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Another man in custody awaiting trial for murder was not attended by his solicitor on record

New details have come to light about A24's Elden Ring movie, including how Amazon could be involved and its beefy runtime. According to Deadline , Amazon MGM is buying up the Elden Ring movie's Pay-1 streaming rights for numerous international markets in a deal potentially worth "tens of millions of dollars." The site reported that there could be "interestin

A security guard who worked at Christchurch's One New Zealand Stadium over the weekend says the heat was unbearable and unsafe.

In the unnerving docu “Third Land,” director and Iranian émigré Farzad Khoshdast chronicles the permanent limbo of a family living on the margins in Turkey. Screening at the Ji.hlava Documentary Film Festival this week, the film follows an Iranian engineer, his wife, Hananeh, and son as they deal with the daily contradictions of life as […]

Als Künstler hat sich Anselm Kiefer oft mit der deutschen Geschichte auseinandergesetzt. Die Wahlerfolge der AfD seien für ihn keine Überraschung, sagt er: Der faschistische Sumpf der Nazizeit sei nie ausgetrocknet.

New laws are treating cooling as a necessity rather than a luxury, though what landlords must provide varies widely.

Gift Grub & Me by Mario Rosenstock: entertaining, very funny and extremely honest

Die linke Opposition wirft Frankreichs Polizei vor, rechtsextreme Gruppen bei den jüngsten Protesten geschützt zu haben. Innenminister Laurent Nuñez bestreitet das.

Rechtsextreme sollen sich bei den Protesten in Frankreich zum angeblichen Schutz von Innenstädten verabredet haben. Der Innenminister dementiert nun, dass die Polizei die Rechten beschützt habe.

Experiments with real participants—and digital twins based on them—show how a small number of bad apples can spoil the whole barrel. However, the research scenarios don't exactly mimic the real world

Extreme weather poses a growing challenge to the global tourism industry, disrupting travel plans, damaging properties and threatening destinations.

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Listing several incidents, he questions the inaction of the government

In Frankreich, Spanien, Italien und vielen weiteren EU-Ländern geht die Jugend auf die Straße. Politökonom Tim Vlandas erklärt, warum er sie versteht – und woher die Wut kommt.

Die CSU will beim Parteitag in München die Unvereinbarkeit mit AfD und Linken beschließen. Ministerpräsident Markus Söder warnt, die AfD sei bisher keine normale Partei.

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KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 23 &mdash; The 2026/2027 North-east Monsoon (MTL) is expected to begin on October 27 and continue unti...

The draft of an artificial intelligence safety bill that Anthropic quietly pitched to lawmakers would allow the federal government to block AI tools only if they kill or injure at least 50 people, or cause at least $1 billion in damages. Nate Soares, executive director of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, joins with analysis.

Afgelopen zomer zijn naar schatting 50.000 mensen overleden door de hitte in Europese steden. Ongeveer twee derde van deze sterfgevallen is toe te schrijven aan klimaatverandering. Dat is meer dan in voorgaande jaren.

Editor’s note: This story contains details of alleged sexual offenses that some readers may find distressing. Multiple witnesses in the Russell Brand trial have claimed that their friend was in physical pain and “extremely distressed” after she was allegedly anally raped by the Despicable Me star in 2009. On the ninth day of Brand’s trial […]

Die Bilder des angezündeten Rathauses von Limoges gingen um die Welt. Hier erzählt der Bürgermeister, wer das Feuer wohl legte – und wie es so weit kommen konnte.

The UK is urging households to stock up enough emergency supplies to survive for three days in a crisis as part of a new campaign to strengthen national resilience.

Lidera partidului german AfD, Alice Weidel, și Marine Le Pen, una dintre figurile centrale ale extremei drepte franceze, vor să transforme Uniunea Europeană într-o alianță de state suverane, cu instituții mai slabe și competențe reduse. Cele două formațiuni se opun continuării finanțării Ucrainei și aprofundării integrării europene, dar propun soluții diferi

A coaster dares riders to be daring, with steep drops, high speeds and improbably tight curves. But safety has become a concern again after a man was thrown from his seat and died in Georgia.

The largest-ever joint Japan-U.S. military training exercise is making use of Typhoon Champi to train troops during adverse weather.

<img style="float: right" src="https://i.ds.at/fkK_5g/rs:fill:150:0/plain/lido-images/2026/10/20/65bbdd04-915f-4692-b606-398faf8a3f0f.jpg">Katharina Fritsch von der Uni Wien spricht von einer Depolitisierung: Die Politik in Frankreich reduziert den Protest auf Gewalt und muss nicht mehr über die Anliegen der Demonstrierenden reden

Erst legte Frankreichs Marine Le Pen ihre Pläne zur Zukunft der EU vor, jetzt zieht die AfD nach. Eines der Ziele: Europaparlament und Kommission sollen in ihrer bisherigen Form abgeschafft werden – und das wäre nur der Anfang.

Von einer Frau, die lieber vor dem Gericht Fahnen schwingt, als sich drinnen dem Rechtsstaat zu stellen. Und deren Name selbst am Rand der Pariser Grossproteste auftaucht.

There are people of both political extremes who crave street politics just because it has potential for violence and confrontation

Powerful winds with shifting directions and dry weather contributed to rapid expansion of the grass fire at a military base in Wainwright, Alta., that left four soldiers dead and 39 others wounded, a wildfire expert said.

<p>Astronomers are finally figuring out what powers mysterious gamma-ray bursts</p>

<img src="https://www.srf.ch/static/cms/images//320ws/a15f27.webp" hspace="5" align="left" >Vom tiefsten zum höchsten Punkt der Schweiz: Sechs Menschen wagen die Grenzerfahrung – und lernen sich dabei neu kennen.