weeks removed from the Philadelphia Eagles’ 40-22 destruction of the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX when Brown reached out to trainer Haddy Abdel on social media. This wasn’t the first time a well-known figure had been captivated by the chaotic, grueling…

The chief executive of the UK’s leading artificial intelligence institute is stepping down after a staff revolt and government calls for a strategic overhaul.Jean Innes has led the Alan Turing Institute since 2023, but her position has come under pressure amid widespread discontent within the organisation and a demand from its biggest funder, the UK government, for a change in direction.ATI said the search was already under way for a replacement for Innes, who held senior roles in the civil service and technology industry before her appointment.Government sources pointed to a letter sent by the technology secretary, Peter Kyle, to…