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Watch: The story from inside the Supernova festival site
Music-lovers descended to the desert in southern Israel to attend the Supernova festival. But soon the party turned to tragedy with footage emerging of people fleeing bullets and harrowing details being heard. More than 260 bodies have reportedly been recovered from the site.
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Barbie director Greta Gerwig calls film’s success ‘so moving’
By Lizo Mzimba Entertainment correspondent, BBC News Greta Gerwig, the director of smash hit movie Barbie, has described the film’s success as “so moving”. The blockbuster follows the famous doll and her companion Ken travelling from Barbieland into the real world. Gerwig, speaking at the London Film Festival, added that seeing the movie being enjoyed…
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Bath Assembly rooms: Rare Georgian Cold Bath discovered
An 18th-Century cold bath, which may be the only one of its kind in an elite social meeting place known as an assembly room, has been uncovered. The cold bath was filled in with rubble and covered after bombing during World War Two. Its location in the Bath Assembly Rooms suggests it may have been…
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Oil prices rally on fear of Middle East supply disruptions
By Annabelle Liang Business reporter Oil prices jumped by 4% on Monday on concerns that the situation in Israel and Gaza could disrupt output from the Middle East. West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the benchmark for US oil, rose to more than $86 (£70) a barrel. The price of Brent crude also surged in early Asian…
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Who will actually vote for Robert F Kennedy Jr as an independent candidate?
By Mike Wendling BBC News, in Lansing, Michigan Robert F Kennedy Jr – the anti-vaccination activist, environmental lawyer and member of America’s most famous political family – is expected to announce on Monday that he’s running for president as an independent candidate. Although his chances of capturing the White House in 2024 are slim to…
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Hip-hop: Eve on five female MCs who changed the genre
By Mark Savage BBC Music Correspondent Hip-hop can seem like a man’s world, but women have been there from the start. The infamous Bronx party that gave birth to the genre was organised by Cindy Campbell, a high school student who was trying to raise money for her back-to-school clothes. It was Cindy who wrote…
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The Soviet spacecraft cemetery in the Pacific
Point Nemo has become the final resting place for hundreds of spacecraft. What will future archaeologists make of it? In the middle of the South Pacific, around 2,688km (1,670 miles) from the nearest dry land, is a frigid patch of anonymous ocean – a deadly place of giant, ever-shifting swells, dramatic skies and storm-force winds.…
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Financial anxiety: The alarming side effect of inflation
As the cost of living increases amid an unstable economy, people are panicking about their finances. It’s taking a toll on mental health and quality of life for billions across the globe. Worrying about finances is nothing new. But as inflation has taken hold, and the cost of living has spiked without wages keeping pace,…
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Crystal Wahpepah’s Native American corn thumbprint cookies
Crystal Wahpepah’s Californian restaurant has been lauded for using Native ingredients. In honour of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, here’s a recipe for her corn thumbprint cookies. Corn is the lifeblood of Native American communities. It has been at the heart of many Indigenous cultures throughout the Americas for over 3,000 years. It’s not just sustenance; it’s…
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What Swedish reality TV can teach us
Can watching relationship-based reality TV help viewers to navigate their own relationships? Matilda Welin explores the good, the bad and the ugly of the genre, and learns how it’s done in Sweden Reality fans in the US will be glued to their screens next week to watch the new season of Married at First Sight,…