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GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations chief delivered a strong defense of science and meteorology on Wednesday, praising the U.N. weather agency for helping save lives by keeping watch for climate disasters around the world.Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke to the World Meteorological Organization as science faces an assault in the United States: President Donald Trump’s administration has led an anti-science push, and Trump has called climate change “ a con job.”A longtime advocate for the fight against global warming, Guterres spoke at a special WMO meeting aimed to promote early-warning systems that help countries rich and poor brace for floods,…

TORONTO (AP) — In Nia DaCosta’s “Hedda,” Tessa Thompson’s titular socialite sows chaos. She manipulates. She cuts people to the bone with a quip. She pours more drinks.Hedda Gabler, the heroine of Henrik Ibsen’s 1890 play, has long been one of theater’s most tragic figures, a woman hemmed in by societal convention and her own dread of scandal. She is that, and more, in DaCosta’s new “Hedda.”“Many think of her as a woman that’s suicidal,” Thompson says. “I think of her as someone who’s dying to live, and dying to live on her own terms. She might do some pretty…

Chinese tech company Baidu announced Wednesday its Apollo Go robotaxi arm has entered a strategic partnership with PostBus in Switzerland.BaiduBEIJING — Chinese tech giant Baidu announced Wednesday that its robotaxi unit will start test drives in Switzerland in December, as firms race to get their vehicles on European roads. The company’s Apollo Go unit will work with Swiss public transit operator PostBus through a strategic partnership, Baidu said.By the first quarter of 2027, the companies aim to begin operating a public-facing fully driverless taxi service called “AmiGo” that uses Apollo Go’s RT6 electric vehicles, the press release said. Baidu added…

Sometimes the best films are the ones that are most difficult to describe, the ones that can’t be boiled down to a pithy tagline or plot summary.This is almost certainly the case with “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” one of most audacious films of the year, in which Rose Byrne plays a mother on the edge. There’s an unseen kid with a mysterious illness. There’s the constant humming of medical equipment. There’s a hole in a ceiling that may be coming to life. There’s A$AP Rocky as a motel employee. There’s a phone husband and Conan O’Brien’s uninterested…

NEW YORK (AP) — The mother of a newborn girl who was abandoned at a busy midtown Manhattan subway station with her umbilical cord still attached was arrested early Wednesday, city police said.The 30-year-old Queens woman was taken into custody shortly before 3 a.m. and charged with abandoning and endangering a child. She was expected to appear in court later in the day Wednesday.The baby was left Monday in a passageway at the 34th Street-Penn Station subway stop during the typically crowded morning rush hour. The subway stop is attached to the broader Penn Station complex — the country’s busiest…

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Millions of tons of discarded electronics from the United States are being shipped overseas, much of it to developing countries in Southeast Asia unprepared to safely handle hazardous waste, according to a new report released Wednesday by an environmental watchdog.The Seattle-based Basel Action Network, or BAN, said a two-year investigation found at least 10 U.S. companies exporting used electronics to Asia and the Middle East, in what it says is a “hidden tsunami” of electronic waste.“This new, almost invisible tsunami of e-waste, is taking place … padding already lucrative profit margins of the electronics recycling sector…

Oct 22, 2025, 04:05 AM ETBarcelona striker Robert Lewandowski could join Manchester United as a free agent in the summer, while Manchester City and Chelsea have joined United in the race to sign Nottingham Forest midfielder Elliot Anderson. Join us for the latest transfer news and rumors from around the globe.Transfers home page | Men’s grades | Women’s gradesTOP STORIES- Real Madrid to let Endrick to leave on loan in January- Bayern Munich extend Kompany’s contract to 2029- Forest hire Dyche as Postecoglou replacementBarcelona striker Robert Lewandowski could move on in the summer. Bruno Penas/Quality Sport Images/Getty ImagesTRENDING RUMORS- Manchester United…

Rangers chairman Andrew Cavenagh has defended the process of the club’s search for a new head coach after Danny Rohl was officially unveiled on Tuesday.In an interview with Sky Sports News, the American businessman confirmed that Rohl did indeed “back out” of the process at one stage, while the club pursued five candidates simultaneously. The chairman also defended CEO Patrick Stewart and sporting director Kevin Thelwell, admitting the under-fire duo have “made mistakes”, but so has he and his vice-chairman, Paraag Marathe.Cavenagh, who fronts the US consortium that acquired a controlling majority stake in Rangers earlier this year, added that…

At first, I hesitated to write. Expressing pain has never been easy for me. I have long struggled to find the right words because they collapse even as I try to articulate what truly hurts. Some feelings and fears are too vast, too abstract, for language to contain – especially when the trauma is still unfolding before our eyes, growing more brutal by the day. The suffering and loss in Gaza are beyond my comprehension. My silence, however, was not apathy. It came from a place of deep respect for a people carrying immeasurable grief. How could I, when our…

 1938 — Kuwait Amir Sheikh Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah established an orphanage house, managed by Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah. The orphanage housed 100 orphans.1960 — Kuwait Amir Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah signed a decree-into-law establishing Kuwait Credit Bank to facilitate credits for properties, the industrial and agricultural sectors.1961 — Kuwait Amir Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah signed a decree-into-law setting up the Kuwait Flour Mills Company. It started producing flour in 1965. In 1988, it was merged with the Kuwaiti Bakeries Company, where its name was changed into the Flour Mills and Bakeries Company.1973 — A squadron of the Hawker Hunter warplanes…