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SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for Ava Reid‘s “A Study in Drowning” sequel, “A Theory of Dreaming,” released July 29 by HarperCollins. “A Theory of Dreaming,” Ava Reid’s eagerly anticipated followup to her hit 2023 YA fantasy novel “A Study in Drowning,” has landed on The New York Times Best-Sellers list this week following its July 29 release. The novel was the final book in a duology following two college students, Effy Sayre and Preston Héloury, who are embarking on a budding romance while dealing with the fallout from the bizarre and fantastical experience they had in “A Study in Drowning.”…

In April 2025, the Human Rights Court in Kenya issued an unprecedented ruling that it has the jurisdiction to hear a case about harmful content on one of Meta’s platforms. The lawsuit was filed in 2022 by Abraham Meareg, the son of an Ethiopian academic who was murdered after he was doxxed and threatened on Facebook, Fisseha Tekle, an Ethiopian human rights activist, who was also doxxed and threatened on Facebook, and Katiba Institute, a Kenyan non-profit that defends constitutionalism. They maintain that Facebook’s algorithm design and its content moderation decisions made in Kenya resulted in harm done to two…

Palestine Not Qualified As Sovereign State In the past week, Australia, France, Canada, Malta, and the UK said they will recognize “Palestine” as a state. They are doing this to put pressure on Israel, but “Palestine” is not a state, and it does not meet UN criteria for a state. The political entity often referred to as “Palestine” does not meet the legal definition of a sovereign state under international law. The criteria, set out in the 1933 Montevideo Convention, require a permanent population, defined territory, an effective government, and the capacity to conduct foreign relations. Montevideo Criterion Requirement ‘Palestine’…

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature6 min: Dias plays a careless pass out from the back which is snapped up by Andre. The ball’s shifted left to Bellegarde, who looks for Strand Larsen in the middle with a low cross. Dias makes up for his mistake by sliding in front of the Wolves striker to block and hook clear. Better from Wolves, which wasn’t a high bar: they’d previously hardly had a touch.Share4 min: City have settled quickly. They’re already dominating possession. Bobb slips Reijnders into space on the right but the £34m signing…

Anthropic has announced new capabilities that will allow some of its newest, largest models to end conversations in what the company describes as “rare, extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions.” Strikingly, Anthropic says it’s doing this not to protect the human user, but rather the AI model itself. To be clear, the company isn’t claiming that its Claude AI models are sentient or can be harmed by their conversations with users. In its own words, Anthropic remains “highly uncertain about the potential moral status of Claude and other LLMs, now or in the future.” However, its announcement…

Hurricane Erin has rapidly intensified into a category five hurricane, packing maximum sustained winds of 160mph (260km/h). National Hurricane Center Director Mike Brennan told a briefing that the “extremely powerful” storm had “explosively deepened and intensified” overnight after growing from tropical storm strength on Friday. Erin is expected to pass north of the Leeward Islands, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico over the weekend, bringing up to 6in (15cm) of rain, with the potential for flash flooding and mudslides. The storm, which is the first hurricane the 2025 Atlantic season, is not currently forecast to make landfall on the mainland…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday will meet US President Donald Trump in Washington to discuss an end to the more than three-year war in Ukraine, hours after Trump’s talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska ended without a concrete deal.In a post on his Truth Social platform after holding phone conversations with European Union and NATO leaders, Trump said the talks with Putin “went very well”.“It was determined by all that the best way to end the horrific war between Russia and Ukraine is to go directly to a Peace Agreement, which would end the war, and not…

In recent years, a wave of military takeovers has swept across the Sahel region—Burkina Faso, Niger, and Mali—toppling long-standing regimes and sending shockwaves through Africa’s political establishment. To many in the West and traditional governance circles, these coups are seen as dangerous regressions from democracy. But on the ground, among the youth and ordinary citizens, a different narrative is emerging: one of liberation from decades of elite looting, failed promises, and democratic theater that never delivered. The question is no longer just whether coups are legal or constitutional, but whether they can be legitimate in the face of systemic failure.…

Bob Odenkirk’s unlikely new career journey as a kickass tough guy continues in this pretty formulaic and forgettable sequel to the amusing original hit, which first showed us Hutch (Odenkirk), an apparent suburban nobody with wife-plus-kids who keeps forgetting to put the garbage out in time – then from nowhere busts out some serious fight moves.This sequel from Indonesian action director Timo Tjahjanto, co-written by the writer of the original, Derek Kolstad, really doesn’t have much of the humour and the storytelling chutzpah of the first film. But what it does have, inevitably, are endless gonzo fight sequences in which…

243 In Libya, senior officials and medical experts have met to review the results of a therapeutic trial using wormwood, a plant widely known in traditional and alternative medicine, as a treatment for tumours. The meeting, held at the office of Major General Faraj Qaim, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Interior for Technical Affairs, brought together both security personnel and healthcare professionals to examine the findings. Among the attendees were Colonel Mohamed Bouraoui, Captain Ayman Al-Maghribi, several doctors, and the man who initiated the treatment initiative, Ibrahim Al-Mariami. Discussions focused on what participants described as “promising medical results” in patients…