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A golden eagle photographed in Scotland. The bird of prey is protected under the U.K.'s Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981.Education Images | Universal Images Group | Getty ImagesPlans for an onshore wind farm in Scotland have been revised after a number of concerns, including those related to how the project might affect golden eagles. If built, the Scoop Hill Community Wind Farm will have 60 turbines instead of the 75 that were originally proposed.The tip height of four turbines in the development, in Dumfries and…

The platform, Tod TV, is owned by the Qatari broadcaster beIN Media Group, which was banned in Saudi Arabia for several years during a row between the two countries but was restored in October 2021. The official streaming platform of the World Cup is inaccessible in much of Saudi Arabia, subscribers told AFP on Saturday, saying they had received no explanation for the outage.The platform, Tod TV, is owned by the Qatari broadcaster beIN Media Group, which was banned in Saudi Arabia for several years during a row between…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeNick Nolte has reflected on the “absurd” on-set feud he had with Julia Roberts while making the 1994 romcom I Love Trouble.Nolte and Roberts starred in the film as two rival newspaper reporters forced to work together on a story about a train derailment.In an interview with The New York Times that she did during the film’s production in 1993, Roberts said: “From the moment I met him we…

There is an unlikely art house inspiration behind the collaboration between Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff on her acclaimed new album, “Midnights”: French filmmaker Claire Denis’ “Stars at Noon.”In one of her multiple Instagram posts around the album’s release, Swift noted that while she and producer-musician Antonoff have worked together for nearly a decade, “Midnights” is the first to feature the two of them as “main collaborators.”“Midnights actually really coalesced and flowed out of us when our partners (both…

Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s bitcoin president. Photo: Marvin Recinos (Getty Images)Shocker folks, it turns out El Salvador’s decision to make bitcoin legal tender wasn’t such a great idea after all.This week, credit agency Fitch downgraded El Salvador’s debt rating from CCC to CC around 14 months after the company’s tech bro president and budding authoritarian, Nayib Bukele, made Bitcoin a nationally recognized legal currency. That credit ding, according to CoinDesk, stems partly from the country’s embrace of bitcoin…

Closed canopy mangrove cover in northwest and Western Australia tracking the 18.6-year oscillation in tide range caused by the lunar wobble. Credit: Author provided, CC BY Over the summer of 2015, 40 million mangroves died of thirst. This vast die-off—the world's largest ever recorded—killed off rich mangrove forests along fully 1,000 kilometers of coastline on Australia's Gulf of Carpentaria.…

However, today’s antisemitism is not only directed at Israelis, and it does not always take the form of traditional slogans or hate speech. Contemporary antisemitism manifests itself in various forms such as GIFs, memes, vlogs, comments and reactions such as likes and dislikes on the platforms. Scholar Sophie Schmalenberger found that antisemitism is expressed not just in blunt, hurtful language and images on social media, but also in coded forms that may easily remain undetected. For example, on Facebook, Germany’s…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Antisemitic incidents have shown a sharp rise in the United States. The Anti-Defamation League, a New York-based Jewish civil rights group that has been tracking cases since 1979, found that there were 2,717 incidents in 2021. This represents an increase of 34% over 2020. In Europe, the European Commission found a sevenfold increase in antisemitic postings across French language accounts,…

CoinDesk: Sources: digital asset trading firm Genesis is potentially facing “hundreds of millions” of dollars in losses, partly through exposure to 3AC and Babel Finance — The DCG-owned trading colossus is said to have suffered nine-figure losses partly through exposure to Three Arrows Capital and Babel Finance. CoinDesk: Sources: digital asset trading firm Genesis is potentially facing “hundreds of millions” of dollars in losses, partly through exposure to 3AC and Babel…

A lonely, real-life experience in an Istanbul hotel room – an imagined moment of escapist magic – inspired the British author AS Byatt to write a romantic fantasy about a genie in a bottle, George Miller has revealed after the Cannes premiere of his big-screen version.When the filmmaker, best known for directing the Mad Max franchise, first visited Byatt to ask for permission to make a film of her short story, The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye, she told him that much of the background detail in it was true.Miller,…