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Tokyo has embarked on a multi-million dollar campaign to convince people it’s safe to release radioactive water.

Bonds linked to the world’s biggest oil company have ended up in ESG funds, highlighting a major flaw in how the sector is regulated.

Efforts were underway to capture a sea otter repeatedly seen taking over surfboards and kayaks off Santa Cruz, after wildlife experts deemed the animal presented an increasing public safety risk.

LQQK...otters doing otter stuff.

Riikka Purra admits making the comments in 2008, while the PM vows no tolerance of racism.

Bradley Reger was seen chatting up a young girl at a Nevada airport just the night before his arrest last week, authorities said.

Mexican authorities will seek to extradite Bryant Rivera of the Los Angeles area for the death of Angela Carolina Acosta Flores

It seems like they caught a budding serial killer before he could really get started.

The number of out athletes competing has more than doubled since the 2019 Women’s World Cup. The total number of LGBTQ athletes in each competition is likely higher, because some players might not feel comfortable coming out publicly.

The company, which went bankrupt in May, axed over 100 jobs before cutting huge checks for senior management in April.

Gal Luft, 57, was charged with acting as an unregistered agent for the Chinese government, trafficking weapons and lying to federal agents.

The bank double-charged overdraft fees, withheld card perks and opened unauthorized accounts, regulators said. It will repay customers more than $80 million.

Jack Sweeney is providing real-time location updates on Elon Musk’s private jet on rival Threads and suggests that Zuckerberg may be next.

cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/51745

The BBC suspended one of its male presenters on Sunday after he was accused of spending £35,000 buying explicit images from a young person who spent the money on crack cocaine.

The rapid growth in the number of space objects is testing an international governance model many in the industry worry can no longer keep up. A fast-approaching UN summit is seen as a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to enhance cooperation" in space sustainability.

Extreme temperatures break records as scientists warn El Niño is set to get worse

Archive of Our Own has been experiencing prolonged, intermittent outages since Monday as a cyberattack targets its servers.

The European Union has signed a free trade agreement with New Zealand that the two sides expect will increase bilateral trade by up to 30% within a decade.

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The Nato chief says President Erdogan will drop opposition to Sweden becoming the alliance's 32nd member.

East Tennessee's Tim Burchett, a Republican, said he believes that aliens must have the technological capacity to "turn us into a charcoal briquette".

The world just had the hottest week on record, according to preliminary data. It follows the hottest June on record, with unprecedented sea surface temperatures and record low Antarctic sea ice extent.

The fundamentalist group thinks Meta’s content policy, which includes a ban on support or praise for terrorist or hate groups, is “intolerant”

After days of quakes, an eruption has begun.

Disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar has been stabbed multiple times during an altercation with another inmate at a federal prison in Florida. Nassar is serving decades in prison after admitting sexually assaulting athletes at Michigan State University and at Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics, including Olympic medalists.